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[edit] Events
- The final revisions to the Kinetoscope are made, including a vertical transport and wider film. This becomes the de facto technical specification for all silent film by 1909.
- Max Skladanowsky develops a camera and shoots his first footage this year, but its unusual interleaved image format leaves him ultimately unable to exhibit it until work is completed on the Bioskop projector in late 1895.
[edit] Films released in 1892
[edit] Births
- April 2 - Jack Warner, American Hollywood studio founder (d. 1978)
- April 8 - Mary Pickford, Canadian-born AMerican actress, studio founder (d. 1979)
- July 22 - Renée Jeanne Falconetti, French actress (d. 1946)
- September 9 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
- September 28 - Ruth Stonehouse, American actress, film director (d. 1941)
- October 25 - Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
- October 25 - Nell Shipman, American actress, writer, producer (d. 1970)
- November 16 - Mabel Normand, American actress (d. 1930)
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