The decade of the 1880s in film involved some significant events.
Events
- 1880 - American George Eastman begins to commercially manufacture dry plates for photography.
- 1880 - Eadweard Muybridge holds a public demonstration of his Zoopraxiscope, a magic lantern provided with a rotating disc with artist's renderings of Muybridge's chronophotographic sequences. It was used as a demonstration device by Muybridge in his illustrated lecture (the original preserved in the Museum of Kingston upon Thames in England).
- January 1, 1881 - American inventor George Eastman founds the Eastman Dry Plate Company.
- 1882 - American inventor George Eastman begins experimenting with new types of photographic film, with his employee, William Walker
- 1882 - French physiologist Étienne-Jules Marey invents the chronophotographic gun, a camera shaped like a rifle that photographs twelve successive images each second.
- 1885 - American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use.
- 1887 - Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film.
- 1888 - George Eastman files for a patent for his photographic film.
- 1888 - Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge to discuss adding sound to moving pictures. Edison begins his own experiments.
- 1888 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince creates the first motion picture films created on paper rolls of film.
- 1889 - American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available.
Births
This a list of actors and filmmakers who were born between years 1880 and 1884. See also:
- 1885 born actors and filmmakers
- 1886 born actors and filmmakers
- 1887 born actors and filmmakers
- 1888 born actors and filmmakers
- 1889 born actors and filmmakers
1880:
- January 6, 1880 â€" Tom Mix, American actor (died 1940)
- January 29, 1880 â€" W. C. Fields, American actor (died 1946)
- February 8, 1880 â€" Viktor Schwanneke, German actor (died 1931)
- March 10, 1880 â€" Bronco Billy Anderson, American actor (died 1971)
- April 13, 1880 â€" Charles Christie, Canadian-born American film studio owner (died 1955)
- June 7, 1880 â€" Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (died 1956)
- August 6, 1880 â€" Hans Moser, Austrian actor (died 1964)
- October 23, 1880 â€" Una O'Connor, Irish actress (died 1959)
- December 10, 1880 â€" Fred Immler, German actor (died 1965)
1881:
- February 10, 1881 â€" Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress, director, screenwriter (died 1954)
- March 4, 1881 â€" Maude Fealy American actress (died 1971)
- November 24, 1881 â€" Al Christie, Canadian-born American director and producer (died 1951)
- November 13, 1881 â€" Carl Schenstrøm, Danish actor (died 1942)
- December 5, 1881 â€" René Cresté, French actor and director (died 1922)
1882:
- January 17, 1882 â€" Noah Beery, American actor (died 1946)
- February 15, 1882 â€" John Barrymore, American actor (died 1942)
- July 27, 1882 â€" Donald Crisp, American actor (died 1974)
- August 6, 1882 â€" Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor (died 1971)
- October 20, 1882 â€" Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born American actor (died 1956)
1883:
- January 10, 1883 â€" Francis X. Bushman, American actor (died 1966)
- February 22, 1883 â€" Marguerite Clark, American actress (died 1940)
- February 22, 1883 â€" Olga Svendsen, Danish actress (died 1942)
- February 23, 1883 â€" Victor Fleming, American director (died 1949)
- April 1, 1883 â€" Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (died 1930)
- Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and theatre director (died 1976)
- May 1, 1883 â€" Tom Moore, Irish-born American actor (died 1955)
- May 23, 1883 â€" Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (died 1939)
- August 19, 1883 â€" Elsie Ferguson, American actress (died 1961)
- October 5, 1883 â€" Ernst Pittschau, German actor (died 1951)
- December 16, 1883 â€" Max Linder, French actor (died 1925)
1884:
- January 13, 1884 â€" Sophie Tucker, American singer, actress and comedian (died 1966)
- February 14, 1884 â€" Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, film director (died 1947)
- February 16, 1884 â€" Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (died 1951)
- April 6, 1884 â€" Walter Huston, Canadian-born American actor (died 1950)
- April 30, 1884 â€" Olof Sandborg, Swedish actor (died 1965)
- May 8, 1884 â€" Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (died 1917)
- May 10, 1884 â€" Olga Petrova, English-born American actress (died 1977)
- July 23, 1884 â€" Emil Jannings, German actor (died 1950)
- July 24, 1884 â€" Maria Caserini, Italian actress (d. 1969)
- August 7, 1884 â€" Billie Burke, American actress (died 1970)
- August 11, 1884 â€" Hermann Wlach, Austrian actor (died 1962)
- October 4, 1884 â€" Ida Wüst, German actress (died 1958)
- October 24, 1884 â€" Emil Fjellström, Swedish actor (died 1944)
Lists of films
See also
- Film, History of film, Lists of films