1902 in film
The year 1902 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
- March 10 – A Circuit Court decision in the United States ends Thomas Edison's monopoly on 35 mm movie film technology.[1]
- April 2 – Thomas Lincoln Tally opens the Electric Theater, the first permanent movie theater, in Los Angeles.[2] Tally co-founds the First National Exhibitors Circuit in 1917.[3][4]
- August 9 – Georges Méliès' film The Coronation of Edward VII (a staged simulation with inserted actuality footage) is first shown in London on the evening of the Coronation itself.
- September 1 – Actor/producer Méliès premières the first science fiction film, the silent A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune), at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, France; it proves an immediate success.[5] One scene features the animated human face of the moon being struck in the eye by a rocket.
- William Wardell invents an 11 mm amateur film format, Vitak.
Notable films released in 1902
Mitchell and Kenyon
Screenshot from the film Living Wigan.
- Bradford Coronation Procession
- Burnley v. Manchester United, this film may be the first moving picture images of Manchester United ever recorded.
- Comic Pictures In High Street, West Bromwich
- Dewsbury v. Manningham
- Electric Tram Rides from Forster Square, Bradford
- Employees Leaving Storey's Moor Lane Mill, Lancaster
- The Great Local Derby: Accrington v. Church, Cricket Match
- Leeds Athletic And Cycling Club Carnival
- Lieutenant Clive Wilson And The Tranby Croft Party, Hull
- Living Wigan
- Sheffield United v. Bury
- Street Scenes In Halifax
- Tram Ride Into Halifax
- Wexford Bull Ring
- Workers Leaving The Jute Works, Barrow
Edwin S. Porter
- Fun In A Bakery Shop
- Jack and the Beanstalk
Ferdinand Zecca
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, directed by Ferdinand Zecca, hand-tinted (in 1905) by Segundo de Chomón
- Quo Vadis?, directed by Lucien Nonguet and Ferdinand Zecca
Georges Méliès
Man in the moon scene.
Others
- The Enchanted Cup, directed by Walter A. Booth (British) [6]
- The Little Match Seller, directed by James Williamson
- Maria Marten, or The Murder at the Red Barn, (British) directed by Dicky Martin[7]
- The Prince of Darkness, produced by America Mutoscope
- Sleeping Beauty (aka La Belle au Bois Dormant)[8]
- Snow White, produced by Siegmund Lubin
- The Troublesome Fly, produced by Biograph [9]
- Working Rotary Snow Plows, produced by Edison Studios
Births
Thelma Ritter.
Larry Fine.
- January 2 – Sybil Seely, American silent film actress (d. 1984)
- January 11 – Atang de la Rama, Filipina silent film actress and singer (d. 1991)
- January 31 – Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
- February 3 – Dolly Rudeman, Dutch film poster designer (d. 1980)
- February 14 – Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1965)
- March 8 – Louise Beavers, African-American film and television actress (d. 1962)
- March 23 – Philip Ober, American actor (d. 1982)
- March 27 – Kenneth Macpherson, Scottish-born avant-garde film-maker (d. 1971)
- March 28 – Flora Robson, English actress (d. 1984)
- April 25 – Mary Miles Minter, American actress (d. 1984)
- May 2 – Brian Aherne, English actor (d. 1986)
- May 3 – Walter Slezak, Austrian-born character actor and singer (d. 1983)
- May 4 – Mona Mårtenson, Swedish film actress (d. 1956)
- May 6 – Max Ophüls, German-born film director (d. 1957)
- May 10 – David O. Selznick, American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive (d. 1965)
- May 21 – Anatole Litvak, Russian-born American filmmaker (d. 1974)
- May 28 – Luis César Amadori, Italian–Argentine film director and screenwriter (d. 1977)
- May 30 – Stepin Fetchit, American comedian and film actor (d. 1985)
- June 5 – Walter Plunkett, American costume designer (d. 1982 )
- June 22 – Marguerite De La Motte, American film actress (d. 1950)
- July 1 – William Wyler, German-born American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1981)
- July 18
- Dimitar Panov, Bulgarian film and theater actor and director (d. 1985)
- Chill Wills, American actor and a singer (d. 1978)
- August 10
- Norma Shearer, Canadian-American actress (d. 1983)
- Curt Siodmak, Polish-born American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
- August 11 – Lloyd Nolan, American film and television actor (d. 1985)
- August 22 – Leni Riefenstahl, German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress, dancer and propagandist for the Nazis (d. 2003)
- September 5 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer and studio executive (d. 1979)
- September 22 – John Houseman, Romanian-born British-American actor and producer (d. 1988)
- October 5 – Larry Fine, American actor, comedian, member of The Three Stooges (d. 1975)
- October 18 – Miriam Hopkins, American film and TV actress (d. 1972)
- October 28 – Elsa Lanchester, British-born American actress (d. 1986)
- November 4 – John P. Fulton, American special effects supervisor (d. 1966)
- December 9 – Margaret Hamilton, American film character actress (d. 1985)
- December 19
- Barton MacLane, American actor, playwright and screenwriter (d. 1969)
- Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983)
Deaths
- February 15 – Wilhelmina J. R. Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress (born 1834)
References
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- "Continued Legal Battles". Thomas A. Edison Papers. Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. 2016-10-28. Retrieved 2019-10-24.
- Cinema treasures
- Films of the Golden Age. Archived 2004-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
- First National filmography.
- Hammond, Paul (1974), Marvellous Méliès, London: Gordon Fraser, p. 141, ISBN 0-900406-38-0
- Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN 0-7864-0036-6. Page 14.
- Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
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