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The History of American Cinema: 1929 |
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| 15/9 - |
Luther Reed’s Rio Rita, starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles, marks RKO’s biggest hit of their first year in business. [ADD] |
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| 24/9 - |
An agreement is reached between the French and America regarding importation quotas. It is assumed that the advent of sound will serve as protection for the French filmmakers. [ADD] |
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| 28/9 - |
John Gilbert’s first sound film, His Glorious Night, is released. The microphones are not kind to Gilbert’s voice, coaxing laughter from audiences at inappropriate moments, and the films marks the beginning of the end for the former heartthrob’s career. [ADD] |
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| Sep - |
The Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, the first to be made in Fox’s Grandeur 70mm widescreen process is screened on a 28ft x 14ft screen at the Gaiety Theater, Broadway, New York. [ADD] |
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| Sep - |
Cinema manager Harry Woodin proposes the idea of Mickey Mouse Club meetings in cinemas to Walt Disney. [ADD] |
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| 20/10 - |
The Cockeyed World, Raoul Walsh’s sequel to his 1926 smash hit What Price Glory, is released. Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe reprise their roles as Sergeants Flagg and Quirt. [ADD] |
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| 26/10 - |
Robert Montgomery appears in his first sound film, Sam Wood’s So This is College, as one of a trio of college seniors in love with the same girl. [ADD] |
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| 26/10 - |
Premiere of Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew, in which Hollywood royalty Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford co-star. Although they would remain together for a further seven years their marriage was already rumoured to be in trouble. [ADD] |
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| 2/11 - |
The Embassy on Broadway, New York, the first news cinema, opens for business. [ADD] |
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| 1/11 - |
Warner Brothers completes its takeover of First National. [ADD] |
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| 19/11 - |
Ernst Lubitsch’s first talking movie, The Love Parade starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette Macdonald is released. The director is nominated for an Academy Award for best director. [ADD] |
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MGM announces a $2m investment in bringing foreign actors to Hollywood to make French, German and Spanish versions of their films. [ADD] |
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| 16/12 - |
Walt Disney Productions is formed. Walt and his wife, Lillian own 60%, Walt’s brother Roy owns the other 40%. [ADD] |
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– The seven largest Hollywood studios release a total of 290 films, of which only 38 are silent. Fox, United Artists and Warner Brother make no silent films. 166 films are all-talking, 50 are part-talkie and 36 have music and sound effects but no dialogue. [ADD] |
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| – Six Technicolor films are released this year: Gold Diggers of Broadway, On With the Show, and The Show of Shows from Warner Brothers, The Mysterious Island and The Viking From MGM, and Mamba from independent production company Tiffany. [ADD] | ||||
| – Carl Laemmle appoints his son, Carl Laemmle Jr. as head of production at Universal. [ADD] | ||||
| – The major Hollywood studios establish vocal training departments to improve their actors’ voices. [ADD] | ||||
| – 24 frames per second is established as the sound motion picture standard. [ADD] | ||||
| – The Walter Lantz Studio opens. Their films are distributed by Universal. [ADD] | ||||
Other Key Films of 1929 |
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Alibi (Roland West) [ADD] |
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Applause (Rouben Mamoulian) [ADD] |
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Four Devils (F. W. Murnau) [ADD] |
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (Charles Reisner) [ADD] |
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Lucky Star (Frank Borzage) [ADD] |
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Les Miserables (Richard Boleslawski) [ADD] |
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Noah’s Ark (Michael Curtiz) [ADD] |
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The Racket (Lewis Milestone) [ADD] |
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Sonny Boy (Archie Mayo) [ADD] |
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The Virginian (Victor Fleming) [ADD] |
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