1889 in film

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Events

Eastman Kodak is the first company to begin commercial production of film on a flexible transparent base, celluloid.
The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film are made in Hyde Park, London by William Friese Greene
Wordsworth Donisthorpe invents the Kinesigraph, which photographs a round image on 68 mm film.
William Dickson completes his work for Thomas Edison on the Kinetograph cylinder either in this year or 1890. Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.

February 3 - Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director
February 8 - Siegfried Kracauer, German movie critic and journalist
February 23
- Musidora, French actress, screenwriter, film director
- Victor Fleming, American director and cinematographer
April 16 - Charlie Chaplin, British actor and film-maker
April 26 - Anita Loos – American writer and producer (died 1981)
May 3 - Beulah Bondi – American actress (died 1981)
May 20 - Karin Molander, Swedish actress
May 31 - Athene Seyler, British actress
June 11 - Wesley Ruggles, American movie director, producer
June 15 - Salka Viertel, Austro-Hungarian actress and screenwriter.
July 27 - Vera Karalli, Russian actress and ballerina
August 8 - Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor
August 24 - Tom London, American actor
November 10 - Claude Rains, British-American actor
November 19 - Clifton Webb, American actor