1888 in film

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The following is an overview of the events of 1888 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.

Events

• George Eastman files for a patent for his photographic film.
• 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 camera with 90 mm wide roll paper film.
• Charles-Émile Reynaud patents his Théâtre Optique which uses a kind of perforated film to create an animated show.

Films

Roundhay Garden Scene, believed to be the world's earliest surviving motion-picture film

• Roundhay Garden Scene, Accordion Player and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, filmed by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince in Leeds, United Kingdom, using paper "stripping" film and paper negative film.
• Horse and Rider Jumping Over an Obstacle (Pferd und Reiter Springen über ein Hindernis) and other sequences, shot by Ottomar Anschütz in Germany.

Births

Month	Date	Name	Country	Profession	Died
January	3	George B. Seitz	US	Director, writer, actor, producer	1944
	3	James Bridie	Scotland	Writer	1951
	17	Edvard Persson	Sweden	Actor	1957
February	6	Lucile Gleason	US	Actress	1947
March	4	Rafaela Ottiano	Italy	Actress	1942
	5	Jules Furthman	US	Writer, director, producer	1966
	10	Barry Fitzgerald	Ireland	Actor	1961
	30	Anna Q. Nilsson	Sweden	Actress	1974
April	11	Donald Calthrop	UK	Actor	1940
	15	Florence Bates	US	Actress	1954
	19	Pat West	US	Actor	1944
	27	Florence La Badie	US	Actress	1917
May	7	Selmer Jackson	US	Actor	1971
	17	Claude Mérelle	France	Actress	1976
	25	Miles Malleson	UK	Actor, Writer	1969
July	4	Henry Armetta	Italy	Actor	1945
	16	Percy Kilbride	US	Actor	1964
August	14	Robert Woolsey	US	Actor	1938
	17	Monty Woolley	US	Actor	1963
	29	Dina Romano	Italy	Actress	1957
September	12	Maurice Chevalier	France	Actor, Singer	1972
	25	Hanna Ralph	Germany	Actress	1978
	26	Wally Patch	UK	Actor, writer	1970
October	1	John E. Blakeley	UK	Producer, director, writer	1958
	3	Claud Allister	UK	Actor	1970
	9	Hank Patterson	US	Actor	1975
	18	Paul Vermoyal	France	Actor	1925
	25	Lester Cuneo	US	Actor, producer	1925
November	3	Maurice Vinot	France	Actor	1916
	15	Andreas Malandrinos	Greece	Actor	1970
	18	Frances Marion	US	Writer, director, producer, actress	1973
	23	Nana Bryant	US	Actress	1955
	23	Harpo Marx	US	Actor, writer	1964
	24	Cathleen Nesbitt	UK	Actress	1982
	25	Amund Rydland	Norway	Actor	1967
	26	Francisco Canaro	Uruguay	Composer, Producer, Actor	1964
December	6	Will Hay	UK	Actor, writer, director	1949
	18	Gladys Cooper	UK	Actress	1971
	22	J. Arthur Rank	UK	Producer, writer	1972
	27	Thea von Harbou	Germany	Actress, writer, director	1954
	27	Svend Melsing	Denmark	Actor, Playwright	1946
	28	F. W. Murnau	Germany	Director, writer, producer	1931

External links

Media related to 1888 in film at Wikimedia Commons

• List of 1888 films at IMDb
• List of 1888 deaths at IMDb
• List of 1888 births at IMDb