Eastman Kodak is the first company to begin commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base, celluloid.
The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film are made in Hyde Park, London by William Friese Greene
Wordsworth Donisthorpe invents the Kinesigraph, which photographs a round image on 68Â mm film.
William Dickson completes his work for Thomas Edison on the Kinetograph cylinder either in this year or 1890. Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.
Films
Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses, a lost film directed by William Friese-Greene
Monkeyshines No. 1 - contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890.
Births
February 3 - Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director
February 8 - Siegfried Kracauer, German movie critic and journalist
February 23 - Musidora, French actress, screenwriter, film director
April 16 - Charlie Chaplin, British actor and film-maker
April 26 - Anita Loos â€" American writer and producer (died 1981)
May 3 - Beulah Bondi â€" American actress (died 1981)
May 20 - Karin Molander, Swedish actress
May 31 - Athene Seyler, British actress
June 11 - Wesley Ruggles, American movie director, producer
June 15 - Salka Viertel, Austro-Hungarian actress and screenwriter.
July 27 - Vera Karalli, Russian actress and ballerina
August 24 - Tom London, American actor
November 10 - Claude Rains, British-American actor
