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| 29/3 - | Emile Reynaud, pioneer of cartoons is confined to a hospice for the incurably ill at Ivry-sur-Seine. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 5/4 - | Tristan Bernard, Edmond Benoit-Levy and Leon Gaumont form the French League for the Cinema to develop the domestic film industry and define its interests before parliament. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 7/4 - | Le Pardon d’Amour, the twelfth and final episode of Louis Feuillade’s Judex serial is released. Starring Rene Creste as the eponymous dashing hero, the series proved to be an enormous success. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 12/4 - | At a conference in Paris it is reported that a total of 198 films have been banned or cut by the Commission of Censors, while a tax has been imposed on films that depict crime. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 15/6 - | Rene Navarre, the actor who created the character of Fantomas, forms his own production company and releases The Adventures of Clementine, a series of cartoons drawn by Benjamin Rabier. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 22/6 - | An article in Le Cinema criticises the background noise on soundtracks. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 6/7 - | Eclair release the first series of cartoons by Emile Cohl entitled Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickeles. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 26/7 - | Director Jacques Feyder marries actress Francoise Rosay, the star of his 1916 film Abregeons les formalites. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 14/11 - | Eclipse release Le Torrent, Marcel L’Herbier’s debut as a scriptwriter. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| France 1917: Other Films of Note | ||||
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Le Droit a la vie (Abel Gance) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Mater Dolorosa (Abel Gance) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| La Zone de la mort (Abel Gance) [MORE] [ADD] |