Editing 1909 in film (section)

==Events==
* [[Carl Laemmle]] founds the [[Independent Moving Pictures]] Company (IMP).<ref>{{cite web |title=Carl Laemmle {{!}} American film producer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Laemmle |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=25 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Selig Polyscope Company]] establish the first permanent [[film studio]] in Los Angeles in [[Edendale, Los Angeles]].
* The [[New York Motion Picture Company]] is founded and also open a film studio in Edendale. The studio is later used by [[Mack Sennett]]'s [[Keystone Studios]] and then [[Mascot Pictures]], which become part of [[Republic Pictures]].
* February 4 – The [[Paris Film Congress]] begins, an attempt by leading European producers to form a cartel similar to that of the [[Motion Picture Patents Company]] in the United States.
* February 26 – [[Kinemacolor]] is shown to the public for the first time in the [[Palace Theatre, London|Palace Theatre]] in [[London]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=McKernan |first=Luke |title=Charles Urban: Pioneering the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897-1925 |publisher=University of Exeter Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0859892964}}</ref>
* March 16 – [[Charles Urban]] forms the [[Natural Color Kinematograph Company]].
*May 12 – ''[[Mr. Flip]]'' is released, the first film to feature someone being [[pieing|hit in the face with a pie]].
*May 23 – The first [[news cinema]], The Daily Bioscope, opens in London.
*June 17 – ''[[In the Sultan's Power]]'', directed by [[Francis Boggs]], is the first film ever completely made in [[Los Angeles, California]].
*October 25 – [[Independent Moving Pictures|IMP]] release their first film, ''Hiawatha'', based on the 1855 [[poetry|poem]] ''[[The Song of Hiawatha]]'' by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]].<ref name=Hiawatha>{{cite web|work=[[AFI Catalog]]|title=Hiawatha (1909)|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/36269?cxt=filmography|access-date=May 13, 2018}}</ref>
*November 5 - A Nature Movie by [[Arthur C. Pillsbury]] using film to explore the wonders of Yosemite. This first showing was for [[John Muir]], a friend and associate of Pillsbury.  Included was footage of the [[Hetch Hetchy]]. This film was then shown for the 1910 season at the Pillsbury Studio in Yosemite, advertised using postcards.<ref>{{cite web|title=1909 - First Nature Move|url=http://www.acpillsburyfoundation.org/1909---First-Nature-Movie.html |access-date=18 November 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*December 2 – [[Matsunosuke Onoe]], who will become the first superstar of [[Japanese cinema]], appears in his first film, ''Goban Tadanobu''.
*December 20 – [[James Joyce]] opens the [[Volta Cinematograph]], the first cinema in Dublin.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joyce's picture-house flop – Independent.ie |url=https://m.independent.ie/lifestyle/joyces-picturehouse-flop-28951351.html |website=Independent.ie |access-date=25 September 2018 |language=en}}</ref>