The following is an overview of the events of1890 in film, including a list of films released and notable births and deaths.

• The first moving pictures were developed oncelluloid film byWilliam Friese Greene, a British inventor, inHyde Park, London in1889. The process was patented in 1890.
• William K. L. Dickson completes his work forThomas Edison on theKinetograph cylinder either in this year or 1889.Monkeyshines No. 1 becomes the first film shot on the system.

• London's Trafalgar Square,^[1] directed by William Carr Croft andWordsworth Donisthorpe.
• Monkeyshines, No. 1 – contradictory sources indicate this was shot either in June 1889 or November 1890,Monkeyshines, No. 2 andMonkeyshines, No. 3, directed byWilliam K. L. Dickson.
• Mosquinha, directed byÉtienne-Jules Marey.
• Traffic in King's Road, Chelsea, directed byWilliam Friese-Greene.

• c. 16 September –Louis Le Prince, French film pioneer, director ofRoundhay Garden Scene (born 1842)

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