Overview of the events of the 1880s in film
The decade of the 1880s in film involved significant events.
Events
1880 – American George Eastman begins to commercially manufacture dry plates for photography .
1880 – Eadweard Muybridge holds a public demonstration of his Zoopraxiscope , a magic lantern provided with a rotating disc with artist's renderings of Muybridge's chronophotographic sequences. It was used as a demonstration device by Muybridge in his illustrated lecture (the original preserved in the Museum of Kingston upon Thames in England).
January 1, 1881 – American inventor George Eastman founds the Eastman Dry Plate Company , eventually known as Kodak.[ 1]
1882 – American inventor George Eastman begins experimenting with new types of photographic film , with his employee, William Walker .
1882 – French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey invents the chronophotographic gun, the camera shaped like a rifle that photographs twelve successive images each second.
1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use.[ 2]
1887 – Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film .
1888 - Louis Le Prince creates the oldest surviving film, Roundhay Garden Scene . Recorded in Leeds , Yorkshire, England , the footage lasts a mere 2.11 seconds.
1888 – George Eastman files for a patent for his photographic film .
1888 – Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge to discuss adding sound to moving pictures. Edison begins his own experiments.
1889 – American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available.
Births
This is a list of actors and filmmakers who were born between years 1880 and 1884. See also:
Year
Month
Date
Name
Country
Profession
Died
1880
January
6
Tom Mix
US
Actor
1940
January
17
Mack Sennett
US
Actor, producer, director
1960
January
29
W. C. Fields
US
Actor
1946
February
8
Viktor Schwanneke
Germany
Actor
1931
February
9
Howard Hickman
US
Actor, director, writer
1949
February
18
Egon Brecher
Austria
Actor, director
1946
February
28
Hale Hamilton
US
Actor, writer, producer
1942
March
10
Broncho Billy Anderson
US
Actor
1971
April
13
Charles Christie
Canada
Film Studio Owner
1955
June
7
Thorleif Lund
Norway
Actor
1956
July
12
Tod Browning
US
Director
1962
August
6
Hans Moser
Austria
Actor
1964
October
23
Una O'Connor
Ireland
Actress
1959
November
2
Fritz Achterberg
Germany
Actor
1971
December
10
Fred Immler
Germany
Actor
1965
1881
January
24
Elsa Wagner
Germany
Actress
1975
February
10
Pauline Brunius
Sweden
Actress, director, screenwriter
1954
August
12
Cecil B. DeMille
US
Director, producer
1959
September
11
Asta Nielsen
Denmark
Actress
1972
November
13
Carl Schenstrøm
Denmark
Actor
1942
November
24
Al Christie
Canada
Director, producer
1951
December
5
René Cresté
France
Actor, director
1922
1882
January
17
Noah Beery
US
Actor
1946
January
23
Eero Kilpi
Finland
Actor
1954
February
15
John Barrymore
US
Actor
1942
February
27
George Terwilliger
US
Director, screenwriter
1970
May
10
Thurston Hall
US
Actor
1958
May
16
Mary Gordon
Scotland
Actress
1963
May
23
James Gleason
US
Actor, screenwriter
1959
July
27
Donald Crisp
US
Actor
1974
August
6
Ernst Eklund
Sweden
Actor
1971
September
10
Paul Harvey
US
Actor
1955
October
20
Bela Lugosi
Hungary
Actor
1956
1883
January
10
Francis X. Bushman
US
Actor
1966
January
10
Florence Reed
US
Actress
1967
February
22
Marguerite Clark
US
Actress
1940
February
22
Harry Depp
US
Actor
1957
February
22
Olga Svendsen
Denmark
Actress
1942
March
4
Maude Fealy
US
Actress
1971
March
26
Poul Reumert
Denmark
Actor
1968
April
1
Lon Chaney
US
Actor
1930
April
1
Edvard Drabløs
Norway
Actor, director
1976
April
1
Frédéric Mariotti
France
Actor
1971
April
2
Pearl Doles Bell
US
Scenarist, Editor
1968
April
6
Walter Huston
Canada
Actor
1950
May
1
Tom Moore
Ireland
Actor
1955
May
6
Alberto Collo
Italy
Actor
1955
May
20
Stanley Fields
US
Actor
1941
May
23
Douglas Fairbanks
US
Actor
1939
June
13
Merta Sterling
US
Actress
1944
August
12
Marion Lorne
US
Actress
1968
August
19
Elsie Ferguson
US
Actress
1961
September
3
Robert Middlemass
US
Actor, Playwright
1949
October
5
Ernst Pittschau
Germany
Actor
1951
November
19
Ned Sparks
Canada
Actor
1957
December
16
Max Linder
France
Actor
1925
December
24
Stefan Jaracz
Poland
Actor
1945
1884
February
14
Nils Olaf Chrisander
Sweden
Actor, director
1947
February
16
Robert J. Flaherty
US
Filmmaker
1951
April
30
Olof Sandborg
Sweden
Actor
1965
May
8
Valdemar Psilander
Denmark
Actor
1917
May
10
Olga Petrova
UK
Actress
1977
May
26
Charles Winninger
US
Actor
1969
May
28
Edward Keane
US
Actor
1959
July
12
Louis B. Mayer
Russia
Producer
1957
July
23
Emil Jannings
Germany
Actor
1950
July
24
Maria Caserini
Italy
Actress
1969
August
7
Billie Burke
US
Actress
1970
August
11
Hermann Wlach
Austria
Actor
1962
August
25
James C. Morton
US
Actor
1942
October
4
Ida Wüst
Germany
Actress
1958
October
11
Sig Ruman
Germany
Actor
1967
October
24
Emil Fjellström
Sweden
Actor
1944
December
1
Torben Meyer
Denmark
Actor
1975
December
31
Mihály Fekete
Hungary
Actor, screenwriter, director
1960
Lists of films
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References
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