1900s in film
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| 1890s 1890s in film The decade of the 1890s in film involved some significant events.-Events:* 1890 - Wordsworth Donisthorpe and W. C. Crofts, filmed London's Trafalgar Square using a camera patented in 1889.... . 1900s in film . 1910s 1910s in film The decade of the 1910s in film involved some significant films.-Events:Several full-length films were produced during the decade of the 1910s, including Cabiria, the first epic film.-A:* The Adventure of the Yellow Curl Papers... |
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The decade of the 1900s in film involved some significant films.
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- Lady Helen's EscapadeLady Helen's EscapadeLady Helen's Escapade is a short movie produced in 1909, directed by D. W. Griffith. It is about the escapades of Lady Helen working as a domestic in a boarding house....
(1909) - Life of an American FiremanLife of an American FiremanLife of an American Fireman is a short, silent film Edwin S. Porter made for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It was shot late in 1902 and distributed early in 1903...
(1903) - L'Enfant Prodigue (1907)
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- Star TheatreStar Theatre (film)Star Theatre is a 1901 short documentary film in which time-lapse photography is used to show the dismantling and demolition of New York City's Star Theatre over a period of about a month.Produced by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, it was produced and filmed by F.S. Armitage...
(1901) - The Story of the Kelly GangThe Story of the Kelly GangThe Story of the Kelly Gang is a 1906 Australian film that traces the life of the legendary bushranger Ned Kelly . It was written and directed by Charles Tait. The film ran for more than an hour, and was the longest narrative film yet seen in Australia, and the world. Its approximate reel length...
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- A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
- A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) (1902)
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- Way Down EastWay Down EastWay Down East is a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It is the best known of four film adaptations of the melodramatic 19th century play Way Down East by Lottie Blair Parker...
(1908) - The Whole Dam Family and the Family Dog (1905)
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- FilmFilmA film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, History of cinema, List of movies. - Years 1900-1909:
- 19001900 in filmThe year 1900 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Reulos, Goudeau & Co. invent Mirographe, a 21 mm amateur format.* The Lumiere Brothers premiere their new Lumiere Wide format for the 1900 World Fair...
19011901 in filmThe year 1901 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Edwin S. Porter is put in charge of Thomas Edison's motion-picture production company.* Thomas Edison closes "America's First Movie Studio", the Black Maria.-Films released in 1901:...
19021902 in filmThe year 1902 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology....
19031903 in filmThe year 1903 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Thomas Edison demolishes "America's First Movie Studio", the Black Maria.* The three elder Warner Bros...
19041904 in filmThe year 1904 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* As shown in the film Westinghouse Works, some filmmakers begin to move away from eye-level filmmaking and use the camera to explore spaces from an angle usually inaccessible to the average person.-Films released in 1904:*A Blessing...
19051905 in filmThe year 1905 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Pathé Frères colors black-and-white films by machine.*Filmmaking takes an unexpected historical role by recording activities along Market Street, in the year preceding the destruction from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906...
19061906 in filmThe year 1906 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*26 December - The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is released.-Films released in 1906:*The Automobile Thieves*The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend...
19071907 in filmThe year 1907 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 19 - Variety publishes its first film review.* 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...
19081908 in filmThe year 1908 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Thomas Edison formed the Motion Picture Patents Company, with goals of controlling production and distribution, raising theater admission prices, cooperating with censorship bodies, and preventing film stock from getting into the hands...
19091909 in filmThe year 1909 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Matsunosuke Onoe, who would become the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu.*James Joyce opens the Volta, the first cinema in Dublin....
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