1897 in film
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Events

• 125 people die during a film screening at the Charity Bazaar in Paris after a curtain catches on fire from the ether used to fuel the projector lamp.

Births

• February 10 - Dame Judith Anderson, actress (+1992)
• September 23 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (+ 1984)

Deaths

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