1910 in film

Events

• March 18 – The first cinematic version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is released in the United States by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features actor Charles Ogle as the monster.
• May 6 – The newsreel footage of the funeral of Edward VII is shot in Kinemacolor, making it the first color newsreel.
• July – The Johnson-Jeffries Fight footage causes race riots and is banned in the South of the US.
• A Danish melodrama, ill|Den Hvide Slavehandel|da, 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 publicly named motion picture actress; she is generally regarded as the first true movie star.
• Pathé News is formed in London, producing newsreels and documentaries in the UK until 1970.
• Marcus Loew partners with Adolph Zukor, Joseph Schenck and Nicholas Schenck renaming his theatre chain Loew's Consolidated Enterprises.

  Films released in 1910

• 1812
• Abraham Lincoln's Clemency
• The Abyss , starring Asta Nielsen
• Aeroplane Flight And Wreck
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Der Alpenjager
• Am Abend, one of the earliest works of hardcore pornography
• The American Suicide Club
• Another's Ghost
• As It Is In Life, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• Back to Life After 2,000 Years
• Bebe
• The Bewitched Messenger
• The Blue Bird
• Bride of the Haunted Castle
• Cagliostro directed by Camille de Morlhon and Gaston Velle, starring Helene du Montel
• The Castle Ghost
• Chibusa no enoki starred Matsunosuke Onoe
• A Christmas Carol
• Countess Ankarstrom
• A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner, produced by Charles Urban
• The Defeat of Satan directed by Georges Denola
• The Demon of Dunkirque early example of international financing
• The Detachable Man
• The Devil's Mother-in-Law
• Dorian Gray's Portrait directed by Alex Strom, 1st film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written and directed by August Blom for Nordisk
• Dr. Mesner's Fatal Prescription
• The Dream of Old Scrooge
• The Duality of Man adapted The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Electric Vitalizer
• The Enchanted Wreath
• The Fairy Bookseller
• The Family Doctor
• Faust directed by Enrico Guazzoni
• Faust produced by Eclair Films
• Faust directed by Henri Andreani for Pathe Films
• The Fiendish Tenant
• Frankenstein, directed by J. Searle Dawley for Edison, starred Charles Ogle
• The Freak of Ferndale Forest
• The Fugitive, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Funeral Of Edward VII
• The Ghost in the Oven, produced by William Selig
• The Ghost of Mudtown
• The Golden Beetle directed by Henri Desfontaines, based on The Gold Bug by Poe
• The Golden Supper features a premature burial
• Haunted by Conscience
• Hop-Frog directed by Henri Desfontaines, based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The House of the Seven Gables, directed by J. Searle Dawley for Edison, based on the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel
• The House with Closed Shutters, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Hugo, the Hunchback, directed by William Selig, based on the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris
• Den Hvide Slavehandel, directed by August Blom
• Inferno, based on the novel by Dante
• In Old California, directed by D. W. Griffith. First Hollywood film in cinema.
• In the Border States, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Jane Eyre, written and directed by Theodore Marston for Thanhouser
• A Japanese Peach Boy, produced by Thomas Edison
• The Jealous Professors
• The Johnson-Jeffries Fight
• The Key of Life, produced by Thomas Edison
• King Philip the Fair and the Templars directed by Victorin-Hyppolyte Jasset
• A Lad from Old Ireland, directed by Sidney Olcott
• The Legend of the Undines
• Little Snow White
• The Lobster Nightmare
• The Love of a Hunchback based on Victor Hugo's novel Notre Dame de Paris
• Lucrezia Borgia
• Lured by a Phantom, aka The King of Thule directed by Etienne Arnaud and Louis Feuillade
• Making Christmas Crackers
• Max Hypnotized directed by Lucien Nonguet, starred Max Linder
• The Minotaur, written and directed by J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph
• Museum Spooks, or Dreams in a Picture Gallery
• The Mystery of Temple Court
• Necklace of the Dead directed by August Blom
• New York of Today, produced by Edison Studios
• Oh, You Skeleton
• The Phantom aka Le Fantome
• Queen of Spades directed by Pyotr Chardynin, based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin
• Queen of Spades produced by Deutsche Bioscop, also based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin
• Ramona, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• The Red Inn directed by Camille de Morlhon, starred Abel Gance, based on the novel by Honore de Balzac
• Robert, the Devil: or, Freed from Satan's Power directed by Etienne Arnaud
• The Romance of the Mummy based on the Theophile Gautier book
• Rose O'Salem Town, directed by D. W. Griffith
• St. George and the Dragon
• Satan's Rival directed by Gerard Bourgeois
• Secret of the Hand dealt with the subject of the Chinese Tong
• The Skeleton
• Slippery Jim, directed by Ferdinand Zecca
• The Snake Man
• Sorceress of the Strand directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
• The Spectre
• The Spirit of the Sword
• A Spiritualistic Seance
• Teddy Roosevelt Returns From Africa
• Testing a Soldier's Courage
• Thunderbolt
• A Trip to Davy Jones' Locker
• A Trip to Mars
• Twelfth Night
• The Unchanging Sea, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Le Vitrail Diabolique, directed by Georges Melies
• Im Wannseebad
• Wanted – A Mummy directed by A. E. Coleby
• Wedded Beneath the Waves
• What the Daisy Said, starring Mary Pickford
• White Fawn's Devotion, directed by James Young Deer the first Native American Director
• Wilful Peggy, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• The Witch of the Glen
• The Witch of the Ruins
• The Witches' Spell produced by Charles Urban
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  Births

Deaths

Debuts

• Leah Baird – Jean and the Waif
• Carlyle Blackwell – Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Eleanor Caines – The New Boss of Bar X Ranch
• Grace Cunard – The Duke's Plan
• Margarita Fischer – There, Little Girl, Don't Cry
• Helen Gardner – How She Won Him
• Hoot Gibson – Pride of the Range
• Alice Joyce – The Deacon's Daughter
• J. Warren Kerrigan – A Voice from the Fireplace
• Mae Marsh – Ramona
• Asta Nielsen – The Woman Always Pays
• Mabel Normand – Indiscretions of Betty
• Wallace Reid – The Phoenix
• Marin Sais – Twelfth Night
• Norma Talmadge – The Household Pest
• Pearl White – The Missing Bridegroom