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| 31/3 - | Despite the rising popularity of cinema, the British film industry falls into decline due to a lack of investment. The industry is almost totally comprised of small independent companies lacking the financial resources to make the feature films that have recently become popular. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – The government establishes the Department of Information, with the aim of using film as a means of communication. Headed by novelist John Buchan, productions are made at the British Oak/New Agency film studio in Ebury Street, Westminster, London. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Patent No. 107167 is awarded to William Baldwin Vansize, an American telegraph engineer of 233 Broadway, New York, for a system which provides actors with a battery-powered microphone that sends radio-waves to a steel tape or wire for recording sound which is synchronised with the movement of film through a camera. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Neptune Film Studios ceases production. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Great Britain 1917: Other Films of Note | ||||