Editing 1902 in film (section)

==Events==
*March 10 – A Circuit Court decision in the United States ends [[Thomas Edison]]'s monopoly on the [[35 mm movie film]] technology.<ref>{{cite web|title=Continued Legal Battles|url=http://edison.rutgers.edu/mopix/legal.htm|work=Thomas A. Edison Papers|publisher=Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences|date=2016-10-28|access-date=2019-10-24}}</ref>
*April 2 – [[Thomas Lincoln Tally]] opens the Electric Theater, the first permanent movie theater, in Los Angeles.<ref>[http://cinematreasures.org/theater/8855/ Cinema treasures]</ref> Tally co-founds the [[First National Pictures|First National Exhibitors Circuit]] in 1917.<ref>[http://www.filmsofthegoldenage.com/foga/1998/winter98/firstnational.shtml Films of the Golden Age.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041216204706/http://www.filmsofthegoldenage.com/foga/1998/winter98/firstnational.shtml|date=2004-12-16 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.imdb.com/company/co0051651/ First National filmography.]</ref>
*August 9 – [[Georges Méliès]]' film ''[[The Coronation of Edward VII]]'' (a staged simulation with inserted actuality footage) is first shown in London on the evening of the [[Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra|Coronation]] itself.
*September 1 – actor/producer Méliès premières the first [[science fiction film]], the [[Silent film|silent]] ''[[A Trip to the Moon]]'' (''Le Voyage dans La Lune''), at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, France; it proves an immediate success.<ref>{{citation|last=Hammond|first=Paul|title=Marvellous Méliès|year=1974|publisher=Gordon Fraser|location=London|isbn=0-900406-38-0|page=141}}</ref> One scene features the animated human face of the Moon being struck in the eye by a rocket.
*[[William Wardell]] invents an 11&nbsp;mm amateur film format, Vitak.