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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
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 is released and is the first film to feature someone being
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 is the first film ever completely made in
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 by
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'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.
[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]
Films released in 1909
J. Stuart Blackton
PLAY
A Midsummer Night's Dream ; runtime 00:11:07.
D. W. Griffith
PLAY
The Curtain Pole ; runtime 00:08:00.
PLAY
Resurrection ; runtime 00:12:11.
Georges Méliès
The Count's Wooing
The Diabolical Tenant (aka The Diabolical Lodger ), directed by George Melies (French)
[7]
The Doctor's Secret , directed by George Melies (French)
[8]
Fortune Favors the Brave , directed by George Melies (French)
[8]
Le papillon fantastique
Others
PLAY
The Airship Destroyer ; runtime 00:06:41.
The Adventures of Lieutenant Rose
The Airship Destroyer (originally titled 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 Ancient Roman (made in Italy)
Ballad of a Witch , directed by Luigi Maggi (made in Italy)
The Bewitched Manor House (French/ Pathe)
[7]
Bluebeard , directed by J. Searle Dawley for Thomas Edison, starred Charles Ogle
The Bogey Woman (French/ Pathe)
The Butcher's Dream (French)
Capturing the North Pole , features
Baron Munchausen (British/ Urban-Eclipse Films)
[7]
The Cat That Was Changed Into a Woman , directed by Louis Feuillade (French)
The Convict Guardian's Nightmare (French)
The Cowboy Millionaire , directed by
Francis Boggs and
Otis Turner
Dance of Fire (Pathe)
Dante's Inferno , directed by Giuseppe de Liguoro, starring Salvatore Papa (Italian); ran 59 minutes
[7]
The Defeat of Satan (French/ Pathe)
[7]
The Devil (Edison Co.) adaptation of the play starring
George Arliss
[7]
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , directed by
August Blom , starring
Alwin Neuss and Oda Alstrup; made in Denmark for Nordisk Films
[8]
Don Juan Tenorio , directed by Enrique Rosas (made in Mexico)
Doomed (French/ Pathe)
The Egyptian Mystery (Edison)
Electric Transformations , directed by Percy Stow (British/ Clarendon)
[8]
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 Edison
The Ferryman's Sweetheart (Gaumont)
[8]
The Fitzsimmons-Bill Lang Fight
The Forbidden Fruit (Pathe)
[8]
Gertie the Dinosaur , animated cartoon by
Winsor McKay
[8]
Goddess of the Sea
[9]
The Grey Lady (aka The Grey Dame ), directed by Viggo Larsen, starring Viggo Larsen as
Sherlock Holmes (Denmark)
[9]
Hansel and Gretel
[9]
The Haunted Hotel (French/ Pathe)
The Haunted Man , introduced the "doppelganger" theme, similar to The Student of Prague (Germany/ Duskes Film)
[9]
Her Dolly's Revenge (French/ Lux)
Hiawatha , directed by
William V. Ranous based on the 1855
poem
The Song of Hiawatha by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , the first film produced by
Carl Laemmle 's
Independent Moving Pictures .
[3]
The Hunchback , directed by Van Dyke Brooke for Vitagraph; unauthorized remake of the 1906 film Esmeralda
[9]
The Imp of the Bottle (Thomas Edison), based on the story by
Robert Louis Stevenson
[9]
The Invisible Thief , directed by Segundo de Chomon and Ferdinand Zecca (French); first adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel The Invisible Man
[9]
Les Joyeux Microbes , directed by
Émile Cohl
The Last Look (Pathe)
[10]
Lucrece Borgia (French)
Lunatics in Power (Thomas Edison Co.), based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe called The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether
[9]
Macbeth , directed by
André Calmettes
The Man Monkey (Pathe)
[10]
The Man Who Laughs (French), based on the famous novel by
Victor Hugo
The Marvelous Pearl (made in Italy)
[10]
Mephisto and the Maiden , directed by Frank Boggs
The Mirror of Life (French/ Pathe)
[10]
Miss Faust (French/ Pathe)
[10]
Mr. Flip , directed by
Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
A Modern Dr. Jekyll , produced by William Selig
The Moonstone , produced by William Selig, based on the novel by
Wilkie Collins
[10]
Mother Goose (Edison Co.)
The Mummy of the King Ramses directed by Gerard Bourgeois (French)
Mystery of Edwin Drood , directed by Arthur Gilbert (British), based on Charles Dickens' novel
Mystery of the Lama Convent , directed by Viggo Larsen (Denmark)
Nerone , directed by
Luigi Maggi
The New Jonah (Pathe)
[11]
The Nymphs' Bath (French/ Gaumont)
[11]
The Old Shoemaker (French/ Gaumont), based on The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
The Oriental Mystic (Vitagraph, U.S.)
Papa Gaspard; or, The Ghost of the Rocks
[11]
Phaedra (French/ Pathe) featured a sea monster
[11]
The Phantom Sirens
[11]
The Pit and the Pendulum , directed by Henri Desfontaines (French/ Warwick), based on the famous story by
Edgar Allan Poe
[12]
The Princess and the Fisherman , directed by Louis Feuillade (French)
[11]
Revenge of the Ghosts , animated cartoon directed by Emil Cohl (French)
[11]
Satan's Smithy , directed by Segundo de Chomon (French)
Shooting 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
[11]
The Suicide Club , directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset (French)
The Sword and the King (U.S./ Vitagraph)
Talked to Death (Lubin)
[13]
Teddy Roosevelt in Africa , directed by
Cherry Kearton
Tis Now the Very Witching Time of Night , produced by Thomas Edison
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]
The Yiddisher Boy
Births
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 )
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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