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The History of Cinema: 1905 |
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| Jul - | Liu Zhonglun shoots China’s first film, Ding jun shan (Conquering Jun Mountain), three scenes from a famous Peking opera, for Ren Qingtai’s Fengtai Photography Studio. | |||
| Denmark | ||||
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| 23/4 - | Ole Olsen, a former circus impresario, opens Copenhagen’s first permanent cinema – The Biograf Theater – at 47 Vimmelskaftet. [ADD] | |||
| France | ||||
| 10/2 - | Dr. Eugene Doyen successfully sues cameraman Ambroise-Francois Parnaland for profiting from educational films of the doctor’s operations without his consent. [MORE] | |||
| 16/2 - | Charles Pathe opens a showroom at 31 boulevard des Italiens in Paris to present his films to showmen and cinema owners. [ADD] | |||
| 4/3 - | Parishioners of the Church of Saint Just in Narbonne fail in their legal action against the Dulaar family for filming them without their consent because they were filmed in a public place and had been informed. [MORE] | |||
| 28/7 - | Pathe release The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ directed by Lucien Nonguet. [ADD] | |||
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| 5/8 - | Comedian Max Linder appears in his first film, Premiere sortie d’un collegien, directed by Louis Gasnier for Pathe. [ADD] | |||
| 11/8 - | Pathe release their first chase film (course comique), Dix femmes pour un mari (Ten Women for One Husband), a copy of the British film Personal. The film is directed by Georges Hatot, Lucien Nonguet and Ferdinnd Zecca. [ADD] | |||
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Georges Melies releases Le Raid Paris-Monte Carlo en deux heures in full colour using a stencil technique pioneered by Pathe and Gaumont. [ADD] |
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| Nov - | La Legende de Rip van Winkle is released by Georges Melies. [ADD] | |||
| Dec - | Pathé's Omnia theatre opens on the Montmartre boulevard in Paris. [ADD] | |||
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| – The Lumiere Brothers cease film production. [ADD] | ||||
| Germany | ||||
| – The Chief Constable of Berlin orders preventative censorship. [ADD] | ||||
| – The Alfred Duskes Kinomatographen & Film Fabriken, the country’s first distribution company, is founded in Berlin. The company both sells and rents films to cinema owners. [ADD] | ||||
| Great Britain | ||||
| 7/1 - | The Charles Urban Trading Co. releases four reels of authentic footage of the Russo-Japanese war. [MORE] | |||
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| Jan - | Cecil Hepworth releases Rescued by Rover. [ADD] | |||
| 1/10 - | William Haggar releases The Life of Charles Peace. | |||
| – Cecil Hepworth builds a studio with artificial lighting at Hurst Grove, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. [ADD] | ||||
| India | ||||
| – Swamikannu Vincent, a railway draughtsman, begins a traveling tent theatre in the south of the country. [ADD] | ||||
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| – Jamshedji Framji Madan produces Jyotish Sarkar’s film of a protest rally against the Partition of Bengal. [ADD] | ||||
| Italy | ||||
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Filoteo Alberini releases La Presa di Roma, 20 Settembre 1870, the first Italian fiction film. [ADD] |
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| – The Primo Stabilimento Italiano di Manifattura Cinematografica, forerunner of the Cines studio, is established in Rome. [ADD] | ||||
| – The Cines Co. headed by Italians Filoteo Alberini and Dante Santoni and the French Marchese Ernesto Pacelli and Barone Alberto Fassini build Italy’s first studio in the Via Appia Nuova. [ADD] | ||||
| Japan | ||||
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– Yokota Shokai founds a film studio in Kyoto. [ADD] |
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| Other Films of Note | ||||
| France | ||||
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| L’amant de la lune (Ferdinand Zecca, Gaston Velle) | ||||
| L’Ange de Noel (Georges Melies) [ADD] | ||||
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Les Invisibles (Gaston Velle) [ADD] |
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Le Palais des mille et une nuits (Georges Melies) [ADD] |
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| Reve a la lune (Ferdinand Zecca) [ADD] | ||||
| Les Reves d’un fumeur d’opium (Victorien Jasset) [ADD] | ||||
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Revolution en Russie (Lucien Nonguet) [ADD] |
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| Germany | ||||
| Frau Rauberhauptmann (Internationale Kinematographen GmbH) | ||||
| Great Britain | ||||
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Mutiny on a Russian Battleship (Alf Collins) [ADD] |
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