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. Tally co-founded the First National Exhibitors Circuit in 1917.
• Georges Méliès creates the film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune), which in 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.

Films released in 1902

• A Trip to the Moon
• Jack and the Beanstalk (1902 Short Film)
• Barbe-bleue
• The Coronation of Edward VII
• The Man with the Rubber Head
• Quo Vadis?, directed by Lucien Nonguet and Ferdinand Zecca
• Snow White
• Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants

Births

Month	Day	Name	Profession	Year of death
January	2	Sybil Seely	actress	1984
	31	Tallulah Bankhead	actress	1968
March	28	Flora Robson	actress	1984
April	1	Mary Miles Minter	actress	1984
May	2	Brian Aherne	actor	1986
	4	Mona Mårtenson	actress	1956
	3	Walter Slezak	actor	1983
	10	David O. Selznick	producer	1965
	10	Anatole Litvak	director	1974
	15	Anny Ondra	actress	1987
	30	Stepin Fetchit	actor, dancer	1985
June	1	Walter Plunkett	costume designer	1982
	22	Marguerite De La Motte	actress	1950
July	1	William Wyler	director	1981
	7	Vittorio De Sica	actor, director	1974
	18	Dimitar Panov	actor, director	1985
August	10	Norma Shearer	actress	1983
	10	Curt Siodmak	screenwriter	2000
	11	Lloyd Nolan	actor	1985
	22	Leni Riefenstahl	director	2003
September	5	Darryl F. Zanuck	producer, screenwriter, director	1979
	22	John Houseman	actor	1988
October	5	Larry Fine	actor, comedian, member of The Three Stooges	1975
	18	Miriam Hopkins	actress	1972
	28	Elsa Lanchester	actress	1986
December	9	Margaret Hamilton	actress	1985
	19	Ralph Richardson	prolific stage and screen actor	1983