Editing 1915 in film (section)

==Events==
* February 1: [[Fox Film Corporation]] founded
* February 8: [[D.W Griffith]]'s ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks both box office and film length records (running at a total length of over three hours).
* February: [[Metro Pictures]], a forerunner of [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], is founded<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Metro Corporation|url=https://archive.org/stream/motography13elec#page/278/mode/1up|work=[[Motography]]|volume=XIII|issue=8|page=278|date=February 20, 1915|access-date=May 12, 2018}}</ref>
* February 22: The [[Allan Dwan]] directed film ''[[David Harum (1915 film)|David Harum]]'' is released. The film is the first in long line of a successful romantic onscreen pairings of actors [[May Allison]] and [[Harold Lockwood]].
* March 15: [[Universal Studios Hollywood]] opens ([[1964]]).
* June 18: The [[Motion Picture Directors Association]] (MPDA) is formed by twenty-six [[film directors]] in [[Los Angeles, California]].
* July: [[Triangle Film Corporation]] is founded in [[Culver City, California]] and attracts filmmakers [[D. W. Griffith]], [[Thomas H. Ince]] and [[Mack Sennett]]
* September 11: A nitrate fire at [[Famous Players Film Company|Famous Players]] in New York destroys several completed but unreleased silent films which are later remade. Films lost include [[Mary Pickford]]'s ''[[Esmerelda (1915 film)|Esmerelda]]'' and ''[[The Foundling (1915 film)|The Foundling]]'' and [[John Barrymore]]'s ''[[The Red Widow]]''.
* October 1: A US court rules in ''[[United States v. Motion Picture Patents Co.]]'' that the [[Motion Picture Patents Company]] trust is monopolistic and orders it to be dissolved.
* November 18: Release of ''[[Inspiration (1915 film)|Inspiration]]'', the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress ([[Audrey Munson]]) appears [[Nudity in film|nude]].
* December 13: [[Sessue Hayakawa]] becomes the first Asian actor to become a star in the US after his performance in ''[[The Cheat (1915 film)|The Cheat]]''.
* The Duplex Corporation creates a Split Duplex, an early [[widescreen]] film format where the film image is rotated 90 degrees and occupies half of a conventional frame.
* [[Max Fleischer]] invents the [[rotoscoping]] [[animation]] process in the US.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS1hCSsmH1E|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/IS1hCSsmH1E|archive-date=2021-11-17|url-status=live|title=The trick that made animation realistic|last=Edwards|first=Phil|date=2019-12-03|website=Vox}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* The Kinematograph Renters’ Society of Great Britain and Ireland is formed to represent film distribution companies