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Year 1890 in film

Events

William Kennedy Dickson completes his work for Thomas Edison on the Kinetograph cylinder either in this year or 1889. Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.

Films

-Monkeyshines, No. 1 - contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890.
-Monkeyshines, No. 2
-Monkeyshines, No. 3
-London's Trafalgar Square by Wordsworth Donisthorpe
-Falling Cat

January 4 - Weyler Hildebrand, Swedish actor, director and writer
January 6 - Tor Weijden, Swedish actor
January 30 - Bruno Kastner, German actor
June 14 - May Allison, American actress
June 16 - Stan Laurel, British actor
August 2 - Marin Sais, American actress
August 27 - Man Ray, American photographer and director
September 4 - Naima Wifstrand, Swedish singer, actress, composer and director
October 1 - Stanley Holloway, British actor
October 2 - Groucho Marx, American comedian, actor
October 12 - Carl Hagman, Swedish singer and actor
December 25 - Hugo Bolander, Swedish producer, director, actor and writer

Deaths

September 16 - Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, French film pioneer, director of Roundhay Garden Scene

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Monkeyshines, No. 1 (1890)

Monkeyshines (1889 or 1890) is believed to be the first film shot in the United States. An experimental film made to test the original cylinder format of the Kinetoscope.
Monkeyshines, No. 1 was shot by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise for the Edison labs. Scholars have differing opinions on whether the first was shot in June 1889 starring John Ott or sometime between November 21-27, 1890 starring G. Sacco Albanese.[1] Both men were fellow lab workers at the company; contradictory evidence exists for each claim. Monkeyshines, No. 2 and Monkeyshines, No. 3 quickly followed to test further conditions.
These films were intended to be internal tests of the new camera system, and were not created for commercial use; their rise to prominence resulted much later due to work by film historians. All three films show a blurry figure in white standing in one place making large gestures and are only a few seconds long.

Directed by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise
Starring John Ott or
G. Sacco Albanese
Country United States
Language Silent

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Monkeyshines, No. 2 (1890)

In an experiment that follows up on the results of 'Monkeyshines, No. 1', an Edison company worker again moves around in front of the motion picture camera.

Directors: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise
Stars: G. Sacco Albanese

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Monkeyshines, No. 3 (1890)

Directors: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise
Stars: G. Sacco Albanese

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London's Trafalgar Square (1890)

London's Trafalgar Square is a 1890 British silent black-and-white short film, shot by inventors and film pioneers Wordsworth Donisthorpe and William Carr Crofts at approximately 10 frames per second with an oval or circular frame on celuloid film using their 'kinesigraph' camera, showing traffic at Trafalgar Square in London. The surviving ten frames of film are the earliest known motion picture of the city.[1]

Directed by
Wordsworth Donisthorpe
William Carr Crofts
Release date(s) 1890
Country United Kingdom
Language Silent film