1896 in film

Events

\n*January - In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul developed their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph).\n*January - In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projected motion pictures. \n* Pathé Frères film company founded\n*April - Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City \n* May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever recorded in film.\n* French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effects techniques, including stop-motion photography.\n*The first kiss ever on film was in 1896 involving the great Canadian star May Irwin and John C. Rice.

Births

\n* August 18 - Jack Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first "bad boy", (+ 1933)\n*August 30 - Raymond Massey, actor (+ 1983)