Events

• February–March - Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres build and run the first working 35 mm movie camera in Britain, the Kineopticon. Their first films include Incident at Clovelly Cottage, The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race and Rough Sea at Dover.^[1]
• In France, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumi re, design and built a lightweight, hand-held motion picture camera called the Cin matographe. They discover that their machine can also be used to project images onto a large screen. The Lumi re brothers create several short films at this time that are considered to be pivotal in the history of motion pictures.^[1]
• February 13 - Auguste and Louis Lumi re patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
• March 22 - First display of motion pictures by Auguste and Louis Lumi re (private screening).
• May 27 - Birt Acres patents the Kineopticon under his own name.
• Late September - C. Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat demonstrate their Phantoscope, a motion picture projector, in Atlanta, Georgia at the Cotton States and International Exposition.
• November - In Germany, Emil and Max Skladanowsky develop their own film projector.
• December 28 - The Lumi re brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Caf Boulevard des Capucines in Paris this date is sometimes considered the debut of the motion picture as an entertainment medium.
• December 30 - The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company motion pictures is founded in New Jersey by the KMCD Syndicate of William Kennedy Dickson, Henry Marvin, Herman Casler and Elias Koopman.
• Gaumont Pictures founded by the engineer-turned-inventor, L on Gaumont. Woodville Latham and his sons develop the Latham Loop - the concept of loose loops of film on either side of the intermittent movement to prevent stress from the jerky movement. This is debuted in the Eidoloscope, which is also the first widescreen format (1.85:1).
• Herman Casler of American Mutoscope Company, aka American Mutoscope and Biograph Company manufactures the Biograph 68 mm camera, which will become the first successful large format 68mm (70mm) film.
• Henri Joly debuts his Joly-Normandin 60 mm format.

Films released in 1895

• Akrobatisches Potpourri
• Annabelle Serpentine Dance
• L' Arriv e d'un train La Ciotat
• L'Arroseur Arros
• Autour d'une cabine
• Barque sortant du port
• Bauerntanz zweier Kinder
• Billy Edwards and the Unknown aka Billy Edwards Boxing
• La Charcuterie m canique
• Das Boxende K nguruh
• The Derby
• Dickson Experimental Sound Film
• The Execution of Mary Stuart
• Les Forgerons
• Griffo-Barnett Prize Fight
• Der Jongleur
• La Mer
• Opening of the Kiel Canal
• The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race
• Partie de cartes
• La P che aux poissons rouges
• Place des Cordeliers Lyon
• The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon
• Princess Ali aka Egyptian Dance
• Repas de b b
• Rough Sea at Dover
• Le Saut la couverture
• Serpentinen Tanz
• Sparring Contest at Canastota
• La Voltige
• Workers Leaving the Lumi re Factory

Births

• February 7 - Anita Stewart (died 1961)
• February 8 - King Vidor (died 1982)
• March 17 - Shemp Howard (died 1955)
• March 27 - Betty Schade (died 1982)
• April 7 - Margarete Sch n (died 1985)
• May 6 - Rudolph Valentino (died 1926)
• July 26 - Gracie Allen (died 1964)
• October 2 - Bud Abbott (died 1974)
• October 4 - Buster Keaton (died 1966)
• October 21 - Edna Purviance (died 1958)

References

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