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The History of Cinema: 1896 |
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New Zealand |
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| 13/10 - | Professors Hausmann and Gow give the first public screening as part of a show by Charles Godfrey’s Vaudeville Company at the Opera House in Auckland. [MORE] | |||
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Norway |
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| 6/4 - | The first public screening is given at the Cirkus variety theatre in Kristiania. [MORE] | |||
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Poland |
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| Late - | The first public screening is given at the Juliusz Slowacki Theatre. [MORE] | |||
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Portugal |
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| 18/6 - | The first public screening is given at Real Coliseu in Lisbon. [MORE] | |||
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Romania |
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| 27/5 - | The first screening is given in the editorial offices of the French-language newspaper called L’Independence Roumaine in Bucharest. [MORE] | |||
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Russia |
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| 14/5 - | The coronation of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II in Moscow is captured on film. The following day, the film is shown to an audience in St. Petersburg. [MORE] | |||
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Serbia |
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| The first public screening is given in the Kod Zlatnog Krsta café in Terazije, Belgrade. [MORE] | ||||
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Slovakia |
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| 25/12 - | Two public screenings are held independently of each other in Bratislava. [ADD] | |||
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Slovenia |
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| Nov - | The first public screening is given in Ljubljana. [MORE] | |||
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South Africa |
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| 11/5 - | The first public screenings take place at the Empire Theatre of Varieties in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg. [MORE] | |||
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Spain |
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| 14/5 - | The first public screening is given at Hotel Rusia, 34 Carrera de San Jeronimo, Madrid. [MORE] | |||
| 11/10 - | Eduard Jimeno Correas shoots the first film to be made in Spain. [MORE] | |||
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Sweden |
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| 28/6 - | The first public screening is given at the Pilstorp Exhibition of Industry and Crafts in the Malmo Summer Theatre. [MORE] | |||
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Switzerland |
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| 1/5 - | Public screenings are given at the Swiss National Exhibition in Geneva from the 1st May to the 18th October. [MORE] | |||
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Uruguay |
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| 18/7 - | The first public screening, a presentation of the Lumiere Cinematographe, takes place at the Salon Rouge in Montevideo. [ADD] | |||
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USA |
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| 15/1 - | Raff and Gammon negotiate with Edison to construct Thomas Armat’s Phantascope projector, which will be renamed the Edison Vitascope. [MORE] | |||
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| 9/4 - | Colonel William N. Selig founds the Mutoscope and Film Co. (later to become Selig Polyscope) in Chicago. [MORE] | |||
| 23/4 - | Edison’s Vitascope premieres at Koster & Bial’s Music Hall. [MORE] | |||
| 11/5 - | The Lathams unveil their new improved Eidoloscope. [MORE] | |||
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| 15/6 - | Edison’s The Kiss, a re-enactment of a scene from John McNally’s hit stage play starring May Irwin and John C. Rice is released. [MORE] | |||
| 28/6 - | William T ‘Pop’ Rock and Walter J. Wainwright open the world’s first cinema at 623 Canal Street, corner of Exchange Alley in New Orleans, Louisiana. [MORE] | |||
| 14/9 - | American Mutoscope & Biograph demonstrate their Biograph to an audience for the first time at the Alvin Theater in Pittsburgh. [MORE] | |||
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