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1900 in film

The year 1900 in film involved some significant events.

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  • Reulos, Goudeau & Co. invent Mirographe, a 21 mm amateur format.
  • The Lumière Brothers premiere their new Lumiere Wide format for the 1900 World Fair. At 75 mm wide, it has held the record for over 100 years as the widest format yet developed.
  • Raoul Grimoin-Sanson also creates a sensation at the 1900 World Fair with his multi-projector Cinéorama spectacle, which uses ten 70 mm projectors to create a simulated 360-degree balloon ride over Paris. The exhibit is closed before it formally opens, however, due to legitimate health and safety concerns regarding the heat of the combined projectors, and releases the format as La Petite.
  • Gaumont-Demeny release their own 15 mm amateur format, Pocket Chrono.
  • Release of the first film version of Hamlet, an adaptation of the duel scene, with French actress Sarah Bernhardt playing the title role and accompanying recorded sound.
  • Making of the first film to feature the detective character Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes Baffled, by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
  • Jeanne d'Arc becomes the first film of considerable length (10 minutes) to be shown entirely in colour.
  • William N. Selig makes The Chicago Stockyards—From Hoof to Market for Chicago-based Philip Danforth Armour, a prominent businessman in the meatpacking industry, showing the full meatpacking process from cattle being unloaded at the stockyards to canning. Studio lights do not exist, so stage spotlights are borrowed from the Richard Mansfield Theatrical Company to film inside the slaughterhouse.[1]

Notable films released in 1900

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The Enchanted Drawing
 
Joan burning at the stake at the climax of Joan of Arc
 
Sherlock Holmes Baffled

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  • 20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – (GB)

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  • Le village de Namo – Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs, directed by Gabriel Veyre – (France)

Births

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Month Date Name Country Profession Died
January 10 Jean Gehret Switzerland Actor, director 1956
20 Colin Clive UK Actor 1937
February
13 Barbara von Annenkoff Germany Actress 1979
16 Vincent Coleman US Actor 1971
16 Albert Hackett US Actor, screenwriter 1995
17 Ruth Clifford US Actress 1998
21 Jeanne Aubert France Singer, actress 1988
22 Luis Buñuel Spain Screenwriter, director 1983
26 Jean Negulesco Romania Screenwriter, director 1993
March 3 Edna Best UK Actress 1974[5]
April 5 Spencer Tracy US Actor 1967[6]
9 Paul Willis US Actor 1960[7][8]
30 David Manners Canada Actor 1998
May 9 Maria Malicka Poland Actress 1992
16 Aage Winther-Jørgensen Denmark Actor 1967
July 10 Evelyn Laye UK Actress 1996
27 Charles Vidor Hungary Director 1959
August 8 Robert Siodmak Germany Director 1976
9 Charles Farrell US Actor 1990
11 Monroe Owsley US Actor 1937
23 Eve Southern US Actress 1972
24 Preston Foster US Actor, singer 1970
September 19 Ricardo Cortez US Actor, director 1977
October 9 Alastair Sim Scotland Actor 1976
10 Helen Hayes US Actress 1993
15 Fritz Feld Germany Actor 1993
15 Mervyn LeRoy US Director, producer, screenwriter 1987
17 Jean Arthur US Actress 1991
November 5 Natalie Schafer US Actress 1991
December 6 Agnes Moorehead US Actress 1974
17 Katina Paxinou Greece Actress 1973

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Juanita Angeles, Filipina pre-war and silent film actress

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References

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  1. ^ Erish, Andrew A. (2012). Col. William N. Selig: The Man Who Invented Hollywood. University of Texas Press. p. 13. ISBN 0292728700. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  2. ^ Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 13.
  3. ^ Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 13.
  4. ^ Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 13.
  5. ^ "Edna Best". BFI. Archived from the original on November 11, 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Spencer Tracy | Biography, Movies, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Juvenile Type That Pleases". The Movie Magazine. 1915. December 1915. Vol. 2, No. 3. p. 106. Retrieved October 30, 2024.
  8. ^ "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQB9-TSZ : Thu May 09 21:13:47 UTC 2024), Entry for Spencer Paul Gregory and Spencer Orville Gregory.
  9. ^ "Sir Arthur Sullivan". English National Opera. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
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