1892 in film

Years in film
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Events

Projection of film at the Théâtre Optique

• The final revisions to the Kinetoscope are made, including a vertical transport and wider film. This becomes the de facto technical specification for all silent film by 1909.
• Max Skladanowsky develops a camera and shoots his first footage this year, but its unusual interleaved image format leaves him ultimately unable to exhibit it until work is completed on the Bioskop projector in late 1895.
• 18 October - Théâtre Optique event opens, showing projected motion pictures to the public at the Musée Grévin in Paris.

Films released in 1892

• Boxing
• Le Clown et ses chiens
• Fencing
• A Hand Shake
• Man on Parallel Bars
• Pauvre Pierrot
• Le Prince de Galles
• Un bon bock
• Wrestling

Births

• January 18 - Oliver Hardy, American comic actor (died 1957)
• March 27 - Dorrit Weixler, German actress (died 1916)
• April 2 - Jack Warner, American Hollywood studio founder (died 1978)
• April 8 - Mary Pickford, Canadian-born American actress, studio founder (died 1979)
• July 22 - Renée Jeanne Falconetti, French actress (died 1946)
• September 9 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (died 1961)
• September 28 - Ruth Stonehouse, American actress, film director (died 1941)
• October 25 - Nell Shipman, American actress, writer, producer (died 1970)
• November 16 - Mabel Normand, American actress (died 1930)

External links

Media related to 1892 in film at Wikimedia Commons

• 1892 at the Internet Movie Database