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Events Ad for Vitascope Hall, New Orleans, offering "an entirely new series of pictures". - April - Edison and Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City.
- May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is crowned in Moscow, the first coronation ever recorded in film.
- July 26 - "Vitascope Hall" opens on Canal Street, New Orleans, the first business devoted exclusively to showing motion pictures at a fixed location http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/where-was-the-first-permanent-movie-theater-in-the-united-states-located/Content?oid=1278809
- October 19 - "Edisonia Hall" in Buffalo, New York, the first building constructed specifically for showing motion pictures. http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/where-was-the-first-permanent-movie-theater-in-the-united-states-located/Content?oid=1278809
- In France, magician and filmmaker Georges M li s begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effect techniques, including stop motion.
- The Path Fr res film company is founded.
- William Selig founds the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago.
- Demeny-Gaumont work on a 60 mm format, first known as Biographe (unperforated), then Chronophotographe (perforated).
- Casimir Sivan and E. Dalphin create a 38 mm format.
Films released in 1896 Births - January 20 - Isabel Withers, actress (died 1968)
- June 28 - Constance Binney, actress, singer, dancer (died 1989)
- July 16 - Evelyn Preer, actress, singer (died 1932)
- July 25 - Jack Perrin, actor (died 1967)
- August 18 - Jack Pickford, actor (died 1933)
- August 30 - Raymond Massey, actor (died 1983)
- November 25 - Ruth Etting, actress, singer (died 1978
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