1897 IN FILM

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Events

Films released in 1897

Births

Events

★ 125 people died during a film screening at the Charity Bazaar in Paris after a curtain catches on fire from the ether used to fuel the projector lamp.

★ Mitchell and Kenyon go into a film-making partnership

★ Enoch Rector develops a 63 mm film format called Veriscope, which films the Corbett-Fitzsimmons championship match.

★ Thomas Henry Blair develops a 48 mm film format called Viventoscope.

★ Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Procession filmed

Films released in 1897

★ ''An Arab Knife Grinder at Work''

★ ''La Bandera Argentina''

★ ''Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight''

★ ''The Milker's Mishap''

★ ''New Pillow Fight''

Births

★ February 10 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress (d.1992)

★ February 12 - Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970)

★ March 16 - Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970)

★ March 27 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)

★ April 1 - Nita Naldi, American actress (d. 1961)

★ April 14 - Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)

★ June 16 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)

★ June 19 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)

★ October 28 - Edith Head, American costume designer

★ October 30 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)

★ September 23 - Walter Pidgeon, American actor (d. 1984)