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| 1897 | ||||
| – Sigmund Weinberg, a Romanian ex-pat living in Istanbul, gives the country's first public screening in his café in the fashionable entertainment district of Pera. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1899 | ||||
| – Don Ramirez, Spanish owner of a circus based in Constantinople, presents the first moving images in Turkey to the Sultan Abdul Hamid. [MORE] | ||||
| 1911 | ||||
| 31/1 - | Leon Gaumont opens a branch of Comtoir-Cine-Location, a firm that rents films made by Gaumont, in Istanbul. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1914 | ||||
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Cevat Boyer and Murat Bey open the country's first cinema hall. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| - Film-making begins in Turkey with a 150-metre documentary film, Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yikilisi (The Demolition of the Russian Monument at St. Stephen) filmed by reserve army officer Fuat Uzkinay shortly after the Ottoman empire's entry into the Great War. A General Enver's establishes a film centre and several more scenes are shot during the war. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1916 | ||||
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| The Wedding of Himmet Aga (Fuat Azkinay & Sigmund Weinberg) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1917 | ||||
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Pence (Sedat Simavi) Feature [MORE] [ADD] |
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Casus (The Spy) (Sedat Simavi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1919 | ||||
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| Mürebbiye (The Governess) (Ahmet Fehim) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Binnaz (Ahmet Fehim) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1921 | ||||
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Bican Efendi Vekilharci (Ahmet Fehim) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1922 | ||||
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– Kemal Film, the first private Turkish film company, is established and produces two fiction films, both directed by Muhsin Ertugrul, who would soon come to dominate Turkish cinema. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1923 | ||||
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| 1932 | ||||
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| 7/12 - | Muhsin Ertugrul’s Bir millet Uyaniyor is released. A film about the Anatolian resistance to invasion, it stars Ercument Behzat Lav and Emel Riza, and is considered to be Turkey’s first film of note. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1934 | ||||
| – Muhsin Ertugrul’s comedy Lebleci Horhor Aga wins an honorary diploma at the Venice Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Muhsin Ertugrul’s tale of country life, Batakli damin kizi, Aysel (Aysel, Daughter of the Marshy Village), is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| 1939 | ||||
| – Faruc Kenc’s debut film, Tas parcasi, which he wrote as well as directed, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |