1900 in film

The year 1900 in film involved some significant events.

List of years in film (table)

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 ons, 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 rôle (sic.) 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 mins) to be shown entirely in colour.
  • William N. Selig made The Chicago StockyardsFrom 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 didn't exist yet so stage spotlights had to be borrowed from the Richard Mansfield Theatrical Company to film inside the slaughterhouse.[1]

Notable films released in 1900

Joan burning at the stake at the climax of Joan of Arc.
Sherlock Holmes Baffled.

Births

MonthDayNameProfessionYear of deathRef
January2William HainesActor1973
February16Vincent Coleman1971
Albert HackettScreenwriter1995
17Ruth CliffordActress1998
21Jeanne Aubert1988
22Luis BuñuelScreenwriter, director1983
26Jean NegulescoDirector1993
March3Edna BestActress1974[5]
April5Spencer TracyActor1967[6]
May16Aage Winther-Jørgensen
July10Evelyn LayeActress1996
27Charles VidorDirector1959
August8Robert Siodmak1976
October9Alastair SimActor
10Helen HayesActress1993
15Fritz FeldActor
Mervyn LeRoyDirector1987
17Jean ArthurActress1991
November5Natalie Schafer
December6Agnes Moorehead1974
17Katina Paxinou1973

Deaths

Debut

References

  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. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  6. "Spencer Tracy | Biography, Movies, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  7. "Sir Arthur Sullivan". English National Opera. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
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