Events
- Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for sound film (February 27, West Orange, New Jersey).
- Étienne-Jules Marey starts work on his chronophotographe with 90 mm wide roll paper film.
- Émile Reynaud is the first to use perforated film for use with his animated show, Théâtre Optique.
Films
- Roundhay Garden Scene directed by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince is credited by many as the first film but is actually the second film (after Man Walking Around A Corner, also by Le Prince).
- Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, directed by Louis Le Prince, is filmed on paper filmstrips.
- Accordion Player, directed by Louis Le Prince.
Births
- 3 January
- George B. Seitz â€" American director, writer, actor and producer (died 1944)
- James Bridie â€" Scottish writer (died 1951)
- 23 January - Franklin Pangborn â€" American actor (died 1958)
- 4 March - Rafaela Ottiano â€" Italian-born American actress (died 1942)
- 5 March - Jules Furthman â€" American writer, director and producer (died 1966)
- 10 March - Barry Fitzgerald â€" Irish actor (died 1961)
- 30 March - Anna Q. Nilsson â€" Swedish-born American actress (died 1974)
- 11 April - Donald Calthrop, English actor (d. 1940)
- 27 April - Florence La Badie â€" American actress (died 1917)
- 25 May - Miles Malleson â€" English actor and writer (died 1969)
- 4 July - Henry Armetta â€" Italian-born American actor (died 1945)
- 16 July - Percy Kilbride â€" American actor (died 1964)
- 14 August - Robert Woolsey; Actor (died 1938)
- 17 August - Monty Woolley; Actor (died 1963)
- 12 September - Maurice Chevalier â€" French actor and singer (died 1972)
- 25 September - Hanna Ralph â€" German actress (died 1978)
- 26 September - Wally Patch â€" English actor and writer (died 1970)
- 1 October - John E. Blakeley â€" English producer, director and writer (died 1958)
- 9 October - Hank Patterson â€" American actor (died 1975)
- 25 October - Lester Cuneo â€" American actor and producer (died 1925)
- 18 November - Frances Marion â€" American writer, director, producer and actress (died 1973)
- 23 November - Harpo Marx â€" American actor and writer (died 1964)
- 24 November - Cathleen Nesbitt â€" English actress (died 1982)
- 24 November - Amund Rydland â€" Norwegian actor (died 1967)
- 26 November - Francisco Canaro â€" Uruguayan-born Argentine composer, producer and actor (died 1964)
- 6 December - Will Hay â€" English actor, writer and director (died 1949)
- 18 December - Gladys Cooper â€" English actress (died 1971)
- 22 December - J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank â€" English producer and writer (died 1972)
- 27 December - Thea von Harbou â€" German actress, writer and director (died 1954)
- 28 December - F. W. Murnau â€" German director, writer and producer (died 1931)
Deaths
- 23 January - Eugène Marin Labiche â€" French writer (born 1815)
- 29 January - Edward Lear â€" German writer (born 1812)
- 6 March - Louisa May Alcott â€" American writer (born 1832)
- 24 March - Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin â€" Russian writer (born 1855)
- 12 May - BedÅ™ich Smetana â€" Czech composer (born 1824)
- 4 July - Theodor Storm â€" German writer (born 1817)
- 30 July - Bartley Campbell â€" American writer (born 1843)
- 11 September - Domingo F. Sarmiento â€" Argentine writer (born 1811)
- 19 November - Edmond Gondinet â€" French writer (born 1828)
External links
Media related to 1888 in film at Wikimedia Commons
- 1888 at The Internet Movie Database