Film year 1890

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Film year 1890
Wordsworth Donisthorpe takes his first moving pictures in Trafalgar Square with the kinesigraph he developed last year .

Events

• September 16 : According to his brother, the film pioneer Louis Le Prince boarded a train to Paris in Dijon, where he never arrived. The circumstances of his disappearance are never clarified.

• The first films are shot with a precursor to Edison's cinetograph .
• The British film pioneer Wordsworth Donisthorpe takes his first moving pictures in London's Trafalgar Square with the kinesigraph he developed last year .
• Monkeyshines , believed to be the first film to be made in the United States, is released. The director is William KL Dickson and the cameraman is William Heise .

Birthdays

January to March

January

• 0January 7th: Henny Porten , German actress († 1960)
• January 10: Pina Menichelli , Italian actress († 1984)
• January 16: Karl Freund , German cameraman († 1969)

February

• February 17: Maria Jacobini , Italian actress († 1944)
• February 18: Edward Arnold , American actor († 1956)
• February 18: Adolphe Menjou , American actor († 1963)
• February 24: Marjorie Main , American actress († 1975)

March

• 0March 1: Heinz Hilpert , German director († 1967)
• March 15: Eduard Hoesch , Austrian cameraman († 1983)

April to June

Stan Laurel (born June 16)

Stanley Holloway (born October 1)

Groucho Marx (born October 2)

April

• 0April 2: Hans Hemes , German actor († 1963)
• 0April 2: Agnes Straub , German actress († 1941)
• 0April 8: Victor Schertzinger , American composer, director, producer and screenwriter († 1941)
• April 30: Barney McGill , American cameraman († 1942)

May

• May 10: Clarence Brown , American director († 1987)
• May 10: Wilhelm Thiele , Austrian director († 1975)
• May 17: Domenico Gambino , Italian actor and director († 1968)

June

• 0June 1: Frank Morgan , American actor († 1949)
• 0June 3: Mimi Kött , Hungarian singer and actress († 1931)
• 0June 3: Italia Almirante Manzini , Italian actress († 1941)
• 0June 3: Baburao Painter , Indian director († 1954)
• 0June 5: Robert Liebmann , German screenwriter († 1942)
• 0June 6: Heinrich Haas , Austrian producer († 1953)
• 0June 6: Ted Lewis , American musician and actor († 1971)
• 0June 8: Friedrich Ettel , Swiss actor († 1941)
• 0June 9: Leslie Banks , British actor († 1952)
• 0June 9: Barbara Everest , British actress († 1968)
• June 10: William A. Seiter , American director († 1964)
• June 12: Eugen Kürschner , Hungarian production and location manager († 1939)
• June 13: Harry Shannon , American actor († 1964)
• June 15: Ivy Close , British actress († 1968)
• June 16: Stan Laurel , British comedian and actor († 1965)
• June 21: James Basevi , American production designer and film technician († 1962)
• June 24th: Hannes Schneider , Austrian ski pioneer and actor († 1955)
• June 26: Jeanne Eagels , American actress († 1929)
• June 26th: Fridel Köhne , German screenwriter († 20th century)
• June 30: Adolf Dell , German actor († 1977)

July to August

July

• 0July 2: Paul Graetz , German comedian and actor († 1937)
• 0July 7: Tom Powers , American actor († 1955)
• July 13: Clyde De Vinna , American cameraman († 1953)
• July 14: Friedrich Porges , Austrian-American film journalist and screenwriter († 1978)
• July 17: Stanley Ridges , British-American actor († 1951)
• July 20: Richard Billinger , Austrian writer and screenwriter († 1965)
• July 20: Hans Martin Cremer , German writer, composer, songwriter and screenwriter († 1953)
• July 20: Verna Felton , American actress and voice actress († 1966)
• July 27: Erich Dunskus , German actor († 1967)

August

• August 10: Gerd Fricke , German actor, radio play director and speaker († after 1960)
• August 22: Cecil Kellaway , American actor († 1973)

October to December

October

• 0October 1: Stanley Holloway , British actor († 1982)
• 0October 1: Alice Joyce , American actress († 1955)
• 0October 1: Blanche Oelrichs , American screenwriter († 1950)
• 0October 2: Groucho Marx , American comedian († 1977)
• October 14: Louis Delluc , French filmmaker, writer and critic († 1924)

November

• November 20: Robert Armstrong , American actor († 1973)
• November 29: Roland Totheroh , American cameraman († 1967)

December

• 0December 5: Fritz Lang , Austrian director († 1976)
• December 28: Gösta Ekman , Swedish actor († 1938)
• December 29th: Käthe Dorsch , German actress († 1957)

Died

• September 16 (presumably): Louis Le Prince , French film pioneer (lost) (* 1842)

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