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The History of French Cinema: 1925

At the age of 52, director Louis Feuillade dies of pneumonia shortly after completing filming of Le Stigmate, which he co-directed with his son-in-law Maurice Champreux. [ADD]

Robert Florey’s book, Two Years in the Studios of America, is published.   Florey is a director and Hollywood correspondent for the weekly Ciné-Magazine. [ADD]

Sentence is passed on the Austrian director and actresses arrested for filming an orgy at Versailles on 7 July 1924.   The director is imprisoned for a month and fined 22 francs, while actresses Lucienne Schwartz, Yvonne Savaille and Lucienne Legrand receive suspended sentences and are fined 16 francs each. [ADD]

Georges-Michel Coissac’s L'Histoire du cinématographe (The History of the Cinematograph), the first historical study of the origins of the cinema, is published. [ADD]

Max Linder replaces Michel Carré as president of the Filmwriters Society following his defence of the French film industry last year. [ADD]

Marcel L'Herbier’s Feu Mathias Pascal, starring Ivan Mosjoukine, is released. [ADD]

Comedian Max Linder and his wife Helene commit suicide in a Paris hotel. [ADD]

Max Linder's will is read in the Seine Civil Court.   The comic actor bequeaths all the films produced by him to J. L. Croze, the president of the Cinema Press Association. [ADD]

The General Film company is established to provide financial backing for Abel Gance's Napoleon.   Filming was suspended on 21st June after the previous backers, the German group Stinnes, were declared bankrupt. [ADD]

Henri Fescourt's version of Les Misérables, filmed in four episodes, is released. Gabriel Gabrio and Sandra Milowanoff star. [ADD]