1896 in film

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Events

• MARCH 27: done From this day in Vienna for the first time daily film in the mezzanine of the house Kärntner Straße 45/Ecke Krugerstraße 2 in the First District of Vienna. There, presented Eugène Dupont, an envoy of the Lumières, whose first works. This is an admission fee of 50 cruisers and is open daily from 10 am to 8 clock clock in the evening possible.
• April 20: In Cologne, for the first time finds a demonstration with Lumière Cinematograph held in Germany. The German company vending company Stollwerck & Co. had acquired the distribution rights for Germany.
• April 25: In the Wilhelmshallen in Berlin, Unter den Linden 21, a film screening of the German cinematic society is opened. The screening room is considered the first theater in Germany. CEO is Gustav Schoenwald
• July 11: In Munich in Neuhauser Straße showman Carl Gabriel performs in his panopticon through the first demonstration of the so-called living pictures in the Bavarian capital.

• British film pioneers founded the school of Brighton.
• In the short film The Kiss it comes to the first kiss in cinema history between May Irwin and John C. Rice.

Born

January to March

• 01 January: Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japanese director († 1982)
• January 02: Dziga Vertov, Soviet director († 1954)
• JANUARY 14: Hans J. Salter, Austrian composer († 1994)
• January 20: George Burns, American actor († 1996)
• January 27: Kurt Bobeth Bolander, German actor († 1961)
• JANUARY 29: Ladislaus Bus - Fekete, Hungarian - American writer († 1971)

• February 04: Jutta Jol, German actress († 1981)
• FEBRUARY 14: Werner Richard Heymann, German composer († 1961)
• FEBRUARY 18: Lothar Müthel, German actor († 1964)
• FEBRUARY 24: Richard Thorpe, American actor († 1991)
• FEBRUARY 29: William A. Wellman, American film director († 1975)

April-June

• APRIL 21: Attila Hörbiger, Austrian actor († 1987)
• APRIL 29: Natalie Talmadge, American actress († 1969)
• May 01: Ray Rennahan, American Cinematographer ( † 1980)
• MAY 16: Gilda Langer, Austrian actress († 1920)
• MAY 19: Michael Balcon, British producer ( † 1977)
• MAY 25: Ray Enright, American film director and screenwriter († 1965)
• May 30: Howard Hawks, American film director († 1977)
• MAY 31: Ernest Haller, American Cinematographer ( † 1970)
• June 04: Stringer Davis, British actor († 1973)
• JUNE 28: Lazar Wechsler, the most important producer of the early Swiss film ( † 1981)

July to September

• July 03: Doris Lloyd, British actress († 1968)
• JULY 25: Rosie Newman, British Amateurfilmerin († 1988)
• JULY 28: Barbara La Marr, American actress († 1926)
• 06 August: Cyril J. Mockridge, British composer († 1979)
• August 10: Walter Lang, American film director († 1972)
• August 18: Jack Pickford, Canadian actor († 1933)
• August 23: Hubert von Meyerinck, German actor († 1971)
• August 30: Raymond Massey, Canadian actor († 1983)
• September 20: Elliott Nugent, American film director († 1980)

October to December

• October 01: Abraham Sofaer, British actor († 1988)
• October 03: Julien Duvivier, French film director († 1967)
• 06 October: Hermann Basel, German actor, producer and screenwriter († 1982)
• October 30: Ruth Gordon, American actress († 1985)

• NOVEMBER 19: Adolf Wohlbrück, Austrian actor († 1967)
• November 24: Corinne Griffith, American actress († 1979)
• NOVEMBER 25: Jessie Royce Landis, American actress († 1972)
• November 28: Lilia Skala, American actress († 1994)

• December 08: Christl Mardayn, Austrian actress († 1971)