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The History of Cinema: 1898 |
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Argentina |
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– Surgical pioneer Dr. Alejandro Posada becomes the first surgeon to have his work recorded on film. [ADD] |
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| 2/8 - | .A Mishon produces the country’s first films and gives a public screening of them. [MORE] | |||
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| 19/6 - | Italian immigrant Afonso Segreto films Brazil’s first moving pictures at Guanabara Bay. [MORE] | |||
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Bulgaria |
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– Ferencz Echer gives the country’s first public screening. [MORE] |
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Vancouver sees its first film screening. [MORE] |
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| Czechoslovakia | ||||
| 19/6 - | Jan Krizenecky shoots the country’s first films which he screens at an Architecture and Engineering Exhibition in Prague. [MORE] | |||
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Denmark |
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– Arnold Poulsen files a patent for his invention, the Telegraphone. [MORE] |
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France |
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| 25/3 - | Boleslaw Matuszewski proposes an archive for all filmed material. [MORE] | |||
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Charles Pathe establishes a studio in a former bistro at 1 rue Polygone in Vincennes [MORE] |
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Lucien Reulos files a patent for his Micrograph. [MORE] |
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– Auguste Blaise-Baron applies for a patent for his Graphophonoscope. [ADD] |
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– Georges Melies films a series of reconstructing incidents from the Spanish-American War. [MORE] |
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– Leon Gaumont opens a distribution subsidiary, the Gaumont Company Ltd, in London. Under the management of A. C. Bromhead, it soon becomes a production unit. [MORE] |
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– Lumière cameramen Clément-Maurice and Ambroise-François Parnaland film two surgical operations carried out by Eugène-Louis Doyen. [MORE] |
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Germany |
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– Ernest Abbe patents his invention, the Anamorphoser, upon which the principles of widescreen are based. [MORE] |
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| – Oskar Messter films an operation at the Surgical Centre in Berlin. The film is used for educational purposes at Kiel University. [ADD] | ||||
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Great Britain |
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| 8/6 - | Birt Acres applies for a patent for his camera, the Birtac. [MORE] | |||
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– William Norman Lascelles Davidson patents a triple-lens camera with three filters in the primary colours situated behind each of the lenses to film in colour. [MORE] |
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– Alfred Cort Haddon films the customs and cultures of the Torres Straits Islanders. [MORE] |
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– Bamforth & Co in Yorkshire are apporached by Riley Brothers of Bradford, manufacturers of Cyril Wray's Kineoptoscope projector and camera, to produce films for owners of their equipment. [MORE] |
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Greece |
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– The first commercial screening takes place at the Place Kolokotronis in Athens. [ADD] |
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– Projectograph, Hungary's first film company, is formed by Mor Ungerleider and József Neumann. [MORE] |
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– The first screening of a dramatic film made in Hungary takes place in this year. It is called Siófoki Kaland. [ADD] |
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India |
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| 4/4 - | Hiralal Sen and his brothers establish the Royal Bioscope Company. [MORE] | |||
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| 18/1 - | Mimic and magician Leopoldo Fregoli screens films of his act at the Gran Circo delle Varieta.in Naples. [MORE] | |||
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| Monaco | ||||
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– The world’s first filmmaking competition takes place in the tiny principality. [MORE] |
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Romania |
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- Dr. Gheorge Marinescu and cameraman Constantin M. Popescu become Romania’s first filmmakers when Popescu films a number of Marinescu’s operations. [MORE] |
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Russia |
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– Lumière cameraman Félix Mesguich is expelled from the country after filming a Russian officer dancing with Caroline Otéro (La Belle Otéro), a famous dancer and courtesan. [MORE] |
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– Fructuoso Gelabert Badiella shoots the first Spanish newsreel film in Barcelona. It is entitled Visita de Doña Maria Cristina y Don Alfonso XIII a Barcelona and the footage is subsequently sold to Pathé by Gelabert. [ADD] |
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Uruguay |
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– Félix Oliver becomes the country’s first filmmaker. [MORE] |
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USA |
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Biograph cameraman W. K. L. Dickson films Pope Leo XIII in the Vatican. [MORE] |
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The sinking of the USS Maine and the ensuing Spanish-American War revives flagging interest in cinema as filmmakers film re-enactments of key incidents in response to anti-Spanish sentiment aroused by the yellow press. [MORE] |
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– Edison begins legal proceedings against Vitagraph and Biograph in an attempt to secure a monopoly over the film industry. [MORE] |
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| Other Films of Note | ||||
| Australia | ||||
| Our Social Triumphs (Joseph Perry) [ADD] | ||||
| France | ||||
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| La Damnation de Faust (Georges Méliès) [ADD] | ||||
| Faust et Marguerite (Georges Méliès) [ADD] | ||||
| Un homme de têtes (Georges Méliès) [ADD] | ||||
| La Tentation de Saint-Antoine (Georges Méliès) [ADD] | ||||
| Great Britain | ||||
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| Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother (G. A. Smith) [ADD] | ||||
| The Clown Barber (James Williamson) [ADD] | ||||
| Come Along, Do! (R. W. Paul) [ADD] | ||||
| The Corsican Brothers (G. A. Smith) [ADD] | ||||
| An Interrupted Picnic (Cecil Hepworth) [ADD] | ||||
| Mr. Bumble the Beadle (James Williamson) [ADD] | ||||
| Two Naughty Boys (James Williamson) [ADD] | ||||
| Mexico | ||||
| Don Juan Tenorio (Salvador Toscano Barragan) [ADD] | ||||
| Spain | ||||
| Dorotea (Fructuoso Gelabert) [ADD] |
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