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| Month | Date | Name | Country | Profession | Died | |
| January | 11 | Monte Blue | US | Actor | 1963 | |
| 13 | Gabriel Gabrio | France | Actor | 1946 | ||
| 13 | Sophie Tucker | France | Actress, Singer | 1966 | ||
| 21 | André Andrejew | Russia | Set Designer | 1967 | ||
| February | 16 | Kathleen Clifford | US | Actress | 1962 | |
| 26 | William Frawley | US | Actor | 1966 | ||
| March | 18 | Frank Moran | US | Boxer, Actor | 1967 | |
| 21 | Frank Urson | US | Director, Cinematographer | 1928 | ||
| 24 | Roscoe Arbuckle | US | Actor, Comedian | 1933 | ||
| April | 9 | Konrad Tom | Poland | Actor, screenwriter, director | 1957 | |
| 12 | Harold Lockwood | US | Actor | 1918 | ||
| 23 | Jenő Törzs | Hungary | Actor | 1946 | ||
| May | 1 | Kurt Vespermann | Germany | Actor | 1957 | |
| 18 | Jeanie MacPherson | US | Actress, screenwriter | 1946 | ||
| 21 | Mabel Taliaferro | US | Actress | 1979 | ||
| 30 | Paulette Noizeux | France | Actress | 1971 | ||
| June | 1 | Clive Brook | UK | Actor | 1974 | |
| 16 | Aage Bendixen | Denmark | Actor | 1973 | ||
| July | 17 | Jack Conway | US | Director, producer | 1952 | |
| August | 1 | Anthony Coldeway | US | Screenwriter | 1963 | |
| 5 | Reginald Owen | UK | Actor | 1972 | ||
| 10 | Sam Warner | US | Film Mogul | 1927 | ||
| 14 | Marija Leiko | Latvia | Actress | 1937 | ||
| September | 5 | Irene Fenwick | US | Actress | 1936 | |
| 9 | Raymond Walburn | US | Actor | 1969 | ||
| 26 | Antonio Moreno | Spain | Actor | 1967 | ||
| 30 | Lil Dagover | Germany | Actress | 1980 | ||
| October | 5 | Manny Ziener | Germany | Actress | 1972 | |
| 7 | Jack Mulhall | US | Actor | 1979 | ||
| November | 9 | Gertrude Astor | US | Actress | 1977 | |
| 11 | Maurice Elvey | UK | Director, producer | 1967 | ||
| 11 | Roland Young | UK | Actor | 1953 | ||
| 23 | Boris Karloff | UK | Actor | 1969 | ||
| 30 | Gyula Szőreghy | Hungary | Actor | 1943 | ||
| December | 9 | Tim Moore | US | Actor | 1958 | |
| 23 | John Cromwell | US | Actor, producer, director | 1979 | ||
| 29 | Pierre Watkin | US | Actor | 1960 | ||
The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière and Louis Jean Lumière, were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their Cinématographe motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905, which places them among the earliest filmmakers.
A movie camera is a type of photographic camera that rapidly takes a sequence of photographs, either onto film stock or an image sensor, in order to produce a moving image to display on a screen. In contrast to the still camera, which captures a single image at a time, the movie camera takes a series of images by way of an intermittent mechanism or by electronic means; each image is a frame of film or video. The frames are projected through a movie projector or a video projector at a specific frame rate to show the moving picture. When projected at a high enough frame rate, the persistence of vision allows the eyes and brain of the viewer to merge the separate frames into a continuous moving picture.
The following is an overview of the events of 1892 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion-picture camera, and director of Roundhay Garden Scene.
Roundhay Garden Scene is a short silent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, in Yorkshire on 14 October 1888. It is believed to be the oldest surviving film. The camera used was patented in the United Kingdom on 16 November 1888.
Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon, also known as Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory and Exiting the Factory, is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by Louis Lumière. It is often referred to as the first real motion picture ever made, although Louis Le Prince's 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene pre-dated it by six and a half years.
The following is an overview of the events of 1890 in film, including a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West is an English actor, director and musician. He is best known for playing Jimmy McNulty in HBO's The Wire (2002–2008), Noah Solloway in Showtime's The Affair (2014–2019), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama nomination, Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew Fred in A Christmas Carol, and Charles, Prince of Wales, in the Netflix drama The Crown (2022–2023), the latter of which earned him nominations for another Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
The Golden Louis is a 1909 American drama film written by Edward Acker, directed by D. W. Griffith, and produced by the Biograph Company in New York City. Originally, this short was distributed to theaters on a "split reel", accompanying another Griffith-directed film, the comedy The Politician's Love Story.
The decade of the 1880s in film involved significant events.
Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses is a 1889 British short silent actuality film, shot by inventor and film pioneer William Friese-Greene. The film depicts life at Hyde Park Corner in London. Hyde Park Corner is claimed to be the first film set in London, as well as the first to be filmed on celluloid, although Louis Le Prince successfully shot on glass plate before 18 August 1887, and on paper negative in October 1888. It may nonetheless be the first moving picture film on celluloid and the first shot in London. It was shown mainly to several photographic journalists who saw it during their lifetime—including Thomas Bedding, J. Hay Taylor and Theodore Brown. It is now considered a lost film with only 6 possible frames surviving today.
Man Walking Around a Corner is an early film/precursor of film, shot by Louis Le Prince in August 1887. It was taken on the corner of Rue Bochart-de-Saron and Avenue Trudaine in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated 18 August 1887 to his wife. According to David Wilkinson's 2015 documentary The First Film indeed, the work is not a film, but a series of photographs, 16 in total, each taken from one of the 16 lenses from Le Prince's camera. Le Prince went on to develop the one-lens camera, and on 14 October 1888 he finally made the world's first moving image. The total result of the work lasts less than one second.
Sarah Whitley is credited as the earliest-born woman known to have appeared in a film. She was the mother-in-law of cinematic pioneer Louis Le Prince and was filmed by him 10 days before her death, aged 72.
Joseph Whitley was an English mechanical engineer and metallurgist. He appears in the Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest known film fragment, shot by his son-in-law Louis Le Prince.
King John is the title by which the earliest known example of a film based on a play by William Shakespeare is commonly known.
The history of film technology traces the development of techniques for the recording, construction and presentation of motion pictures. When the film medium came about in the 19th century, there already was a centuries old tradition of screening moving images through shadow play and the magic lantern that were very popular with audiences in many parts of the world. Especially the magic lantern influenced much of the projection technology, exhibition practices and cultural implementation of film. Between 1825 and 1840, the relevant technologies of stroboscopic animation, photography and stereoscopy were introduced. For much of the rest of the century, many engineers and inventors tried to combine all these new technologies and the much older technique of projection to create a complete illusion or a complete documentation of reality. Colour photography was usually included in these ambitions and the introduction of the phonograph in 1877 seemed to promise the addition of synchronized sound recordings. Between 1887 and 1894, the first successful short cinematographic presentations were established. The biggest popular breakthrough of the technology came in 1895 with the first projected movies that lasted longer than 10 seconds. During the first years after this breakthrough, most motion pictures lasted about 50 seconds, lacked synchronized sound and natural colour, and were mainly exhibited as novelty attractions. In the first decades of the 20th century, movies grew much longer and the medium quickly developed into one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment. The breakthrough of synchronized sound occurred at the end of the 1920s and that of full color motion picture film in the 1930s. By the start of the 21st century, physical film stock was being replaced with digital film technologies at both ends of the production chain by digital image sensors and projectors.
Arthouse animation is a combination of art film and animated film.