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| 17/2 - | Edison again attempt to introduce their Kinetophone Sound film system in cinemas in New York, Chicago and St. Louis. 250 films employing the process are made but the system meets with little success [MORE] | |||
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Famous Players’ first film, The Prisoner of Zenda, opens in New York. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Vitagraph makes a permanent move from New York, which has to date been the country’s movie capital, and opens a studio in Santa Monica. [MORE] [ADD] |
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William S. Hart makes his debut in The Scourge of the Devil, a film produced by Thomas H. Ince and directed by Reginald Barker. [MORE] [ADD] |
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JJ Burns and Harry Revier turn the Stern Family Barn at Vine and Streets in Hollywood into a film studio facility. Their first client is the former Sennett comedian Fred Mace. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 26/5 - |
The actor’s Equity Association union is formed in New York. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Driving another nail into their coffin, the MPPC rejects W. W. Hodkinson’s proposed film distribution scheme. Hodkinson resigns to form Progressive Pictures and distribute films on the West Coast. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1/6 - |
D. W. Griffith begins filming Judith of Bethulia, his first four-reeler with his highest budget ever: $36,000. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 10/9 - |
Famous Players Co release In the Bishop’s Carriage, directed by Edwin S. Porter. The film stars new signing Mary Pickford, who is paid $2,000 per week. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 15/9 - |
Eastman-Kodak release a new panchromatic film which has greater sensitivity to tonal range than orthochromatic, but which lacks stability and takes longer to process. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 25/9 - |
24-year-old British comic Charles Chaplin signs for the Keystone Picture Corp for $150 per week. He arrives in Los Angeles in early December. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1/10 - |
D. W. Griffith signs with Reliance-Majestic, a branch of the Mutual Film Corporation, to make two or three feature-length films per year. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 23/11 - |
Jesse Lasky’s Feature Play Co. is incorporated in New York with capital of $50,000. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 24/11 - |
Traffic in Souls, a sensationalised expose of the white slave trade is released to what the New York World calls “popular hysteria”. Demand to see the Universal film – directed by George Loane Tucker – results in ticket prices at New York’s Weber’s Theatre being raised to an exorbitant 25 cents. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1/12 - |
Gaston Melies returns from his world tour to discover that heat has destroyed much of the film shot on the tour, and that his company is on the verge of bankruptcy. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 7/12 - |
The seven-reel The Sea Wolf, the last of twelve feature films made in the US this year, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 20/12 - |
The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. arrives at the Alexandra Hotel in Los Angeles in preparation for production of The Squaw Man. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 22/12 - |
Cecil B. DeMille takes a lease on the Burns & Revier studio in Hollywood at $25 per month on behalf of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 26/12 - |
26-year-old Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle’s movie career takes off with the release of such films as Fatty Joins the Force and Fatty’s Day Off after signing with Mack Sennett’s Keystone film company and finding himself promoted from the ranks of the Keystone Kops. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Cecil B. DeMille begins shooting The Squaw Man with Dustin Farnum in a converted barn at Selma and Vine in Hollywood. It is the first film to be directed by Jesse Lasky’s Feature Play Co., which he co-founded with brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish, DeMille and Arthur Friend. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Cameramen in California form The Static Club of America, while three Edison cameramen form the Cinema Camera Club. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– William Fox forms the Box Office Attraction Company – the forerunner of Fox Film Company. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The first ‘movie palaces’ appear in New York. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– D. W. Griffith and his cameraman G. W. Bitzer make the first use of ‘irising’, the circular masking of a motion picture, in The Battle of Elderbush Gulch, which is released in Germany in November 1913, four months before it is released in the United States. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Siegmund Lubin makes his first feature films at Philadelphia. He also establishes a studio in Hollywood and employs Henry King and Oliver Hardy. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Other Films of Note |
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The Adventures of Kathlyn (F. J. Grandon) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Battle of the Sexes (D. W. Griffith) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Ivanhoe (Herbert Brenon) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Suspense (Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley) [MORE] [ADD] |
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