Major Media Moments of 1910
Friday, 1st January, 2010The following list represents some important media events of 1910:
- Edison’s kinetophone attempts to create motion picture talkies
- Sweden’s Elkstrom invents “flying spot” camera light beam
- Gustav Mahler composes Das Lied von der Erde, his best known work
- The first live remote broadcasts: operas Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci
- Dance music is recorded
- Movie ’stars’ labelled as such when Florence Lawrence becomes ‘the Vitagraph Girl’
- US requires radio transmitters on some ships; first US radio law
- Krazy Kat appears in a comic strip. The bricks start flying
- Victor Herbert’s operetta ‘Naughty Marietta’
- Igor Stravinsky composes his Firebird Suite
- Market research begins, targeting audiences
- Radio hobby craze; Quaker Oats boxes used to build crystal-cats’ whisker sets
- DeForest’s radio carries Enrico Caruso’s voice from New York’s Met which could be heard at sea
- Neon tube development will aid mechanical television
- DW Griffith films his 17-minute short film ‘In Old California’ in Hollywood, released on 10 March 1910
Adapted from The Media History Project
