1880s in film explained
The decade of the 1880s in film involved 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, eventually known as Kodak.[1]
- 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, the 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.[2]
- 1887 – Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film.
- 1888 - Louis Le Prince creates the oldest surviving film, Roundhay Garden Scene. Recorded in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the footage lasts a mere 2.11 seconds.
- 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.
- 1889 – American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available.
Births
This is 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
| Year | Month | Date | Name | Country | Profession | Died | |
| 1880 | January | 6 | | US | Actor | | |
| January | 17 | | US | Actor, producer, director | | |
| January | 29 | | US | Actor | | |
| February | 8 | | Germany | Actor | | |
| February | 9 | | US | Actor, director, writer | | |
| February | 18 | | Austria | Actor, director | | |
| February | 28 | | US | Actor, writer, producer | | |
| March | 10 | | US | Actor | | |
| April | 13 | | Canada | Film Studio Owner | | |
| June | 7 | | Norway | Actor | | |
| July | 12 | | US | Director | | |
| August | 6 | | Austria | Actor | | |
| October | 23 | | Ireland | Actress | | |
| November | 2 | | Germany | Actor | | |
| December | 10 | | Germany | Actor | | |
| 1881 | January | 24 | | Germany | Actress | | |
| February | 10 | | Sweden | Actress, director, screenwriter | | |
| August | 12 | | US | Director, producer | | |
| September | 11 | | Denmark | Actress | | |
| November | 13 | | Denmark | Actor | | |
| November | 24 | | Canada | Director, producer | | |
| December | 5 | | France | Actor, director | | |
| 1882 | January | 17 | | US | Actor | | |
| January | 23 | | Finland | Actor | | |
| February | 15 | | US | Actor | | |
| February | 27 | | US | Director, screenwriter | | |
| May | 10 | | US | Actor | | |
| May | 16 | | Scotland | Actress | | |
| May | 23 | | US | Actor, screenwriter | | |
| July | 27 | | US | Actor | | |
| August | 6 | | Sweden | Actor | | |
| September | 10 | | US | Actor | | |
| October | 20 | | Hungary | Actor | | |
| 1883 | January | 10 | | US | Actor | | |
| January | 10 | | US | Actress | | |
| February | 22 | | US | Actress | | |
| February | 22 | | US | Actor | | |
| February | 22 | | Denmark | Actress | | |
| March | 4 | | US | Actress | | |
| March | 26 | | Denmark | Actor | | |
| April | 1 | | US | Actor | | |
| April | 1 | | Norway | Actor, director | | |
| April | 1 | | France | Actor | | |
| April | 2 | | US | Scenarist, Editor | | |
| April | 6 | | Canada | Actor | | |
| May | 1 | | Ireland | Actor | | |
| May | 6 | | Italy | Actor | | |
| May | 20 | | US | Actor | | |
| May | 23 | | US | Actor | | |
| June | 13 | | US | Actress | | |
| August | 12 | | US | Actress | | |
| August | 19 | | US | Actress | | |
| September | 3 | | US | Actor, Playwright | | |
| October | 5 | | Germany | Actor | | |
| November | 19 | | Canada | Actor | | |
| December | 16 | | France | Actor | | |
| December | 24 | | Poland | Actor | | |
| 1884 | February | 14 | | Sweden | Actor, director | | |
| February | 16 | | US | Filmmaker | | |
| April | 30 | | Sweden | Actor | | |
| May | 8 | | Denmark | Actor | | |
| May | 10 | | UK | Actress | | |
| May | 26 | | US | Actor | | |
| May | 28 | | US | Actor | | |
| July | 12 | | Russia | Producer | | |
| July | 23 | | Germany | Actor | | |
| July | 24 | | Italy | Actress | | |
| August | 7 | | US | Actress | | |
| August | 11 | | Austria | Actor | | |
| August | 25 | | US | Actor | | |
| October | 4 | | Germany | Actress | | |
| October | 11 | | Germany | Actor | | |
| October | 24 | | Sweden | Actor | | |
| December | 1 | | Denmark | Actor | | |
| December | 31 | | Hungary | Actor, screenwriter, director | | |
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See also
- Film
- History of film
- Lists of films
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Brayer, Elizabeth . George Eastman : a biography . . 1996 . 9781580464246 . . 37 . registration.
- Web site: 2015 . 1878-1929 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150823030506/http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Our_Company/History_of_Kodak/Milestones_-_chronology/1878-1929.htm . 23 August 2015 . 8 August 2015 . Eastman Kodak.
