1890 in film

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Ten remaining frames of London's Trafalgar Square by Wordsworth Donisthorpe

The following is an overview of the events of 1890 in film, including a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

Events

• The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 and the process was patented in 1890.
• William Kennedy Dickson completes his work for Thomas Edison on the Kinetograph cylinder either in this year or 1889. Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.

Films

• Monkeyshines, No. 1 - contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890.
• Monkeyshines, No. 2, directed by William K. L. Dickson
• Monkeyshines, No. 3, directed by William K. L. Dickson
• London's Trafalgar Square, directed by Wordsworth Donisthorpe

Births

• January 10 - Pina Menichelli, Italian actress
• January 30 - Bruno Kastner, German actor
• February 18 - Adolphe Menjou, American actor
• February 24 - Marjorie Main, American actress
• May 23 - Herbert Marshall, British actor
• June 10 - William A. Seiter, American film director
• June 14 - May Allison, American actress
• June 16 - Stan Laurel, British actor
• June 18 - Gideon Wahlberg, Swedish actor, screenwriter and film director
• August 2 - Marin Sais, American actress
• August 27 - Man Ray, American photographer and director
• September 4
  • Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Danish actor and director
  • Naima Wifstrand, Swedish singer, actress, composer and director
• October 1 - Stanley Holloway, British actor
• October 2 - Groucho Marx, American comedian, actor

Deaths

• September 16 - Louis Le Prince, French film pioneer, director of Roundhay Garden Scene (born 1842)

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