1900 in film
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Events
- April: The short film As Seen Through a Telescope is published under the title The Professor and His Field Glass. Director George Albert Smith is a member of the School of Brighton.
- October 31: Oskar Messter founds Projection GmbH, will make the equipment of film technology and produces short films.
- November 11: The hand-colored entirely French silent film Joan of Arc, directed by Georges Méliès, will be premiered.
- November 16: The stop-motion animated film The Enchanted Drawing by J. Stuart Blackton is published by Thomas Alva Edison.
- November: Grandma 's Reading Glass by director George Albert Smith is published. It is one of the first films to be shot from different perspectives.
Birthdays
January to March
January
- 01 January: Mildred Davis, American actress († 1969)
- January 02: William Haines, American actor († 1973)
- 08 January: Dorothy Adams, American actress († 1988)
- JANUARY 22: Ernst Busch, German actor († 1980)
- JANUARY 23: David Hand, American animator, director and producer († 1986)
- JANUARY 28: Karel Dodal, Czech animated film director († 1986)
- JANUARY 30: Martita Hunt, British actress († 1969)
February
- February 04: Jacques Prévert, French writer and screenwriter († 1977)
- 07 February: George Oppenheimer, American screenwriter († 1977)
- February 09: Robert De Grasse, American Cinematographer ( † 1971)
- FEBRUARY 16: Jack Cummings, Canadian producer ( † 1989)
- FEBRUARY 22: Luis Buñuel, Spanish film director and screenwriter († 1983)
- FEBRUARY 26: Jean Negulesco, the Romanian- American director († 1993)
March
- March 02: Kurt Weill, German composer († 1950)
- 04 March: Herbert Biberman, American film director († 1971)
- March 06: Henri Jeanson, French writer († 1970)
- March 15: Charlotte Kramm, German actress († 1971)
- March 21: Sun Yu, Chinese director († 1990)
April-June
April
- April 05: Spencer Tracy, American actor († 1967)
May
- May 01: Robert Baberske, German cameraman († 1958)
- MAY 13: Paul Ivano, French cinematographer († 1984)
- MAY 26: Lesley Selander, American film director and cinematographer († 1979)
June
July to September
July
- July 04: Guy Bungendore, American author and screenwriter († 1970)
- 05 July: Leonard Buczkowski, Polish film director and screenwriter († 1967)
- July 06: Frederica Sagor Maas, American screenwriter († 2012)
- 09 July: Joseph LaShelle, American Cinematographer ( † 1989)
- July 10: Sy Bartlett, American screenwriter († 1978)
- JULY 17: Marcel Dalio, French actor († 1983)
- JULY 18: Herbert Hennies, German actor and screenwriter († 1979)
- JULY 21: Alfred Stoeger, Austrian actor, director and producer († 1962)
- July 27: Charles Vidor, Hungarian director († 1959)
- July 27: Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, German actor († 1988)
August
- 02 August: Helen Morgan, American singer and actress († 1941)
- 08 August: Robert Siodmak, German director († 1973)
- AUGUST 19: Colleen Moore, American actress († 1988)
- AUGUST 26: Mark Sandrich, American film director († 1945)
September
October to December
October
- 09 October: Alastair Sim, Scottish actor († 1976)
- October 10: Helen Hayes, American actress († 1993)
- October 13: Helena Pickard, British actress († 1959)
- OCTOBER 15: Fritz box, German - American actor († 1993)
- October 17: Jean Arthur, American actress († 1991)
November
- November 02: Carola Neher, German actress († 1942)
- November 08: Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author († 1949)
- November 13: Edward Buzzell, American film director († 1985)
- NOVEMBER 25: Margaret Livingston, American actress († 1984)
December
- December 06: Agnes Moorehead, American actress († 1974)
- December 13: Norman Foster, American film director († 1976)
- DECEMBER 17: Katina Paxinou, Greek actress († 1973)
- December 19: Géza von Cziffra, German director († 1989)
- December 22: Marc Allégret, French film director († 1973)
- December 23: Noel Purcell, Irish actor and comedian († 1985)
- December 24: Carl Voscherau, German actor († 1963)
Deceased
- June 05: Stephen Crane, American writer (* 1871)