Editing 1908 in film (section)

==Events==
*July 3 - Malhabour Theater, the first film house in [[Iloilo City]] was opened to the public.<ref>Nereo Cajilig Lujan. {{cite web|title=HISTORY 101: Teatro Malhabour| url=https://www.facebook.com/nclujan/posts/1471644442868054?hc_location=ufi  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/100000675378724/1471644442868054 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|work=Old Iloilo group |publisher=Facebook}}{{cbignore}}.</ref>
*July 14 – [[D. W. Griffith]] becomes a director at the [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company]] in New York City. Between 1908 and [[1913 in film|1913]], Griffith will direct nearly 500 films starting with the release of [[The Adventures of Dollie]].
*October 28 – The Russian Film Industry begins with the release of Russia's first fictional narrative film ''[[Stenka Razin (film)|Stenka Razin]]''.
*November 18 – Release in France of ''[[The Assassination of the Duke of Guise]]'' (''La Mort du duc de Guise''), the first film with a [[screenplay]] by an eminent man of letters, the playwright [[Henri Lavedan]];<ref>{{cite book|first=Patrick|last=Robertson|title=Film Facts|location=Wigston|publisher=Quantum Books|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84573-235-6|pages=45–46}}</ref> it is also directed by two men of the theatre, [[Charles Le Bargy]] and [[André Calmettes]], features actors of the [[Comédie-Française]], and is accompanied by a score from [[Saint-Saëns]].
*December - [[Thomas Edison]] forms the [[Motion Picture Patents Company]], with goals of controlling production and distribution, raising theater admission prices, cooperating with censorship bodies, and preventing film stock from getting into the hands of nonmember producers.
*Pathé invents the [[newsreel]] that was shown in cinemas prior to a feature film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishpathe.com/blog/history/|title=History of British Pathé|website=www.britishpathe.com|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-08-29}}</ref>