1894 in film

Events

• January 7
  • William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
  • Dickson and William Heise film their colleague, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetograph at Edison's Black Maria studio.
• April 14 – The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.
• June 6 - Charles Francis Jenkins projects a filmed motion picture before an audience in Richmond, Indiana. Earliest documented projection of a motion picture.
• Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.
• Kinetoscope viewing parlors begin to open in major cities. Each parlor contains several machines.
• Birt Acres creates a 70 mm format, which he first uses to shoot the Henley Royal Regatta.

Notable films released in 1894

Birt Acres

• Crows on Saffron Hill (lost)
• Haycart Crossing Hadley Green, Middlesex

Charles-Émile Reynaud

• Autour d'une cabine
• Rêve au coin du feu

Étienne-Jules Marey

• Falling Cat
• Chat en Chute Libre

William K. L. Dickson

• Alleni's Boxing Monkeys
• Amateur Gymnast, No. 2
• Annabelle Butterfly Dance, starring Annabelle Moore
• Annabelle Sun Dance, starring Annabelle Moore
• Annie Oakley, starring Annie Oakley
• Armand D'Ary, starring Armand D'Ary
• Athlete with Wand
• Babies in High Chairs
• Band Drill
• A Bar Room Scene
• The Barbershop
• Bertoldi (Mouth Support), starring Ena Bertoldi
• Bertoldi (Table Contortion), starring Ena Bertoldi
• Boxing, starring Jack McAuliffe
• The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
• Bucking Broncho, starring Lee Martin
• Buffalo Bill (lost), starring William F. Cody
• Buffalo Dance, starring Hair Coat, Parts His Hair and Last Horse
• Caicedo (with Pole), starring Juan A. Caicedo
• Caicedo (with Spurs), starring Juan A. Caicedo
• Carmencita, starring Carmencita
• The Carnival Dance, starring Madge Crossland, May Lucas and Lucy Murray
• Chinese Laundry Scene, directed by William Heise and William K. L. Dickson and starring Phil Doreto and Robetta
• Chinese Opium Den (lost)
• The Cock Fight
• Cock Fight, No. 2
• Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph, starring James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney
• Cupid's Dance, starring Florence Ewer, Lenora Ewer and Mildred Ewer
• Dance, starring Rosa France, Frank Lawton and Etta Williamson
• Dance du Ventre
• The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
• Dogs Fighting
• Edison Employee Picnic
• Fancy Club Swinger, starring John R. Abell
• ''Finale of 1st Act, Hoyt's 'Milk White Flag'''
• Fire Rescue Scene
• Fred Ott Holding a Bird, starring Fred Ott
• Fred Ott's Sneeze, starring Fred Ott
• French Dancers
• Glenroy Bros., (no. 2)
• Hadj Cheriff, starring Hadji Cheriff
• Highland Dance
• The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight, starring Eugene Hornbacker and Murphy
• Human Pyramid, starring Saleem Nassar
• Imperial Japanese Dance, starring the Sarashe Sisters
• Lady Fencers (With Broadswords), starring Louise Blanchard and Helen Englehart
• Lady Fencers (With Foils)
• Lasso Exhibition, starring Frank Hammitt and Lee Martin
• Lasso Thrower (lost), starring Vicente Oropeza
• Leonard–Cushing Fight, starring Jack Cushing and Mike Leonard
• Luis Martinetti, Contortionist, starring Luis Martinetti
• Man of a Thousand Faces, starring George Layman
• May Lucas, starring May Lucas
• Men on Parallel Bars
• Mexican Knife Duel (lost), starring Pedro Esquivel and Dionecio Gonzales
• Miss Lucy Murray, starring Lucy Murray
• Mlle. Capitaine, starring Alciede Capitaine
• Organ Grinder, No. 1
• Organ Grinder, No. 2
• Oriental Dance, starring Rosa
• ''The Pickaninny Dance, from the 'Passing Show''', starring Joe Rastus, Denny Tolliver and Walter Wilkins
• Rat Killing
• Rats and Terrier No. 2
• Rats and Terrier No. 3
• Rats and Weasel
• Ruth Dennis, starring Ruth St. Denis
• Sandow, starring Eugen Sandow
• Sheik Hadji Tahar, starring Sheik Hadji Tahar
• Sioux Ghost Dance
• Summersault Dog, starring Lucy the Dog and Ivan Tschernoff
• Sword Combat, starring Najid and Saleem Nassar
• Topack and Steele, starring George W. Steele and George Topack
• Toyou Kichi, starring Toyou Kichi
• Trained Bears
• Trapeze
• Unsuccessful Somersault
• Walton and Slavin, starring John Slavin and Charles F. Walton
• Whirlwind Gunspinning, starring Hadj Lessik
• The Widder, starring Isabelle Coe
• Wonderful Performing Dog, starring Lucy the Dog and Ivan Tschernoff
• The Wrestling Dog, starring Henry Welton
• Wrestling Match

Films directed by other filmmakers

• Miss Jerry, directed by Alexander Black, starring by Blanche Bayliss, William Courtenay and Chauncey Depew.

Births

Debut

• Annabelle Whitford (Annabelle Sun Dance)
• William Courtenay (Miss Jerry)

References

References

1. "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894) – IMDb".
2. Musser, Charles. (1994). "The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907, Volume 1". University of California Press.
3. "The Case Files: C. Franklin Jenkins". The Franklin Institute.
4. Venkatasawmy, Rama. (2012). "The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age". Lexington Books.
5. "Acres, Birt (1854–1918)". BFI Screen Online.