1900-1909

1906 French female director Alice Guy releases Esmerelda a ten minute version of Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris spawning copies around the world, in the USA The Hunchback (1909) and Hugo The Hunchback (1910) and in Britain The Love of a Hunchback (1910).

1908 The first version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is made. It is actually the filming of a stage play of the same name.