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The year 1910 in film involved some significant events.

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EVENTS

The newsreel footage of the funeral of King Edward VII Of The United Kingdom is shot in Kinemacolor , making it the first color Newsreel .

A Danish documentary film, '' Den Hvide Slavehandel '', marks the first time film is used to study Prostitution .

Kalem Studios director Sidney Olcott becomes the first American to make a motion picture outside of the United States.

Florence Lawrence becomes America's first motion picture ''Star''

FILMS RELEASED IN 1910

'' 1812 ''

'' Abraham Lincoln's Clemency ''

'' Afgrunden ''

'' Der Alpenjager ''

'' Bebe ''

'' The Blue Bird ''

'' A Christmas Carol ''

'' A Day In The Life Of A Coal Miner ''

'' Frankenstein ''

'' The House With Closed Shutters ''

'' Den Hvide Slavehandel ''

'' In Old California ''

'' In The Border States ''

'' A Lad From Old Ireland ''

'' Roosevelt In Africa ''

'' Thunderbolt ''

'' The Unchanging Sea ''

'' What The Daisy Said ''

'' The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz ''

BIRTHS

January 12 - Luise Rainer , actress

February 8 - Steffi Duna , actress (d. 1992 )

February 10 - Joyce Grenfell , actress (d. 1979 )

February 27 - Joan Bennett , actress (d. 1990 )

March 1 - David Niven , actor (d. 1983 )

March 8 - Claire Trevor , actress (d. 2000 )

March 17 - Sari Maritza , actress (d. 1987 )

March 23 - Akira Kurosawa , director (d. 1998 )

April 23 - Simone Simon , actress (d. 2005 )

May 11 - Johnnie Davis , actor, singer (d. 1983 )

May 15 - Constance Cummings , actress

May 23 - Scatman Crothers , actor (d. 1986 )

June 3 - Paulette Goddard , actress (d. 1990 )

June 13 - Mary Wickes , actress (d. 1995 )

July 4 - Gloria Stuart , actress

August 4 - Anita Page , actress

August 8 - Sylvia Sidney , actress (d. 1999 )

August 12 - Jane Wyatt , actress (d. 2006 )

August 15 - Signe Hasso , actress (d. 2002 )

December 7 - Louis Prima , bandleader, voice actor (d. 1978 )

August 16 - Mae Clarke , actress (d. 1992 )

September 19 - Margaret Lindsay , actress (d. 1981 )

September 29 - Virginia Bruce , actress (d. 1982 )

December 10 - Sidney Fox , actress (d. 1942 )

December 13 - Lillian Roth , actress (d. 1980 )

December 13 - Van Heflin , actor (d. 1971 )

DEATHS

(unknown)