1888 in film
The following is an overview of the events of 1888 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.Events
- George Eastman files for a patent for his photographic film.
- Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge who proposes a scheme for sound film.
- Étienne-Jules Marey starts work on his chronophotographe camera with 90 mm wide roll paper film.
- Charles-Émile Reynaud patents his Théâtre Optique which uses a kind of perforated film to create an animated show,
Films
- Roundhay Garden Scene, Accordion Player and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, filmed by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince in Leeds, United Kingdom, using paper "stripping" film and paper negative film.
- Horse and Rider Jumping Over An Obstacle '' and other sequences, shot by Ottomar Anschütz in Germany.
Births
- January 3
- *George B. Seitz, American director, writer, actor and producer
- *James Bridie, Scottish writer
- January 17 - Edvard Persson, Swedish actor
- January 23 - Franklin Pangborn, American actor
- March 4 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress
- March 5 - Jules Furthman, American writer, director and producer
- March 10 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor
- March 30 - Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish-born American actress
- April 11 - Donald Calthrop, English actor
- April 27 - Florence La Badie, American actress
- May 17 - Claude Mérelle, French actress
- May 25 - Miles Malleson, English actor and writer
- July 4 - Henry Armetta, Italian-born American actor
- July 16 - Percy Kilbride, American actor
- August 14 - Robert Woolsey, American actor
- August 17 - Monty Woolley, American actor
- September 12 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer
- September 25 - Hanna Ralph, German actress
- September 26 - Wally Patch, English actor and writer
- October 1 - John E. Blakeley, English producer, director and writer
- October 9 - Hank Patterson, American actor
- October 18 - Paul Vermoyal, French actor
- October 25 - Lester Cuneo, American actor and producer
- November 3 - Maurice Vinot, French actor
- November 18 - Frances Marion, American writer, director, producer and actress
- November 23 - Harpo Marx, American actor and writer
- November 24 - Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress
- November 25 - Amund Rydland, Norwegian actor
- November 26 - Francisco Canaro, Uruguayan-born Argentine composer, producer and actor
- December 6 - Will Hay, English actor, writer and director
- December 18 - Gladys Cooper, English actress
- December 22 - J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, English producer and writer
- December 27
- *Thea von Harbou, German actress, writer and director
- *Svend Melsing, Danish actor and playwright
- December 28 - F. W. Murnau, German director, writer and producer
