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The History of Cinema: 1910 |
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| 20/1 - | D. W. Griffith arrives in Los Angeles, California to complete filming of The Newlyweds, a film he started shooting in New York. He remains with his troupe to film a further 24 films before returning to New York in April. [ADD] | |||
| 1/2 - | Edison continues his experiments with sound, producing Kinetophone short sound films at West 43rd Street before moving to his studios at Decatur Avenue in the Bronx. [ADD] | |||
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Vitagraph release the five-reel Life of Moses, which cost $50,000 to shoot. [ADD] |
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The MPPC forms its own distribution company, The General Film Company, in an attempt to control regional distributors. The Trust's main opponents include William Fox, Carl Laemmle and Adolph Zukor. [ADD] |
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Charles Pathe’s American production company, Pathe-Americain, issues its first release, The Girl from Montana, starring Pearl White, which was filmed at its studio in Bound Brook, NJ. [ADD] |
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A fire in which numerous negatives are lost devastates Vitagraph’s New York studio. [ADD] |
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Gaston Melies builds a studio in Texas. [ADD] |
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– Winsor Mckay makes an animated film, Gertie the Trained Dinosaur for his vaudeville act. [ADD] |
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– The USA now has 9,480 cinemas. [ADD] |
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– Carl Laemmle’s IMP company launches the star system by promoting former Biograph Girl Florence Lawrence through a major publicity campaign after luring her away from his rivals. [ADD] |
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– The first purchase of rights to a novel – Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson – is made. [ADD] |
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– The Nestor Studio is the first to be built in Hollywood. [ADD] |
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– Siegmund Lubin begins making medical and scientific films at his “Lubinville” studio in North Philadelphia. [ADD] |
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– The first reportedly independent African American film is made. The Railroad Porter is a short comedy directed by William Foster in Chicago and financed by Henry Abbott Sengstacke of the Chicago Defender newspaper. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1910 |
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Frankenstein, or Prometheus Unbound (J. Searle Dawley) [ADD] |
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| An Arcadian Maid (D. W. Griffith) [ADD] | ||||
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A Child of the Ghetto (D. W. Griffith) [ADD] |
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In Old California (D. W. Griffith) [ADD] |
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Ramona (D. W. Griffith) [ADD] |
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A Romance of the Western Hills (D. W. Griffith) [ADD] |
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