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The History of Cinema: 1910 |
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An auction sale of Pathe cameras and 500 films is held at the Hotel Drouot in Paris. [ADD] |
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| 27/2 - |
The weekly Cine Journal demands the establishment of a Cinematographoteque, an archive for the nation’s films. [ADD] |
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| 28/2 - |
Gaumont follow Pathe’s lead and begin renting their films instead of selling them. [ADD] |
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George Eastman places Eclair Co. in charge of his continental film stock warehouse situated at the Epinay factory. [ADD] |
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| 23/5 - |
Vitagraph begin supplying all films to France on new non-flammable Eastman-Kodak film. [ADD] |
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| 30/4 - |
Eclair create the Artists and Writer’s Association to compete with the Film d’Arte. It’s first release is Barberine, produced by Emile Chautard, the Association’s artistic director. [ADD] |
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| Jun - | The Enterprise Optical Co. of Chicago launch the Motiograph projector, claiming it produces a steadier picture and 40% more luminosity than other projectors. [ADD] | |||
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American company Bat Films opens for business in the town of Lyon. [ADD] |
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| 18/8 - |
Gaumont release Louis Feuillade’s Le Pater, the first in a series of art films intended to compete with the successful films produced by Film d’Arte. [ADD] |
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The Optique Company launches Multicolour, a process that adds colour to films during projection. [ADD] |
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| 31/8 - |
Pathe construct a 30,000 square metre factory to produce and process raw film, thus ending Eastman-Kodak’s monopoly. [ADD] |
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| 10/9 - |
Abel Gance appears in Leonce Perret’s Moliere, and sells original scenarios to Gaumont, Pathe and Film d’Arte. [ADD] |
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| 29/10 - | Pathe heavily promote its new comic creation, Rigadin, played by Charles Petit-Demange, in his first film, Rigadin va dans la Grand Monde, directed by Georges Monca. [ADD] | |||
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| 10/11 - |
Star comedian Max Linder is rushed to hospital for an emergency appendices operation. [ADD] |
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| 24/12 - |
Gaumont launches a series of Bebe films, featuring five-year old Anatole Clement Mary in the title role. Renee Carl and Paul Manson play Bebe’s parents, and the films are directed by Louis Feuillade. [ADD] |
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– Eugene Lauste produces a feasible sound-on-film recording. [ADD] |
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– Gaumont acquire the Hippodrome, a former ice rink, in Paris. [ADD] |
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– Georges Melies' Star Films goes into terminal decline as he fails to accommodate changes in public taste. [ADD] |
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– Gaumont use their Chronomegaphone to show sound films called phonoscenes. Films include Carmen, Faust, Mireille, La Traviata and The Barber of Seville. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1910 |
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Docteur. Phantom (Victorin Jasset) [ADD] |
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Le festin de Balthazar Feast (Louis Feuillade) [ADD] |
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| Werther (Henri Pouctal) [ADD] | ||||
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La Tragic aventure de Robert le Taciturne, duc D’Aquitane (Ferdinand Zecca & Henri Andreani) [ADD] |
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Une aventure secrete de Marie-Antoinette (Camille de Morlhon) [ADD] |
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Aux Lions les chretiens (Louis Feuillade) [ADD] |
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Les Deux Orphelines (Alberto Capellani) [ADD] |
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