1902 in film

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The year 1902 in film involved some significant events.

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. Tally co-founded the First National Exhibitors Circuit in 1917.
• August 9 - Georges Méliès' film The Coronation of Edward VII (a staged simulation with inserted actuality footage) is first shown in London on the evening of the Coronation itself.
• September 1 - Georges Méliès releases 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

• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, directed by Ferdinand Zecca, hand-tinted (in 1905) by Segundo de Chomón
• Bradford Coronation Procession, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Burnley v. Manchester United, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon. This film may be the first moving picture images of Manchester United ever recorded.
• Comic Pictures In High Street, West Bromwich, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• The Coronation of Edward VII
• Dewsbury v. Manningham, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Electric Tram Rides from Forster Square, Bradford, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Employees Leaving Storey's Moor Lane Mill, Lancaster, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Fun In A Bakery Shop, directed by Edwin S. Porter
• The Great Local Derby: Accrington v. Church, Cricket Match, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Jack and the Beanstalk, directed by Edwin S. Porter
• Leeds Athletic And Cycling Club Carnival, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Lieutenant Clive Wilson And The Tranby Croft Party, Hull, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• The Little Match Seller, directed by James Willamson
• Living Wigan, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Quo Vadis?, directed by Lucien Nonguet and Ferdinand Zecca
• Sheffield United v. Bury, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Snow White
• Street Scenes In Halifax, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Tram Ride Into Halifax, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• A Trip to the Moon, directed by Georges Melies
• Wexford Bull Ring, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Workers Leaving The Jute Works, Barrow, produced by Mitchell and Kenyon
• Working Rotary Snow Plows, produced by Edison Studios
• Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants

Births

Month	Day	Name	Profession	Year of death
January	2	Sybil Seely	actress	1984
	31	Tallulah Bankhead		1968
February	14	Thelma Ritter		1965
March	8	Louise Beavers		1962
	28	Flora Robson		1984
April	25	Mary Miles Minter
May	2	Brian Aherne	actor	1986
	3	Walter Slezak		1983
	4	Mona Mårtenson	actress	1956
	10	David O. Selznick	producer	1965
	21	Anatole Litvak	director	1974
	28	Luis César Amadori	Director	1977
	30	Stepin Fetchit	actor, dancer	1985
June	5	Walter Plunkett	costume designer	1982
	22	Marguerite De La Motte	actress	1950
July	1	William Wyler	director	1981
	18	Dimitar Panov	actor, director	1985
		Chill Wills	actor	1978
August	10	Norma Shearer	actress	1983
		Curt Siodmak	screenwriter	2000
	11	Lloyd Nolan	actor	1985
	22	Leni Riefenstahl	director	2003
September	5	Darryl F. Zanuck	producer, screenwriter, director	1979
	22	John Houseman	actor	1988
October	5	Larry Fine	actor, comedian, member of The Three Stooges	1975
	18	Miriam Hopkins	actress	1972
	28	Elsa Lanchester		1986
December	9	Margaret Hamilton		1985
	19	Ralph Richardson	prolific stage and screen actor	1983