1902 in film

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The year 1902 in film involved some significant events.

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

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, American silent film actress (d. 1984)
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

^ "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

[1] "Continued Legal Battles". Thomas A. Edison Papers. Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences. 2016-10-28. Retrieved 2019-10-24.

[2] Cinema treasures

[3] Films of the Golden Age. Archived 2004-12-16 at the Wayback Machine

[4] First National filmography.

[5] Hammond, Paul (1974), Marvellous Méliès, London: Gordon Fraser, p. 141, ISBN 0-900406-38-0

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