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| 22/1 - | Leon Gaumont employs 30-year-old actor Jacques Feyder as a director. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 18/2 - | Foreign films begin to flood the French market as a result of a severe drop in the output of the domestic industry. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 29/3 - | The committee formed to promote the use of film for education purposes is appointed by decree in Paris. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 7/4 - | L’ecran, the first official journal of the French Union of Cinematographers, is published. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 22/4 - | In a Paris courtroom, two young girls claim that scenes they saw in a film inspired their crime of attempted murder. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 13/5 - | Alphonse Frank reopens the German-owned cinema Palais Rochechouart in Paris. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 17/5 - | Demands are made to ban the screening of “cinematographic performances which, in the guise of fantastic adventures, teach the most skilful means of robbing and killing” after a number of criminals claim to have been inspired by the film serial Mysteries of New York. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 18/5 - | Gaumont release Le Pied qui etreint. A parody of Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires, it is directed by Jacques Feyder and stars Andre Roanne, Georges Biscot and Musidora. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 30/6 - | The tenth and final episode of Les Vampires is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1/7 - | Georges-Michel Coissac publishes an article in Cine-Journal “moralising about the cinema and calling for a banning of vulgarity on the screen". [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 5/9 - | Following the completion of his Le droit a la vie, Abel Gance signs a 10-picture deal with Louis Nalpas, head of Film d’Arte. Gance will receive 1,500 francs for each film. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 30/9 - | Comedian Max Linder sails for America to replace Charlie Chaplin at Essanay following horrendous war traumas when, in addition to being stricken by pneumonia, he suffered gas poisoning and a serious breakdown. He will earn $5,000 per week for the duration of the contract, during which he is expected to shoot 12 films. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 16/12 - | The press receive a screening of the first episodes of Louis Feuilade’s new serial, Judex, starring Musidora, Yvette Andreyor and Rene Creste. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| France 1916 - Other Films of Note | ||||
| La Boheme (Albert Capellani) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Le Coupable (Andre Antoine) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Les Freres corses (Andre Antoine) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Tetes de femmes, femmes de tete (Jacques Feyder) [MORE] [ADD] |