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1896-1940 |
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| 1896 | ||||
| The first public screening is given at the Juliusz Slowacki Theatre. [MORE] | ||||
| 1908 | ||||
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– Jan Meyer produces the first Polish film, Antos pierwszy raz w Warszawie. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1911 | ||||
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| Dzieje Grzechu (Antoni Bednarczyk) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1912 | ||||
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In Warsaw, several actors, including Apolonia Chalupiec, form the Sfinks production company under the leadership of director Aleksander Hertz. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1915 | ||||
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– Pola Negri makes Bestia and Zona for director Aleksander Hertz. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1927 | ||||
| 31/12 - | Bunt krwi I zelaza, directed by Leon Trystan, a disciple of Abel Gance and Jean Epstein, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1929 | ||||
| 12/6 - |
Riots break out over films shown with German subtitles. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Nad ranem (Aleksander Ford) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1930 | ||||
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| 29/3 - |
Boleslaw Newolin’s Moralnosc pani Dulskiej (The Morals of Madame Dulska), Poland’s first sound film, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– START (The Association of Amateurs of Artistic Cinema) is established by Eugeniusz Cękalski, Stanislaw Wohl, Wanda Jakubowska, Tadeusz Kowalski, Jerzy Zarzycki, Jerzy Toeplitz and Jerzy Bossak. They are soon joined by Aleksander Ford. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1932 | ||||
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| Sabra (Aleksander Ford) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1935 | ||||
| – START disbands due to internal disputes. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1936 | ||||
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Aleksander Ford’s Droga Mlodych (Street of the Young), a documentary about Jewish and Polish orphans in a sanitarium, is banned because it is considered ‘a vehicle for communist propaganda.’ [MORE] [ADD] |
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Joseph Green’s Yidl mitn Fidl is released. The film survives today only because Green took the negatives with him when he returned to his native America. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1937 | ||||
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– Micha Waszynski’s Der Dibuk is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Poland 1937: Other Films of Note |
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Ludzie Wisly (People of the Vistula) (Aleksander Ford) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1938 | ||||
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– The government imposes a limit on the import of American films. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1939 | ||||
| 8/3 - |
Ludwig Berger’s Trois valses opens at the Napoleon in Warsaw, a cinema which shows only French films. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1940 | ||||
| 20/1 - |
German authorities re-open cinemas to screen German propaganda to aid the war effort. [MORE] [ADD] |