1909 in film

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The year 1909 in film involved some significant events.

Contents

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  1 Events
  


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  2 Films released in 1909
  
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    2.1 J. Stuart Blackton
    
  
  
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    2.2 D. W. Griffith
    
  
  
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    2.3 Georges Méliès
    
  
  
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    2.4 Others
    
  
  


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  3 Births
  


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  4 Deaths
  


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  5 Film debuts
  


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  6 References
  

Events

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  Carl Laemmle founds the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP).


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  Selig Polyscope Company establish the first permanent movie studio in Los Angeles in Edendale, Los Angeles.


• The New York Motion Picture Company is founded and also open a movie studio in Edendale. The studio was later used by Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and then Mascot Pictures who became part of Republic Pictures
  


• 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 was 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.^[1]


• December 2 - Matsunosuke Onoe, who would become the first superstar of Japanese cinema, appears in his first film, Goban Tadanobu.^[2]


• December 20 - James Joyce opens the Volta Cinematograph, the first cinema in Dublin.

Films released in 1909

J. Stuart Blackton

Play media

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

• Oliver Twist


• The Judgment of Solomon


• The Life of Napoleon


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  A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Charles Kent and J. Stuart Blackton
  


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  Les Misérables, directed by J. Stuart Blackton. A proto-feature film, or many short-films (in this case 4) that when combined together can be seen as one feature film.


• Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy

D. W. Griffith

Play media

The Curtain Pole.

Play media

Resurrection.

• At the Altar


• A Corner in Wheat


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  The Country Doctor, starring Mary Pickford
  


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  The Curtain Pole, directed by D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett (uncredited)


• The Death Disc: A Story of the Cromwellian Period


• The Drive for a Life


• A Drunkard's Reformation


• Fools of Fate


• The Golden Louis


• The Hessian Renegades


• Lady Helen's Escapade


• The Lonely Villa


• The Red Man's View


• Resurrection


• The Sealed Room


• Those Awful Hats


• A Trap for Santa Claus

Georges Méliès

• The Count's Wooing


• Le Locataire diabolique (The Diabolical Tenant)


• The Doctor's Secret


• Le papillon fantastique

Others

Play media

The Airship Destroyer.

• The Adventures of Lieutenant Rose


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  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
  


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  The Cowboy Millionaire, directed by Francis Boggs and Otis Turner
  


• Entrevista de los Presidentes Díaz-Taft (Mexico), a documentary directed by the Alva Brothers


• The Fitzsimmons-Bill Lang Fight


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  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.^[1]


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  Les Joyeux microbes, directed by Émile Cohl
  


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  Macbeth, directed by André Calmettes
  


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  Mr. Flip, directed by Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson
  


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  Nerone, directed by Luigi Maggi
  


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  Teddy Roosevelt in Africa, directed by Cherry Kearton
  

Births

• January 1 - Dana Andrews, actor (died 1992)


• January 3 - Victor Borge, musician, actor (died 2000)


• January 8
  
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    José Ferrer, actor (died 1992)
  
  
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    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)


• February 2 - Frank Albertson, actor (died 1964)


• February 6 - Aino Talvi, Estonian actress (d. 1992)


• February 9
  
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    Carmen Miranda, singer, actress (died 1955)
  
  
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    Heather Angel, actress (died 1986)
  
  


• February 11
  
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    Max Baer - boxer, actor (died 1959)
  
  
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    Joseph L. Mankiewicz - director, screenwriter, producer (died 1993)
  
  


• February 16 - Jeffrey Lynn, actor (died 1995)


• March 19 - Louis Hayward, actor (died 1995)


• March 26 - Chips Rafferty, actor (died 1971)


• April 4 - Bobby Connelly, child actor (died 1922)


• April 29 - Tom Ewell, actor (died 1994)


• 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)


• July 1 - Madge Evans, actress (died 1981)


• July 12 - Curly Joe DeRita, actor (died 1993)


• August 18 - Marcel Carné, director (died 1996)


• August 22 - Lucille Ricksen, actress (died 1925)


• August 25
  
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    Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (died 1993)
  
  
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    Michael Rennie, actor (died 1971)
  
  


• September 7 - Elia Kazan, director (died 2003)


• October 6 - Robert Carson, screenwriter (died 1983)


• October 20 - Carla Laemmle, actress (died 2014)


• 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)

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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  Fatty Arbuckle - Ben's Kid (as Roscoe Arbuckle)


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  Ethel Clayton - Justified (short)


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  Dolores Costello (as a child) - A Midsummer Night's Dream
  


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  Helene Costello (as a child) - Les Miserables (Part I) (short)


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  Marie Dressler - Marie Dressler (short)


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  Francis Ford - The Stolen Wireless


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  Annette Kellerman - The Bride of Lammermoor: A Tragedy of Bonnie Scotland


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  James Kirkwood - The Heart of an Outlaw (short)


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  Florence La Badie - The Politician's Love Story
  


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  Tom Mix - The Cowboy Millionaire
  


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  Mary Pickford - The Heart of an Outlaw


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  Billy Quirk - The Heart of an Outlaw


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  William A. Russell - Tag Day (short)


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  William Stowell - The Cowboy Millionaire


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  Blanche Sweet - A Man with Three Wives


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  Rose Tapley - The Way of the Cross (short)


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  Clara Kimball Young - Washington Under the American Flag (short)

References

1. 
   ^ ^ab "Hiawatha (1909)". AFI Catalog. Retrieved May 13, 2018. 
   


2. 
   ^ "Goban Tadanobu". IMDb. Retrieved May 13, 2018.