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The History of Cinema: 1899 |
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| Australia | ||||
| Mar - | Frederick Charles Wills begins shooting a series of government-financed films. [MORE] | |||
| Finland | ||||
| – Johan A. W. Grönroos creates the first Finnish film company, Pohjohla. [MORE] | ||||
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| France | ||||
| 4/5 - | A fire at an American Vitagraph show at a fairground in Cognac causes damage estimated at 50,000 francs. [MORE] | |||
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| Aug - | Georges Melies films le Christ marchant sur les flots (Christ Walking over Water). [MORE] | |||
| 16/10 - | Emile Reynaud’s eight-year tenure at the Musée Grévin is terminated. [MORE] | |||
| – Pathé make a film of Ferdinand Zecca's and comedian Charlus's burlesque act. [MORE] | ||||
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| – Etienne-Jules Marey patents a device to overcame a problem with the even spacing of pictures on his Chronophotographic projector system. [MORE] | ||||
| – Georges Melies makes a series of 11 films about the infamous Dreyfus case. [MORE] | ||||
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| Great Britain | ||||
| Mar - | Edward Raymond Turner, backed financially by racing owner F. Marshall Lee, patents a three-colour motion picture projection system. [MORE] | |||
| Jun - | Warwick Trading Co begin selling their Biokam camera. [MORE] | |||
| Sep - | R. W. Paul builds a film studio adjoining his Theatrograph and Animatograph factory. [MORE] | |||
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| – Cecil Hepworth begins making films after being sacked by the Warwick Trading Co. [MORE] | ||||
| – Bamforth & Co, of Holmfirth, Yorkshire begin film production [MORE] | ||||
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| India | ||||
| Nov - | Harischandra Sakharan Bhatavdekar, popularly known as Save Dada, films The Wrestlers, the first film made by a native Indian. [MORE] | |||
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| Japan | ||||
| 28/11 - | Tsunekichi Shibata films a segment of the kabuki version of the Noh drama Momijigari, (Maple Viewing). [MORE] | |||
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South Africa |
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– The Boer War revives the flagging fortunes of the British film industry as cameramen are sent to cover the deployment of troops. [MORE] |
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| Turkey | ||||
| – Don Ramirez, Spanish owner of a circus based in Constantinople, presents the first moving images in Turkey to the Sultan Abdul Hamid. [MORE] | ||||
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| USA | ||||
| 3/11 - | The World Heavyweight Championship bout marks the first fight to be filmed under artificial light. Although Biograph have the contract, Vitagraph also covertly film the match. [MORE] | |||
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| – Siegmund Lubin opens the Cineograph Theater, believed to be the first purpose-built cinema in the States. [MORE] | ||||
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France |
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Cendrillon (Georges Méliès) [ADD] |
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L'Homme protée (Georges Méliès) [ADD] |
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Les Méfaits d'une tête de veau (Ferdinand Zecca) [ADD] |
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Great Britain |
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The Bombardment of Mafeking (Sir Robert Ashe) [ADD] |
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King John (W. K. L. Dickson) [ADD] |
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The Kiss in the Tunnel (G. A. Smith) [ADD] |
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The Last Days of Pompeii (Robert W. Paul) [ADD] |
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The Tramp's Dream (Siegmund Lubin) [ADD] |
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