IMP introduces star system by promoting Florence
Lawrence (known as 'the Biograph
Girl') through major publicity campaign in St. Louis.
Trust tries to control film distribution
through new General Film Company (GF) by trying to buy up ALL
film exchanges
Lubin
builds worlds largest and most advanced studio at that time.
Independent William Fox responds to GF by
making his own movies
Harry
Aitken forms American Film Manufacturing Company and then
later the same year he forms Majestic
Films to handle the overflow production of his primary studio,
First Hollywood purchase of rights to a novel,
Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
Thanhouser
Pictures opens in skating rink in New Rochelle, New Jersey
Pathe launches Australian Animated Gazette
newsreel
Nestor
Studio is first studio in Hollywood
US boasts 9,500 cinemas
Danish Association of Theatres for Moving
Pictures established
<-1909
+ 1911 ->
