1902 in film

The year 1902 in film involved some significant events.

Events

 * March 10 – A Circuit Court decision in the United States ends Thomas Edison's monopoly on the 35 mm movie film technology.
 * April 2 – Thomas Lincoln Tally opens the Electric Theater, the first permanent movie theater, in Los Angeles. Tally co-founds the First National Exhibitors Circuit in 1917.
 * August 9 – Georges Méliès' film The Coronation of Edward VII (a staged simulation with inserted actuality footage) is first shown in London on the evening of the Coronation itself.
 * September 1 – actor/producer Méliès premières the first science fiction film, the silent A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans La Lune), at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, France; it proves an immediate success. One scene features the animated human face of the Moon being struck in the eye by a rocket.
 * William Wardell invents an 11 mm amateur film format, Vitak.

Mitchell and Kenyon

 * Bradford Coronation Procession
 * Burnley v. Manchester United
 * Comic Pictures in High Street, West Bromwich
 * Dewsbury v. Manningham
 * Electric Tram Rides from Forster Square, Bradford
 * Employees Leaving Storey's Moor Lane Mill, Lancaster
 * The Great Local Derby: Accrington v. Church, Cricket Match
 * Leeds Athletic and Cycling Club Carnival
 * Lieutenant Clive Wilson and the Tranby Croft Party, Hull
 * Living Wigan
 * Sheffield United v. Bury
 * Street Scenes in Halifax
 * Tram Ride into Halifax
 * Wexford Bull Ring
 * Workers Leaving the Jute Works, Barrow

Edwin S. Porter

 * Fun in a Bakery Shop
 * Jack and the Beanstalk, based on the 1807 fairy tale by Benjamin Tabart

Ferdinand Zecca

 * Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs), based on the Middle-Eastern folk tale
 * Quo Vadis?, co-directed by Lucien Nonguet

Georges Méliès

 * The Coronation of Edward VII (Le Sacre d'Édouard VII)
 * Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants (Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants), based on the 1726 novel by Jonathan Swift
 * The Treasures of Satan (Les Trésors de Satan)
 * A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune), based on the 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
 * Robinson Crusoe (Les aventures de Robinson Crusoë), based on the 1719 novel by Daniel Defoe

Others

 * The Little Match Seller, directed by James Williamson, based on the 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen – (GB)
 * Ringling Brothers Parade Film, produced by William Selig – (US)
 * Snow White, produced by Siegmund Lubin, based on the 1812 fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm – (US)
 * Working Rotary Snow Plows, produced by Edison Studios – (US)

Deaths

 * February 15 – Wilhelmina J. R. Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress (born 1834)