Editing 1903 in film (section)

==Events==
* [[Thomas Edison]] demolishes "America's First Movie Studio", the [[Edison's Black Maria|Black Maria]].
* The [[United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit]] decides that federal copyright protection for "photographs" extends to motion pictures, and that filmmakers could copyright films as a whole rather than having to separately register each frame.<ref>''Edison v. Lubin'', 122 F. 240 (3d Cir. 1903).</ref>
* The three elder [[Warner Bros.]] begin in the exhibition business and open their first theater, the [[Cascade Center|Cascade]].
* [[Gaston Méliès]], Georges' brother, opens a branch of Star Film in New York to defend its production's copyrights.
* [[Adolph Zukor]] and [[Marcus Loew]] partner with [[Mitchell Mark]] to expand his chain of movie theaters.
* [[William N. Selig]]'s [[war film]] ''A Soldier's Dream'' is released. The film shows soldiers playing cards and music around a campfire. Scholars have speculated that the [[double-exposed]] image used to create one soldier's dream sequence may have been inspired by Méliès.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erish |first1=Andrew A. |title=Col. William N. Selig: The Man Who Invented Hollywood |date=2012 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0292728707 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QivgDAAAQBAJ |access-date=8 August 2019}}</ref>