1910 in film

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

Movies released

• 1812
  
• A Christmas Carol
  
• A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner
  
• Afgrunden
  
• Frankenstein
  
• In the Border States
  
• The House with Closed Shutters
  
• The Unchanging Sea
  
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  
• What the Daisy Said
  

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
• 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 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