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

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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 Danjūrō IX performing a scene from the play Momijigari.
  • T. C. Hepworth invents Biokam, a 17.5&nbsp;mm format which also is the first format to have a center perforation.
  • John Alfred Prestwich invents a 13&nbsp;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 "She" by H. Rider Haggard
  • Raising Spirits, directed by George Melies

Births

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| Month || Date || Name ||Country || Profession ||Died ||

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| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| January

| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || Phyllis Haver || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1960 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 24 || Beulah Ashley || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress, Screenwriter, script Supervisor || 1965 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 30 || Martita Hunt || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1969 ||

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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| February

| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || Ramon Novarro || style="text-align:center;"| Mexico || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1968 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 15 || Gale Sondergaard || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1985 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 21 || Sigrid Holmquist || style="text-align:center;"| Sweden || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1970 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 22 || George O'Hara || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Screenwriter || 1966 ||

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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| March

| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || Jay C. Flippen || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1971 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 14 || Ada Kramm || style="text-align:center;"| Norway || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1981 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 23 || Dora Gerson || style="text-align:center;"| Germany || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1943 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 27 || Gloria Swanson || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1983 ||

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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| April

| style="text-align:center;"| 19 || George O'Brien || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1985 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 26 || Guinn "Big Boy" Williams || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1962 ||

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| rowspan=1 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| May

| style="text-align:center;"| 10 || Fred Astaire || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Dancer || 1987 ||

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| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| June

| style="text-align:center;"| 4 || Lane Chandler || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1972 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 15 || Einar Hanson || style="text-align:center;"| Sweden || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1927 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 30 || Madge Bellamy || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1990 ||

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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| July

| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || Charles Laughton || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1962 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 7 || George Cukor || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Director || 1983 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 14 || Martha Mansfield || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1923 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 17 || James Cagney || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1986 ||

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| rowspan=5 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| August

| style="text-align:center;"| 9 || Paul Kelly || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1956 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 13 || Alfred Hitchcock || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Director || 1980 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 16 || Glenn Strange || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1973 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 19 || Colleen Moore || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1988 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 28 || Charles Boyer || style="text-align:center;"| France || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1978 ||

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| rowspan=2 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| September

| style="text-align:center;"| 1 || Richard Arlen || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1976 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 9 || Neil Hamilton || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1984 ||

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| rowspan=4 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| November

| style="text-align:center;"| 6 || Francis Lederer || style="text-align:center;"| Austria-Hungary || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 2000 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 11 || Pat O'Brien || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1983 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 17 || Douglas Shearer || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Sound Engineer || 1971 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 21 || Jobyna Ralston || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actress || 1967 ||

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| rowspan=3 style="text-align:center; vertical-align:top;"| December

| style="text-align:center;"| 8 || John Qualen || style="text-align:center;"| Canada || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1987 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 16 || Noël Coward || style="text-align:center;"| UK || style="text-align:center;"| Actor, Playwright, Composer || 1973 ||

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| style="text-align:center;"| 25 || Humphrey Bogart || style="text-align:center;"| US || style="text-align:center;"| Actor || 1957 ||

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

References