1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... See also: 1888 in film 1889 1890 in film 1891 in film 19th century in film years in film film Events Births February 8 - Siegfried Kracauer, movie critic and journalist April 16 - Charlie Chaplin, comedic actor, silent actor May 31 - Athene Seyler, English actress June 11 - Wesley Ruggles, movie director... See also: 1888 in film 1889 in film 1890 1891 in film 1892 in film 19th century in film years in film film Events Births January 4 - Weyler Hildebrand, swedish actor, director and writer. ... See also: 1890 in film 1891 1891 films 1892 in film 19th century in film years in film film Events First public display of Thomas Alva Edisons prototype kinetoscope (shown at Edisons Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Womens Clubs). ... See also: 1900 in film, list of years in film. Events 1832 - Joseph Plateau (Belgium) and Simon Stampfer (Vienna) introduced simultaneously a scientific demonstration device that creates an optical illusion of movement by mounting drawings on the face of a slotted, spinning disk. ... This page indexes the individual year in film pages. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ...
September 4 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1888: Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.
November 9 - In London the body of Mary Jane Kelly is found.
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