1910-1919

1910

• Star system is established when by Carl Laemmle of Imp pictures when he hires Florence Lawrence for $1000 a week, then plants a story that she has been killed by a streetcar, only to bring her back to the screen to tremendous fanfare.
  
• Denmark movies make a splash because they offer sex in The White Slave Trade.
  
• Griffith and his company begins working in Los Angeles during the winters of New York. Most film activity shifts here within the next few years
  
  1911
  
• Mack Sennett's first Keystone comedy produced
  
  1912
  
• Warner brothers begin producing films. Fox company formed
  
  1913
  
• Universal Studios is created by Carl Laemmle
  
• Italian epics Quo Vadis? and Cabiria suggest value of feature-length films
  
  1914
  
• Hollywood is born when Jesse Lasky rents a barn in L.A. to film Squaw Man.
  
• The most popular film of the year, Tillie's Punctured Romance, stars Marie Dressler and Charlie Chaplin.
  
  1915
  
• The epic film The Birth of a Nation is presented by D.W. Griffith
  
• The Fox Film Corporation is formed by William Fox.
  
• Douglas Fairbanks stars in his first film.
  
  1916
  
• Griffith's Intolerance
  
  1917
  
  1918
  
  1919
  
• United Artists studio is formed by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W.Griffith and Charlie Chaplin
  
• Griffith's Broken Blossoms starts the trend of using sets instead of location shooting.
  
• Tri-Ergon sound-on-film system patented in Germany
  
• Wiene's Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  
  

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