1880s In Film Information
The decade of the 1880s in film involved some significant events.
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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.
- 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, a 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.
- 1887 - Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film.
- 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.
- 1888 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince creates the first motion picture films created on paper rolls of film.
- 1889 - American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available.
Films
This is an incomplete list of films made in the 1880s:
- Roundhay Garden Scene (Louis le Prince 1888).
- Leeds Bridge (Louis le Prince 1888).
- Accordion Player (Louis le Prince, probably 1888).
- Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses (William Friese-Greene 1889).
Births
This a list of actors and filmmakers who were born between years 1880 and 1884. See also:
- 1885 born actors and filmmakers
- 1886 born actors and filmmakers
- 1887 born actors and filmmakers
- 1888 born actors and filmmakers
- 1889 born actors and filmmakers
1880:
- January 6, 1880, Tom Mix, (actor) (d. 1940)
- January 29, 1880, W.C. Fields, (actor) (d. 1946)
- March 10, 1880, Bronco Billy Anderson, (actor) (d. 1971)
- April 13, 1880, Charles Christie, (film studio owner) (d. 1955)
- June 7, 1880, Thorleif Lund, (actor) (d. 1956)
- August 6, 1880, Hans Moser, (actor), (d. 1964)
- October 23, 1880, Una O'Connor, (actress) (d. 1959)
- December 10, 1880, Fred Immler, (actor), (d. 1965)
1881:
- March 4, 1881, Maude Fealy, (actress) (d. 1971)
- November 24, 1881, Al Christie, (director and producer) (d. 1951)
- December 5, 1881, René Cresté, actor, director (d. 1922)
1882:
- January 17, 1882, Noah Beery, (actor) (d. 1946)
- February 15, 1882, John Barrymore, (actor) (d. 1942)
- August 6, 1882, Ernst Eklund, (actor) (d. 1971)
- October 20, 1882, Bela Lugosi, (actor) (d. 1956)
1883:
- January 10, 1883, Francis X. Bushman, (actor) (d. 1966)
- February 22, 1883, Marguerite Clark, (actress) (d. 1940)
- February 23, 1883, Victor Fleming, (director) (d. 1949)
- April 1, 1883, Lon Chaney, Sr., (actor) (d. 1930)
- May 1, 1883, Tom Moore, (actor) (d. 1955)
- May 23, 1883, Douglas Fairbanks, (actor) (d. 1939)
- August 19, 1883, Elsie Ferguson, (actress) (d. 1961)
- December 16, 1883, Max Linder, (actor) (d. 1925)
1884:
- January 13, 1884, Sophie Tucker, (singer, actress and comedian) (d. 1966)
- February 14, 1884 - Nils Olaf Chrisander, (actor, film director) (d. 1947)
- February 16, 1884, Robert J. Flaherty (filmmaker) (d. 1951)
- April 6, 1884, Walter Huston, (actor) (d. 1950)
- May 10, 1884, Olga Petrova, (actress) (d. 1977)
- August 7, 1884, Billie Burke, (actress) (d. 1970)
- October 4, 1884, Ida Wüst, (actress) (d. 1958)
See also
- Film, History of cinema, List of movies.
- Decades in Film:
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