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| 25/2 - | Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse Discuss the Letter G, the first in the cartoon series of George Herriman’s comic strip character, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 26/2 - | Charlie Chaplin signs a new one-year contract with Mutual. He will receive $10,000 per week in addition to a sum of $150,000 upon signing, making him the world’s highest paid film star. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 12/3 - | The Habit of Happiness, starring Douglas Fairbanks and directed by Allan Dwan, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 27/3 - | Actress Gloria Swanson marries character actor Wallace Beery. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 27/3 - | Mutual Film Corporation equips The Lone Star studios to make Chaplin films. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 17/4 - | Thomas Ince’s pacifist epic Civilisation is released. Inspired by J Stuart Blackton’s Battle Cry of Peace, the ten-reel film is produced by Triangle. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| April - | Cowboy star William S. Hart’s popularity grows due to a series of films made at Triangle. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 15/5 - | The Floorwalker, Charlie Chaplin’s first film for Mutual, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 16/6 - | The Jesse Lasky Feature Play Co. and Famous Players merge to form Famous Players-Lasky Corporation with Adolph Zukor as company president. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 24/6 - | Charlie Chaplin loses his legal battle with Essanay over their reworking of his Charlie Chaplin’s Burlesque on Carmen. Essanay added scenes deleted by Chaplin and added additional scenes (directed by Lee Taylor) featuring Ben Turpin. Chaplin claimed his rights as an author had been infringed. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 1/8 - | Comedian Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle signs a contract for producer Joseph M. Schenck which gives him full artistic control over the Comique Film Corporation. Arbuckle will earn $7,000 per week plus 25% of profits. Paramount will finance and distribute the films. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 5/8 - | A selected audience is invited to the screening of D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance at Riverside, California. Featuring, in its Babylon sequence, the largest backdrop to date, the movie is another made on the grand scale. Griffith went into debt to complete filming when his backers faltered. The film, however, is not a popular commercial success, largely due to its groundbreaking structure in which four separate tales are intertwined. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 15/8 - | The Artcraft Pictures Corporation is formed by Paramount to distribute Mary Pickford films. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 14/9 - | Samuel Goldfish resigns as administrative president of Famous Players-Lasky after a series of disagreements with company President Adolph Zukor. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| Sept - | Vitagraph buys out Lubin, Selig and Essanay, its partners in VLSE. It also acquires the Kalem production company. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 12/11 - | Alla Nazimova makes her film debut in Herbert Brenon’s pacifist short, War Brides. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 9/12 - | Charlie Chaplin wins a court case to prevent the publishing of an unauthorised biography, Charlie Chaplin’s Own Story. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 16/12 - | Samuel Goldfish forms a new production company, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, with Broadway producers Edgar and Arch Selwyn. Goldfish will soon take the name of Goldwyn as his own. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – The world’s first known ‘twin cinema’ opens at 1540 Chene Street, Detroit. Originally designed by architect C. Howard Crane in 1913, it is enlarged and converted into two auditoria by architect George D. Hurlburt. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – The National Committee for Better Films is formed. Its aim is to ‘both liberate and formulate thought regarding motion pictures, their uses and possibilities, and the best way to achieve a free screen of the most desirable kind.’ [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| – William Fox leases a studio in Edendale, Los Angeles. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – The Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE) is formed. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – German-born Harvard psychologist Hugo Munsterburg carries out a study on the effects on audiences of watching films entitled The Photoplay: a Psychological Study. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| – Siegmund Lubin’s Los Angeles and Coronado studios are closed, while creditors claim his Lubinville and Betzwood studios. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Universal sets up Hollywood’s first Indian agency. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Other Films of Note | ||||
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| Behind the Screen (Charlie Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| The Count (Charlie Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| The Fireman (Charlie Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Hell’s Hinges (William S. Hart) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Joan the Woman (Cecil B. DeMille) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| One A.M. (Charlie Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| The Pawnshop (Charlie Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| The Rink (Charlie Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| The Vagabond (Charlie Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||