The year 1900 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Reulos, Goudeau & Co. invent
Mirographe, a 21 mm amateur format.
The
Lumière Brothers premiere their new Lumiere Wide format for the
1900 World Fair. At 75 mm wide, it has held the record for over 100 years as the widest format yet developed.
Raoul Grimoin-Sanson also creates a sensation at the 1900 World Fair with his multi-projector
Cinéorama spectacle, which uses ten 70 mm projectors to create a simulated 360-degree balloon ride over Paris. The exhibit is closed before it formally opens, however, due to legitimate health and safety concerns regarding the heat of the combined projectors, and releases the format as La Petite.
Gaumont-Demeny release their own 15 mm amateur format, Pocket Chrono.
Release of the first film version of Hamlet, an adaptation of the duel scene, with French actress
Sarah Bernhardt playing the title role and accompanying recorded sound.
Jeanne d'Arc becomes the first film of considerable length (10 minutes) to be shown entirely in colour.
William N. Selig makes The Chicago Stockyards—From Hoof to Market for Chicago-based
Philip Danforth Armour, a prominent businessman in the
meatpacking industry, showing the full meatpacking process from cattle being unloaded at the stockyards to
canning. Studio lights do not exist, so stage spotlights are borrowed from the
Richard Mansfield Theatrical Company to film inside the
slaughterhouse.[1]
Notable films released in 1900
#
20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, produced by
Mitchell and Kenyon – (
GB)
The year 1900 in film involved some significant events.
Events
Reulos, Goudeau & Co. invent
Mirographe, a 21 mm amateur format.
The
Lumière Brothers premiere their new Lumiere Wide format for the
1900 World Fair. At 75 mm wide, it has held the record for over 100 years as the widest format yet developed.
Raoul Grimoin-Sanson also creates a sensation at the 1900 World Fair with his multi-projector
Cinéorama spectacle, which uses ten 70 mm projectors to create a simulated 360-degree balloon ride over Paris. The exhibit is closed before it formally opens, however, due to legitimate health and safety concerns regarding the heat of the combined projectors, and releases the format as La Petite.
Gaumont-Demeny release their own 15 mm amateur format, Pocket Chrono.
Release of the first film version of Hamlet, an adaptation of the duel scene, with French actress
Sarah Bernhardt playing the title role and accompanying recorded sound.
Jeanne d'Arc becomes the first film of considerable length (10 minutes) to be shown entirely in colour.
William N. Selig makes The Chicago Stockyards—From Hoof to Market for Chicago-based
Philip Danforth Armour, a prominent businessman in the
meatpacking industry, showing the full meatpacking process from cattle being unloaded at the stockyards to
canning. Studio lights do not exist, so stage spotlights are borrowed from the
Richard Mansfield Theatrical Company to film inside the
slaughterhouse.[1]
Notable films released in 1900
#
20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, produced by
Mitchell and Kenyon – (
GB)