Re: "First" film shot at night (not day for night)?

I'm guessing they weren't the first (in fact I almost guarantee it), but unless I'm completely missing something, wasn't night-for-night shooting popularized (not invented) in the late 30s and 40s in the film noir genre. I mean I know I've seen/read about (back in film school) night-for-night shooting as being somewhat innovative in a bunch of noir pictures from that era. So if you dig around and read some articles on classic 40s noir, I'm sure some specific titles will show up, or get you in the ballpark.

But if you're talking before the 40s, as in 1910's kind of films, like who was the absolute first person to do it, I have no idea...!