The following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
January 7
April 14 - The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City .[ 2]
June 6 - Charles Francis Jenkins projects a filmed motion picture before an audience in Richmond, Indiana. Earliest documented projection of a motion picture.[ 3]
Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph .[ 4]
Kinetoscope viewing parlors begin to open in major cities. Each parlor contains several machines.
Birt Acres creates a 70 mm format, which he first uses to shoot the Henley Royal Regatta.[ 5]
Films released in 1894 [ edit ]
Annie Oakley
Annabelle Butterfly Dance , directed by William K. L. Dickson , starring Annabelle Moore
Autour d'une cabine , directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud
Athlete with Wand
Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's) , directed by William K. L. Dickson . May be the first comedy film ever made.
Bucking Broncho , directed by William K. L. Dickson
Buffalo Dance , directed by William K. L. Dickson
Caicedo (with Pole)
Carmencita , directed by William K. L. Dickson
Chinese Laundry Scene (Robetta and Doretto, No. 2)
Chinese Opium Den
Cock Fight, No. 2
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph , directed by William K. L. Dickson , starring James J. Corbett
Falling Cat , directed by Étienne-Jules Marey
Fire Rescue Scene
Fred Ott's Sneeze (Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze)
Fred Ott Holding a Bird
Glenroy Bros , directed by William K. L. Dickson . One of the earliest comedy films ever made.
Hadj Cheriff
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
Imperial Japanese Dance
Leonard-Cushing Fight
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
Miss Jerry
Rêve au coin du feu , directed by Charles-Émile Reynaud
(Sandow No. 1) Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope
Sandow No. 2
Sandow No. 3
Sioux Ghost Dance
January 3 - ZaSu Pitts , American actress (d. 1963 )
February 8 - King Vidor , American actor and director (d. 1982 )
February 14 - Jack Benny , American comedian (d. 1974 )
May 20 - Estelle Taylor , American actress (d. 1958 )
May 26 - Norma Talmadge , American actress (d. 1957 )
June 16 - Norman Kerry , American actor (d. 1956 )
July 25 - Walter Brennan , American actor (d. 1974 )
July 27 - Mientje Kling , Dutch actress (d. 1966 )
September 15 - Jean Renoir , French director (d. 1979 )
September 27 - Olive Tell , American actress (d. 1951 )
October 7 - Del Lord , Canadian pioneer Hollywood director (d. 1970 )
October 20 - Olive Thomas , American actress (d. 1920 )
October 27 - Agda Helin , Swedish actress (d. 1984 )
November 9 - Mae Marsh , American actress (d. 1968 )
November 13 - Nita Naldi , American actress (d. 1961 )
December 8 - Marthe Vinot , French actress (d. 1974 )
External links [ edit ]
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References [ edit ]
^ "A Sneeze Caught on Film" . American Treasures of the Library of Congress . Retrieved 24 February 2013 .
^ Musser, Charles (1994). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907, Volume 1 . London, England: University of California Press. p. 81. ISBN 0521897335.
^ "The Case Files: C. Franklin Jenkins" . The Franklin Institute . Retrieved 24 February 2013 .
^ Venkatasawmy, Rama (2012). The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. 166. ISBN 0739176218.
^ "Acres, Birt (1854-1918)" . BFI Screen Online . Retrieved 24 February 2013 .