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1900 in film

1900 in film

Overview of the events of 1900 in film

The year 1900 in film involved some significant events.

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Events

  • 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

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

MonthDateNameCountryProfessionDied
January 2William HainesUSActor1973
February 16Vincent ColemanUSActor1971
16Albert HackettUSActor, screenwriter1995
17Ruth CliffordUSActress1998
21Jeanne AubertFranceSinger, actress1988
22Luis BuñuelSpainScreenwriter, director1983
26Jean NegulescoRomaniaScreenwriter, director1993
March 3Edna BestUKActress1974[5]
April 5Spencer TracyUSActor1967[6]
23Harvey ParryUSStuntman, Actor1985
May 16Aage Winther-JørgensenDenmarkActor1967
July 10Evelyn LayeUKActress1996
27Charles VidorHungaryDirector1959
August 8Robert SiodmakGermanyDirector1976
9Charles FarrellUSActor1990
11Monroe OwsleyUSActor1937
23Eve SouthernUSActress1972
24Preston FosterUSActor, singer1970
September 19Ricardo CortezUSActor, director1977
October 9Alastair SimScotlandActor1976
10Helen HayesUSActress1993
15Fritz FeldGermanyActor1993
15Mervyn LeRoyUSDirector, producer, screenwriter1987
17Jean ArthurUSActress1991
November 5Natalie SchaferUSActress1991
December 6Agnes MooreheadUSActress1974
17Katina PaxinouGreeceActress1973

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Juanita Angeles, Filipina pre-war and silent film actress

Deaths

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References

  1. [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. [2]
    Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 13.
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    Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 13.
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    Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 13.
  5. [5]
    "Edna Best". BFI. Archived from the original on November 11, 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  6. [6]
    "Spencer Tracy | Biography, Movies, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  7. [7]
    "Sir Arthur Sullivan". English National Opera. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
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