1870s in film

The decade of the 1870s in film involved some significant events.

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Events

  • 1874 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen used his "photographic revolver" to photograph the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun.
  • 1877 – French inventor Charles-Émile Reynaud improved on the Zoetrope idea by placing mirrors at the center of the drum. He called his invention the Praxinoscope. Reynaud developed other versions of the Praxinoscope, too, including a Praxinoscope Theatre (where the device was enclosed in a viewing box) and the Projecting Praxinoscope. Eventually he created the "Théâtre Optique", a large machine based on the Praxinoscope, but was able to project longer animated strips. In the United States, the McLoughlin Bros. from New York released in 1879 a simplified (and unauthorized) copy of Reynaud's invention under the name "Whirligig of Life".
  • 1877–1878: Thomas Edison's announcement of his phonograph invention inspired Scientific American to suggest combinations with stereoscopic photographs and projection. Wordsworth Donisthorpe replied that his Kinesigraph (patented in 1876) would soon produce moving life size-photographs with the motion of lips and gestures corresponding to the words from the phonograph.
  • 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge records his famous chronophotographic series of pictures of the phases of The Horse in Motion, the result of an assignment by Railroad tycoon Leland Stanford who wanted to see proof of the real positions of the horse's gait. The pictures had a huge impact, because the recorded positions were very different (and often less gracious) than most people imagined; many drawings and paintings turned out to be incorrect.

Births

YearMonthDateNameCountryProfessionDied
1870 March13Henri ÉtiévantFranceActor, Director1953
May2Lewis J. SelznickUSProducer1933
1871 March23Heinrich SchrothGermanyActor1945
April16Henry StephensonUSActor1956
April21Jaro FürthAustriaActor1945
May30Olga EnglAustriaActress1946
July7Richard CarleUSActor, Playwright1941
1872 January25Robert McWadeUSActor1938
February12Oscar StriboltDenmarkActor1927
April26William Desmond TaylorIrelandActor, Director1922
December22Georg BlomstedtSwedenActor1933
1873 January7Adolph ZukorUSFounder of Paramount Pictures1976
March7Madame Sul-Te-WanUSActress1959
June10Vera LewisUSActress1956
June13Karin SwanströmSwedenActress, Director1942
July1Alice Guy-BlachéFranceDirector, Producer, Screenwriter1968
November24John St. PolisUSActor1946
1874 March19Arthur HoytUSActor1953
April28Sidney TolerUSActor, Writer1947
June2E. Alyn WarrenUSActor1940
November13Henry KolkerUSActor, Director1947
November22Elizabeth PattersonUSActor1966
November30Lloyd IngrahamUSActor, Director1956
1875 January15Claude KingUKActor1941
January22D. W. GriffithUSFilmmaker1948
February26Emma DunnUKActress1966
March25Spencer ChartersUSActor1943
April4Samuel S. HindsUSActor, Lawyer1948
June6J. Farrell MacDonaldUSActor, Director1952
June11Gilbert EmeryUSActor1945
September12Matsunosuke OnoeJapanActor1926
November10Maude EburneCanadaActress1960
December8Frederik BuchDenmarkActor1925
1876 February26Amy VenessUKActress1960
March18Frank DarienUSActor1955
June20Romuald JoubéFranceActor1949
1877 June19Charles CoburnUSActor1961
November8Robert HomansUSActor1947
1878 January16Harry CareyUSActor1947
April12Lionel BarrymoreUSActor1954
May25Bill RobinsonUSActor, Dancer1949
June26Ernest TorrenceScotlandActor1933
July14Donald MeekScotlandActor1946
1879 January1William FoxHungaryFounder of Fox Film Corporation1952
January1Paul PorcasiItalyActor1946
February12Urban GadDenmarkDirector1947
June9Dudley DiggesUSActor1947
August15Ethel BarrymoreUSActress1959
October15Jane DarwellUSActress1967
October22Karl HoblitzelleUSMovie theater owner1967
November4Will RogersUSActor, Comedian1935
November15Lewis StoneUSActor1953
December27Sydney GreenstreetUKActor1954
December27Robert GreigAustraliaActor1958

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