1899 in film

The following is an overview of the events of 1899 in film, including a list of films released and notable births.

Events

 * September
 * King John, a silent compilation of three short scenes from a forthcoming stage production by Herbert Beerbohm Tree with film direction by William Kennedy Dickson and Walter Pfeffer Dando, is filmed in London, the first known film based on a Shakespeare play.
 * Mitchell and Kenyon of Blackburn in the north of England release three fiction films under the 'Norden' brand which attract national attention – The Tramp's Surprise, The Tramps and the Artist and Kidnapping by Indians, the latter being the first Western.
 * November – The oldest surviving Japanese film, Momijigari, is shot by Tsunekichi Shibata in Tokyo as a record of kabuki actors Onoe Kikugorō V and Ichikawa Danjūrō IX performing a scene from the play Momijigari.
 * T. C. Hepworth invents Biokam, a 17.5 mm format which also is the first format to have a center perforation.
 * John Alfred Prestwich invents a 13 mm amateur format.

Films released in 1899

 * Beauty and the Beast, produced for Pathe (French)
 * The Biter Bit, produced by Bamforth & Co Ltd
 * Cagliostro's Mirror, directed by George Melies
 * Cinderella (Cendrillon), directed by Georges Méliès
 * Cleopatra, directed by George Melies, later re-released as Cleopatra's Tomb
 * Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene, produced by Edison Studios
 * The Demon Barber, produced by American Mutoscope
 * The Devil in a Convent, directed by Georges Méliès, later re-released as The Sign of the Cross
 * The Dreyfus Affair, a series of docudramas directed by Georges Méliès
 * The Haunted House, directed by Siegmund Lubin
 * How Would You Like to Be the Ice Man?
 * The Jeffries-Sharkey Fight, a documentary that is in all likelihood lost; running over two hours, this is one of the oldest feature films
 * Kidnapping by Indians
 * King John
 * The Kiss in the Tunnel, directed by George Albert Smith; has been cited as cinema's first example of narrative editing
 * Major Wilson's Last Stand
 * A Midnight Episode, directed by George Melies, aka A Good Bed
 * The Miser's Doom (British), directed by Walter R. Booth
 * A Mysterious Portrait, directed by Georges Méliès
 * The Pillar of Fire (aka The Column of Fire), directed by George Melies, adapting a scene from the novel "She" by H. Rider Haggard
 * Raising Spirits, directed by George Melies