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1920

Optic researcher Dr. Elias develops Colorama, a process using natural colours. [MORE] [ADD]

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks are voted Britain’s favourite stars by the readers of The Picture Show magazine. [MORE] [ADD]

While on a visit to London, Jesse Lasky signs up a number of authors, including Sir James Barrie and H. G. Wells, to work on future Paramount projects. [MORE] [ADD]

Following a complaint by the Actors’ Association regarding the use of unscreened arc lights, the Ministry of Health sets up a departmental committee ‘to investigate and report on the causes of blindness, including defective vision, sufficient to impair economic efficiency, and to suggest measures which might be taken for the prevention of blindness.’ [MORE] [ADD]

– Adrian Brunel, Leslie Howard, C. Aubrey Smith and A. A. Milne form Minerva Films production company. [MORE] [ADD]

– Elstree based Neptune Films goes into liquidation. [MORE] [ADD]

– The newly-formed Alliance Company acquires the British Actor’s Film Company and its studios in Bushey.   It also buys Twickenham Film Studios for £35,000 and spends a further £23,000 on upgrading the lighting systems. [MORE] [ADD]

– A former aircraft factory in Cricklewood is converted into Britain’s largest film studio by theatre impresario Sir Oswald Stoll’s Stoll Picture Productions. [MORE] [ADD]

– Britain’s first ‘super cinema’ is opened in Dalston, east London. [MORE] [ADD]

– Walter West buys Windsor Studio in Catford to supplement his Broadway Studios in Walthamstow. [MORE] [ADD]

– The Cinematograph Exhibitors Association decree that member cinemas will only show films carrying a British Board of Film Censors certificate. [MORE] [ADD]

Alf’s Button Afloat (Cecil Hepworth) [MORE] [ADD]

At the Villa Rose (Maurice Elvey) [MORE] [ADD]

Wuthering Heights (A. V. Bramble) [MORE] [ADD]