The decade of the 1880s in film involved significant events.
Events
- 1880 â American George Eastman begins to commercially manufacture dry plates for photography.
- 1880 â Eadweard Muybridge holds a public demonstration of his Zoopraxiscope, a magic lantern provided with a rotating disc with artist's renderings of Muybridge's chronophotographic sequences. It was used as a demonstration device by Muybridge in his illustrated lecture (the original preserved in the Museum of Kingston upon Thames in England).
- January 1, 1881 â American inventor George Eastman founds the Eastman Dry Plate Company, eventually known as Kodak.
- 1882 â American inventor George Eastman begins experimenting with new types of photographic film, with his employee, William Walker.
- 1882 â French physiologist ÃÂtienne-Jules Marey invents the chronophotographic gun, the camera shaped like a rifle that photographs twelve successive images each second.
- 1885 â American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invent a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use.
- 1887 â Hannibal Goodwin files for a patent for his photographic film.
- 1888 - Louis Le Prince creates the oldest surviving film, Roundhay Garden Scene. Recorded in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the footage lasts a mere 2.11 seconds.
- 1888 â George Eastman files for a patent for his photographic film.
- 1888 â Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge to discuss adding sound to moving pictures. Edison begins his own experiments.
- 1889 â American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available.
Births
This is a list of actors and filmmakers who were born between years 1880 and 1884. See also:
Lists of films
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