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May 7 – Seattle film maker William Harbeck sets up a camera at the front of a B.C. Electric streetcar and films the downtown streets of Vancouver, British Columbia. Pieces of the film, the earliest surviving footage of the city,[1] have disappeared, only about 7 minutes remain.[2]
May 29 – Salaviinanpolttajat, also known as The Moonshiners, the first fictional film made in Finland, is released.
June 20 – L'Enfant prodigue, the first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, opens in Paris.
Carl Laemmle, later of Universal, experiments with combining audio from phonographs with film. Laemmle's experiments lead to the German development of "Syncroscope." Syncroscope had several successful demonstrations, but was eventually abandoned.