The decade of the 1910s in film involved some significant films.

Events

The 1910s saw the origins of

Hollywood Hollywood usually refers to: * Hollywood, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in California * Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States Hollywood may also refer to: Places United States * Hollywood District (disambiguation) * Hollywood, ...

as the centre of the American film industry relocated from

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. By 1912, major motion-picture companies had set up production near or in Los Angeles. In the early 1900s, most motion picture patents were held by

Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventio ...

Motion Picture Patents Company The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and terminated seven years later in 1915 after conflicts within the industry, was a trust of all the major US film companies and local foreign-bran ...

in New Jersey, and filmmakers were often sued to stop their productions. To escape this, filmmakers began moving out west, where Edison's patents could not be enforced. Also, the weather was ideal and there was quick access to various settings. Los Angeles became the capital of the film industry.Mintz, S., and S. McNeil. "Hollywood as History." Digital History. N.p., 2013. Web. 20 May 2014. Hollywood-Studios-1922

During the

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the film industries of Europe were devastated, and Hollywood replaced the French and Italian firms as the most popular film makers in the world.

Lists of films

1910 in film The year 1910 in film involved some significant events. Events *ca. March – Florence Lawrence becomes America's first publicly named motion picture actress; she is generally regarded as the first true movie star. *March 18 – The first cine ...

1911 in film A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * Ja ...

1912 in film The year 1912 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * February – Babelsberg Studio outside Berlin begins operation with shooting of '' The Dance of the Dead'' (''Der Totentanz'') by Danish director Urban Gad starring Asta ...

1913 in film 1913 was a particularly fruitful year for film as an art form, and is often cited one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1917. The year was one where filmmakers of several countries made great artist ...

1914 in film The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.Birchard, Robert S. (2004). ''Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood''. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 1-13, __TOC__ ...

1915 in film The year 1915 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * February 1: Fox Film Corporation founded * February 8: D.W Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks both box office and ...

1916 in film The year 1916 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * Charlie Chaplin signs for Mutual Film for a salary of $10,000 a week and a signing on fee of $150,000, making him one of the highest-paid people in the United States. * J ...

1917 in film 1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film- ...

1918 in film The year 1918 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events *January 27 – Tarzan makes his film debut in ''Tarzan of the Apes''. *March 10 – Warner Bros. release their first produced picture, ''My Four Years in Germany''. *July ...

1919 in film The year 1919 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top three 1919 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *February 5 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fa ...

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