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The following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
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Events
edit- January 7
- William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- Dickson and William Heise film their colleague, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetograph at Edison's Black Maria studio.[1]
- 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]
Notable films released in 1894
editBirt Acres
edit- Crows on Saffron Hill
- Haycart Crossing Hadley Green, Middlesex
Charles-Émile Reynaud
edit- Autour d'une cabine
- Rêve au coin du feu
Étienne-Jules Marey
edit- Falling Cat
- Chat en Chute Libre
William K. L. Dickson
edit- Alleni's Boxing Monkeys
- Amateur Gymnast, No. 2
- Annabelle Butterfly Dance, starring Annabelle Moore
- Annabelle Sun Dance, starring Annabelle Moore
- Annie Oakley, starring Annie Oakley
- Armand D'Ary, starring Armand D'Ary
- Athlete with Wand
- Babies in High Chairs
- Band Drill
- A Bar Room Scene
- The Barbershop
- Bertoldi (Mouth Support), starring Ena Bertoldi
- Bertoldi (Table Contortion), starring Ena Bertoldi
- Boxing, starring Jack McAuliffe
- The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
- Bucking Broncho, starring Lee Martin
- Buffalo Bill (lost), starring William F. Cody
- Buffalo Dance, starring Hair Coat, Parts His Hair and Last Horse
- Caicedo (with Pole), starring Juan A. Caicedo
- Caicedo (with Spurs), starring Juan A. Caicedo
- Carmencita, starring Carmencita
- The Carnival Dance, starring Madge Crossland, May Lucas and Lucy Murray
- Chinese Laundry Scene, directed by William Heise and William K. L. Dickson and starring Phil Doreto and Robetta
- Chinese Opium Den (lost)
- The Cock Fight
- Cock Fight, No. 2
- Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph, starring James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney
- Cupid's Dance, starring Florence Ewer, Lenora Ewer and Mildred Ewer
- Dance, starring Rosa France, Frank Lawton and Etta Williamson
- Dance du Ventre
- The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
- Dogs Fighting
- Edison Employee Picnic
- Fancy Club Swinger, starring John R. Abell
- Finale of 1st Act, Hoyt's 'Milk White Flag'
- Fire Rescue Scene
- Fred Ott Holding a Bird, starring Fred Ott
- Fred Ott's Sneeze, starring Fred Ott
- French Dancers
- Glenroy Bros., (no. 2)
- Hadj Cheriff, starring Hadji Cheriff
- Highland Dance
- The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight, starring Eugene Hornbacker and Murphy
- Human Pyramid, starring Saleem Nassar
- Imperial Japanese Dance, starring the Sarashe Sisters
- Lady Fencers (With Broadswords), starring Louise Blanchard and Helen Englehart
- Lady Fencers (With Foils)
- Lasso Exhibition, starring Frank Hammitt and Lee Martin
- Lasso Thrower (lost), starring Vicente Oropeza
- Leonard–Cushing Fight, starring Jack Cushing and Mike Leonard
- Luis Martinetti, Contortionist, starring Luis Martinetti
- Man of a Thousand Faces, starring George Layman
- May Lucas, starring May Lucas
- Men on Parallel Bars
- Mexican Knife Duel (lost), starring Pedro Esquivel and Dionecio Gonzales
- Miss Lucy Murray, starring Lucy Murray
- Mlle. Capitaine, starring Alciede Capitaine
- Organ Grinder, No. 1
- Organ Grinder, No. 2
- Oriental Dance, starring Rosa
- The Pickaninny Dance, from the 'Passing Show', starring Joe Rastus, Denny Tolliver and Walter Wilkins
- Rat Killing
- Rats and Terrier No. 2
- Rats and Terrier No. 3
- Rats and Weasel
- Ruth Dennis, starring Ruth St. Denis
- Sandow, starring Eugen Sandow
- Sheik Hadji Tahar, starring Sheik Hadji Tahar
- Sioux Ghost Dance
- Summersault Dog, starring Lucy the Dog and Ivan Tschernoff
- Sword Combat, starring Najid and Saleem Nassar
- Topack and Steele, starring George W. Steele and George Topack
- Toyou Kichi, starring Toyou Kichi
- Trained Bears
- Trapeze
- Unsuccessful Somersault
- Walton and Slavin, starring John Slavin and Charles F. Walton
- Whirlwind Gunspinning, starring Hadj Lessik
- The Widder, starring Isabelle Coe
- Wonderful Performing Dog, starring Lucy the Dog and Ivan Tschernoff
- The Wrestling Dog, starring Henry Welton
- Wrestling Match
Films directed by other filmmakers
edit- Miss Jerry, directed by Alexander Black, starring by Blanche Bayliss, William Courtenay and Chauncey Depew.
Births
edit| Month | Date | Name | Country | Profession | Died | |
| January | 3 | ZaSu Pitts | US | Actress | 1963 | |
| 6 | William Newell | US | Actor | 1967 | ||
| 22 | Matt McHugh | US | Actor | 1971 | ||
| February | 8 | King Vidor | US | Actor, director | 1982 | |
| 14 | Jack Benny | US | Comedian | 1974 | ||
| March | 26 | Will Wright | US | Actor | 1962 | |
| May | 2 | Norma Talmadge | US | Actress | 1957 | |
| 20 | Estelle Taylor | US | Actress | 1958 | ||
| 26 | Paul Lukas | Hungary | Actor | 1971 | ||
| June | 16 | Norman Kerry | US | Actor | 1956 | |
| July | 23 | Arthur Treacher | UK | Actor | 1975 | |
| 25 | Walter Brennan | US | Actor | 1974 | ||
| 27 | Mientje Kling | Netherlands | Actress | 1966 | ||
| 29 | Charles C. Wilson | US | Actor | 1948 | ||
| August | 9 | Kathleen Lockhart | US | Actress | 1978 | |
| 10 | Alan Crosland | US | Director | 1936 | ||
| September | 15 | Jean Renoir | France | Director | 1979 | |
| 26 | Gladys Brockwell | US | Actress | 1929 | ||
| 27 | Olive Tell | US | Actress | 1951 | ||
| October | 7 | Del Lord | Canada | Director | 1970 | |
| 20 | Olive Thomas | US | Actress | 1920 | ||
| 27 | Agda Helin | Sweden | Actress | 1984 | ||
| November | 9 | Mae Marsh | US | Actress | 1968 | |
| 13 | Nita Naldi | US | Actress | 1961 | ||
| December | 8 | Marthe Vinot | France | Actress | 1974 |
Debut
edit- Annabelle Whitford (Annabelle Sun Dance)
- William Courtenay (Miss Jerry)
External links
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Media related to 1894 in film at Wikimedia Commons
References
edit- ^ Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-05-05
- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2013-01-07. 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.