- 1895 in film
Events
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March 22 - First display of motion pictures byAuguste and Louis Lumière (private screening).
*Gaumont Pictures founded by the engineer-turned-inventor,Léon Gaumont .
*InFrance , brothers named Auguste andLouis Lumière , designed and built a lightweight, hand-held motion picture camera called theCinématographe . The Lumière brothers discovered that their machine could also be used to project images onto a large screen. The Lumière brothers created several short films at this time that are considered to be pivotal in the history of motion pictures.
* Late September -C. Francis Jenkins andThomas Armat demonstrate theirPhantoscope , a motion picture projector, inAtlanta, Georgia at the Cotton States and International Exposition.
*November - In Germany, Emil andMax Skladanowsky develop their own film projector.
*December 28 - The Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Café "Boulevard des Capucines" — this date is sometimes considered the debut of the motion picture as an entertainment medium.
*December 30 - TheAmerican Mutoscope and Biograph Company motion pictures was founded in New Jersey by the KMCD Syndicate ofWilliam Kennedy Dickson ,Henry Marvin ,Herman Casler andElias Koopman .
*Woodville Latham and his sons develop the Latham Loop - the concept of loose loops of film on either side of theintermittent movement to prevent stress from the jerky movement. This is debuted in theEidoloscope , which is also the first widescreen format (1.85:1).
*Herman Casler of American Mutoscope Company, akaAmerican Mutoscope and Biograph Company manufactures theBiograph 68 mm camera, which will become the first successful large format 68mm (70mm) film.
*Henri Joly debuts his Joly-Normandin 60 mm format.Films released in 1895
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Akrobatisches Potpourri "
*"Annabelle Serpentine Dance "
*"L'Arroseur Arrosé "
*"Autour d'une cabine "
*"Barque sortant du port "
*"Bauerntanz zweier Kinder "
*"Billy Edwards and the Unknown aka Billy Edwards Boxing"
*"The Clown Barber "
*"Das Boxende Känguruh "
*"The Derby"
*"Dickson Experimental Sound Film "
*"The Execution of Mary Stuart "
*"Les Forgerons "
*"Griffo-Barnett Prize Fight "
*"Der Jongleur "
*"La Mer"
*"Opening of the Kiel Canal "
*"The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race"
*"Partie de cartes "
*"La Pêche aux poissons rouges "
*"Place des Cordeliers à Lyon "
*"The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon "
*"Princess Ali aka Egyptian Dance"
*"Repas de bébé "
*"Rough Sea at Dover "
*"Le Saut à la couverture "
*"Serpentinen Tanz "
*"Sparring Contest at Canastota "
*"La Voltige "
*"Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory "Births
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February 7 -Anita Stewart (d.1961)
*February 8 -King Vidor (d.1982)
*March 17 -Shemp Howard (d.1955)
*May 6 -Rudolph Valentino (d. 1926)
*July 26 -Gracie Allen (d. 1964)
*October 2 -Bud Abbott (d. 1974)
*October 4 -Buster Keaton (d. 1966)
*October 21 -Edna Purviance (d. 1958)
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