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| 1908 |
| | | The Polyscope Film Company releases the first horror movie, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, filmed from a popular stage production | |
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| 1908 |
| | | Swiss chemist Jacques Brandenberger patents cellophane, a flexible transparent film made from cellulose | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Mary Pickford begins her film career at sixteen, when she is hired by D.W. Griffith | |
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| 1909 |
| | | The Selig Polyscope Company sets up the first film studio in the Los Angeles region, at Edendale | |
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| 1910 |
| | | D.W. Griffith directs In Old California, the first film shot in the California village of Hollywood | |
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| 1911 |
| | | The Nestor Film Company opens the first film studio in Hollywood, on Sunset Boulevard | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Lillian and Dorothy Gish make their screen debut with the Biograph Company | |
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| 1912 |
| | | Mack Sennett sets up the Keystone studio in California, soon to be famous for the knockabout farce of the Keystone Kops | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Cecil B. de Mille, Jesse Lasky and Sam Goldwyn join forces to form a film production company | |
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| 1914 |
| | | Charlie Chaplin introduces his most famous character, the little tramp, in Kid Auto Races at Venice | |
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