1915 - KinoSovrin

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 film length records (running at a total length of over three hours).
• February: Metro Pictures, a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is founded.
• February 22: The Allan Dwan directed film David Harum is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors May Allison and Harold Lockwood.
• March 15: Universal Studios Hollywood opens (1964).
• June 18: The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six film directors in Los Angeles, California.
• July: Triangle Film Corporation is founded in Culver City, California and attracts filmmakers D. W. Griffith, Thomas H. Ince and Mack Sennett
• September 11: A nitrate fire at Famous Players in New York destroys several completed but unreleased silent films which are later remade. Films lost include Mary Pickford's Esmerelda and The Foundling and John Barrymore's The Red Widow.
• October 1: A US court rules in United States v. Motion Picture Patents Co. that the Motion Picture Patents Company trust is monopolistic and orders it to be dissolved.
• November 18: Release of Inspiration, the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress (Audrey Munson) appears nude.
• December 13: Sessue Hayakawa becomes the first Asian actor to become a star in the US after his performance in The Cheat.
• The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early widescreen film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.
• The Kinematograph Renters’ Society of Great Britain and Ireland was formed to represent film distribution companies

1915