[speeder]

It doesn’t matter and it has nothing to do with film of oil on bearings. When you start you engine after an oil change, the sump is sucking oil into the pump from the bottom of the oil pan, not the oil filter. The oil is being pumped directly to your bearings first and to your oil filter and pressure gauge sender second. Or all at the same time, if you want to be technical but an empty oil filter doesn’t control the distribution of oil to the bearings in any engine ever designed. As pointed out, many oil filters are empty every time an engine is started, by the direction it is mounted. The lack of common knowledge on this subject is surprising on a supposed car forum.

That said, if a filter is mounted vertically on the bottom of an engine, I might pour some clean oil into it before screwing it on but not because I’m afraid of a dry bearing. That’s just ignorant.