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The Cinema Director’s Union bans the screening of all German and Austrian films for fifteen years. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 15/3 - |
Rose-France, Marcel l’Herbier’s first film for Gaumont, is released to scathing criticism. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 25/4 - |
Abel Gance’s pacifist film J’Accuse is released in Paris to critical acclaim, but receives accusations of anti-militarism and defeatism. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 12/5 - |
D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance finally reaches French screens three years after its US release, due to censorship by military censors because of Griffith’s representation of French history. The film is heavily cut, however, and critics claim the film is rendered almost incomprehensible. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 15/6 - |
Pierre Henry starts Cine pour tous, a bi-monthly magazine. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 15/6 - |
A cinema bank with capital of 3 million francs is established to aid the rebuilding of cinemas destroyed in the Great War. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 20/6 - |
Assisted by Julien Duvivier, Andre Antoine begins work on a screen adaptation of Emile Zola’s La Terre (Earth). [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 26/6 - |
Edouard Herriot, the mayor of Lyon, decrees that all cinematographs and fairground shows must use only inflammable film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 28/6 - |
Armed Services attache Corporal Andre A. Danton is the only cameraman present in the Hall of Mirrors to film the historic signing of the peace treaty. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 18/8 - |
Germaine Dulac begins filming Louis Delluc’s script of La Fete espagnole, which stars Eve Francis, for independent production company Nalpas. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 20/9 - |
Jacques de Baroncelli begins filming Le Secret du Lone Star for Film d’Arte in a calculated attempt to win a larger share of the American market. The film stars Fanny Ward, Rex MacDougall and Gabriel Signoret. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 30/9 - |
Cinema et Cie, the first book of critical analysis of the French cinema is published. Edited by Bernard Grasset, it is a collection of Louis Delluc’s articles from Le Film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 25/10 - |
Rene Navarre establishes a production company to make ‘cine-romans,’ which are films adapted from serialised novels published simultaneously in the popular press. The first planned film is based on a Gaston Leroux story. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| France 1919: Other Films of Note | ||||
| L’Angoissante Aventure (Yakov Protazanov) [MORE] [ADD] |