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| 28/1 - | The Americano, Douglas Fairbanks’ last film for Triangle, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 1/2 - | Douglas Fairbanks signs a contract with Walter E. Greene and Al Lichtman of Artcraft. The deal gives the actor’s Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation complete autonomy, and awards Fairbanks a weekly salary of $10,000 plus a percentage of profits. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 1/2 - | The Other Girl, a short directed by Oliver ‘Babe’ Hardy, and starring Ethel Marie Burton and Florence McLauglin, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 4/2 - | Bebe Daniels and Snub Pollard appear with Harold Lloyd in Luke’s Trolley Troubles, the latest in the comedian’s Lonesome Luke series directed by Hal Roach. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 11/2 - | Thomas Edison winds up his film production company following the legal failure of his Motion Picture Patents Company to form a monopolistic control of the US film industry. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 3/3 - | John Ford's (working under the name Jack Ford) first directorial effort, The Tornado, is released. Ford also stars. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 24/3 - | The Dinosaur and the Missing Link, a Prehistoric Tragedy, a short using puppet animation and directed by Willis O’Brien, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 14/4 - | A new production company, the First National Exhibitor’s Circuit is established by 27 regional distributors in an attempt to rival Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players-Lasky and Artcraft company. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 23/4 - | The Butcher Boy, Roscoe ‘Fatty Arbuckle’s first film for his own Comique Film company, is released. The film co-stars newcomer Buster Keaton. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 25/4 - | Sam Goldwyn and partners form the Goldwyn Distribution Corporation. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 30/4 - | D. W. Griffith and Harry Aitken suffer substantial losses after Intolerance is withdrawn from general release due to America’s entry into the Great War. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 12/7 - | Cecil B. DeMille’s film The Little American, starring Mary Pickford, features two relative newcomers: Wallace Beery and Ramon Novarro. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| Sept - | Charlie Chaplin enters into a contract with First National which will net him a total of $1,075,000 over 18 months from January 1918 in return for a total of eight films. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 16/10 - | D. W. Griffith returns to America with the film crew for his latest film, Hearts of the World, which has been shooting in England and on the French front. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 17/10 - | William Fox’s Fox Film Corporation grows in stature with the release of Cleopatra, featuring the studio's star attraction, Theda Bara. In addition, the corporation signs former Selig cowboy star Tom Mix. Other stars on Fox’s books include William Farnum, Valeska Suratt and George Walsh. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 20/10 - | The Adventurer, Charlie Chaplin’s last film for Mutual, is released. His co-star is Edna Purviance. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| Oct - | In Chicago, Balaban and Katz open the Central Park Theatre, which is an immediate success and results in the rapid expansion of its cinema chain. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 30/11 - | Paramount, under the guiding hand of Adolph Zukor, emerge as a major player as other organisations fall by the wayside. The studio takes advantage of its less successful competitors' plight to sign such established stars as Roscoe Arbuckle, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart and Charles Ray. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – The Motion Pictures Patent Company is dissolved by federal court order. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| – Mary Pickford earns $10,000 per week. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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The Cure (Charles Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Easy Street (Charles Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| The Honor System (Raoul Walsh) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| The Immigrant (Charles Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Panthea (Allan Dwan) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Poor Little Rich Girl (Maurice Tourneur) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pride of the Clan (Maurice Tourneur) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Marshal Neilan) [MORE] [ADD] |
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A Romance of the Redwoods (Cecil B. DeMille) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Woman God Forgot (Cecil B. DeMille) [MORE] [ADD] |