Year 1877

THE BIRTHS OF…

Belgium: Alfred Machin.

Brazil: Antônio Campos in Baependi, Minas Gerais.

England: John William Smith, cameraman, filmmaker, technician, dead 1948.

France:
Henri Andréani (Gustave Sarrus) in La Garde-Freinet.

Louis Aubert

Frederick Burlingham.

Jean Comandon.

Marcel Levesque.

Italy: Ricciotto Canudo.

Japan: Komada Koyo.

Russia:

Vladimir Gardin.

Aleksandr Khanzhonkov.

Sweden: Georg af Klercker.

USA:

Harry E Aitken.

Fred J Balshofer.

Maurice Costello.

J Searle Dawley in Del Norte, Colorado.

William Desmond Taylor.

OTHER EVENTS

France: Émile Reynaud improves his Praxinoscope by adding mirrors.
9 early animations
Le trapèze
Le fumeur

USA: Summer: Edison, at Menlo Park, New Jersey, invents a machine that can register and reproduce sound. He calls it the phonograph.
The first words
The original recording
The full version
About the invention