1896 IN FILM

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Events

Films released in 1896

Births

Events

★ January - In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul developed their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph).

★ January - In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projected motion pictures.

★ Pathé Frères film company founded

★ April - Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City

★ May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever recorded in film.

★ French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effects techniques, including stop-motion photography.

★ William Selig founded the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago.

★ Demeny-Gaumont works on a 60 mm format, first known as Biographe (unperforated), then Chronophotographe (perforated).

★ Casimir Sivan and E. Dalphin create a 38 mm format.

Films released in 1896

★ ''Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat''

★ ''Arrivée d'un train gare de Vincennes''

★ ''L'Arroseur''

★ ''Awakening of Rip''

★ ''Baignade en mer''

★ ''Barnet Horse Fair''

★ ''Bataille de boules de neige''

★ ''La Fée aux Choux''

★ ''The Horse Trough''

★ ''The Kiss''

★ ''Le Manoir du diable''

★ ''Rip Van Winkle'' (series)

★ ''The Vanishing Lady''

Births

★ January 20 - Isabel Withers, actress (d. 1968)

★ June 28 - Constance Binney, actress, singer, dancer (d. 1989)

★ July 16 - Evelyn Preer, actress, singer (d. 1932)

★ July 25 - Jack Perrin, actor (d. 1967)

★ August 18 - Jack Pickford, actor (d. 1933)

★ August 30 - Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983)