Movies History Timeline 1901 - 1910 |
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| 1901 |
With the arrival of electricity, Broadway set out white
lights stretching from 13th to 46th Street in New York City, inspiring the
nickname "the Great White Way." |
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| 1902 |
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Georges Méliès, a magician-turned-filmmaker,
introduced innovative special effects in the first real science fiction
film, Le Voyage Dans La Lune, aka A Trip to the Moon. |
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| 1903 |
Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality. |
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American director Edwin S. Porter, chief of production
at the Edison studio, helped to shift film production toward narrative story
telling with such films as the first realistic (or documentary) film The
Life of an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery, one of the first
westerns (filmed on the East Coast - not in Hollywood). |
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| 1904 |
Georges Méliès released the first two-reel
film, The Impossible Voyage (aka Le Voyage a Travers L'Impossible) - at
about 20 minutes in length, it was about five times longer than the average
film at the time |
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Narrative film began to become the dominant form. |
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| 1905 |
The first movie theater opens in Pittsburgh. |
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Cooper Hewitt mercury lamps made it practical to
shoot films indoors without sunlight. |
The American entertainment trade journal Variety began
publication. |
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| 1906 |
The Biograph film studio opened in New York City. |
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The world’s first feature-length film at 70
minutes in length, The Story of the Kelly Gang (aka Ned Kelly and His Gang),
premiered in Melbourne, Australia. Cinema briefly flourished there. |
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| 1907 |
The first film-makers arrived in Los Angeles. Filmmakers
began to realize that the Los Angeles area was a good filming area with
a favorable climate and a variety of natural scenery. The first movie was
also made in Los Angeles soon afterwards |
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Bell and Howell developed a film projection system.
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| 1908 |
The first detective films, the Nick Carter series, were
released in France.
The Adventures of Dollie, the first movie directed by D. W. Griffith (in the same year that he started as a director at American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City), was released and debuted in New York. |
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The first real horror film, William Selig's 16-minute
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, was premiered in Chicago. |
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| 1909 |
An American court ruled that unauthorized films infringed
on copyrights, in a case over the 1907 film version of Ben-Hur. As a result,
film companies began buying screen rights to books and plays. |
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Cameraman Billy Bitzer became the first to film
entirely indoors using artificial light. |
The New York Times publishes the first movie review,
a report on D. W. Griffith's Pippa Passes. |
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| 1910 |
Carl Laemmle set up his own Independent Motion
Picture Company (IMP) to counteract the Edison Trust.
The first movie stunt a man jumped into the Hudson River from a burning balloon. |
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Thomas Edison introduces his kinetophone, which
makes talkies a reality. |
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