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The History of American Cinema: 1924 |
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Canine star Rin-Tin-Tin, a German Shepherd discovered in the first World War trenches by US Army Lieutenant Lee Duncan, stars in Find Your Man, written by 22-year-old Darryl F. Zanuck. [ADD] |
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| 4/9 - |
The Family Secret, Universal’s latest Baby Peggy feature, is released. William Seiter directs and Gladys Hulette and Frank Currier star. [ADD] |
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John Ford's epic Western, The Iron Horse, is released. George O’Brien stars as a young railroad worker determined to avenge the murder of his father. Madge Bellamy provides the love interest. [ADD] |
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| 18/9 - |
Oscar Micheaux's Son of Satan, starring Ida Anderson and Andrew Bishop, is released. [ADD] |
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| 21/9 - |
The premiere of David Smith’s Captain Blood is released. Produced by Vitagraph, the swashbuckling film stars Warren Kerrigan, Jean Paige, Charlotte Merriam, James Morrison, Allan Forrest and Bertram Grassby. [ADD] |
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Theodore W. Case films President Calvin Coolidge using a sound-on-film camera built in his laboratory at Auburn. [ADD] |
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| 1/10 - |
W. S. Van Dyke’s The Beautiful Sinner is released by Columbia. William Fairbanks, Eva Novak, George Nichols, Kate Lester and Carmen Phillips star. [ADD] |
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| 13/10 - |
Donald Crisp’s The Navigator, in which Buster Keaton stars as a lovelorn millionaire who finds himself adrift at sea with the object of his affections (Kathryn McGuire), is released. [ADD] |
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| 9/11 - |
He Who Gets Slapped, the first film entirely prepared and produced by MGM, is released. Victor Sjöström directs John Gilbert, Norma Shearer and Lon Chaney. Chaney plays a scientist whose face in frozen in a grim smile upon discovering the theft of both his research and his wife by his benefactor, living him to scrape a living as a circus freak, where he falls in love with Consuela (Shearer), a bareback rider. [ADD] |
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| 21/11 - |
The funeral of producer and director Thomas Harper Ince takes place amidst rumours that he was shot by a stray bullet intended for Charles Chaplin, after he is taken ill while aboard the yacht of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd and Hearst’s mistress Marion Davies are all in attendance. [ADD] |
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| 4/12 - |
Louis B. Mayer and Irving G. Thalberg refuse to release Erich von Stroheim’s 22-reel version of Greed, previewing instead a severely truncated 10-reel version. [ADD] |
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| 13/12 - |
Young actor Clark Gable marries his drama teacher Josephine Dillon, who is 14 years his senior. [ADD] |
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– Bell Laboratories perfects the Western Electric (Westrex) recording system. [ADD] |
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– Lorenzo Del Riccio publicly demonstrates his Magnascope widescreen process. [ADD] |
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– Paramount release Wanderer of the Wasteland, a two-strip Technicolor production. [ADD] |
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– The Hays Office (MPPDA) issues a self-regulatory ‘formula’ for voluntary vetting of scripts. [ADD] |
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