1902 in film
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The 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.
- April 2 - Thomas Lincoln Tally opens the Electric Theater, the first permanent movie theater, in Los Angeles.[1] Tally co-founds the First National Exhibitors Circuit in 1917.[2][3]
- 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.[4] 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
- 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
Others
- The Little Match Seller, directed by James Williamson
- Snow White, produced by Siegmund Lubin
- Working Rotary Snow Plows, produced by Edison Studios
Births
- January 2 - Sybil Seely, silent film actress (d. 1984)
- January 31 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
- 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 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, 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)
- December 9 - Margaret Hamilton, American film character actress (d. 1985)
- December 19 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983)
- December 19 - Barton MacLane, American actor, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1969)
Deaths
- February 15 - Wilhelmina JR Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress, dies at 68
References
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- ↑ 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
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