List of American films of the 1890s explained

A list of the earliest American films released in the 1890s.

1890s

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
	1890
Monkeyshines, No. 1				First ever American film: contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890
Monkeyshines, No. 2	William K.L. Dickson, William Heise		Short
Monkeyshines, No. 3	William K.L. Dickson, William Heise		Short	disappeared and may be lost
Monkeyshines, No. 4	William K.L. Dickson, William Heise		Short
Monkeyshines, No. 5	William K.L. Dickson, William Heise		Short
	1891
Dickson Greeting
Newark Athlete
	1893
Blacksmith Scene			Short	First Kinetoscope film shown in public exhibition
	1894
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film			Short	First Kinetophone film (i.e., first film with synchronous sound). Possibly 1895.
The Barbershop	William K.L. Dickson, William Heise		Short
	1896
Rip's Twenty Years' Sleep
Dancing Darkies
McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio
The Kiss		May Irwin, John Rice
	1897
The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight	Enoch J. Rector	James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons	Feature	First feature film, first wide screen film, most successful film of the century
Peeping Tom
	1899
How Would You Like to Be the Ice Man?

See also

• 1890 in the United States
• 1891 in the United States
• 1892 in the United States
• 1893 in the United States
• 1894 in the United States
• 1895 in the United States
• 1896 in the United States
• 1897 in the United States
• 1898 in the United States
• 1899 in the United States

External links

• 1896 films at the Internet Movie Database
• 1897 films at the Internet Movie Database
• 1898 films at the Internet Movie Database
• 1899 films at the Internet Movie Database