The following is an overview of the events of 1899 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.

Years in film
19th century
1870s
1880s 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
1890s 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899
1900s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909
1910s 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919
1920s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
1930s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939
1940s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
1950s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989
1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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Events

• September
  • King John, a silent compilation of three short scenes from a forthcoming stage production by Herbert Beerbohm Tree with film direction by William Kennedy Dickson and Walter Pfeffer Dando, is filmed in London, the first known film based on a Shakespeare play.
  • Mitchell and Kenyon of Blackburn in the north of England release three fiction films under the 'Norden' brand which attract national attention – The Tramp's Surprise, The Tramps and the Artist and Kidnapping by Indians, the latter being the first Western.
• November – The oldest surviving Japanese film, Momijigari, is shot by Tsunekichi Shibata in Tokyo as a record of kabuki actors Onoe Kikugorō V and Ichikawa Danjūrō IX performing a scene from the play Momijigari.
• T. C. Hepworth invents Biokam,^[1] a 17.5 mm format which also is the first format to have a center perforation.
• John Alfred Prestwich invents a 13 mm amateur format.^[2]

Films released in 1899

• Beauty and the Beast, produced for Pathe (French)^[3]
• The Biter Bit, produced by Bamforth & Co Ltd
• Cagliostro's Mirror, directed by George Melies
• Cinderella (Cendrillon), directed by Georges Méliès
• Cleopatra, directed by George Melies, later re-released as Cleopatra's Tomb^[4]
• Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene, produced by Edison Studios
• The Demon Barber, produced by American Mutoscope
• The Devil in a Convent, directed by Georges Méliès, later re-released as The Sign of the Cross
• The Dreyfus Affair, a series of docudramas directed by Georges Méliès
• The Haunted House, directed by Siegmund Lubin
• How Would You Like to Be the Ice Man?
• The Jeffries-Sharkey Fight, a documentary that is in all likelihood lost; running over two hours, this is one of the oldest feature films
• Kidnapping by Indians
• King John
• The Kiss in the Tunnel, directed by George Albert Smith; has been cited as cinema's first example of narrative editing
• Major Wilson's Last Stand
• A Midnight Episode, directed by George Melies, aka A Good Bed
• The Miser's Doom (British), directed by Walter R. Booth
• A Mysterious Portrait, directed by Georges Méliès
• Pillar of Fire (aka The Column of Fire), directed by George Melies, adapting a scene from the novel "She" by H. Rider Haggard^[5]
• Raising Spirits, directed by George Melies

Births