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The History of Cinema: 1910 |
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Germany |
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| 12/3 - | Paul Davidson forms the Projection Aktien Gesellschaft Union (PAGU) in response to the creation of FIAG (Film Industrie Anonym Gesellschaft) in April 1909 by industrialist Von Schack which was intended to unite German exhibitors into a single organisation. [MORE] | |||
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Berlin cinema owners protest against a performance tax proposed by the city’s mayor. [ADD] |
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The UT Network opens its second theatre on Berlin’s Unter den Linden. [ADD] |
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The country’s first purpose-built cinemas are opened. [ADD] |
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Great Britain |
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The Cinematograph Act comes into force, resulting in the closure of many unsafe cinemas and the building of new ones. [MORE] |
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Electric Cinema, Britain’s second oldest surviving cinema is opened in London’s Portobello Road. [ADD] |
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Cameramen from Pathe, Gaumont, Eclipse and Raleigh & Robert film King Edward VII’s funeral in London. It is also shot in Kinemacolour. [ADD] |
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– Film studios are opened in Whipps Cross, Hoe Street, Lea Bridge Road and Wood Street, all in or surrounding the Walthamstow area of London. [ADD] |
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– The weekly Pathe’s Animated Gazette newsreel is launched. [ADD] |
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– French films account for 36 percent of all film releases in the UK. The USA holds 28% of the market while Italy account for 17% of all releases in the country. Homemade films account for only 15% of the market. [ADD] |
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– The Association of Film Renters is formed. [ADD] |
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India |
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| Dec - | Dadasaheb Phalke attends a screening of The Life of Christ at P. B. Mehta’s American-Indian Cinema in Bombay. It is a visit that will result in him becoming the founder of Indian cinema. [ADD] | |||
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Ireland |
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| Aug - | The US film company Kalem produce The Lad from Old Ireland, the country’s first fiction film, and the first US film made overseas. [MORE] | |||
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Korea |
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| - Seoul’s first movie theatre opens. [MORE] | ||||
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Macau |
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– The country’s first theatre, The Victoria Theatre, opens in the Calcada do Tronco Velho area.. [ADD] |
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Mongolia |
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| - The first films are shown in the capital city of Ulan Bator, at the American Consulate and Russian Stock Exchange's hotel. [ADD] | ||||
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South Africa |
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| Jul - | Film of black boxer Jack Johnson defeating his white opponent Jim Jeffries is banned following race riots. [ADD] | |||
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– The country’s first narrative film, The Great Kimberley Diamond Robbery, is released. Synopsis: "On the banks of the Vaal River, a Hottentot discovers a big diamond. Two diggers down on their luck buy it for four shillings but it is entrusted to a hero, Dick Grangeway, for delivery to Standard Bank in London; however, two desperadoes are after the diamond and are assisted by Lokoko, chief of a marauding tribe of kaffirs, who agrees to assist for one third of the loot ... The outspan at sunrise. Surprise by the kaffirs. Retribution. Kate, Dick's wife, escapes, taking the diamond with her and runs for assistance. The mounted police come to the rescue." [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1910 |
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Tilly the Tomboy series (Lewis Fitzhamon) |
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| Lieutenant Rose Series (Percy Stow) [ADD] | ||||
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Italy |
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| Il Cid (Mario Caserini) | ||||
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La schiavo di Cartagine (Luigi Maggi, Roberto Omegna, Arturo Ambrosio) [ADD] |
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Russia |
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| The Life and Death of Pushkin (Vassili Goncharov) | ||||
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The Idiot (Pyotr Chardynin) [ADD] |
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L’khaim (Kai Hansen, Andre Maitre) [ADD] |
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The Pedlars (Vasili Goncharov) [ADD] |
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Princess Tarakanova (Kai Hansen, Andre Maitre) [ADD] |
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| The Queen of Spades (Pyotr Chardynin) [ADD] | ||||
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Vadim (Pyotr Chardynin) [ADD] |
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| France | ||||
| USA | ||||
