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The History of Cinema: 1900 |
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| France | ||||
| 1/1 - | Pathe release Episodes of the Transvaal War [ADD] | |||
| 15/2 - | Gaumont opens a showroom and markets the Kinora a viewing machine invented by Louis Lumiere in 1896 [ADD] | |||
| 15/3 - | Dufayel Stores organise sound movie sessions using Charles Pathe's Phonograph [ADD] | |||
| 8/4 - | Francois Parnaland competes with Pathe & Gaumont [ADD] | |||
| 13/5 - | The Hippodrome in rue Calaincourt opens [ADD] | |||
| 14/5 - | The giant Lumiere Cinematograph is displayed at the World’s Fair in Paris [ADD] | |||
| 17/6 - | Louis Feuillade has his first article published [ADD] | |||
| 18/8 - | Raoul Grimoin-Sanson's Cineorama is declared bankrupt.[ADD] | |||
| 10/9 - | Pathe take over Continsouza and Bunzli’s camera factory [ADD] | |||
| 30/9 - | Leon Gaumont produces pocket Chrono [ADD] | |||
| 10/11 - | Clement Maurice and Henri Loiret's Phono-Cinema-Theatre re-opens its doors following its success at the World's Fair. [ADD] | |||
| 1/12 - | Georges Melies releases Reve de Noel [ADD] | |||
| - French film productions start to exceed 10 minutes’ running time [ADD] | ||||
| Germany | ||||
| - Ruhmer stages a demonstration of 35mm optical sound recording [ADD] | ||||
| Gt. Britain | ||||
| 28/9 - | A half-hour film of the Jeffries-Sharkey fight is made [ADD] | |||
| - The Sheffield Photo Company begins production [ADD] | ||||
| - The Warwick Trading Company builds a film studio for G A Smith at St Anne's Well Gardens [ADD] | ||||
| - Pathé open an office in London [ADD] | ||||
| - The first recorded children’s cinema matinée in Britain is held at Mickleover, Derbyshire [ADD] | ||||
| India | ||||
| - Major Warwick establishes a cinema in Madras [ADD] | ||||
| - F. B. Thanawala starts making the Grand Kinetoscope Newsreels [ADD] | ||||
| - Newsreel footage of the Boer War is shown at the Novelty Cinema in Bombay [ADD] | ||||
| Indonesia | ||||
| 30/11 - | Nederlandse Bioscope Maatschappij puts on the first Indonesian film show in Batavia. [ADD] | |||
| Japan | ||||
| 14/6 - | Tsunekichi Shibata and K. Fukaya shoot film of the Boxer uprising [ADD] | |||
| Korea | ||||
| - The Anglo-American Tobacco Company of Shanghai sponsors free film shows; customers must present cigarette coupons to gain admission [ADD] | ||||
| Persia | ||||
| - Mirza Ebrahim Khan arranges a private showing of films at the Royal Palace in Tehran for the Shah of Persia. [ADD]. | ||||
| Senegal | ||||
| - A show of Lumière films is staged at Dakar, Sénégal [ADD] | ||||
| Thailand | ||||
| - Prince Sanpasatsuphakit becomes the first Thai to buy and operate a motion picture camera [ADD] | ||||
| Uruguay | ||||
| - The first advertising film made in Uruguay: Oliver, Juncal 108, is directed by Félix Oliver for the family retail business [ADD] | ||||
| USA | ||||
| 20/1 - | Edison terminates Vitagraph’s licence in retaliation for a threatened lawsuit over disputed royalty payments [ADD] | |||
| Nov - | William Selig incorporates Selig Polyscope [ADD] | |||
| - Siegmund Lubin receives patents for his projectors and continues to defy Thomas Edison's legal challenges [ADD] | ||||
| Other Films of Note | ||||
| USA | ||||
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| The Enchanted Drawing (J. Stuart Blackton) [ADD] | ||||
| Chinese Massacring Christians (James F. Frawley, Jacob Blair Smith) [ADD] | ||||
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