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Paramount’s heartthrob movie actor Wallace Reid dies in a sanatorium from drug addiction. While filming The Valley of the Giants in 1919, he received morphine for a back injury sustained in a train crash. Reid became hooked on the drug, and heavy drinking weakened his condition to such a degree that he was barely able to stand when filming Thirty Days in 1922. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Salome, starring Alla Nazimova and featuring costumes designed by Natasha Rambova, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 20/2 - |
Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount Pictures, announces that his company will no longer be making films with Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 13/3 - |
Erich von Stroheim begins shooting Greed on location. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 13/3 - |
Lee DeForest demonstrates music on film using his Phonofilm system. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 25/3 - |
Paramount release James Cruze’s The Covered Wagon, an epic western telling the story of pioneers undertaking a perilous 2,000 mile journey from Kansas City to Oregon. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Lee DeForest demonstrates his Phonofilm system to a paying audience at the Rialto Theater in New York. Introduced by Adolph Zukor, DeForest shows eight films as a support programme for Paramount’s Bella Donna. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2/9 - |
Wallace Worsley’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame is released. Lon Chaney stars as the hunchback in a groundbreaking role. The film is Universal’s most lavish production since Foolish Wives. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2/9 - |
Harold Lloyd’s Why Worry? is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 3/9 - |
Rosita, Ernst Lubitsch’s first American film, premieres at the Lyric Theatre in New York. It is produced by actress Mary Pickford. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 10/9 - |
Film pioneer Siegmund Lubin dies of heart disease at the age of 72 in Ventnor, New Jersey. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 24/9 - |
Three Ages, Buster Keaton’s first feature film, opens with a claymation sequence in which the comedian rides on a dinosaur. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 30/9 - |
While Valentino’s fans wait for the release of his first film since Blood and Sand, a second Latin Lover comes to fame. Ramon Novarro’s Scaramouche, directed by Rex Ingram, premieres in New York. [MORE] [ADD] |
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A Woman of Paris, Charlie Chaplin’s first film since fulfilling his contractual obligations with First National is released. Seven months in the making, the United Artists film is a dramatic story in which Chaplin makes only a fleeting cameo appearance as a railway porter. He chooses instead to direct Adolphe Menjou and Edna Purviance in the lead roles. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 16/10 - |
Walt Disney Studios are effectively created when Walt and his brother Roy sign a contract with New York based distributors M.J. Winkler Productions to produce six comedy shorts. This follows the failure of Disney’s Laugh-O-Grams venture after the release of Alice’s Wonderland, featuring Virginia Davis as a real-life girl in a cartoon world. [MORE] [ADD] |
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J. G. Jones proposes rounded corners on the perforations of 35mm film to avoid tearing. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2/12 - |
Evidence of western star William S. Hart’s declining popularity is provided by the lacklustre response to his latest film, Wild Bill Hickock. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 24/12 - |
Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments opens at the George M. Cohan Theater in New York. The 2 1/2 hour epic stars Richard Dix, Theodore Roberts, Rod La Roc, Leatrice Joy and Nita Naldi. The film enjoys box-office success while failing to find favour with critics. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Walt Disney completes production of Alice’s Day at the Sea – the first of a planned series of six short comedies for M. J. Winkler Productions, at a cost of $750.00. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Urban Motion Picture Industries markets the Spirograph, a film projector that uses discs, which was invented in 1907. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Albert, Harry, Jack and Sam Warner incorporate their film production and distribution business and call it Warner Brothers Pictures Inc. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Walter Lantz becomes head of Bray Studios. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Maria P. Williams becomes the first African-American female film producer when Flames of Wrath is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Einstein Theory of Relativity (Max and Dave Fleischer) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Pilgrim (Charles Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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