1896

==Events==
*January - In Britain, Birt Acres and Robert W. Paul developed their own film projector, the Theatrograph (later known as the Animatograph).
*January - In the United States, a projector called the Vitascope was designed by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. Armat began working with Thomas Edison to manufacture the Vitascope, which projected motion pictures.
* Pathé Frères film company founded
*April - Thomas Edison and Thomas Armat's Vitascope is used to project motion pictures in public screenings in New York City
* May 14 - Tsar Nicholas II of Russia crowned in Moscow, in the first coronation ever recorded in film.
* French magician and filmmaker Georges Méliès begins experimenting with the new motion picture technology, developing early special effects techniques, including stop-motion photography.
* William Selig founded the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago.
* Demeny-Gaumont works 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==
*Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
*Arrivée d'un train gare de Vincennes
*L'Arroseur
*Awakening of Rip
*Baignade en mer
*La Fée aux Choux
*The Horse Trough
*The Kiss
*Le Manoir du diable
*Rip Van Winkle (series)
*The Vanishing Lady
==Births==
* January 20 - Isabel Withers, actress (d. 1968)
* June 28 - Constance Binney, actress, singer, dancer (d. 1989)
* July 16 - Evelyn Preer, pioneering African-American actress, singer (d. 1932)
* August 18 - Jack Pickford, actor (d. 1933)
*August 30 - Raymond Massey, actor (d. 1983)
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