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Ten remaining frames of London's Trafalgar Square by Wordsworth Donisthorpe
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, 28 August 1841.
The following is an overview of the events of 1890 in film, including a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Events
- The first moving pictures were developed on celluloid film by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, in Hyde Park, London in 1889. The process was patented in 1890.
- William K. L. Dickson completes his work for Thomas Edison on the Kinetograph cylinder either in this year or 1889. Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.
Films
- London's Trafalgar Square,[1] directed by William Carr Croft and Wordsworth Donisthorpe.
- Monkeyshines, No. 1 – contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890, Monkeyshines, No. 2 and Monkeyshines, No. 3, directed by William K. L. Dickson.
- Mosquinha, directed by Étienne-Jules Marey.
- Traffic in King's Road, Chelsea, directed by William Friese-Greene.
Births
| Month | Date | Name | Country | Profession | Died | |
| January | 10 | Pina Menichelli | Italy | Actress | 1984 | |
| 30 | Bruno Kastner | Germany | Actor | 1932 | ||
| February | 17 | Sol Lesser | US | Producer | 1980 | |
| 18 | Edward Arnold | US | Actor | 1956 | ||
| 18 | Adolphe Menjou | US | Actor | 1963 | ||
| 24 | Marjorie Main | US | Actress | 1975 | ||
| March | 3 | Edmund Lowe | US | Actor | 1971 | |
| 17 | Ted Adams | US | Actor | 1973 | ||
| 20 | Fania Marinoff | US | Actress | 1971 | ||
| April | 26 | Edgar Kennedy | US | Actor | 1948 | |
| May | 7 | George Archainbaud | France | Director | 1959 | |
| 23 | Herbert Marshall | UK | Actor | 1966 | ||
| June | 1 | Frank Morgan | US | Actor | 1949 | |
| 10 | William A. Seiter | US | Director | 1964 | ||
| 14 | May Allison | US | Actress | 1989 | ||
| 16 | Stan Laurel | UK | Actor | 1965 | ||
| 18 | Gideon Wahlberg | Sweden | Actor, screenwriter, director | 1948 | ||
| 25 | Charlotte Greenwood | US | Actress, dancer | 1977 | ||
| August | 2 | Marin Sais | US | Actress | 1971 | |
| 22 | Cecil Kellaway | South Africa | Actor | 1973 | ||
| 27 | Man Ray | US | Photographer, Director | 1976 | ||
| September | 4 | Gunnar Sommerfeldt | Denmark | Actor, director | 1947 | |
| 4 | Naima Wifstrand | Sweden | Singer, Actress, Composer, Director | 1968 | ||
| October | 1 | Alice Joyce | US | Actress | 1955 | |
| 1 | Stanley Holloway | UK | Actor | 1982 | ||
| 2 | Groucho Marx | US | Comedian, Actor | 1977 | ||
| 3 | Henry Hull | US | Actor | 1977 | ||
| 6 | Jack Rockwell | US | Actor | 1947 | ||
| November | 20 | Robert Armstrong | US | Actor | 1973 | |
Deaths
- c. September 16 – Louis Le Prince, French film pioneer, director of Roundhay Garden Scene (born 1842)
- c. December 21 – Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish Actress, dies at 78 (born 1812)
Notes
- ↑ Burns, Paul T, The History of The Discovery of Cinematography – 1885 – 1889, archived from the original on 2009-05-18, retrieved 2009-05-10 and Ten Remaining Frames Of Donisthorpe's 1890 'Trafalgar Square' Footage Come To Life (GIF), retrieved 2009-05-10
External links
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