| 1898 |
 Chronomedia index
Numbers after entries link to the list of references. |
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| February 5-11 |
Moments from the first class cricket match between New South Wales and England played
at Sydney is filmed for screening at Sydney Polytechnic, 82 King Street, Sydney. (An unprecedented
1,739 runs were scored during the match, which NSW won by 239 runs.) |
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| March |
The world's first film competition is held in Monte Carlo. The winner is Clément-Maurice
Gratioulet, a (former) manager of Lumière exhibition activities, for Monaco vivant par les appareils
cinématographiques. |
à 1900 |
| April 4 |
Auguste Baron files a second French patent application
for an improved version of what is now called the Graphophonoscope. Several films are made by Baron
and Félix Mesguiche using the system at a specially equipped studio in Asnières-sur-Seine, some on a
unique 50mm film. Sound is recorded on wax cylinders with a maximum running time of four minutes,
the phonograph linked electrically to a film camera. |
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| April 29 |
First screening of a dramatic film made in Hungary, Siófoki Kaland,
incorporated in a stage play called Mozgáfényképek (Moving Pictures). |
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| spring |
First Greek commercial film show at Place Kolokotronis, Athens. |
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| May |
The Gramophone Company is formed in the UK to sell Eldridge Johnson’s improved
version of the disc player imported in kit form from the US. |
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| December |
 Emile Berliner
returns from the USA to Europe. With his brother Joseph he forms Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft in
Hannover, Germany and builds the first plant for pressing gramophone discs [right]. The discs are
single-sided and embossed on the non-playing side 'Reproduced in Hannover'. |
Picture source: DGG |
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First Bulgarian commercial film show is given in Sofia by Ferencz Echer. |
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Film of an operation at the Surgical Centre of the University of Berlin is shot
by Oskar Messter and used for teaching at Kiel University. |
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Film is used by Alfred Cord Haddon to record tribal dances and other customs of
Torres Strait Islanders during a Cambridge University anthropological field trip. |
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First film produced in Cuba: El Brujo Desapareciendo (The Disappearing
Magician), directed by José E Casesus. |
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Gaumont Company is formed in London by A C and R C Bromhead as
distribution subsidiary of Léon Gaumont in France, with an office in Cecil Court, off Charing
Cross Road, London, where other film companies begin to congregate. |
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Vitagraph Company of America is founded by Albert Smith and James Stuart
Blackton to make films for inclusion in their vaudeville performances. |
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Alfonso Segreto shoots the first film in Brazil: scenes of Guanabara Bay. |
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Félix Oliver makes the first film in Uruguay: Una carrera de ciclismo en el
velódromo de Arroyo Seco (Cycle race at the Arroyo Seco velodrome). |
See 1900. |
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Short comedy films are made in Prague, Czechoslovakia by Jan Krizenecky of
performances by Josef Šváb-Malostranský, a Bohemian cabaret artiste: including Dostavenicko
ve Mlynici (released in English as ‘Rendez-vous at the Grinding Room’) and Vystavni
Parkar a Lepic Plakatu (The Bill-Sticker and the Sausage Vendor). |
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Carl Zeiss photographic company in Leipzig, Germany is working on the use of
anamorphic lenses for film cameras. |
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Proposal that an archive of films should be created is made by
Boleslaw Matuszewski, a Polish cinematographer employed by the
Lumières, in a booklet, Une nouvelle source de l'histoire (A New Source of History). He
proposes that 'it should have a museum section, a library and an archive'. He argues in favour of
statutory deposit of films to preserve the historical record and visual heritage.
In a second booklet, La photographie animée: Ce
qu'elle est, ce qu'elle doit être (Animated photography: What it is, what is should be),
published around the same time, Matuszewski provides perhaps the first work on film theory. |
à 1900 1910 |
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System of photo-telegraphy is introduced in the USA by Hummell. |
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Emile Berliner applies for a patent on a 'puzzle' disc that contains two concentric
grooves, so that two different audio programmes can be heard, depending on where the needle is placed
on the edge of the disc. |
à 1955 |
| l |
UK retail chain Boots establishes its first Booklovers' Library operations in
stores that have a stationery department. |
à 1903 |
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US patent for a long horn to amplify sound is granted to Eldridge R Johnson of
Camden, New Jersey. |
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