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| 1896 | ||||
| 15/7 - | The first public screening is given at Karlovy Vary. [MORE] | |||
| 1898 | ||||
| 19/6 - | Jan Krizenecky shoots the country’s first films which he screens at an Architecture and Engineering Exhibition in Prague. [MORE] | |||
| 1910 | ||||
| – Count Alexander Kollovrath creates the Sasha Film Company at Horni Plana, near Marienbad. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1911 | ||||
| 1/5 - | Antonin Pech founds the Kinofa Company in Prague. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1912 | ||||
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Architect Max Urban and his actress wife Anna Sedlackova form the Asum film company in Prague. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Czechoslovakia 1912: Other Films of Note |
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Faust (Antonin Pech) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1913 | ||||
| 10/10 - | The recently formed Asum Company releases Max Urban’s The Bartered Bride, Czechoslovakia’s first feature-length film. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1915 | ||||
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– Vaclav Havel takes over Antonin Pech’s Kinofa assets and forms the Lucerna company. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1916 | ||||
| 20/10 - | Antonin Fenci’s debut directorial film, Zlate Srdecko (Heart of Gold) is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1917 | ||||
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Prazsti Adamite (Antonin Fenci) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1918 | ||||
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| 4/12 - |
Suzanne Marwille makes her screen debut in Vaclav Binovec’s Demon Rodu Halkenu. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1919 | ||||
| 31/1 - |
18-year-old Gustav Machaty co-directs his first film, Teddy Wants to Smoke, with Jean S. Kolar. [MORE] [ADD] |
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16-year-old Anny Ondra makes her debut appearance in Jean S. Kolar and Premysl Prazsky’s Dama s malou nozkou (The Woman with Small Feet). [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1922 | ||||
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Karl Anton’s first film, Cikani, inspired by the life of bohemian poet Karel H. Macha, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1927 | ||||
| 31/1 - |
The Czechoslovakian League proposes a programme of action to protect national creativity. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1928 | ||||
| 2/11 - |
Mountain Village, Miroslav Josef Krnansky’s adaptation of Bozana Nemcova’s classic Czech novel is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1929 | ||||
| 1/3 - | Martin Fric’s Pater Vojtech (Father Vojtech) is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1930 | ||||
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– The Barrandov Studios are built on a mountain plateau above Prague. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The country’s first sound film, Karel Anton’s Tonka of the Gallows, a melodrama about a country girl forced into prostitution, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |