1894 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.

Events

 * January 7
 * William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
 * Dickson and William Heise film their colleague, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetograph at Edison's Black Maria studio.
 * April 14 – The first commercial presentation of the Kinetoscope took place in the Holland Brothers' Kinetoscope Parlor at 1155 Broadway, New York City.
 * June 6 - Charles Francis Jenkins projects a filmed motion picture before an audience in Richmond, Indiana. Earliest documented projection of a motion picture.
 * Thomas Edison experiments with synchronizing audio with film; the Kinetophone is invented which loosely synchronizes a Kinetoscope image with a cylinder phonograph.
 * Kinetoscope viewing parlors begin to open in major cities. Each parlor contains several machines.
 * Birt Acres creates a 70 mm format, which he first uses to shoot the Henley Royal Regatta.

Birt Acres

 * Crows on Saffron Hill
 * Haycart Crossing Hadley Green, Middlesex

Charles-Émile Reynaud

 * Autour d'une cabine
 * Rêve au coin du feu

Étienne-Jules Marey

 * Falling Cat
 * Chat en Chute Libre

William K. L. Dickson

 * Alleni's Boxing Monkeys
 * Amateur Gymnast, No. 2
 * Annabelle Butterfly Dance, starring Annabelle Moore
 * Annabelle Sun Dance, starring Annabelle Moore
 * Annie Oakley, starring Annie Oakley
 * Armand D'Ary, starring Armand D'Ary
 * Athlete with Wand
 * Babies in High Chairs
 * Band Drill
 * A Bar Room Scene
 * The Barbershop
 * Bertoldi (Mouth Support), starring Ena Bertoldi
 * Bertoldi (Table Contortion), starring Ena Bertoldi
 * Boxing, starring Jack McAuliffe
 * The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's)
 * Bucking Broncho, starring Lee Martin
 * Buffalo Bill (lost), starring William F. Cody
 * Buffalo Dance, starring Hair Coat, Parts His Hair and Last Horse
 * Caicedo (with Pole), starring Juan A. Caicedo
 * Caicedo (with Spurs), starring Juan A. Caicedo
 * Carmencita, starring Carmencita
 * The Carnival Dance, starring Madge Crossland, May Lucas and Lucy Murray
 * Chinese Laundry Scene, directed by William Heise and William K. L. Dickson and starring Phil Doreto and Robetta
 * Chinese Opium Den (lost)
 * The Cock Fight
 * Cock Fight, No. 2
 * Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph, starring James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney
 * Cupid's Dance, starring Florence Ewer, Lenora Ewer and Mildred Ewer
 * Dance, starring Rosa France, Frank Lawton and Etta Williamson
 * Dance du Ventre
 * The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
 * Dogs Fighting
 * Edison Employee Picnic
 * Fancy Club Swinger, starring John R. Abell
 * Finale of 1st Act, Hoyt's 'Milk White Flag'
 * Fire Rescue Scene
 * Fred Ott Holding a Bird, starring Fred Ott
 * Fred Ott's Sneeze, starring Fred Ott
 * French Dancers
 * Glenroy Bros., (no. 2)
 * Hadj Cheriff, starring Hadji Cheriff
 * Highland Dance
 * The Hornbacker-Murphy Fight, starring Eugene Hornbacker and Murphy
 * Human Pyramid, starring Saleem Nassar
 * Imperial Japanese Dance, starring the Sarashe Sisters
 * Lady Fencers (With Broadswords), starring Louise Blanchard and Helen Englehart
 * Lady Fencers (With Foils)
 * Lasso Exhibition, starring Frank Hammitt and Lee Martin
 * Lasso Thrower (lost), starring Vicente Oropeza
 * Leonard-Cushing Fight, starring Jack Cushing and Mike Leonard
 * Luis Martinetti, Contortionist, starring Luis Martinetti
 * Man of a Thousand Faces, starring George Layman
 * May Lucas, starring May Lucas
 * Men on Parallel Bars
 * Mexican Knife Duel (lost), starring Pedro Esquivel and Dionecio Gonzales
 * Miss Lucy Murray, starring Lucy Murray
 * Mlle. Capitaine, starring Alciede Capitaine
 * Organ Grinder, No. 1
 * Organ Grinder, No. 2
 * Oriental Dance, starring Rosa
 * The Pickaninny Dance, from the 'Passing Show', starring Joe Rastus, Denny Tolliver and Walter Wilkins
 * Rat Killing
 * Rats and Terrier No. 2
 * Rats and Terrier No. 3
 * Rats and Weasel
 * Ruth Dennis, starring Ruth St. Denis
 * Sandow, starring Eugen Sandow
 * Sheik Hadji Tahar, starring Sheik Hadji Tahar
 * Sioux Ghost Dance
 * Summersault Dog, starring Lucy the Dog and Ivan Tschernoff
 * Sword Combat, starring Najid and Saleem Nassar
 * Topack and Steele, starring George W. Steele and George Topack
 * Toyou Kichi, starring Toyou Kichi
 * Trained Bears
 * Trapeze
 * Unsuccessful Somersault
 * Walton and Slavin, starring John Slavin and Charles F. Walton
 * Whirlwind Gunspinning, starring Hadj Lessik
 * The Widder, starring Isabelle Coe
 * Wonderful Performing Dog, starring Lucy the Dog and Ivan Tschernoff
 * The Wrestling Dog, starring Henry Welton
 * Wrestling Match

Films directed by other filmmakers

 * Miss Jerry, directed by Alexander Black, starring by Blanche Bayliss, William Courtenay and Chauncey Depew.

Debut

 * Annabelle Whitford (Annabelle Sun Dance)
 * William Courtenay (Miss Jerry)