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Overview of the events of 1909 in film
The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.
Carl Laemmle founds the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP).[ 1] Selig Polyscope Company establish the first permanent film studio in Los Angeles in Edendale, Los Angeles .The New York Motion Picture Company is founded and also open a film studio in Edendale. The studio is later used by Mack Sennett 's Keystone Studios and then Mascot Pictures , which 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.
February 26 – Kinemacolor is shown to the public for the first time in the Palace Theatre in London .[ 2]
March 16 – Charles Urban forms the Natural Color Kinematograph Company .
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 Francis Boggs , is the first film ever completely made in Los Angeles, California .
October 25 – IMP release their first film, Hiawatha , based on the 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .[ 3]
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. 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.[ 4]
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.[ 5] Notable films released in 1909 [ edit ] PLAY The Airship Destroyer PLAY The Curtain Pole PLAY A Midsummer Night's Dream PLAY Resurrection Dance of Fire (Pathe)Dante's Inferno , directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro, starring Salvatore Papa (Italian); ran 59 minutes[ 6] The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period D. W. Griffith The Defeat of Satan (French/ Pathe)[ 6] The Devil (Edison Co.) adaptation of the play starring George Arliss [ 6] The Diabolical Tenant (aka The Diabolical Lodger ), directed by Georges Méliès (French)[ 6] Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , directed by August Blom , starring Alwin Neuss and Oda Alstrup; made in Denmark for Nordisk Films[ 7] The Doctor's Secret , directed by Georges Méliès (French)[ 7] Don Juan Tenorio , directed by Enrique Rosas (made in Mexico)Doomed (French/ Pathe)The Drive for a Life , directed by D. W. Griffith A Drunkard's Reformation D. W. Griffith Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven , directed by D. W. Griffith The Egyptian Mystery (Edison)Electric Transformations , directed by Percy Stow (British/ Clarendon)[ 7] Entrevista de los Presidentes Díaz-Taft (Mexico), a documentary directed by the Alva Brothers Faust , directed by J. Searle Dawley and Edwin S. Porter for Thomas EdisonThe Ferryman's Sweetheart (Gaumont)[ 7] The Fitzsimmons-Bill Lang Fight Fools of Fate D. W. Griffith The Forbidden Fruit (Pathe)[ 7] Fortune Favors the Brave , directed by Georges Méliès (French)[ 7] The Imp of the Bottle (Thomas Edison), based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson [ 8] The Invisible Thief , directed by Segundo de Chomon and Ferdinand Zecca (French); first adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel The Invisible Man [ 8] Macbeth André Calmettes The Man Monkey (Pathe)[ 9] The Man Who Laughs (French), based on the famous novel by Victor Hugo The Marvelous Pearl (made in Italy)[ 9] Mephisto and the Maiden , directed by Frank BoggsA Midsummer Night's Dream Charles Kent and J. Stuart Blackton The Mirror of Life (French/ Pathe)[ 9] Les Misérables J. Stuart Blackton . A proto-feature film , or many short-films (in this case 4) that when combined can be seen as one feature film.Miss Faust (French/ Pathe)[ 9] A Modern Dr. Jekyll , produced by William SeligThe Moonstone , produced by William Selig, based on the novel by Wilkie Collins [ 9] Moscow Clad in Snow Joseph-Louis Mundwiller – (France )* Mother Goose (Edison Co.)Mr. Flip Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson The Mummy of the King Ramses directed by Gerard Bourgeois (French)Mystery of Edwin Drood , directed by Arthur Gilbert (British), based on Charles Dickens' novelMystery of the Lama Convent , directed by Viggo Larsen (Denmark)The Old Shoemaker (French/ Gaumont), based on The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan PoeOliver Twist J. Stuart Blackton [ 11] The Oriental Mystic (Vitagraph, U.S.)Satan's Smithy , directed by Segundo de Chomon (French)The Sealed Room D. W. Griffith , starring Mary PickfordShooting in the Haunted Woods , directed by Louis Feuillade (French)The Spirit of the Lake (fantasy film made in Italy); it was followed by a sequel called The Legend of the Lake in 1911[ 10] The Suicide Club , directed by D. W. Griffith (U.S.)The Suicide Club , directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset (French)The Sword and the King (U.S./ Vitagraph)The Ugliest Queen on Earth (French/ Gaumont)[ 13] Viy (aka The Vij ), directed by Vasilii Gonmcharov (Russian)[ 14] The Wild Ass's Skin (French/ Pathe) based on the story by Balzac[ 13] The Witch [ 13] The Witch's Cavern (Selig Polyscope)[ 13] January 1 – Dana Andrews , actor (died 1992 )
January 3 – Victor Borge , musician, actor (died 2000 )
January 8 - 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 )
January 29 – Alan Marshal , actor (died 1961 )
February 2 – Frank Albertson , actor (died 1964 )
February 6 – Aino Talvi , Estonian actress (d. 1992 )
February 9
February 11
February 16
March 19 – Louis Hayward , actor (died 1995)
March 26 – Chips Rafferty , actor (died 1971 )
April 4 – Bobby Connelly , child actor (died 1922 )
April 22– Ralph Byrd , actor (died 1952 )
April 29 – Tom Ewell , actor (died 1994 )
May 4 – Howard Da Silva , actor, director (died 1986 )
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)
June 26- Wolfgang Reitherman , director, producer, animator (died 1985)
July 1 – Madge Evans , actress (died 1981 )
July 11
July 12 – Curly Joe DeRita , actor (died 1993)
July 23 – Helen Martin , American actress (died 2000)
July 24 - Sydney Bromley , English character actor (died 1987 )
August 25
August 26 – Jim Davis , American actor (died 1981 )
September 7 – Elia Kazan , director (died 2003 )
September 27 - Amerigo Tot , Hungarian actor (died 1984 )
October 6 – Robert Carson , screenwriter (died 1983 )
October 20 – Carla Laemmle , actress (died 2014)
October 29 – Douglass Montgomery , actor (died 1966 )
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 )
December 22 - Patricia Hayes , English character actress (died 1998 ) 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)
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