1909 in film
The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.
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Events
- Carl Laemmle founds the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP).[1]
- Selig Polyscope Company establish the first permanent movie studio in Los Angeles in Edendale, Los Angeles.
- The New York Motion Picture Company is founded and also open a movie studio in Edendale. The studio is later used by Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and then Mascot Pictures who become part of Republic Pictures.
- February 4 – The Paris Film Congress begins, an attempt by leading European producers to form a cartel similar to that of the Motion Picture Patents Company in the United States.
- May 12 – Mr. Flip is released and is the first film to feature someone being hit in the face with a pie.
- May 23 – The first news cinema, The Daily Bioscope, opens in London.
- June 17 – In the Sultan's Power is the first film ever completely made in Los Angeles, California. It is filmed by director Francis Boggs.
- October 25 – IMP release their first film, Hiawatha, based on the 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.[2]
- November 5 - A Nature Movie by Arthur C. Pillsbury using film to explore the wonders of Yosemite. This first showing was for John Muir, a friend, and associate of Pillsbury's. Included was footage of the Hetch Hetchy. This film was then shown for the 1910 season at the Pillsbury Studio in Yosemite, advertised using postcards. [3]
- December 2 – Matsunosuke Onoe, who will become the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu.
- December 20 – James Joyce opens the Volta Cinematograph, the first cinema in Dublin.[4]
Films released in 1909
J. Stuart Blackton
- Oliver Twist[5]
- The Judgment of Solomon
- The Life of Moses
- The Life of Napoleon
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Charles Kent and J. Stuart Blackton
- Les Misérables, directed by J. Stuart Blackton. A proto-feature film, or many short-films (in this case 4) that when combined together can be seen as one feature film.
- Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy
D. W. Griffith
- At the Altar
- A Corner in Wheat
- The Country Doctor, starring Mary Pickford
- The Curtain Pole, directed by D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett (uncredited)
- The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period
- The Drive for a Life
- A Drunkard's Reformation
- Fools of Fate
- The Golden Louis
- The Hessian Renegades
- Lady Helen's Escapade
- The Lonely Villa
- The Red Man's View
- Resurrection
- The Sealed Room
- Those Awful Hats
- A Trap for Santa Claus
Georges Méliès
- The Count's Wooing
- Le Locataire diabolique (The Diabolical Tenant)
- The Doctor's Secret
- Le papillon fantastique
Others
- The Adventures of Lieutenant Rose
- The Airship Destroyer (originally titled Der Luftkrieg Der Zukunft, also titled "The Aerial Torpedo", "The Battle of the Clouds" {UK} and "The Battle in the Clouds" {US}), directed by Walter R. Booth
- The Cowboy Millionaire, directed by Francis Boggs and Otis Turner
- Entrevista de los Presidentes Díaz-Taft (Mexico), a documentary directed by the Alva Brothers
- The Fitzsimmons-Bill Lang Fight
- Hiawatha, directed by William V. Ranous based on the 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the first film produced by Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Pictures.[2]
- Les Joyeux microbes, directed by Émile Cohl
- Macbeth, directed by André Calmettes
- Mr. Flip, directed by Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
- Nerone, directed by Luigi Maggi
- Teddy Roosevelt in Africa, directed by Cherry Kearton
Births
- January 1 – Dana Andrews, actor (died 1992)
- January 3 – Victor Borge, musician, actor (died 2000)
- January 8
- José Ferrer, actor (died 1992)
- Willy Millowitsch, actor (died 1999)
- January 15 – Gene Krupa, musician, actor (died 1973)
- January 22 – Ann Sothern, actress (died 2001)
- January 24 – Ann Todd, actress (died 1993)
- February 2 – Frank Albertson, actor (died 1964)
- February 6 – Aino Talvi, Estonian actress (d. 1992)
- February 9
- Carmen Miranda, singer, actress (died 1955)
- Heather Angel, actress (died 1986)
- February 11
- Max Baer – boxer, actor (died 1959)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz – director, screenwriter, producer (died 1993)
- February 16 – Jeffrey Lynn, actor (died 1995)
- March 19 – Louis Hayward, actor (died 1995)
- March 26 – Chips Rafferty, actor (died 1971)
- April 4 – Bobby Connelly, child actor (died 1922)
- April 29 – Tom Ewell, actor (died 1994)
- May 15 – James Mason, actor (died 1984)
- May 16 – Margaret Sullavan, actress (died 1960)
- May 30 – Benny Goodman, musician, actor (died 1986)
- June 7 – Jessica Tandy, actress (died 1994)
- June 8 – Robert Carson, actor (died 1979)
- June 14 – Burl Ives, actor (died 1995)
- June 20 – Errol Flynn, actor (died 1959)
- July 1 – Madge Evans, actress (died 1981)
- July 12 – Curly Joe DeRita, actor (died 1993)
- July 23 – Helen Martin, American actress (died 2000)
- August 18 – Marcel Carné, director (died 1996)
- August 22 – Lucille Ricksen, actress (died 1925)
- August 25
- Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (died 1993)
- Michael Rennie, actor (died 1971)
- September 7 – Elia Kazan, director (died 2003)
- October 6 – Robert Carson, screenwriter (died 1983)
- October 20 – Carla Laemmle, actress (died 2014)
- November 11 – Robert Ryan, actor (died 1973)
- November 26 – Frances Dee, actress (died 2004)
- December 9 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr., actor (died 2000)
- December 12 – Karen Morley, actress (died 2003)
- December 20 – Diane Ellis, actress (died 1930)
Deaths
- January 27 – Benoît-Constant Coquelin, actor, Cyrano de Bergerac (born 1841)
- September 4 – Clyde Fitch, author & playwright whose works have been adapted into films. (born 1865)
Film debuts
- Fatty Arbuckle – Ben's Kid (as Roscoe Arbuckle)
- Ethel Clayton – Justified (short)
- Dolores Costello (as a child) – A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Helene Costello (as a child) – Les Miserables (Part I) (short)
- Marie Dressler – Marie Dressler (short)
- Francis Ford – The Stolen Wireless
- Annette Kellerman – The Bride of Lammermoor: A Tragedy of Bonnie Scotland
- James Kirkwood – The Heart of an Outlaw (short)
- Florence La Badie – The Politician's Love Story
- Tom Mix – The Cowboy Millionaire
- Mary Pickford – Mrs. Jones Entertains
- Billy Quirk – The Heart of an Outlaw
- William A. Russell – Tag Day (short)
- William Stowell – The Cowboy Millionaire
- Blanche Sweet – A Man with Three Wives
- Rose Tapley – The Way of the Cross (short)
- Clara Kimball Young – Washington Under the American Flag (short)
References
- "Carl Laemmle | American film producer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- "Hiawatha (1909)". AFI Catalog. Retrieved May 13, 2018.
- {{url-http://www.acpillsburyfoundation.org/1909---First-Nature-Movie.html |accessdate=18 November 2019 |language=en}}
- "Joyce's picture-house flop – Independent.ie". Independent.ie. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- "Oliver Twist (1909)". BFI. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
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