Film year 1894
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- January 7th : William KL Dickson films his assistant Fred Ott sneezing . On the one hand, this creates the first closeup picture. Fred Ott's Sneeze is also the oldest film registered with the United States Copyright Office and protected with a paper print.
- April 14th : The Kinetoscope Parlor by the Holland brothers opens on New York's Broadway , a forerunner of cinema with ten display cases for viewing films developed by William K. L. Dickson for the inventor Thomas Alva Edison . The films, which can be up to 30 seconds long, can only be viewed by one person at a time. One of the first films to be screened at the opening is the Blacksmith Scene produced by Dickson the previous year , making it the first commercially available film.
- With the Dickson Experimental Sound Film , William KL Dickson tries to record a sound recording synchronously with a film recording. However, the project does not get beyond the experimental stage.
- William KL Dickson produces the short films Bucking Broncho , in which rodeo rider Lee Martin from the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show appears in front of the camera for the first and last time in this film, and Carmencita about a dancer.
- In Paris, the Lumière brothers were working on the cinématographe , which was patented the following year.
- Étienne-Jules Marey is making the short film Falling Cat .
Born
January to March
- January 3: ZaSu Pitts , American actress († 1963)
- January 11: Alexander Hall , American director († 1968)
- February 1: John Ford , American director († 1973)
- February 8: King Vidor , American director († 1982)
- February 14: Jack Benny , American actor († 1974)
- February 28: Ben Hecht , American screenwriter († 1964)
- March 10: Dagny Servaes , German-Austrian actress († 1961)
- March 19: Joseph Kane , American director († 1975)
- March 29: Franz Planer , Austrian cameraman († 1963)
April to June
- April 6: Willy Schmidt-Gentner , German composer († 1964)
- April 29: Paul Hörbiger , Austrian actor († 1981)
- May 2: Norma Talmadge , American actress († 1957)
- May 10: Dimitri Tiomkin , Ukrainian / American composer († 1979)
- May 19: Lothar Mendes , German director († 1974)
- May 20: Robert Katscher , Austrian songwriter and composer († 1942)
- May 20: Estelle Taylor , American actress († 1958)
- May 26: Paul Lukas , American actor († 1971)
- May 29: Beatrice Lillie , Canadian actress († 1989)
- May 29: Josef von Sternberg , Austrian / American director († 1969)
- June 10: Oscar Karlweis , Austrian actor († 1956)
- June 13: Tay Garnett , American director († 1977)
- June 26: Alfred Kunz , Austrian stage and costume designer († 1961)
July to September
- July 10: Nino Giannini , Italian film and dubbing director († 1978)
- July 25: Walter Brennan , American actor († 1974)
- August 2: Hal Mohr , American cameraman († 1974)
- August 21: Hans Tügel , German actor, radio play speaker, director and author († 1984)
- August 24: Talbot Jennings , American screenwriter († 1985)
- August 26: Richard Wallace , American screenwriter, director and producer († 1951)
- September 10: Lou Handman , American composer († 1956)
- September 12: Olexander Dowschenko , Soviet director († 1956)
- September 15: Jean Renoir , French director († 1979)
- September 23: Albert Lewin , American director, producer and screenwriter († 1968)
- September 26: Gladys Brockwell , American actress († 1929)
October to December
- November 11th: Beverly Bayne , American actress († 1982)
- November 22: Else Ehser , German actress († 1968)
- December 13: Fernando de Fuentes , Mexican film director, producer and screenwriter († 1958)
Web links
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