Film year 1896

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Film year 1896
The short film The Kiss is the first kiss in film history .

Events

• January 14th : Birt Acres presents its film projector in front of the Royal Photographic Society .
• March 20 : The first public cinema screening with the Lumière cinematograph takes place in front of an invited audience at the Vienna Teaching and Research Institute for Photography and Reproduction .

Cinema program Vienna, 1896

• March 27th : From this day on, there will be daily film screening in Vienna for the first time in the mezzanine of the house at Kärntner Strasse 45 / corner Krugerstrasse 2 in the First District of Vienna . There Eugène Dupont, an envoy from the Lumières, presented their first works. This is done for an entry fee of 50 cruisers and is possible daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• April 20 : The first screening with Lumières Cinematograph in Germany takes place in Cologne . The company Deutsche Automaten Gesellschaft Stollwerck & Co. had acquired the evaluation rights for Germany.
• April 25 : In the Wilhelmshallen in Berlin , Unter den Linden 21, a film screening room of the German Cinematographic Society opens. The projection room is considered the first cinema in Germany. The managing director is Gustav Schönwald
• July 11th : In Munich on Neuhauserstraße, the showman Carl Gabriel in his Panoptikum holds the first screening of the so-called living pictures in the Bavarian capital.

• British film pioneers found the Brighton School .
• The short film The Kiss is the first kiss in film history between May Irwin and John C. Rice .

Born

January to March

Werner Richard Heymann (born February 14)

Jack Pickford (born August 18)

Olga Baclanova (born August 19)

Raymond Massey (born August 30)

Adolf Wohlbrück (born November 19)

• 0January 1: Teinosuke Kinugasa , Japanese director († 1982)
• 0January 2: Dsiga Wertow , Soviet director († 1954)
• January 14: Hans J. Salter , Austrian composer († 1994)
• January 20: George Burns , American actor († 1996)
• January 27: Kurt Bobeth Bolander , German actor († 1961)
• January 29th: Ladislaus Bus-Fekete , Hungarian-American screenwriter († 1971)

• 0February 4th: Jutta Jol , German actress († 1981)
• February 14: Werner Richard Heymann , German composer († 1961)
• February 18: Lothar Müthel , German actor († 1964)
• February 24: Richard Thorpe , American actor († 1991)
• February 29: William A. Wellman , American director († 1975)

• March 17: Richard Eybner , Austrian actor († 1986)
• March 26: Anton Profes , Austrian composer († 1976)

April to June

• April 21: Attila Hörbiger , Austrian actor († 1987)
• April 21: Walter Forde , British film director, screenwriter and actor († 1984)
• April 29: Natalie Talmadge , American actress († 1969)
• 0May 1: Ray Rennahan , American cameraman († 1980)
• May 16: Gilda Langer , Austrian actress († 1920)
• May 19: Michael Balcon , British producer († 1977)
• May 25: Ray Enright , American director and screenwriter († 1965)
• May 30th: Howard Hawks , American director († 1977)
• May 31: Ernest Haller , American cameraman († 1970)
• June 28: Lazar Wechsler , most important producer of early Swiss film († 1981)

July to September

• 0July 3: Doris Lloyd , British actress († 1968)
• July 25: Louis Brody , German actor († 1951)
• July 25: Rosie Newman , British amateur filmmaker († 1988)
• July 28: Barbara La Marr , American actress († 1926)
• 0August 6: Cyril J. Mockridge , British composer († 1979)
• August 10: Walter Lang , American director († 1972)
• August 18: Jack Pickford , Canadian actor († 1933)
• August 19: Olga Baclanova , Russian actress († 1974)
• August 23: Hubert von Meyerinck , German actor († 1971)
• August 30: Raymond Massey , Canadian actor († 1983)
• September 20: Elliott Nugent , American director († 1980)

October to December

• 0October 1: Abraham Sofaer , British actor († 1988)
• 0October 6: Hermann Basler , German actor, producer and screenwriter († 1982)
• 0October 8: Julien Duvivier , French director († 1967)
• October 18: Friedrich Hollaender , German composer († 1976)
• October 30: Ruth Gordon , American actress († 1985)

• 0November 4: Ian Wolfe , American actor († 1992)
• November 19: Adolf Wohlbrück , Austrian actor († 1967)
• November 24th: Corinne Griffith , American actress († 1979)
• November 25: Jessie Royce Landis , American actress († 1972)
• November 28: Lilia Skala , American actress († 1994)

• 0December 8th: Christl Mardayn , Austrian actress († 1971)

See also

Portal: Film  - Overview of Wikipedia content on film

Web links

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