1897 in film

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Events

125 people died during a film screening at the Charity Bazaar in Paris after a curtain catches on fire from the ether used to fuel the projector lamp.
Mitchell and Kenyon go into a film-making partnership
Enoch Rector develops a 63 mm film format called Veriscope, which films the Corbett-Fitzsimmons championship match.
Thomas Henry Blair develops a 48 mm film format called Viventoscope.
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Procession filmed

Films released in 1897

Births

February 10 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress (d.1992)
February 12 - Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970)
March 16 - Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970)
March 27 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (d. 1983)
April 1 - Nita Naldi, American actress (d. 1961)
April 14 - Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
June 16 - Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (d. 1948)
June 19 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)
October 28 - Edith Head, American costume designer
October 30 - Rex Cherryman, American actor (d. 1928)
September 23 - Walter Pidgeon, American actor (d. 1984)

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