This page indexes the individual year in film pages. ... See also: 1888 1889 in film 1890 in film 1891 in film 19th century in film years in film film Events Roundhay Garden Scene is credited as the first film. ... Events The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film are made in Hyde Park, London by William Friese Greene 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, producer August... 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: 1891 in film 1892 1892 films 1893 in film 19th century in film years in film film Events Births April 2 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder (d. ... See also: 1892 in film 1893 1893 films 1894 in film 19th century in film years in film film Events Births September 26 – Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. ... See also: 1893 in film 1894 1894 films 1895 in film 19th century in film years in film film Events January 7 - W.K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... // The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... // The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ... // Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... // First flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. ... // Caitlin wants nathans penis mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. ... The 1920s is a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... This page indexes the individual years pages. ... Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Events

• W.K. Laurie Dickson supervises the construction of the first movie studio called the "Black Maria" in West Orange, New Jersey which produces many of the early Kinetoscope short films of the 1890s later seen in penny arcades the following year after the studio is completed.
• March - W.K. Laurie Dickson, an assistant to Thomas Edison, successfully develops a working prototype of the Kinetoscope which moves horizontally.
• May 20 - First public display of Thomas Alva Edison's prototype horizontal kinetoscope as Dickson Greeting, is shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs in West Orange, New Jersey.
• August 24 - Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. (which he receives in 1897).

Black Maria usually pronounced using the archaic pronunciation i. ... Map of West Orange Township in Essex County West Orange is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... A penny arcade can be any type of venue for coin-operated devices, usually for entertainment. ... William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (August 3, 1860 - September 28, 1935) was a Scottish inventor who is credited with the invention of the motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison. ... Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life worldwide into the 21st century. ... Interior view of Kinetoscope with peephole viewer at top of cabinet. ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931) was an inventor and businessman who developed many important devices. ... Interior view of Kinetoscope with peephole viewer at top of cabinet. ... Dickson Greeting is credited as one of the worlds first films. ... Map of West Orange Township in Essex County West Orange is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. ... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life worldwide into the 21st century. ... Categories: Stub | Video and movie technology | Cameras by type ... See also: 19th century in film 1896 in film 1897 1898 in film years in film film Events 125 people died during a film screening at the Charity Bazaar in Paris after a curtain catches on fire from the ether used to fuel the projector lamp. ...

Films released in 1891

• Dickson Greeting
• Duncan and Another, Blacksmith Shop
• Duncan or Devonald with Muslin Cloud
• Duncan Smoking
• Men Boxing
• Monkey and Another, Boxing
• Newark Athlete

Dickson Greeting is credited as one of the worlds first films. ...

Births

• February 7 - Ann Little, actress (d. 1984)
• February 9 - Ronald Colman, actor (d. 1958)
• March 6 - Victor Kilian, actor (d. 1979)
• March 8 - Sam Jaffe, actor (d. 1984)
• March 31 - Victor Varconi, actor (d. 1976)
• April 2 - Jack Buchanan, director, writer, and actor (d. 1957)
• April 10 - Tim McCoy, cowboy actor, soldier
• April 15 – Wallace Reid, actor (d. 1923)
• April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, composer (d. 1953)
• May 13 - Fritz Rasp, actor (d. 1976)
• July 23 - Harry Cohn, Co-Founder of CBS Sales Association (Columbia Pictures)
• November 10 - Philip Sainton, composer (d. 1967)

Victor Varconi (March 31, 1891 - June 6, 1976) February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Ann Little (February 7, 1891 - May 21, 1984) was an American film actress whose career was most prolific during the silent film era of the early 1910s through the early 1920s. ... // Events The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name. ... February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Ronald Colman (February 9, 1891 – May 19, 1958) was an English actor. ... // Events February 16- In the Money is released on this date. ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... Victor Arthur Kilian (March 6, 1891 – March 11, 1979) was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s. ... // Events March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in leap years). ... Sam Jaffe (1891-1984) Sam Jaffe (March 8, 1891 - March 24, 1984) was a Jewish-American actor, teacher and engineer. ... // Events The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in leap years), with 275 days remaining. ... Actor Victor Varconi was born as Mihaly Barconyi in Kisvard, Hungary on March 31, 1891. ... // Events March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas Star Wars science fiction film. ... April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... Jack Buchanan (April 2, 1891 - October 20, 1957) was a British actor and singer. ... // October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens. ... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... Tim McCoy (born April 10, 1891 - died January 29, 1978 ) was an American actor. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... Wallace Reid Wallace Reid, born April 15, 1891 in St. ... See also: 1922 in film 1923 1924 in film 1920s in film years in film film // Events April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers. ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (114th in leap years). ... Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: , Sergej Sergejevič Prokof’ev; 15/April 271, 1891–March 5, 1953) was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. ... See also: 1952 in film 1953 1954 in film 1950s in film years in film film Events September 16 - The Robe debuts as the first anamorphic, widescreen CinemaScope film. ... May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (134th in leap years). ... // Events March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas Star Wars science fiction film. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891–February 27, 1958), sometimes nicknamed King Cohn, was president and production director of Columbia Pictures. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... // Events December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television. ...

Deaths

• 16 January - Léo Delibes; Composer (b. 1836)
• 22 August - Jan Neruda; Writer (b. 1934)
• 27 September - Ivan Goncharov; Writer (b. 1812)
• 28 September - Herman Melville; Writer (b. 1819)
• 10 November - Arthur Rimbaud; Writer (b. 1854)
• 19 November - Gergely Csiky; Writer (b. 1842)

January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Maestro Clément Philibert Léo Delibes, Paris, circa 1885 (Clément Philibert) Léo Delibes (February 21, 1836 – January 16, 1891) was a French composer of Romantic music. ... Year 1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... Jan Nepomuk Neruda (July 9, 1834 – August 22, 1891) was a Czech journalist, writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of the May school. Jan Neruda Nerudas grave Jan Neruda was born in Prague, Bohemia, son of a small grocer who... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (June 18, 1812 – September 27, 1891; June 6, 1812 – September 15, 1891, O.S.) was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov (1859). ... For the overture by Tchaikovsky, see 1812 Overture; For the wars, see War of 1812 (USA - United Kingdom) or Patriotic War of 1812 (France - Russia) For the Siberia Airlines plane crashed over the Black Sea on October 4, 2001, see Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 1812 was a leap year starting... September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, essayist and poet. ... 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... Rimbaud redirects here. ... 1854 (MDCCCLIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Marriages

• 17 February - John Jacob Astor & Ava Willing
• 25 February - George Gissing & Edith Underwood
• 25 March - Edward Stratemeyer & Magdalene Baker VanCamp
• 16 April - Arthur Tolkien & Mabel Tolkien
• 8 July - Florence Kling Harding & Warren G. Harding
• 9 September - Louis Couperus & Elisabeth Wilhelmina Johanna Baud
• 21 September - Juhani Aho & Venny Soldan

February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... John Jacob Astor, detail of an oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, 1794 John Jacob (originally Johann Jakob) Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade and real estate... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... George Gissing (November 22, 1857 – December 28, 1903) was a British novelist. ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) Edward Stratemeyer (October 4, 1862 - May 10, 1930). ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... Arthur Reuel Tolkien, the father of J.R.R. Tolkien, was born in Handsworth, Stafford, England, about February of 1857. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... White House portrait Florence Kling Harding (August 15, 1860–November 21, 1924), wife of Warren G. Harding, was First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923. ... Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923) was an American politician and the 29th President of the United States, from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office. ... September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... Louis Marie-Anne Couperus was a Dutch novelist and poet of the late 19th and early 20th Century. ... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... Juhani Aho (September 11, 1861 - August 8, 1921) was the first professional Finnish writer and is regarded as a kind of national writer of Finland. ...

External links

• 1891 at the Internet Movie Database