1910 in film

Events

• The newsreel footage of the funeral of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom is shot in Kinemacolor, making it the first color newsreel.
• A Danish documentary film, Den Hvide Slavehandel, marks the first time film is used to study prostitution.
• Kalem Studios director Sidney Olcott becomes the first American to make a motion picture outside of the United States.
• Florence Lawrence becomes America's first motion picture Star

Movies Released

• Gertie the Dinosaur - animated.

Births

• January 12 - Luise Rainer, actress
• March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (+ 1998)
• December 7 - Louis Prima, bandleader, voice actor ("King Louie of the Apes" in The Jungle Book) (+ 1978)

Deaths

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