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The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed on July 2, 1890. It was the first Federal statue to limit cartels and monopolies to prevent the artificial raising of prices by restricyion of trade or supply, and today still forms the basis for most anitrust litigration, by the United States federal government.
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Fred Ott's Sneeze becomes the first film officially copyrighted on Janurary 7.
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Max Skladanowsky develops an oversized projector, the Bioskop, which gets its first public use on November 1.
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December 28 is the first showing of Lumieres' films of Salon Indien in Paris. One film shown is The Arrival of a Train. It is reported that people in the audience were frightened by the sight of the train coming at tgem that they either shrunk back in their seats or ran to the back room.
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On March 9, the first permanent cinematographe is installed at the Empire Theatre in London.
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On May 14 Lumiere cameraman Frances Doublier and Charles Moisson film the coronation of Czar Nicholas ll of Moscow. the support poles for the platform gives up, and about half a million people pancied. Five thousand died in the stampede. The footage of the tragedy is confiscated and never to be seen again.
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on June 29, the first American screening of the cinematographe occurs at Keith's Vaudeviile Theatre in New York City. Felix Mesguish is the camera operator at the time.
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John Grierson, father of the British documentary movement is born on April 26.
