The photographer James Bamforth of Bamforth & Co Ltd began to specialise in making lantern slides.[3] His compady would later start production of silent monochrome films with the Riley Brothers of Bradford, West Yorkshire. James Bamforth's expertise with lantern slides proved invaluable in the filmmaking.[4]
September 15: Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist, mathematician, and inventor (inventor of the phenakistiscope, the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion of motion), dies at age 81.[15][16]