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The History of Cinema: 1903 |
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| – Lin Zhusan holds cinematograph projections at the Tien Lo tea house in Peking. [MORE] | ||||
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| – Denmark’s first fiction film, Henrettelson (Capital Execution) by royal photographer Peter Elfelt is released. [MORE] | ||||
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France |
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| 18/1 - | Lumiere launches footage of phantasmagorical, genre and transformation scenes. [ADD] | |||
| 1/3 - | 1st issue of le Fascinateur, a magazine for movie lovers, is published. [MORE] | |||
| 5/4 - | Ferdinand Zecca’s la Vie d’un Joueur is released by Pathe. [MORE] | |||
| 12/9 - | The Lumieres apply for a patent for Autochrome, a trichromatic method of processing colour photographs. The patent is passed on 17th December 1903. [MORE] | |||
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| Oct - | Georges Melies begins shooting Faust aux Enfers. He plays a leading role in the film, which has 15 scenes. [MORE] | |||
| – Pathe introduces stencil-coloured prints of its films. [ADD] | ||||
| Germany | ||||
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| 29/8 - | Oskar Messter presents a series of talking films (Biophon Tonbilder) at the Apollo Theatre in Berlin. [MORE] | |||
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Gt. Britain |
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| Feb - | – G. A. Smith releases Mary Jane’s Mishap, which features relatively sophisticated editing techniques such as establishing shots, medium close-ups and wipes. [MORE] | |||
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| 2/11 - | Charles Urban opens The Urban Trading Company and begins filming all over the world. His new company also distributes the films of Georges Melies and manufactures cameras. [MORE] | |||
| – Cecil Hepworth’s production company releases cinema’s first literary adaptation, a version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, starring May Clark and directed by Hepworth and Percy Stow. [MORE] | ||||
| – Alfred Collins makes the first British chase movie: The Runaway Match (AKA Marriage by Motor) and The Pickpocket. | ||||
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India |
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| 1/1 - | Bhatavadekar and American Biograph film Lord Curzon’s Delhi Durbar. [ADD] | |||
| 8/2 - | Gaumont, Pathe, Georges Mendel and Warwick all release films simultaneously about Edward VII's coronation durbar in Delhi. [ADD] | |||
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Japan |
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| Oct - | The country’s first cinema opens in Asakusa, Tokyo. Cinemas became known as denki-kan (Electric Theatre) [MORE] | |||
| – Komatsu, the country’s first production company, begins trading. [ADD] | ||||
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Other Films of Note |
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| France | ||||
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| La Belle au bois dormant (Pathe) | ||||
| Don Quichotte (Pathe) | ||||
| Erreur de porte (Ferdinand Zecca) | ||||
| La lanterne magique (Georges Melies) | ||||
| Le Melomane (Georges Melies) | ||||
| Le vie et la passion de Jesus Christ (Lucien Nonguet, Ferdinand Zecca) | ||||
| Le Royaume des fees (Georges Melies) | ||||
| Le Voyage dans la Lune (Lucien Nonguet, Ferdinand Zecca) [ADD] | ||||
| Germany | ||||
| Akt-Skulpturen (Oskar Messter) | ||||
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Great Britain |
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| Desperate Poaching Affray (William Haggar) | ||||
| The Great City Fire (Warwick) | ||||
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Weary Willie and Tired Tim – The Gunpowder Plot (William Haggar) |
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