1910

Film Decades: 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

• Abraham Lincoln’s Clemency – directed by Theodore Wharton
• The Abyss – directed by Urban Gad, starring Asta Nielsen – aka Afgrunden – Denmark
• Aeroplane Flight And Wreck
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – directed by Edwin S. Porter, starring Gladys Hulette
• Der Alpenjager
• Am Abend, one of the earliest works of hardcore pornography
• The American Suicide Club (French-U.S. co-production/ Lux)
• An Arcadian Maid – directed by D.W. Griffith
• Another’s Ghost (French/ Pathe) starring Mevisto, Henri Etievant, Henry Krauss
• As It Is In Life – directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• Back to Life After 2,000 Years (aka The Roman’s Awakening) (French/ Pathe)
• Bebe (series)
• The Beechwood Ghost (Powers Films, which years later merged with Universal Pictures)
• The Bewitched Messenger (British/ Bat-Brockliss)
• The Blue Bird
• Bride of the Haunted Castle (French film/ Artistic-Pathe) theatrically released in England and U.S.
• The Buddha’s Curse (French/ Lux)
• Cagliostro (French film) directed by Camille de Morlhon and Gaston Velle, starring Helene du Montel, Jean Jacquinet, Stacia Napierkowska
• The Castle Ghost (French/ Pathe)
• The Cat That was Changed into a Woman (French/Pathe) directed by Michel Carre; this was the 2nd French film that adapted from the Aesop fable “Venus and the Cat” (see also 1909)
• Chibusa no enoki (Japanese) starred Matsunosuke Onoe
• The Children of Edward the Fourth (French/ Pathe-Film d’Art) directed by Henri Andreani, starring Rene Alexandre, Albert Bras, Jeanne Delvair
• A Christmas Carol (Edison) – directed by J. Searle Dawley, starring Marc McDermott & Charles S. Ogle
• Countess Ankarstrom (German film/ Deutsche Bioscope) directed by Gebhard Schatzler-Perasini, starring Paul Bildt
• The Curse of the Wandering Minstrel (aka The Singer’s Curse) German/ Messter, based on a ballad written by Ludwig Uhland
• A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner, produced by Charles Urban
• Death (Danish/Regia Kunstfilms) directed by Holger Holm, starring Emilie Sannom and Robert Schmidt
• The Defeat of Satan (French/ Pathe) directed by Georges Denola, starring Madeleine Celiat, Georges Laumonier and Jacques Vandenne
• The Demon of Dunkirque (Italian/British co-production) early example of international financing
• The Detachable Man (Pathe)
• The Devil’s Mother-in-Law (French/ Pathe)
• Dorian Gray’s Portrait (Denmark/ Regia Kunstfilms) directed by Alex Strom, starring Valdemar Psilander, Adam Poulsen; 1st film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Denmark/ Nordisk) written and directed by August Blom, starring Alwin Neuss as Jekyll/Hyde, Viggo Larsen and Oda Alstrup – lost
• Dr. Mesner’s Fatal Prescription (British/ Warwick Productions)
• •The Dream of Old Scrooge (based on the Charles Dickens novel “A Christmas Carol”)
• The Duality of Man (British/ Wrench Films) adapted The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; some sources credit Harry Brodribb Irving with directing – lost
• The Electric Vitalizer (British/ Kineto)
• The Enchanted Wreath (British/ Warwick)
• The Fairy Bookseller (Pathe)
• The Family Doctor
• Faust (Italy/ Cines) directed by Enrico Guazzoni, starring Fernanda Negri-Pouget, Ugo Bazzini, Alfredo Bracci; only existing print is missing a scene
• Faust (French) produced by Eclair Films
• Faust (French/ Pathe) directed by Henri Andreani for Pathe Films
• The Fiendish Tenant (Gaumont)
• The Forbidden Fruit (French/ Pathe) written & directed by Gaston Velle
• Frankenstein, directed by J. Searle Dawley for Edison, starred Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips and Mary Fuller
• The Freak of Ferndale Forest (British/ Warwick Productions)
• The Fugitive – directed by D.W. Griffith
• Funeral Of Edward VII
• The Ghost in the Oven, produced by William Selig
• The Ghost of Mudtown (French/ Pathe)
• The Golden Beetle (French/British co-production/ Continental-Warwick) directed by (and starring) Henri Desfontaines, based on The Gold Bug, a story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Golden Supper (Biograph) features a premature burial
• Haunted by Conscience (Kalem Films)
• Hop-Frog, aka The Jester (French/British co-production/ Continental-Warwick) directed by Henri Desfontaines, starring Colanna Romano, based on the 1849 short story by Edgar Allan Poe – lost
• The House of the Seven Gables, directed by J. Searle Dawley for Edison, starring Mary Fuller as Hepzibah Pyncheon, based on the 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne novel
• The House with Closed Shutters – directed by D.W. Griffith
• Hugo, the Hunchback, directed by William Selig, based on the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris
• Den Hvide Slavehandel (translation: The White Slave Trade), directed by August Blom
• Inferno (Italian/ Helios Films), based on the novel by Dante; it was followed by a sequel Purgatory in 1912.
• In Old California – directed by D.W. Griffith – first Hollywood film in cinema.
• In the Border States, directed by D.W. Griffith
• Jane Eyre, (Thanhouser) written and directed by Theodore Marston for producer Edwin Thanhouser; starring Marie Eline, Gloria Gallop and Frank Hall Crane
• Jane Eyre (The Mad Lady of Chester), directed by Mario Caserini (Italian/ Cines)
• A Japanese Peach Boy, produced by Thomas Edison
• The Jealous Professors (Lux Film)
• The Johnson-Jeffries Fight
• The Key of Life, produced by Thomas Edison Co.
• King Philip the Fair and the Templars (French/ Eclair Film) directed by Victorin-Hyppolyte Jasset, starring Georges Saillard and Raoul d’Auchy; first film to deal with the topic of the Knights Templar
• A Lad from Old Ireland, directed by Sidney Olcott
• The Legend of the Undines (French film/ Pathe) based on the 1814 opera by E. T. A. Hoffman (an “undine” is a female water sprite)
• Little Snow White (French/ Pathe)
• The Lobster Nightmare (British)
• The Love of a Hunchback (British/ Empire Film) based on Victor Hugo’s novel Notre Dame de Paris
• Lucrezia Borgia (Italian film/ Cines) directed by Mario Caserini, starring Francesca Bertini and Maria Gasperini
• Lured by a Phantom, aka The King of Thule (French) directed by Etienne Arnaud and Louis Feuillade, based on a poem written by Goethe
• Making Christmas Crackers
• Max Hypnotized (French/ Pathe) directed by Lucien Nonguet, starring Max Linder
• The Minotaur (aka Theseus and the Minotaur), written and directed by J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph
• Museum Spooks, or Dreams in a Picture Gallery (British)
• The Mystery of Temple Court (Vitagraph)
• Necklace of the Dead (Denmark/ Nordisk) directed by August Blom, starring Ingeborg Middleboe Larsen, Thorkild Roose and Nicolai Neiiendam; said to be based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Oblong Box
• New York of Today, produced by Edison Studios
• Oh, You Skeleton (Selig Polyscope)
• One Touch of Nature – directed by Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Pawnshop – directed by Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Phantom (French/ Pathe-Le Film Russe) aka Le Fantome
• Queen of Spades, aka Pikovaya dama (Russian film) directed by Pyotr Chardynin, based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin
• Queen of Spades (German film/ Deutsche Bioscop) produced by Deutsche Bioscop, also based on the novel by Alexander Pushkin
• Ramona – directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• The Red Inn, aka L’Auberge Rouge (French/ Pathe) directed by Camille de Morlhon, written by Abel Gance, starring Jeanne Cheirel, Julien Clement, Jean Worms, and Abel Gance, based on the novel by Honore de Balzac
• Robert, the Devil: or, Freed from Satan’s Power (French/ Gaumont) directed by Etienne Arnaud, starring Leonce Perret and Maurice Vinot; based on a 1831 libretto written by Eugene Scribe and Casimir Delavigne
• The Romance of the Mummy (French/ Pathe) based on the Theophile Gautier book
• Rose O’Salem Town – directed by D.W. Griffith for American Mutoscope and Biograph, starring Dorothy West, Clara T. Bracy and Henry B. Walthall, set against the backdrop of the Salem Witch Trials
• St. George and the Dragon (Edison Co.)
• Satan’s Rival (aka A Rival to Satan)(French) directed by Gerard Bourgeois
• Secret of the Hand (French/ Lux) dealt with the subject of the Chinese Tong
• The Sergeant’s Daughter – directed by Alice Guy-Blaché
• The Skeleton (Vitagraph)
• Slippery Jim, directed by Ferdinand Zecca
• The Snake Man (French/ Lux)
• Sorceress of the Strand (French/ Eclair) directed by Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset, starring Eugenie Nau, Emile Keppens, and Marie Barthe
• The Spectre (French/ Pathe)
• The Spirit of the Sword (French/ Pathe)
• A Spiritualistic Seance (French/ Gaumont)
• Teddy Roosevelt Returns From Africa
• Testing a Soldier’s Courage (French/ Gaumont)
• Thunderbolt
• A Trip to Davy Jones’ Locker (French/ Pathe); a special effects film influenced by the work of George Melies
• A Trip to Mars (Edison Co.)
• Twelfth Night
• The Unchanging Sea – directed by D.W. Griffith
• Vengeance of the Dead (French/ Pathe); influenced by the Oscar Wilde novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray
• Le Vitrail Diabolique, directed by Georges Melies
• Im Wannseebad
• Wanted – A Mummy (British/ Cricks & Martin) directed by A. E. Coleby
• Wedded Beneath the Waves (French/ Gaumont)
• What the Daisy Said, starring Mary Pickford
• White Fawn’s Devotion, directed by James Young Deer the first Native American Director
• Wilful Peggy – directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford
• The Witch of the Glen (British/ Warwick Productions)
• The Witch of the Ruins (French/ Pathe)
• The Witches’ Spell (British/ Urban Films) produced by Charles Urban
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz