1888 in film

Events

• Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for sound film (February 27, West Orange, New Jersey).
• Étienne-Jules Marey starts work on his chronophotographe with 90 mm wide roll paper film.
• Émile Reynaud is the first to use perforated film for use with his animated show, Théâtre Optique.

Films

• Roundhay Garden Scene by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince is credited as the first film (after Man Walking Around A Corner, also by Le Prince).
• Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, also by Le Prince, is filmed on paper filmstrips.
• Accordion Player, also by Le Prince.

Births

• 3 January - George B. Seitz; Director, writer, actor and producer (died 1944)
• 3 January - James Bridie; Writer (died 1951)
• 23 January - Franklin Pangborn; Actor (died 1958)
• 4 March - Rafaela Ottiano; Actress (died 1942)
• 5 March - Jules Furthman; Writer, director and producer (died 1966)
• 10 March - Barry Fitzgerald; Actor (died 1961)
• 30 March - Anna Q. Nilsson; Actress (died 1974)
• 26 April - Anita Loos; Writer and producer (died 1981)
• 27 April - Florence La Badie; Actress (died 1917)
• 3 May - Beulah Bondi; Actress (died 1981)
• 25 May - Miles Malleson; Actor and writer (died 1969)
• 4 July - Henry Armetta; Actor (died 1945)
• 16 July - Percy Kilbride; Actor (died 1964)
• 14 August - Robert Woolsey; Actor (died 1938)
• 17 August - Monty Woolley; Actor (died 1963)
• 12 September - Maurice Chevalier, French entertainer, Hollywood star 1972)
• 25 September - Hanna Ralph, Actress (died 1978)
• 26 September - Wally Patch; Actor and writer (died 1970)
• 1 October - John E. Blakeley; Producer, director and writer (died 1958)
• 9 October - Hank Patterson; Actor (died 1975)
• 25 October - Lester Cuneo; Actor and producer (died 1925)
• 13 November - George Hayes; Actor (died 1967)
• 18 November - Frances Marion; Writer, director, producer and actress (died 1973)
• 23 November - Harpo Marx; Actor and writer (died 1964)
• 24 November - Cathleen Nesbitt; Actress (died 1982)
• 26 November - Francisco Canaro; Composer, producer and actor (died 1964)
• 6 December - Will Hay; Actor, writer and director (died 1949)
• 22 December - J. Arthur Rank; Producer and writer (died 1972)
• 27 December - Thea von Harbou; Writer and director (died 1954)
• 28 December - F. W. Murnau; Director, writer and producer (died 1931))

Deaths

• 22 January - Eugène Labiche; Writer (born 1815)
• 29 January - Edward Lear; Writer (born 1812)
• 6 March - Louisa May Alcott; Writer (born 1832)
• 24 March - Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin; Writer (born 1855)
• 12 May - Bedřich Smetana; Composer (born 1824)
• 4 July - Theodor Storm; Writer (born 1817)
• 30 July - Bartley Campbell; Writer (born 1843)
• 11 September - Domingo F. Sarmiento; Writer (born 1811)
• 24 October - Sarah Whitley (II); Actress
• 19 November - Edmond Gondinet; Writer (born 1828)

External links

Media related to 1888 in film at Wikimedia Commons

• 1888 at The Internet Movie Database