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| 29/2 - |
Abel Gance undertakes to film Un Drame au chateau d’Acre in five days on a budget of 5,000 francs. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Scenes of desolation created by the enemy are banned by the Prefect of Police. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 17/4 - |
The Union of Cinematograph Directors organise a private screening of banned films at the Palais des Fetes in Paris in protest at censorship. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Charles Pathe returns from a trip to America where he opened 22 distribution agencies in the same number of states, making Pathe American the leading exporter of American films to France. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 21/7 - |
Abel Gance signs with Films d’Arte to write and direct nine films a year. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 30/7 - |
Louis Feuillade is discharged from active service due to heart problems and returns to directing. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Vincent Denizot and Luigi Romano Borgnetto’s Maciste, inspired by Giovanni Pastone’s Cabiria, is released. In the film, a young girl hides from her pursuers in a cinema showing Pastrone’s epic, and enlists the aid of the film’s strongman, Maciste, to rescue her. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 8/8 - |
In Montreuil, Gaston Melies converts part of his old film studio into a cinema to aid the local hospital. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 19/8 - |
The Gaumont Palace in Paris and the Majestic Cinema in Lyon re-open after being closed at the outbreak of the war. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Production begins to pick up after the outbreak of war. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 12/11 - |
Gaumont release the first two episodes of Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires. The episodes are entitled La tete coupee (The Severed Head) and La Bague qui tue (The Ring That Kills). [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 23/12 - |
The Chamber of Deputies vote to form a committee which will encourage the making of educational films. [MORE] [ADD] |
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France 1915: Other Films of Note |
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Ceux de chez nous (Sacha Guitry) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Les Epaves de l’amour (Albert Capellani) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Folie du Dr Tube (Abel Gance) [MORE] [ADD] |