1899 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 1899 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.

Events

• September
• King John, a silent compilation of three short scenes from a forthcoming stage production by Herbert Beerbohm Tree with film direction by William Kennedy Dickson and Walter Pfeffer Dando, is filmed in London, the first known film based on a Shakespeare play.
• Mitchell and Kenyon of Blackburn in the north of England release three fiction films under the 'Norden' brand which attract national attention – The Tramp's Surprise, The Tramps and the Artist and Kidnapping by Indians, the latter being the first Western.
• November – The oldest surviving Japanese film, Momijigari, is shot by Tsunekichi Shibata in Tokyo as a record of kabuki actors Onoe Kikugorō V and Ichikawa DanjÅ«rō IX performing a scene from the play Momijigari.
• T. C. Hepworth invents Biokam, a 17.5 mm format which also is the first format to have a center perforation.
• John Alfred Prestwich invents a 13 mm amateur format.

Films released in 1899

• Beauty and the Beast, produced for Pathe (French)
• The Biter Bit, produced by Bamforth & Co Ltd
• Cagliostro's Mirror, directed by George Melies
• Cinderella (Cendrillon), directed by Georges Méliès
• Cleopatra, directed by George Melies, later re-released as Cleopatra's Tomb
• Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene, produced by Edison Studios
• The Demon Barber, produced by American Mutoscope
• The Devil in a Convent, directed by Georges Méliès, later re-released as The Sign of the Cross
• The Dreyfus Affair, a series of docudramas directed by Georges Méliès
• The Haunted House, directed by Siegmund Lubin
• How Would You Like to Be the Ice Man?
• The Jeffries-Sharkey Fight, a documentary that is in all likelihood lost; running over two hours, this is one of the oldest feature films
• Kidnapping by Indians
• King John
• The Kiss in the Tunnel, directed by George Albert Smith; has been cited as cinema's first example of narrative editing
• Major Wilson's Last Stand
• A Midnight Episode, directed by George Melies, aka A Good Bed
• The Miser's Doom (British), directed by Walter R. Booth
• A Mysterious Portrait, directed by Georges Méliès
• The Pillar of Fire (aka The Column of Fire), directed by George Melies, adapting a scene from the novel "" by H. Rider Haggard
• Raising Spirits, directed by George Melies

Births

External links

• List of 1899 films at IMDb
• List of 1899 deaths at IMDb
• List of 1899 births at IMDb

References