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The following is an overview of the events of 1893 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
| Month | Date | Name | Country | Profession | Died | |
| January | 15 | Ivor Novello | UK | Actor, Composer | 1951 | |
| February | 10 | Jimmy Durante | US | Actor, Singer | 1980 | |
| March | 7 | Elsa Ratassepp | Estonia | Actress | 1972 | |
| 29 | Astrid Holm | Denmark | Actress | 1961 | ||
| April | 3 | Leslie Howard | UK | Actor | 1943 | |
| 12 | Robert Harron | US | Actor | 1920 | ||
| 20 | Harold Lloyd | US | Actor | 1971 | ||
| May | 8 | Lester Dorr | US | Actor | 1980 | |
| 14 | Jack Rice | US | Actor | 1968 | ||
| 15 | José Nepomuceno | Philippines | Director | 1959 | ||
| June | 10 | Hattie McDaniel | US | Actress, Singer-Songwriter, Comedian | 1952 | |
| 14 | Suzanne Grandais | France | Actress | 1920 | ||
| July | 6 | Lech Owron | Poland | Actor | 1965 | |
| August | 14 | Carl Benton Reid | US | Actor | 1973 | |
| 17 | Mae West | US | Actress | 1980 | ||
| 30 | Vera Kholodnaya | Russia | Actress | 1919 | ||
| September | 6 | Irving Bacon | US | Actor | 1965 | |
| 16 | Alexander Korda | Hungary | Director, founder of London Films | 1956 | ||
| October | 14 | Lillian Gish | US | Actress | 1993 | |
| November | 19 | Chris-Pin Martin | US | Actor | 1953 | |
| December | 7 | Fay Bainter | US | Actress | 1968 | |
| 12 | Edward G. Robinson | Romania | Actor | 1973 | ||
| 24 | Harry Warren | US | Film Songwriter | 1981 | ||
| 29 | Berthold Bartosch | Bohemia | Filmmaker | 1968 |
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William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.
Blacksmith Scene is an 1893 American short black-and-white silent film directed by William K.L. Dickson, the Scottish-French inventor who, while under the employ of Thomas Edison, developed one of the first fully functional motion picture cameras. It is historically significant as the first Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition on May 9, 1893, and is the earliest known example of actors performing a role in a film. 102 years later, in 1995, Blacksmithing Scene was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It is the second-oldest film included in the Registry, after Newark Athlete (1891).
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The following is an overview of the events of 1895 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
The following is an overview of the events of 1896 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
The following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
The following is an overview of the events of 1892 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole viewer window. The Kinetoscope was not a movie projector, but it introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video: it created the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter. First described in conceptual terms by U.S. inventor Thomas Edison in 1888, it was largely developed by his employee William Kennedy Laurie Dickson between 1889 and 1892. Dickson and his team at the Edison lab in New Jersey also devised the Kinetograph, an innovative motion picture camera with rapid intermittent, or stop-and-go, film movement, to photograph movies for in-house experiments and, eventually, commercial Kinetoscope presentations.
The following is an overview of the events of 1891 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
Dickson Greeting is an 1891 American short silent film. Directed, produced by, and starring motion-picture pioneer William K. L. Dickson, it displays a 3-second clip of him passing a hat in front of himself, and reaching for it with his other hand. It was filmed on May 20, 1891 in the Photographic Building at Edison's Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey, in collaboration with Thomas Edison using his kinetograph. The film was played for viewers at the National Federation of Women's Clubs, one of the first public presentations of a motion picture.
The following is an overview of the events of 1890 in film, including a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
Edison Studios was an American film production organization, owned by companies controlled by inventor and entrepreneur, Thomas Edison. The studio made close to 1,200 films, as part of the Edison Manufacturing Company (1894–1911) and then Thomas A. Edison, Inc. (1911–1918), until the studio's closing in 1918. Of that number, 54 were feature length, and the remainder were shorts. All of the company's films have fallen into the public domain because they were released before 1928.
The following is an overview of the events of 1889 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.
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Men Boxing is an 1891 American short silent film, produced and directed by William K. L. Dickson and William Heise for the Edison Manufacturing Company, featuring two Edison employees with boxing gloves, pretending to spar in a boxing ring. The 12 feet of film was shot between May and June 1891 at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey, on the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, through a round aperture on 3/4 inch (19mm) wide film with a single edge row of sprocket perforations, as an experimental demonstration and was never publicly shown. A print has been preserved in the US Library of Congress film archive as part of the Gordon Hendricks collection.
Annie Oakley is an 1894 black-and-white silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer.
Buffalo Bill is a lost 1894 black-and-white silent film from Edison Studios, produced by William K. L. Dickson with William Heise as cinematographer. Filmed on a single reel, using standard 35 mm gauge, it has a 60-second runtime. The film was shot in Edison's Black Maria studio and is an exhibition of rifle shooting by Buffalo Bill himself. The film is one of several shot by Dickson and Heise after Thomas Edison invited Cody and his Wild West show performers to the kinetoscope studio.