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The Pathe Cinema Consortium celebrate renting 1,000 copies of Henri Diamant-Berger’s Les Trois mousquetaires to exhibitors. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 10/1 - |
Louis Delluc writes his final piece for Paris-Midi before devoting himself completely to film-making. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 13/1 - |
La Vie et l’oeuvre de Moliere, made by Jacques Ferady at the behest of the Ministry for Public Education to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Moliere’s birth, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Andre Legrand, sole owner to the rights of Oscar Wilde’s The Crime of Lord Arthur Saville, fails in his legal attempt to prove that Marcel l’Herbier’s Villa Destin is based on Wilde’s work. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Cabinet of Dr Caligari is released in Marseilles after undergoing cutting on the orders of the prefecture following complaints from exhibitors. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 4/5 - |
The Cocorico cinema opens in the Bellville district of Paris. Artistic director is Rene Creste, familiar to filmgoers as Louis Feuillade’s Judex. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 16/5 - |
At the premiere of his latest film, Marie chez les fauves, director Jean Durand claims that leading lady Berthe Dagmar was seriously wounded by a panther during filming. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 17/5 - |
Pathe’s profits for 1921-1922 are announced. The net profit, according to Baron Gabet, chairman of the annual board meeting, is 16,153,203 francs. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 31/5 - |
Louis Feuillade stages an 18th century naval battle off the coast of Marseilles for his production of Fils de filibustier. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 6/6 - |
The French entertainment industry votes to close all cinemas in France at its annual meeting unless crippling charges are reduced. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 8/7 - |
24-year-old actor and journalist Rene Clair accepts a position as assistant director to Jacques de Baroncelli. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 31/7 - |
Comedian Max Linder returns to France after failing to crack the American market. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 5/9 - |
Julien Duvivier’s Ouragan sur la montagne, starring Gaston Jacquet and Lotte Loring, marks the first Franco-German co-production since the Great War. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2/12 - |
Following the success of Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North, Georges Dureau writes an editorial in Cine-Journal which remarks upon “the overall weakness of theatrical style films, and the obvious need felt by the public to see real life on the screen.” [MORE] [ADD] |
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Heated debate takes place in the Chamber of Deputies following the decision of the president of the Censorship Board to ban Ernst Lubitsch’s Madame DuBarry. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Fighting breaks out during a screening of Madame DuBarry at the Artistic Cinema in Paris, following a prolonged campaign by an extreme right-wing newspaper to denounce foreign films that depict the history of France in a less than flattering nature. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pasteur, by Jean Epstein and Jean Benoit-Levy, is presented at the Sorbonne in Paris to commemorate the scientist’s 100th birthday. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– American film producers make further inroads into the French market when Universal opens a distribution branch. Metro agree an exclusive distribution deal with Louis Aubert, while Goldwyn teams up with Gaumont. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– A committee of the League of Nations commissions a report on “Relation of the Cinematograph to Intellectual Life” from Julien Luchaire, France’s Inspector General of Public Education. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| France 1922: Other Films of Note | ||||
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L’Arlesienne (Andre Antoine) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Crainquebille (Jacques Feyder) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Femme de nulle part (Louis Delluc) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Rouletabille chez les Bohemiens (Henri Fescourt) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Souriante Madame Beudet (Germaine Dulac) [MORE] [ADD] |