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Years in film
1870s
1880s
1890s
1890 • 1891 • 1892 • 1893 • 1894 1895 • 1896 • 1897 • 1898 • 1899
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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 ^[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.

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

Births

References

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