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Overview of the events of 1909 in film
Overview of the events of 1909 in film
The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.
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 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 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 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
A Midsummer Night's Dream
D. W. Griffith
The Curtain Pole Resurrection
The Count's Wooing Le Locataire diabolique (The Diabolical Tenant) The Doctor's Secret Le papillon fantastique
Others
The Airship Destroyer The Adventures of Lieutenant Rose The Airship Destroyer 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 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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , the first film produced by Carl Laemmle 's Independent Moving Pictures .[2] Les Joyeux microbes , directed by Émile Cohl Macbeth André Calmettes Mr. Flip 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
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
February 11
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
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
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