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1908 |
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| 27/1 - | Dr. H. Campbell uses films to illustrate a medical lecture in London. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| May - | Walter Tyler introduces “Daylight Projection”: screening films without darkening the auditorium. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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The Urban Trading Company opens its new headquarters, Urbanora House. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Gem, Britain’s first purpose-built cinema to hold over 1,000 people (it actually holds 1,200) opens in Great Yarmouth under the management of C. B. Cochran. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Bioscope, a trade paper, proposes a sliding scale of charges for the rental of films to showmen. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The first films from G. A. Smith and Charles Urban’s Kinemacolor Ltd. are presented to the Royal Society of Arts in London following an inaugural screening to the press at Urbanora House in May. The non-fiction films utilise a two-tone colour process. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| – Charles Chaplin is employed by Fred Karno for his ‘London Comedians.’ [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Great Britain 1908: Other Films of Note |
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Animated Matches (Arthur Melbourne-Cooper) [MORE] [ADD] |
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In the Land of Nod (Arthur Melbourne-Cooper) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Tell-Tale Kinematograph (Lewin Fitzhamon) [MORE] [ADD] |