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1913

British films are distinguished by two classifications by the British Board of Film Censors; Films classified as “U” are suitable for everybody, while films classified as “A” are suitable for adults only.   [MORE] [ADD]

Reels of film found next to the frozen bodies of Captain Scott and his crew are released in H. G. Ponting’s second film on Scott’s Expedition to the South Pole.[MORE] [ADD]

Warwick Trading Co.’s Bioscope Chronicle features the first use of an airplane for the filming of a news event – King George V on the Royal Yacht on a visit to Paris. [MORE] [ADD]

Will Barker’s production company releases East Lynne, the UK’s first six-reel film. [MORE] [ADD]

United Kingdom Photoplay release the four-reel A Message from Mars. Starring Sir Charles Hawtrey in an adaptation of his hit stage play, it is arguably the first science-fiction feature film. [MORE] [ADD]

Eugene Lauste gives a demonstration of his Photocinematophone sound-on-film system in London. [MORE] [ADD]

David Copperfield, directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Len Bethel, becomes the UK’s first eight-reel feature. [MORE] [ADD]

– Dr. Ralph Jupp forms the London Film Company and begins production at a former skating rink in Twickenham, which becomes the largest British film studio to date. [MORE] [ADD]

– Will Evans and F. L. Lyndhurst form the Sunny South Film Company in Brighton. [MORE] [ADD]

– Charles Urban funds Theodore Brown’s Kinoplasticon system of stereoscopic colour film with sound, which is demonstrated at La Scala Theatre in London. [MORE] [ADD]

The Artist and his Model (Ethyle Batley) [MORE] [ADD]

David Garrick (Leedham Bantock) [MORE] [ADD]

David Garrick (Hay Plumb) [MORE] [ADD]

Hamlet (Hay Plumb) [MORE] [ADD]

Ivanhoe (Leedham Bantock) [MORE] [ADD]

The Old Curiosity Shop (Thomas Bentley) [MORE] [ADD]

The Pickwick Papers (Larry Trimble) [MORE] [ADD]

Pimple series (Fred Evans) [MORE] [ADD]

Sixty Years a Queen (Bert Haldane) [MORE] [ADD]