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The History of Cinema: 1904 |
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| 30/10 - |
The country’s first permanent cinema opens in Stortingsgaten 12, Kristiana. [MORE] |
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– The Salão Ideal,Portugal’s second cinema, opens. [ADD] |
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– The British Consul Arnold M. Wilson, and his cameraman Frank Mottershaw, shoot film of the Coronation of King Petar I Karadjordjevic, as well as some scenes from Kraljevo, the monastery of Zica and Novi Pazar, These are the oldest existing Serbian films. [ADD] |
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| Uruguay | ||||
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– French filmmaker Corbicier shoots film of the civil war. [ADD] |
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| 13/1 - | Photographing a Female Crook, Wallace McCutcheon’s 40-second film for American Mutoscope & Biograph, makes use of a shot that tracks into a close-up. [MORE] | |||
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George Hale of the Kansas City Fire Brigade introduces ‘Hale’s Touring Car,’ a new novelty, at the St. Louis Fair. Sitting in a mock-up of a train carriage, the audience watches the passing scenery of locations from around the world. [MORE] |
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| 10/7 - |
Oskar Messter shoots films with a synchronised soundtrack at the St. Louis Olympics. [ADD] |
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| – William Fox purchases a Brooklyn penny arcade called The Automat from J. Stuart Blackton, while Adolph Zukor forms The Automatic Vaudeville Co. with Mitchell Mark. [MORE] | ||||
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| – Eugene Lauste builds a sound-on-film system using separate films for picture and sound. [MORE] | ||||
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– Siegmund Lubin unsuccessfully attempts to market sound movies. [MORE] |
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– Biograph’s The Moonshiner is one of the first films to make consistent use of intertitles. [MORE] [ADD] |
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