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 William K. L. Dickson , starring Annabelle Moore Autour d'une cabine 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 William K. L. Dickson Buffalo Dance William K. L. Dickson Caicedo (with Pole) Carmencita 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 William K. L. Dickson , starring James J. Corbett Falling Cat Étienne-Jules Marey Fire Rescue Scene Fred Ott's Sneeze Fred Ott Holding a Bird Glenroy Bros 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 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 ] 1894 in film at Wikimedia Commons
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 .
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