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Years in Film

1896

Events[]

  • January - In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul developed their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph).
  • January - In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projected motion pictures.
  • Pathé Frères film company founded
  • April - Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City
  • May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever recorded in film.
  • French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effects techniques, including stop-motion photography.
  • William Selig founded the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago.
  • Demeny-Gaumont works on a 60 mm format, first known as Biographe (unperforated), then Chronophotographe (perforated).
  • Casimir Sivan and E. Dalphin create a 38 mm format.

Films released in 1896[]

  • Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
  • Arrivée d'un train gare de Vincennes
  • L'Arroseur
  • Awakening of Rip
  • Baignade en mer
  • La Fée aux Choux
  • The Horse Trough
  • The Kiss
  • Le Manoir du diable
  • Rip Van Winkle (series)
  • The Vanishing Lady

Births[]

  • January 20 - Isabel Withers, actress (d. 1968)
  • June 28 - Constance Binney, actress, singer, dancer (d. 1989)
  • July 16 - Evelyn Preer, pioneering African-American actress, singer (d. 1932)
  • August 18 - Jack Pickford, actor (d. 1933)
  • August 30 - Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983)
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