Editing 1913 in film (section)

==Events==
* January 1 – The [[British Board of Film Censors]] is established.
* April 21 – The first full-length Indian (and Marathi) feature film ''[[Raja Harishchandra]]'' (silent)<ref>[[List of Marathi films of 1910-1919]].</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090520175801/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/249829/Raja-Harishchandra/overview Overview]. ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> has its première (public release May 3).
* May – [[Mary Pickford]] signs a contract with [[Adolph Zukor]]'s [[Famous Players Film Company]] for $500 per week, becoming the company's first superstar.<ref>{{citation|last=Finler|first=Joel W.|date=April 2, 1992|title=The Hollywood Story|edition=Second|publisher=Mandarin|page=[https://archive.org/details/hollywoodstory00joel/page/263 263]|isbn=0-7493-0637-8|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodstory00joel/page/263}}</ref>
* [[Jesse L. Lasky]], [[Cecil B. DeMille]], [[Samuel Goldwyn]] and [[Oscar Apfel]] founded Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.
* November 24 -  ''[[Traffic in Souls]]'' is an early example of the narrative style of Hollywood film.
* December 29 – [[Charlie Chaplin]] signs a contract with [[Mack Sennett]] to begin making films at [[Keystone Studios]].
* December 29 – release of ''[[The Adventures of Kathlyn]]'', the second American [[serial film]] and the first to feature [[cliffhanger]] endings that became popular with later serials.
* December 29 – production starts on Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company's ''[[The Squaw Man (1914 film)|The Squaw Man]]'', the first full-length [[Hollywood (film industry)|Hollywood]] feature film.
* [[D. W. Griffith]] ends his series of Biograph shorts, begun in 1908, and leaves the [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|Biograph Company]] in New York City to make full-length motion pictures.
* [[Georges Méliès]]' career as a director comes to an end.
* [[Ufa-Palast am Zoo|Cines-Palast]] in [[Berlin]] opens as a cinema with ''[[Quo Vadis (1913 film)|Quo Vadis]]''.
* [[Mitchell and Kenyon]] shoot their last known films in England.
* [[Roscoe Arbuckle|Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle]] signs for [[Mack Sennett]] at [[Keystone Studios]] and his early films for them feature the first known instances of [[pieing|pie thrown]] on film.