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The decade of the 1890s in film involved some significant events.

1 Events
2 Films
3 Births
4 See also

Events

1891 - Designed around the work of Muybridge, Marey, and Eastman, Thomas Edison's employee, William K. L. Dickson finishes work on a motion-picture camera, called the Kinetograph, and a viewing machine, called the Kinetoscope.
May 20, 1891 - Thomas Edison holds the first public presentation of his Kinetoscope for the National Federation of Women's Clubs.
August 24, 1891 - Thomas Edison files for a patent of the Kinetoscope.
1892 In France, Charles-Émile Reynaud began to have public screenings in Paris at the Theatre Optique, with hundreds of drawings on a reel that he wound through his Zeotrope projector to construct moving images that continued for 15 minutes.
1892 - The Eastman Company becomes the Eastman Kodak Company.
March 14, 1893 - Thomas Edison is granted Patent #493,426 for "An Apparatus for Exhibiting Photographs of Moving Objects" (The Kinetoscope).
1893 Thomas Edison builds a motion-picture studio near his laboratory, dubbed the "Black Maria" by his staff.
May 9, 1893 - In America, Thomas Edison holds the first public exhibition of films shot using his Kinetograph at the Brooklyn Institute. Unfortunately, only one person at a time could use his viewing machine, the Kinetoscope.
January 7, 1894 - Thomas Edison films his assistant, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetoscope at the "Black Maria."
April 14, 1894 - The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.
1894 - Kinetoscope viewing parlors begin to open in major cities. Each parlor contains several machines.
1895 - In France, brothers named Auguste and Louis Lumière, designed and built a lightweight, hand-held motion picture camera called the Cinématographe. The Lumière brothers discovered that their machine could also be used to project images onto a large screen. The Lumière brothers created several short films at this time that are considered to be pivotal in the history of motion pictures.
November, 1895 - In Germany, Emil and Max Skladanowsky develop their own film projector.
December, 1895 - In France, Auguste and Louis Lumière hold their first public screening of films shot with their Cinématographe.
January, 1896 - In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul developed their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph).
January, 1896 - In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projected motion pictures.
April, 1896 - Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City
1896 - French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing a lot of early special effects techniques, including stop-motion photography.
1897 - A total of 125 people die during a film screening at the Charity Bazaar in Paris after a curtain catches on fire from the ether used to fuel the projector lamp.
1899 - Pathé-Frères is founded.

Films

This is an incomplete list of films made in the 1890s:

Monkeyshines (William Dickson and William Heise 1890)
Dickson Greeting (William Dickson 1891)
Blacksmith Scene (William Dickson 1893)
Fred Ott's Sneeze (William Dickson 1894)
Fred Ott Holding a Bird (William Dickson 1894)
Buffalo Dance (William Dickson 1894)
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (William Dickson 1895)
L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (Auguste and Louis Lumière 1895)
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (Louis Lumière 1895)
L'Arroseur Arrosé (Louis Lumière 1895)
Baignade en mer (Georges Méliès 1896)
The Kiss (William Heise 1896)
La Fée aux Choux (Alice Guy Blaché 1896)
Rip van Winkle (William Dickson 1896)
Admiral Cigarette (William Heise 1897)
The Milker's Mishap (director unknown 1897)
New Pillow Fight (director unknown 1897)
The Nearsighted School Teacher (director unknown 1898)
Jeanne d'Arc (1899 film) (Georges Méliès 1899)

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Births

January 22, 1893 - Conrad Veidt

1890s in film

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