1880s in film

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The decade of the 1880s in film involved some 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.
• 1882 – American inventor George Eastman begins experimenting with new types of photographic film, with his employee, .
• 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.
• 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 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

1880:

• January 6, 1880 – Tom Mix, American actor (died 1940)
• January 29, 1880 – W. C. Fields, American actor (died 1946)
• February 8, 1880 – Viktor Schwanneke, German actor (died 1931)
• March 10, 1880 – Bronco Billy Anderson, American actor (died 1971)
• April 13, 1880 – Charles Christie, Canadian-born American film studio owner (died 1955)
• June 7, 1880 – Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (died 1956)
• August 6, 1880 – Hans Moser, Austrian actor (died 1964)
• October 23, 1880 – Una O'Connor, Irish actress (died 1959)
• November 2, 1880 – Fritz Achterberg, German actor (died 1971)
• December 10, 1880 – Fred Immler, German actor (died 1965)

1881:

• January 24, 1881 – Elsa Wagner, German actress (died 1975)
• February 10, 1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress, director, screenwriter (died 1954)
• August 12, 1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American film director and producer (died 1959)
• September 11, 1881 – Asta Nielsen, Danish silent film actress (died 1972)
• November 13, 1881 – Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor (died 1942)
• November 24, 1881 – Al Christie, Canadian-born American director and producer (died 1951)
• December 5, 1881 – René Cresté, French actor and director (died 1922)

1882:

• January 17, 1882 – Noah Beery, American actor (died 1946)
• January 23, 1882 – Eero Kilpi, Finnish actor (died 1954)
• February 15, 1882 – John Barrymore, American actor (died 1942)
• February 27, 1882 – George Terwilliger, American director and screenwriter (died 1970)
• July 27, 1882 – Donald Crisp, American actor (died 1974)
• August 6, 1882 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor (died 1971)
• October 20, 1882 – Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born American actor (died 1956)

1883:

• January 10, 1883
  • Francis X. Bushman, American actor (died 1966)
  • Florence Reed, American actress (died 1967)
• February 22, 1883
  • Marguerite Clark, American actress (died 1940)
  • Olga Svendsen, Danish actress (died 1942)
• March 4, 1883 – Maude Fealy, American actress (died 1971)
• March 26, 1883 – Poul Reumert, Danish stage and film actor (died 1968)
• April 1, 1883
  • Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (died 1930)
  • Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and theatre director (died 1976)
  • Frédéric Mariotti, French actor (died 1971)
• April 2, 1883 – Pearl Doles Bell, American film scenarist, novelist and editor (d. 1968)
• April 6, 1883 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born American actor (d. 1950)
• May 1, 1883 – Tom Moore, Irish-born American actor (died 1955)
• May 6, 1883 – Alberto Collo, Italian actor (died 1955)
• May 23, 1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (died 1939)
• June 13, 1883 – Merta Sterling, American actress (died 1944)
• August 12, 1883 – Marion Lorne, American actress (died 1968)
• August 19, 1883 – Elsie Ferguson, American actress (died 1961)
• October 5, 1883 – Ernst Pittschau, German actor (died 1951)
• December 16, 1883 – Max Linder, French actor (died 1925)
• December 24, 1883 – Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor (died 1945)

1884:

• February 14, 1884 – Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, film director (died 1947)
• February 16, 1884 – Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (died 1951)
• April 30, 1884 – Olof Sandborg, Swedish actor (died 1965)
• May 8, 1884 – Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (died 1917)
• May 10, 1884 – Olga Petrova, English-born American actress (died 1977)
• July 12, 1884 – Louis B. Mayer, Russian-born American film producer (died 1957)
• July 23, 1884 – Emil Jannings, German actor (died 1950)
• July 24, 1884 – Maria Caserini, Italian actress (died 1969)
• August 7, 1884 – Billie Burke, American actress (died 1970)
• August 11, 1884 – Hermann Wlach, Austrian actor (died 1962)
• October 4, 1884 – Ida Wüst, German actress (died 1958)
• October 24, 1884 – Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (died 1944)
• December 1, 1884 – Torben Meyer, Danish actor (died 1975)
• December 31, 1884 – Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director (died 1960)

Lists of films[]

See also[]

• Film
• History of film
• Lists of films