1909 in film

• Carl Laemmle founds the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP). • 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. • March 16 – Charles Urban forms the Natural Color Kinematograph Company. • May 12 – Mr. Flip is released, 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'', directed by Francis Boggs, is the first film ever completely made in Los Angeles, California. • October 25 – IMP release their first film, Hiawatha, based on the 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. • 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. 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. • 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. ==Notable films==

Films produced in the United States unless stated otherwise ''; runtime 00:06:41. A • The Airship Destroyer, sci-fi trick film directed by Walter R. Booth – (UK) • At the Altar, drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company C ''; runtime 00:08:00. • A Corner in Wheat, drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company • The Country Doctor, drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Mary Pickford • The Cowboy Millionaire, western directed by Francis Boggs and Otis Turner, starring Tom Mix • The Cricket on the Hearth, drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Owen Moore; based on the 1845 novella by Charles Dickens • The Curtain Pole, comedy directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Mack Sennett and Florence Lawrence D • The Diabolic Tenant (Le Locataire diabolique), trick film directed by and starring Georges Méliès for Star Film – (France) • ''A Drunkard's Reformation'', drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company E • Edgar Allen Poe, drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Herbert Yost G • The Golden Louis, drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company H • The Hessian Renegades, war film directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Owen Moore L • ''Lady Helen's Escapade'', comedy directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Florence Lawrence • The Life of Moses, epic directed by J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph Studios • The Lonely Villa, crime drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Florence Lawrence and Mary Pickford M ''; runtime 00:11:07. • ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', comedy directed by Charles Kent and J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph Studios; based on the 16th-century play by William Shakespeare • Moscow Clad in Snow (Moscou sous la neige), documentary directed by Joseph-Louis Mundwiller for Pathé-Frères – (France) • Mr. Flip, comedy directed by Broncho Billy Anderson for Essanay Studios, starring Ben Turpin N • Nero, or the Fall of Rome (Nerone, o la caduta di Roma), historical epic directed by Luigi Maggi and Arturo Ambrosio for Ambrosio Film – (Italy) O • Oliver Twist, drama directed by J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph Studios; based on the 1838 novel by Charles Dickens P • Princess Nicotine; or, the Smoke Fairy, trick film directed by J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph Studios R ''; runtime 00:12:11. • ''The Red Man's View'', western directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Owen Moore • Resurrection, drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Florence Lawrence; based on the 1899 novel by Leo Tolstoy S • Slippery Jim (Pickpock ne craint pas les entraves), trick film directed by Segundo de Chomón for Pathe-Freres – (France) • The Spider and the Butterfly (Le papillon fantastique) (incomplete), trick film directed by and starring Georges Méliès for Star Film – (France) T • Theodore Roosevelt in Africa, documentary directed by Cherry Kearton • Those Awful Hats, comedy directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Mack Sennett • A Trap for Santa Claus, drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company, starring Henry B. Walthall V • The Voice of the Violin, drama directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company W • Whimsical Illusions (Les Illusions fantaisistes), trick film directed by and starring Georges Méliès for Star Film – (France) ==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 • Carmen Miranda, singer, actress (died 1955) • Heather Angel, actress (died 1986) • February 11 • Max Baer – boxer, actor (died 1959) • Joseph L. Mankiewicz – director, screenwriter, producer (died 1993) • February 16 • Hugh Beaumont, actor, director, writer (died 1982) • 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 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 24 – Victoria Hopper, Canadian-born British actress and singer (died 2007) • 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 • Irene Hervey, actress (died 1998) • John 'Dusty' King, actor, singer (died 1987) • 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 • Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (died 1993) • Michael Rennie, actor (died 1971) • 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 – Everett Sloane, actor (suicide 1965) • 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==

• Fatty Arbuckle – Ben's Kid (as Roscoe Arbuckle) • Ethel Clayton – Justified (short) • Dolores Costello (as a child) – A Midsummer Night's Dream • Helene Costello (as a child) – Les Misérables (Part I) (short) • Marie Dressler – Marie Dressler (short) • Francis Ford – The Stolen Wireless • Annette Kellerman – The Bride of Lammermoor: A Tragedy of Bonnie Scotland • James Kirkwood – The Heart of an Outlaw (short) • Florence La Badie – The Politician's Love Story • Tom Mix – The Cowboy Millionaire • Mary Pickford – Mrs. Jones Entertains • Billy Quirk – The Heart of an Outlaw • William A. Russell – Tag Day (short) • William Stowell – The Cowboy Millionaire • Blanche Sweet – A Man with Three Wives • Rose Tapley – The Way of the Cross (short) • Clara Kimball Young – Washington Under the American Flag (short) ==References==