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The year 1902 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Films released in 1902 3 Births 4 References

[edit] 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 ^[1]. Tally co-founded the First National Exhibitors Circuit in 1917. ^[2][3]
• 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.

[edit] Films released in 1902

• Barbe-bleue
• The Coronation of Edward VII
• The Man with the Rubber Head
• Quo Vadis?, directed by Lucien Nonguet and Ferdinand Zecca
• Snow White
• A Trip to the Moon
• Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants

[edit] Births

Month	Day	Name	Profession	Year of death
January	31	Tallulah Bankhead	actress	1968
March	28	Flora Robson	actress	1984
April	1	Mary Miles Minter	actress	1984
May	2	Brian Aherne	actor	1986
	3	Walter Slezak	actor	1983
	10	David O. Selznick	producer	1965
	10	Anatole Litvak	director	1974
	15	Anny Ondra	actress	1987
	30	Stepin Fetchit	actor, dancer	1985
June	1	Walter Plunkett	costume designer	1982
	22	Marguerite De La Motte	actress	1950
July	1	William Wyler	director	1981
	7	Vittorio De Sica	actor, director	1974
August	10	Norma Shearer	actress	1983
	10	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	actress	1986
December	9	Margaret Hamilton	actress	1985
December	19	Ralph Richardson	prolific stage and screen actor	1983

[edit] References

1. ^ Cinema treasures
2. ^ Films of the Golden Age
3. ^ First National filmography