Film year 1895

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Film year 1895
Play media file Thomas Edison produces The Execution of Mary Stuart .

Events

The Skladanowsky brothers on one of their early films

• March 22nd : Auguste and Louis Lumière screened their first film in front of a closed audience. The film shows workers leaving the Lumière works .
• In Great Britain Robert William Paul and the photographer Birt Acres develop a film camera and a projector based on the model of the cinetographer by Thomas Alva Edison . On March 30th they will film the annual rowing competition at Oxford and Cambridge Universities for the first time .

Keystone ceremony on the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal

• June 21 : Kaiser Wilhelm II opens the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, named after his grandfather, in a festive ceremony . The ceremony is filmed by the Briton Birt Acres with a film camera; his film Opening of the Kiel Canal is considered the oldest film recording in Germany.
• August 28 : Thomas Edison publishes the short film The Execution of Mary Stuart , which he produced and is considered the first historical film in history. Alfred Clark directs. The first stop trick in film history is performed when the actor who plays Mary Stuart is replaced by a doll.

• November 1st : with the bioscope , an early projection device, the Skladanowsky brothers in Berlin show a number of films (including The Boxing Kangaroo ) to a paying audience. This is considered to be the first public film screening in Europe.
• December 28 : The Lumiere brothers carry babies breakfast and a further 9 films before a paying audience of a Parisian cafes. Further demonstrations will follow.

Birthdays

January to March

Rudolph Valentino (born May 6th)

Liane Haid (born August 16)

Buster Keaton (born October 4th)

Edna Purviance (born October 21)

• 0January 5: A. Edward Sutherland , British director († 1973)

• 0February 6: Sepp Allgeier , German cameraman († 1968)
• 0February 6: Mario Camerini , Italian director († 1981)
• February 12: Brian Desmond Hurst , Irish director, screenwriter and producer († 1986)
• February 19: Louis Calhern , American actor († 1956)
• February 21: Emil Stepanek , Austrian film architect († 1945)
• February 28: Marcel Pagnol , French director and screenwriter († 1974)

• 0March 4: Shemp Howard , American actor († 1955)
• March 13: Dorothy Davenport , American actress († 1977)

April to June

• 0April 6: Dudley Nichols , American screenwriter († 1960)
• 0April 6: Harold Rosson , American cameraman († 1988)
• April 14: Mary Marquet , French actress († 1979)

• 0May 6: Rudolph Valentino , Italian actor († 1926)
• 0May 9: Richard Barthelmess , American actor († 1963)

• 0June 3: Zoltan Korda , Hungarian director († 1961)
• 0June 4: George Stevenson Wallace , Australian actor († 1960)
• 0June 7th: Hans Schneeberger , Austrian-German camera pioneer († 1971)
• June 10: Hattie McDaniel , American actress († 1952)
• June 14: Cliff Edwards , American actor and voice actor († 1971)
• June 18: Blanche Sweet , American actress († 1986)

July to September

• 0July 8: Arthur C. Miller , American cameraman († 1970)
• July 13: Sidney Blackmer , American actor († 1973)
• July 13: Daniel Mandell , American film editor († 1987)
• July 14: Hans Pössenbacher , German actor († 1979)
• July 17: Sid Hickox , American cameraman († 1982)
• July 18: Edgar Ziesemer , German cameraman († 1971)
• July 23: Aileen Pringle , American actress († 1989)
• July 23: Florence Vidor , American actress († 1977)

• August 16: Liane Haid , Austrian actress († 2000)
• August 24: Victor Halperin , American director († 1983)

• 0September 1: Edit Angold , German actress († 1971)
• 0September 4: Nigel Bruce , British actor († 1953)
• September 11th: Uno Henning , Swedish actor († 1970)
• September 22: Paul Muni , American actor († 1967)
• September 25: Victor Saville , British director and producer († 1979)
• September 26: George Raft , American actor († 1980)
• September 30th: Lewis Milestone , American director († 1980)

October to December

• 0October 1: Hans Schweikart , German director († 1975)
• 0October 2: Bud Abbott , American actor († 1974)
• 0October 4: Buster Keaton , American actor and director († 1966)
• October 10: Fridolf Rhudin , Swedish actor († 1935)
• October 20: Rex Ingram , American actor († 1969)
• October 21: Edna Purviance , American actress († 1958)

• 0November 9: Mae Marsh , American actress († 1968)
• November 17: Hilde Wörner , German actress († 1963)
• November 27: Nico Dostal , Austrian composer († 1981)

• December 15: Elisabeth Markus , Austrian actress († 1970)

Web links

Commons : Film Year 1895  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on the first public performance in Europe in bundesarchiv.de . Retrieved January 22, 2018.