1894 in film

Years in film
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Events

• January 7 - William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
• January 7 - Thomas Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria."
• April 14 - The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.
• June 6 - Charles Francis Jenkins projects a filmed motion picture before an audience in Richmond, Indiana. Earliest documented projection of a motion picture.
• Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.
• Kinetoscope viewing parlors begin to open in major cities. Each parlor contains several machines.
• Birt Acres creates a 70 mm format, which he first uses to shoot the Henley Royal Regatta.

Films released in 1894

• A Bar Room Scene
• Amateur Gymnast
• Annie Oakley
• Annabelle Butterfly Dance
• Armand D'Ary
• Athlete with Wand
• Band Drill
• Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
• Bucking Broncho
• Buffalo Dance
• Caicedo with Pole
• Carmencita
• Chinese Opium Den
• Cockfight, no. 2
• Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
• Dickson Experimental Sound Film
• Fire Rescue Scene
• Fred Ott's Sneeze (Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze)
• Fred Ott Holding a Bird
• Franch Dancers
• Glenroy Bros., (no. 2)
• Hadj Cheriff
• The Henley Royal Regatta of 1894
• Imperial Japanese Dance
• Leonard-Cushing Fight
• Louis Martinetti aka Luis Martinetti, Contortionist
• Men on Parallel Bars
• Miss Jerry
• Franch Dancers
• Oriental Dance
• Rat Killing
• Robetta and Doretto, (no. 2) aka Chinese Laundry Scene
• Sandow
• Sioux Ghost Dance
• The Barbershop
• The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight
• The Wrestling Dog
• Wrestling Match
• Whirlwind Gun Spinning

Births

• January 3 - Zazu Pitts, actress (died 1963)
• June 16 - Norman Kerry, actor (died 1956)
• September 15 - Jean Renoir, director (died 1979)
• September 27 - Olive Tell, actress (died 1951)
• October 7 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director (died 1970)
• October 20 - Olive Thomas, actress (died 1920)
• November 9 - Mae Marsh, actress (died 1968)
• December 31 - Pola Negri, actress (died 1987)

Debut

• Annabelle Whitford

External links

Media related to 1894 in film at Wikimedia Commons

• 1894 at the Internet Movie Database