1880s in film

The decade of the 1880s in film involved 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, 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. Recorded in 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.

Births

This is 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

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

Lists of films

• 1885 in film
• 1886 in film
• 1887 in film
• 1888 in film
• 1889 in film

See also

• Film
• History of film
• Lists of films

References

1. Brayer, Elizabeth (1996). George Eastman : a biography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 37. ISBN 9781580464246.
2. "1878-1929". Eastman Kodak. 2015. Archived from the original on 23 August 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.

External links

• List of 1880s films at IMDb
• List of 1880s deaths at IMDb
• List of 1880s births at IMDb