Events
- The Squaw Man, the first Hollywood feature film, is made.
- December 29, Charlie Chaplin signs a contract with Mack Sennett to begin making films at Keystone Studios.
- D. W. Griffith ends his series of Biograph shorts, begun in 1908, and leaves the Biograph Company in New York City to make full length motion pictures.
- Georges Méliès' career as a director comes to an end; Mitchell and Kenyon shoot their last known films.
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