1910-1912 - KinoSovrin

Events:
1910
• March 18 – The first cinematic version of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" (1818) is released in the United States by Edison Studios. One of the first horror films, it features (unbilled) 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.
1911
• February: The Motion Picture Story Magazine, the first American film fan magazine, is published. It is followed later in the year by Photoplay.
• April 8: Winsor McCay releases his first film "Little Nemo", one of the earliest animated films.
• October 23 (October 10 OS): Svetozar Botorić's "The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Karađorđe" (Život i dela besmrtnog vožda Karađorđa, Живот и дела бесмртног вожда Карађорђа) premieres in Belgrade and becomes the first feature film made in Serbia and the Balkans.
• October 26: "Defence of Sevastopol" («Оборона Севастополя») premieres at the Crimean palace of Tsar Nicholas II and becomes the first feature-length film made in the Russian Empire and one of the first in the world.
• October 27: David Horsley's Nestor Motion Picture Company opens the first motion picture studio in Hollywood.
• November: The Kalem Company of New York pays the estate of author Lew Wallace $25,000 in legal settlement for having adapted "Ben Hur" (1907 film) from his novel without securing prior rights.
1912
• February – Babelsberg Studio outside Berlin begins operation with shooting of "The Dance of the Dead" (Der Totentanz) by Danish director Urban Gad starring Asta Nielsen (released September 7).
• April 15 - The Titanic, a British passenger liner, sinks in the Atlantic Ocean, killing more than 1,500 passengers. It is depicted in many works of popular culture, including films.
• April 30 – Universal Film Manufacturing Company is founded in New York, the oldest surviving film studio in the United States.
• May 8 – Famous Players Film Company, the forerunner of Paramount Pictures, is founded by Adolph Zukor.
• May 18 – "Shree Pundalik" by Dadasaheb Torne, the first Indian film, is released.
• June 8 – New York Motion Picture Company is merged with Universal, giving Universal a studio in Edendale, Los Angeles.
• July 4 – Mack Sennett, who has previously worked as an actor and comedy director with D. W. Griffith, forms a new company with New York City entrepreneur Adam Kessel, Keystone Studios. It will play an important role in developing slapstick comedy as the home to the "Keystone Cops", English actor Charlie Chaplin, and others.
• July 12 – "Queen Elizabeth" is the first film released by Famous Players.
• July 26 – Edison Studios releases "What Happened to Mary", the first ever motion picture serial.
• Edison introduces the Home Kinetoscope, a home film-projector which uses a 22 mm print consisting of three rows of frames.
• Pathé releases "Pathe Kok", their first entry into the amateur market, with a gauge of 28 mm.
• Alexander F. Victor improves on the 17.5 mm format with his Duoscope, which uses two center perforations instead of the typical one.
• Bell & Howell introduce the first all-metal camera, the 2709 35mm.
1910-1912