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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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| 1915 |
| | | D.W. Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Charlie Chaplin makes The Tramp, giving prominence to the famous character he launched the previous year in Kid Auto Races at Venice | |
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