1902 in film

The year 1902 in film involved some significant events.__TOC__

Events

*March 10 - Circuit Court's decision disallows Thomas Edison from having a monopoly on motion picture technology.
*April 2 - Thomas Lincoln Tally opens the Electric Theater, the first permanent movie theater, in Los Angeles [ [http://cinematreasures.org/theater/8855/ Cinema treasures] ] . Tally co-founded the First National Exhibitors Circuit in 1917. [ [http://www.filmsofthegoldenage.com/foga/1998/winter98/firstnational.shtml Films of the Golden Age] ] [ [http://www.imdb.com/company/co0051651/ First National filmography] ]
*Georges Méliès creates the film "A Trip to the Moon" (Le Voyage dans la Lune), which in one scene features the animated human face of the moon being struck in the eye by a rocket.
*William Wardell invents an 11 mm amateur film format, Vitak.

Films released in 1902

* "Barbe-bleue
* "The Coronation of Edward VII"
* "Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants"
* "A Trip to the Moon"
* "The Man with the Rubber Head"
* "Snow White"

Births

References