Movies · 1910
Dawn of Hollywood and Early Silent Cinema Epics
In 1910, the burgeoning motion picture industry shifts toward longer narrative storytelling and begins its landmark move west to sunny California. From the first monster movies to historic overseas location shooting, cinema rapidly establishes itself as a dominant global art form.
- USA | Horror | J. Searle Dawley
Frankenstein
Edison Studios produces the very first film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, starring Charles Ogle in iconic monster makeup.
- USA | Romance | D.W. Griffith
In Old California
Director D.W. Griffith leads the Biograph Company to film this melodrama, making it the very first movie ever shot in Hollywood.
- Denmark | Drama | Urban Gad
Afgrunden (The Abyss)
Danish actress Asta Nielsen makes a sensational star-making film debut in a drama famous for its controversial gaucho dance.
- USA/Ireland | Drama | Sidney Olcott
A Lad from Old Ireland
Starring Gene Gauntier, this production makes cinema history as the first American motion picture filmed on location outside the US.
- USA | Fantasy | Otis Turner
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
This earliest surviving screen adaptation of L. Frank Baum's novel stars a young Bebe Daniels as Dorothy Gale.
- USA | Epic | J. Stuart Blackton
The Life of Moses
Vitagraph releases an ambitious five-part series that stands as one of the earliest attempts at a feature-length Biblical narrative.
- USA | Drama | J. Searle Dawley
A Christmas Carol
Marc McDermott stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in Edison Studios' faithful silent adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale.
- USA | Fantasy | Edwin S. Porter
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Gladys Hulette takes the titular role in Edison Studios' creative early adaptation of Lewis Carroll's famous story.
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