1910 in film

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The year 1910 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• March 12 – American actress Florence Lawrence becomes "the first true movie star" after movie mogul Carl Laemmle of Independent Moving Pictures (I.M.P.) names her in advertisements announcing that he has signed the leading lady who has hitherto only been billed as "The Biograph Girl" by Biograph Studios. Until now, studios had a policy of not releasing the names of their players, and prohibiting distributors from revealing the information. Lawrence's first I.M.P. release is The Broken Oath. ^[1]
• March 18 – The first cinematic version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is released in the United States by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features (unbilled) actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
• May 6 – Newsreel footage of the funeral of Edward VII in London is shot in Kinemacolor, making it the first color newsreel.
• July – The Johnson-Jeffries Fight footage causes race riots and is banned in the South of the US.
• August 2 – A Danish melodrama, The White Slave Trade (Den Hvide Slavehandel), marks the first time film is used to study prostitution.
• August – Kalem Studios director Sidney Olcott becomes the first American to make a motion picture outside of the United States, The Lad from Old Ireland (released November 23).
• Pathé News is formed in London, producing newsreels and documentaries in the UK until 1970.
• Marcus Loew partners with Adolph Zukor, Joseph Schenck and Nicholas Schenck renaming his theatre chain Loew's Consolidated Enterprises.

Notable films released in 1910

United States unless stated

A

• Abraham Lincoln's Clemency , directed by Theodore Wharton
• The Abyss (Afgrunden), directed by Urban Gad, starring Asta Nielsen ^[2] – (Denmark)
• Aeroplane Flight and Wreck, produced by the Biograph Company
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , directed by Edwin S. Porter, based on the 1865 novel by Lewis Carroll
• As It Is in Life , directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford

C

• A Christmas Carol , directed by J. Searle Dawley, based on the novella by Charles Dickens

D

• A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner, produced by Charles Urban – (GB)

F

• Frankenstein , directed by J. Searle Dawley ^[3]
• The Fugitive , directed by D. W. Griffith
• Funeral of King Edward VII – (GB)

G

• The Golden Supper, directed by D. W. Griffith ^[4]

H

• The House with Closed Shutters , directed by D. W. Griffith

I

• In Old California , directed by D. W. Griffith
• In the Border States , directed by D. W. Griffith

J

• Jeffries–Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest , produced by J. Stuart Blackton

L

• A Lad from Old Ireland , directed by Sidney Olcott

M

• Making Christmas Crackers, directed by A. E. Coleby – (GB)
• The Man to Beat Jack Johnson , produced by Walter Tyler – (GB)

N

• New York of Today, produced by Edison Studios

P

• The Picture of Doarian Gray (Dorian Grays Portræt), directed by Axel Strøm, based on the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde ^[5] – (Denmark)

Q

• The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama), directed by Pyotr Chardynin, based on the 1834 novella by Alexander Pushkin – (Russia)

R

• Ramona , directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford, based on the 1884 novel by Helen Hunt Jackson
• Rose O'Salem-Town , directed by D. W. Griffith ^[6]

T

• Thunderbolt (incomplete), directed by John Gavin – (Australia)
• A Trip to Mars, directed by Ashley Miller ^[7]
• Twelfth Night , directed by Eugene Mullin and Charles Kent, based on the play by William Shakespeare

U

• The Unchanging Sea , directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford

W

• What the Daisy Said , directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• White Fawn's Devotion , directed by James Young Deer
• The White Slave Trade (Den hvide slavehandel), directed by August Blom – (Denmark)
• Wilful Peggy , directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , directed by Otis Turner, based on the 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum

Births

Month	Day	Name	Profession	Year of death
January	3	John Sturges	Director	1992
	12	Patsy Kelly	Actress	1981
		Luise Rainer		2014
February	8	Steffi Duna		1992
	10	Joyce Grenfell		1979
	27	Joan Bennett		1990
March	1	David Niven	Actor	1983
	5	Sheila Terry	Actress	1957
	8	Claire Trevor		2000
	17	Sari Maritza		1987
	23	Akira Kurosawa	Director	1998
	24	Richard Conte	Actor	1975
April	23	Simone Simon	Actress	2005
May	4	James Ellison	Actor	1993
	11	Johnnie Davis	Actor, singer	1983
	15	Constance Cummings	Actress	2005
	23	Scatman Crothers	Actor	1986
June	3	Paulette Goddard	Actress	1990
	7	Arthur Gardner	Producer, actor	2014
	9	Robert Cummings	Actor	1990
	13	Mary Wickes	Actress	1995
	16	Ilona Massey		1974
	24	Martha Sleeper		1987
July	4	Gloria Stuart		2010
	11	Sally Blane		1997
	27	Lupita Tovar		2016
	28	Bill Goodwin	Actor, announcer	1958
August	4	Anita Page	Actress	2008
	6	Charles Crichton	Director	1999
	8	Sylvia Sidney	Actress
	12	Jane Wyatt		2006
	16	Mae Clarke		1992
	22	Lucille Ricksen		1925
September	9	Kitty Carlisle	Singer, actress	2007
	19	Margaret Lindsay	Actress	1981
	29	Virginia Bruce		1982
October	8	Paulette Dubost	Actress	2011
	23	Hayden Rorke	Actor	1987
	27	Jack Carson	Actor	1963
December	4	Alex North	Composer	1991
	7	Rod Cameron	Actor	1983
		Louis Prima	Bandleader, voice actor	1978
	13	Lillian Roth	Actress	1980
	26	Marguerite Churchill		2000
	31	Roy Rowland	Director	1995

Deaths

Day	Name	Profession	Year of birth
April 21	Mark Twain	Humourist, writer, born Samuel L. Clemons.	1835
November 20	Leo Tolstoy	Russian novelist	1828

Debuts

• Leah Baird – Jean and the Waif
• Carlyle Blackwell – Uncle Tom's Cabin (short)
• Eleanor Caines – The New Boss of Bar X Ranch (short)
• Grace Cunard – The Duke's Plan (short)
• Margarita Fischer – There, Little Girl, Don't Cry (short)
• Helen Gardner – How She Won Him (short)
• Hoot Gibson – Pride of the Range
• Alice Joyce – The Deacon's Daughter (short)
• J. Warren Kerrigan – A Voice from the Fireplace (short)
• Mae Marsh – Ramona (short)
• Asta Nielsen – The Woman Always Pays (short)
• Mabel Normand – Indiscretions of Betty
• Wallace Reid – The Phoenix (short)
• Marin Sais – Twelfth Night (short)
• Norma Talmadge – The Household Pest
• Pearl White – The Missing Bridegroom (short)

References

1. Robinson, David (1996). From Peep Show to Palace: The Birth of American Film. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 159–161.
2. Scott Lord :The Abyss (Urban Gad, Afgrunden, Denmark 1910) on YouTube
3. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 70. ISBN   978-1936168-68-2.
4. Kinnard, Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN   0-7864-0036-6. Page 36.
5. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 67. ISBN   978-1936168-68-2.
6. Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 78. ISBN   978-1936168-68-2.
7. Kinnard, Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. ISBN   0-7864-0036-6. Page 40.

External links

Media related to 1910 in film at Wikimedia Commons

• List of 1910 films at IMDb
• List of 1910 deaths at IMDb
• List of 1910 births at IMDb