Overview of the events of the 1880s in film
The decade of the 1880s in film involved significant 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 , eventually known as Kodak.[ 1] 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, the 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.[ 2] 1887 – Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film . 1888 - Louis Le Prince creates the oldest surviving film, Roundhay Garden Scene Leeds , Yorkshire, England , the footage lasts a mere 2.11 seconds. 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. 1889 – American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available. This is a list of actors and filmmakers who were born between years 1880 and 1884. See also:
Year Month Date Name Country Profession Died 1880 January 6 Tom Mix US Actor 1940 January 17 Mack Sennett US Actor, producer, director 1960 January 29 W. C. Fields US Actor 1946 February 8 Viktor Schwanneke Germany Actor 1931 February 9 Howard Hickman US Actor, director, writer 1949 February 18 Egon Brecher Austria Actor, director 1946 February 28 Hale Hamilton US Actor, writer, producer 1942 March 10 Broncho Billy Anderson US Actor 1971 April 13 Charles Christie Canada Film Studio Owner 1955 June 7 Thorleif Lund Norway Actor 1956 July 12 Tod Browning US Director 1962 August 6 Hans Moser Austria Actor 1964 October 23 Una O'Connor Ireland Actress 1959 November 2 Fritz Achterberg Germany Actor 1971 December 10 Fred Immler Germany Actor 1965 1881 January 24 Elsa Wagner Germany Actress 1975 February 10 Pauline Brunius Sweden Actress, director, screenwriter 1954 August 12 Cecil B. DeMille US Director, producer 1959 September 11 Asta Nielsen Denmark Actress 1972 November 13 Carl Schenstrøm Denmark Actor 1942 November 24 Al Christie Canada Director, producer 1951 December 5 René Cresté France Actor, director 1922 1882 January 17 Noah Beery US Actor 1946 January 23 Eero Kilpi Finland Actor 1954 February 15 John Barrymore US Actor 1942 February 27 George Terwilliger US Director, screenwriter 1970 May 10 Thurston Hall US Actor 1958 May 16 Mary Gordon Scotland Actress 1963 May 23 James Gleason US Actor, screenwriter 1959 July 27 Donald Crisp US Actor 1974 August 6 Ernst Eklund Sweden Actor 1971 September 10 Paul Harvey US Actor 1955 October 20 Bela Lugosi Hungary Actor 1956 1883 January 10 Francis X. Bushman US Actor 1966 January 10 Florence Reed US Actress 1967 February 22 Marguerite Clark US Actress 1940 February 22 Harry Depp US Actor 1957 February 22 Olga Svendsen Denmark Actress 1942 March 4 Maude Fealy US Actress 1971 March 26 Poul Reumert Denmark Actor 1968 April 1 Lon Chaney US Actor 1930 April 1 Edvard Drabløs Norway Actor, director 1976 April 1 Frédéric Mariotti France Actor 1971 April 2 Pearl Doles Bell US Scenarist, Editor 1968 April 6 Walter Huston Canada Actor 1950 May 1 Tom Moore Ireland Actor 1955 May 6 Alberto Collo Italy Actor 1955 May 20 Stanley Fields US Actor 1941 May 23 Douglas Fairbanks US Actor 1939 June 13 Merta Sterling US Actress 1944 August 12 Marion Lorne US Actress 1968 August 19 Elsie Ferguson US Actress 1961 September 3 Robert Middlemass US Actor, Playwright 1949 October 5 Ernst Pittschau Germany Actor 1951 November 19 Ned Sparks Canada Actor 1957 December 16 Max Linder France Actor 1925 December 24 Stefan Jaracz Poland Actor 1945 1884 February 14 Nils Olaf Chrisander Sweden Actor, director 1947 February 16 Robert J. Flaherty US Filmmaker 1951 April 30 Olof Sandborg Sweden Actor 1965 May 8 Valdemar Psilander Denmark Actor 1917 May 10 Olga Petrova UK Actress 1977 May 26 Charles Winninger US Actor 1969 May 28 Edward Keane US Actor 1959 July 12 Louis B. Mayer Russia Producer 1957 July 23 Emil Jannings Germany Actor 1950 July 24 Maria Caserini Italy Actress 1969 August 7 Billie Burke US Actress 1970 August 11 Hermann Wlach Austria Actor 1962 August 25 James C. Morton US Actor 1942 October 4 Ida Wüst Germany Actress 1958 October 11 Sig Ruman Germany Actor 1967 October 24 Emil Fjellström Sweden Actor 1944 December 1 Torben Meyer Denmark Actor 1975 December 31 Mihály Fekete Hungary Actor, screenwriter, director 1960
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