1880s in film

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The decade of the 1880s in film involved some significant events.

Events

• 1880 - American George Eastman begins to commercially manufacture dry plates for photography.
• 1880 - Eadweard Muybridge holds a public demonstration of his Zoopraxiscope, a magic lantern provided with a rotating disc with artist's renderings of Muybridge's chronophotographic sequences. It was used as a demonstration device by Muybridge in his illustrated lecture (the original preserved in the Museum of Kingston upon Thames in England).

• January 1, 1881 - American inventor George Eastman founds the Eastman Dry Plate Company.
• 1882 - American inventor George Eastman begins experimenting with new types of photographic film, with his employee, William Walker
• 1882 - French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey invents the chronophotographic gun, a camera shaped like a rifle that photographs twelve successive images each second.

• 1885 - American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use.
• 1887 - Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film.

• 1888 - George Eastman files for a patent for his photographic film.
• 1888 - Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge to discuss adding sound to moving pictures. Edison begins his own experiments.
• 1888 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince creates the first motion picture films created on paper rolls of film.
• 1889 - American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available.

Films

This is an incomplete list of films made in the 1880s:

• Roundhay Garden Scene (Louis le Prince 1888).
• Leeds Bridge (Louis le Prince 1888).
• Accordion Player (Louis le Prince, probably 1888).
• Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses (William Friese-Greene 1889).

Births

This a list of actors and filmmakers who were born between years 1880 and 1884. See also:

• 1885 born actors and filmmakers
• 1886 born actors and filmmakers
• 1887 born actors and filmmakers
• 1888 born actors and filmmakers
• 1889 born actors and filmmakers

1880:

• January 6, 1880, Tom Mix, (actor) (died 1940)
• January 29, 1880, W.C. Fields, (actor) (died 1946)
• March 10, 1880, Bronco Billy Anderson, (actor) (died 1971)
• April 13, 1880, Charles Christie, (film studio owner) (died 1955)
• June 7, 1880, Thorleif Lund, (actor) (died 1956)
• August 6, 1880, Hans Moser, (actor), (died 1964)
• October 23, 1880, Una O'Connor, (actress) (died 1959)
• December 10, 1880, Fred Immler, (actor), (died 1965)

1881:

• March 4, 1881, Maude Fealy, (actress) (died 1971)
• November 24, 1881, Al Christie, (director and producer) (died 1951)
• December 5, 1881, René Cresté, actor, director (died 1922)

1882:

• January 17, 1882, Noah Beery, (actor) (died 1946)
• February 15, 1882, John Barrymore, (actor) (died 1942)
• August 6, 1882, Ernst Eklund, (actor) (died 1971)
• October 20, 1882, Bela Lugosi, (actor) (died 1956)

1883:

• January 10, 1883, Francis X. Bushman, (actor) (died 1966)
• February 22, 1883, Marguerite Clark, (actress) (died 1940)
• February 23, 1883, Victor Fleming, (director) (died 1949)
• April 1, 1883, Lon Chaney, Sr., (actor) (died 1930)
• May 1, 1883, Tom Moore, (actor) (died 1955)
• May 23, 1883, Douglas Fairbanks, (actor) (died 1939)
• August 19, 1883, Elsie Ferguson, (actress) (died 1961)
• December 16, 1883, Max Linder, (actor) (died 1925)

1884:

• January 13, 1884, Sophie Tucker, (singer, actress and comedian) (died 1966)
• February 14, 1884 - Nils Olaf Chrisander, (actor, film director) (died 1947)
• February 16, 1884, Robert J. Flaherty (filmmaker) (died 1951)
• April 6, 1884, Walter Huston, (actor) (died 1950)
• May 10, 1884, Olga Petrova, (actress) (died 1977)
• August 7, 1884, Billie Burke, (actress) (died 1970)
• October 4, 1884, Ida Wüst, (actress) (died 1958)

See also

• Film, History of cinema, List of movies.
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