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The History of Cinema: 1904 |
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Bolivia - Japan |
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– Retrato de Personajes Históricos y de Actualidad, the country’s first film, is released. [ADD] |
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| 17/9 - | Constantin Philipsen opens the Cosmorama, the country’s first permanent cinema, in Copenhagen. [MORE] | |||
| France | ||||
| 6/2 - | Gaumont’s logo ‘Elge’ – Leon Gaumont’s initials – features a daisy for the first time in corporate newspaper l’industrial forain. [MORE] | |||
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Charles Pathé builds a new studio at rue 52 Sergent-Bobillot, Montreuil. [ADD] |
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| 24/3 - | Lucien Bell, director of the Marey Institute at the Bois du Boulogne photographs the path of a bullet through various objects. [MORE] | |||
| 2/4 - | Georges Mendel opens the Cinema-Grapho-Theatre in Paris. [ADD] | |||
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– Etienne-Jules Marey, inventor of the Chronophotographe, dies. [ADD] |
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The Pathe Brothers open the Bound Brook film studio in New Jersey, USA, and a sales outlet in New York for their photographic equipment. The company now has 12,000 titles in its catalogue. [ADD] |
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| Germany | ||||
| – Deutsche Mutoskop build new studios in the Berlin suburb of Lankwitz, and release Der Raubmord am Spandauer Schifffahrtskanal bei Berlin (Robbery & Murder on the Spandau Ship Canal Near Berlin). [ADD] | ||||
| Great Britain | ||||
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| 8/5 - | Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneer of the study of animal locomotion which resulted in the birth of cinema, dies. [MORE] | |||
| – H. D. Taylor patents his invention of coated lenses. [MORE] | ||||
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– H. V. Lawley and Percy Stow found the Clarendon Film Company with a studio at Limes Road, Croydon. [MORE] |
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| India | ||||
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– Manek Sethna founds the Touring Cinema Co. in Bombay. [ADD] |
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Iran |
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– Mirza Ebrahim Khan Sahaf Bashi gives the first public film screening in the back of his antique shop on Cheragh Gaz Avenue in Tehran. [MORE] |
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| Italy | ||||
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| 20/1 - | Filoteo Alberini opens the Cinema Moderno, Italy’s first purpose-built cinema. [MORE] | |||
| Japan | ||||
| Yoshizawa Shoten and Yokota Shokai send camera teams to the front to film the events of the Russo-Japanese War. [ADD] | ||||
| Other Films of Note | ||||
| France | ||||
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Indiens et Cowboys (Georges Melies) [ADD] |
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Le Merveilleux Eventail vivant (Georges Melies) [ADD] |
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Le Voyage a travers l’impossible (Georges Melies) [ADD] |
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Great Britain |
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Jap versus Russian (R. W. Paul) [ADD] |
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| Holland | ||||
| Muis Hamel bij den Coiffeur (Albert Mullins & Willy Mullins) | ||||
| Norway - USA | ||||