1894 in film

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The following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.

Events edit

January 7
- William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- Dickson and William Heise film their colleague, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetograph at Edison's Black Maria studio.^[1]
April 14 – The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.^[2]
June 6 - Charles Francis Jenkins projects a filmed motion picture before an audience in Richmond, Indiana. Earliest documented projection of a motion picture.^[3]
Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.^[4]
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.^[5]

Notable films released in 1894 edit

Birt Acres edit

Crows on Saffron Hill
Haycart Crossing Hadley Green, Middlesex

Charles-Émile Reynaud edit

Autour d'une cabine
Rêve au coin du feu

Étienne-Jules Marey edit

Falling Cat
Chat en Chute Libre

William K. L. Dickson edit

Annie Oakley.

Fred Ott Sneeze.

Sioux ghost dance.

Alleni's Boxing Monkeys
Amateur Gymnast, No. 2
Annabelle Butterfly Dance, starring Annabelle Moore
Annabelle Sun Dance, starring Annabelle Moore
Annie Oakley, starring Annie Oakley
Armand D'Ary, starring Armand D'Ary
Athlete with Wand
Babies in High Chairs
Band Drill
A Bar Room Scene
The Barbershop
Bertoldi (Mouth Support), starring Ena Bertoldi
Bertoldi (Table Contortion), starring Ena Bertoldi
Boxing, starring Jack McAuliffe
The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
Bucking Broncho, starring Lee Martin
Buffalo Bill (lost), starring William F. Cody
Buffalo Dance, starring Hair Coat, Parts His Hair and Last Horse
Caicedo (with Pole), starring Juan A. Caicedo
Caicedo (with Spurs), starring Juan A. Caicedo
Carmencita, starring Carmencita
The Carnival Dance, starring Madge Crossland, May Lucas and Lucy Murray
Chinese Laundry Scene, directed by William Heise and William K. L. Dickson and starring Phil Doreto and Robetta
Chinese Opium Den (lost)
The Cock Fight
Cock Fight, No. 2
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph, starring James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney
Cupid's Dance, starring Florence Ewer, Lenora Ewer and Mildred Ewer
Dance, starring Rosa France, Frank Lawton and Etta Williamson
Dance du Ventre
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Dogs Fighting
Edison Employee Picnic
Fancy Club Swinger, starring John R. Abell
Finale of 1st Act, Hoyt's 'Milk White Flag'
Fire Rescue Scene
Fred Ott Holding a Bird, starring Fred Ott
Fred Ott's Sneeze, starring Fred Ott
French Dancers
Glenroy Bros., (no. 2)
Hadj Cheriff, starring Hadji Cheriff
Highland Dance
The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight, starring Eugene Hornbacker and Murphy
Human Pyramid, starring Saleem Nassar
Imperial Japanese Dance, starring the Sarashe Sisters
Lady Fencers (With Broadswords), starring Louise Blanchard and Helen Englehart
Lady Fencers (With Foils)
Lasso Exhibition, starring Frank Hammitt and Lee Martin
Lasso Thrower (lost), starring Vicente Oropeza
Leonard-Cushing Fight, starring Jack Cushing and Mike Leonard
Luis Martinetti, Contortionist, starring Luis Martinetti
Man of a Thousand Faces, starring George Layman
May Lucas, starring May Lucas
Men on Parallel Bars
Mexican Knife Duel (lost), starring Pedro Esquivel and Dionecio Gonzales
Miss Lucy Murray, starring Lucy Murray
Mlle. Capitaine, starring Alciede Capitaine
Organ Grinder, No. 1
Organ Grinder, No. 2
Oriental Dance, starring Rosa
The Pickaninny Dance, from the 'Passing Show', starring Joe Rastus, Denny Tolliver and Walter Wilkins
Rat Killing
Rats and Terrier No. 2
Rats and Terrier No. 3
Rats and Weasel
Ruth Dennis, starring Ruth St. Denis
Sandow, starring Eugen Sandow
Sheik Hadji Tahar, starring Sheik Hadji Tahar
Sioux Ghost Dance
Summersault Dog, starring Lucy the Dog and Ivan Tschernoff
Sword Combat, starring Najid and Saleem Nassar
Topack and Steele, starring George W. Steele and George Topack
Toyou Kichi, starring Toyou Kichi
Trained Bears
Trapeze
Unsuccessful Somersault
Walton and Slavin, starring John Slavin and Charles F. Walton
Whirlwind Gunspinning, starring Hadj Lessik
The Widder, starring Isabelle Coe
Wonderful Performing Dog, starring Lucy the Dog and Ivan Tschernoff
The Wrestling Dog, starring Henry Welton
Wrestling Match

Films directed by other filmmakers edit

Miss Jerry, directed by Alexander Black, starring by Blanche Bayliss, William Courtenay and Chauncey Depew.

Births edit

Month	Date	Name	Country	Profession	Died
January	3	ZaSu Pitts	US	Actress	1963
	6	William Newell	US	Actor	1967
	22	Matt McHugh	US	Actor	1971
February	8	King Vidor	US	Actor, director	1982
February	14	Jack Benny	US	Comedian	1974
March	26	Will Wright	US	Actor	1962
May	2	Norma Talmadge	US	Actress	1957
	20	Estelle Taylor	US	Actress	1958
	26	Paul Lukas	Hungary	Actor	1971
June	16	Norman Kerry	US	Actor	1956
July	23	Arthur Treacher	UK	Actor	1975
	25	Walter Brennan	US	Actor	1974
	27	Mientje Kling	Netherlands	Actress	1966
	29	Charles C. Wilson	US	Actor	1948
August	9	Kathleen Lockhart	US	Actress	1978
August	10	Alan Crosland	US	Director	1936
September	15	Jean Renoir	France	Director	1979
	26	Gladys Brockwell	US	Actress	1929
	27	Olive Tell	US	Actress	1951
October	7	Del Lord	Canada	Director	1970
	20	Olive Thomas	US	Actress	1920
	27	Agda Helin	Sweden	Actress	1984
November	9	Mae Marsh	US	Actress	1968
November	13	Nita Naldi	US	Actress	1961
December	8	Marthe Vinot	France	Actress	1974

Debut edit

Annabelle Whitford (Annabelle Sun Dance)
William Courtenay (Miss Jerry)

External links edit

Media related to 1894 in film at Wikimedia Commons

References edit

^ Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-05-05
^ Musser, Charles (1994). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907, Volume 1. London, England: University of California Press. p. 81. ISBN 0521897335.
^ "The Case Files: C. Franklin Jenkins". The Franklin Institute. Archived from the original on 2013-01-07. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
^ Venkatasawmy, Rama (2012). The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. 166. ISBN 0739176218.
^ "Acres, Birt (1854–1918)". BFI Screen Online. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

[1] Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-05-05

[2] Musser, Charles (1994). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907, Volume 1. London, England: University of California Press. p. 81. ISBN 0521897335.

[3] "The Case Files: C. Franklin Jenkins". The Franklin Institute. Archived from the original on 2013-01-07. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

[4] Venkatasawmy, Rama (2012). The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. 166. ISBN 0739176218.

[5] "Acres, Birt (1854–1918)". BFI Screen Online. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

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