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Albania |
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| - The country's first film shows are held in the cities of Shkoder and Korce. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Australia |
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| Early - | West’s Pictures buys the Australian branch of Pathe. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| Mar - | Following the success of The Story of the Kelly Gang, industrial chemical company Johnson & Gibson and J &N Tait merge to form the Amalgamated Picture Company in Melbourne. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| Dec - | The Australian government appoints a Commonwealth Photographer to film official events and government promotional films. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Botswana |
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| Jun - | The country's fourth film is made by the British company W. Butcher & son. They film at the London Missionary Society College of Tiger Kloof and at Serowe. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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China |
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| 30/6 - | The government introduces laws that ban men and women sitting together in a cinema, forbid immoral films, require authorisation for the opening of a theatre, and which decree that screenings must end before midnight. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Czechoslovakia |
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| 1/5 - | Antonin Pech founds the Kinofa Company in Prague. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Denmark |
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| 4/9 - | Release of Den Sorte Drom, Denmark’s first feature film, starring Asta Nielsen and Valdemar Psilander. It is directed by Urban Gad for Deutsche Bioskop. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – Nordisk goes public. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Finland |
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| – The country has 81 cinemas, 17 of them in Helsinki. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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France |
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| 17/2 | Leon Gaumont once again demonstrates the Chronophone to the Photographic Society, who hear a cockerel crow through the Elgephone. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 11/3 - | Anti-porn protests are held by the Anti-Pornography League in Lille, La Maison de la Bonne Press, and Cardinal Coullie, the archbishop of Lyon. They encourage protestors to whistle their disapproval during films and to deface posters for films that do not meet their moral standards. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Martel, the cameraman for Lion Films, receives the Alfred Molteni prize from the Geographical Society for his shots of Abyssinia. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Jougla Co., manufacturers of film negatives, merges with Lumiere. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Gaumont’s “La vie telle que c’est” (Life as it Really Is) series is launched with the release of Les Viperes directed by Louis Feuillade. It is the first of ten films in the series to be released in 1911. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Cine-journal disclose that old films are recycled after a treatment with celluloid to glaze high quality boots. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Max Linder’s film career continues to prosper with hits such as Max and his Mother-in-Law which make him known across Europe. He receives competition, however, in the form of Rigadin, another Pathe star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1/8 - | Pathe’s No 4 projection box finds itself with competition following the launch of Gaumont’s 35mm metal X series projection box. At 900 francs, Gaumont’s box is 24 francs more expensive than its rival. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Gaumont open the Gaumont Palace in Paris. The largest cinema in the world, it seats 3,400 and houses a 30-piece orchestra and choir under the direction of Paul Fosse. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 10/11 - | Film d’Art releases Madame San-Gene, which continues their philosophy of producing high quality films. The company continues to lose money, however, and Charles Delac replaces Paul Gavault as head of the organisation. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 11/11 - | Georges Melies’ Les aventures de Baron de Munchhausen is released despite the misgivings of Charles Pathe and Louis Feuillade regarding its commercial qualities. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 27/12 - | Abel Gance joins the Altar Ego Company to direct four films in their small studio in Neuilly. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Germany |
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| 11/8 - | The country’s first full-length feature film, Im Grossen Augenblick, is released. Asta Neilsen and Hugo Flink are directed by Urban Gad. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Asta Neilsen and Urban Gad form the International Film Sales Company, with Paul Davidson as senior partner. [MORE] [ADD]
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| 31/12 - | Deutsche Bioskop build a glass-walled studio in Babelsberg on grounds measuring 40,000 square metres. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Great Britain |
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| Feb - | Will Barker’s 60-minute Henry VIII is sold on an exclusivity basis whereby exhibitors hiring the film can enjoy a short-term monopoly – an early example of a practice that will come to be known as barring. The film stars Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Cardinal Wolseley (at a cost of £1,000 per day) and contains the first musical composition for a film written by a reputed composer (Edward German) [MORE] | |||
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Charles Urban leases the Scala Theatre in London to exhibit Kinemacolour films. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Incorporated Association of Kinematograph Manufacturers (KMA) is formed as a limited company. [MORE] [ADD] |
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British audiences follow the progress of Captain Robert Scott’s expedition to the South Pole thanks to the documentary footage shot by Herbert G. Ponting. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Hepworth’s studios name actress Gladys Sylvani in their promotional material for the film Stolen Letters, giving her the distinction of being the first named film star. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Cinematographic film is first mentioned in the UK Copyright Act, and offers protection for the author’s lifetime plus fifty years. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Greece |
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| – Quo Vadis Spiridion, believed to be Greece’s first film, is made. It is directed by Spiros Dimitracopoulos. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Hungary |
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– Alexander Korda embarks on his film career as a critic in Budapest Mozgofenykep Hirado. [MORE] [ADD] |
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India |
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| 12/12 - | The Durbar at Delhi, the first major colour film production, is filmed in Kinemacolour. The event is also recorded by Hiralal Sen, Bourne & Shepherd, Gaumont, Imperial Bioscope, S. N. Patankar and J. F. Madan. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – Andai Bose and Debi Ghose found The Aurora Film Company. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Italy |
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| 22/3 - | L’Inferno, Italy’s first full-length feature film (at 71 minutes) is released. Francesco Bertolini and Adolfo Padovan direct. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Romania |
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| 18/9 - | Premiere of Romania's first fiction film, Amor Fatal (Fatal Love Affair). The Bucharest National Theatre actors Lucia Sturdza, Tony Bulandra and Aurel Barbelian star, and Grigore Brezeanu directs. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 7/11 - | The premiere of Insir'te margarite takes place. The film includes several location shots of Romania which are then screened during performances of the play at the National Theatre. Aristide Demetriade and Grigore Brezeanu direct. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| - Nicolae Barbelian and Demichelli’s Papusa (The Doll), an ‘arrangement of a play for the cinema,’ is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Dec - | The prefect of Bucharest’s police confiscates Raymond Pellerin’s Razbouil din 1877-1878 (The 1877-1878 War) and has it destroyed on the grounds that it doesn’t correspond with historical fact. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – A man named Georgescu directs (Dragoste la manastire (Love in a Monastery), or Doua altare (Two Altars) from a script provided free by Victor Eftimiu and Emil Garleanu. The film is not released until 1914 and runs for only eight days. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Sweden |
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| – The National Board of Film Censors is established. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Turkey |
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| 31/1 - | Leon Gaumont opens a branch of Comtoir-Cine-Location, a firm that rents films made by Gaumont, in Istanbul. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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USA |
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| 12/1 - | Harry Aitken and John Freuler form the Majestic Motion Picture Co. in Chicago. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| 16/1 - | Biograph release D. W. Griffith’s His Trust, followed three days later by His Trust Fulfilled, refusing the director’s wish to see both films screened simultaneously. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 31/1 - | Vitagraph opens a studio in California. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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| Apr - | The separation of production, distribution and exhibition begins to take shape when William Wadsworth Hodkinson, the San Francisco regional representative for the MPPC’s General Film Company, offers a cash advance to independent producers in return for exclusive rights to distribute their films. This is a move to replace the existing ‘state rights’ system whereby a producer will sell a print outright to any exhibitor, usually at a charge of 10 cents per foot. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 14/6 - | Biograph present both parts of D. W. Griffith’s two-reel Enoch Arden in one screening. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 19/6 - | The first state film censorship board is established by the state of Pennsylvania. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 8/8 - | The first edition of Pathe Weekly is screened in the USA. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| 30/8 - | French production company Eclair opens its first American branch in New York. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Thomas Harper Ince sets new standards in the western genre with his films for Bison Pictures after purchasing the services of the Miller Brothers’ 101 Ranch Wild West Show in California. The show boasts genuine cowboys, cowgirls, Indians and squaws, as well as trained horses, buffalo, oxen, wagons and stagecoaches. The films are shot on the 20,000 acres of land that was specifically bought for the purpose of providing an authentic location for the films. Ince’s first film is War on the Plains. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 2/10 - | David Horsley begins building the Nestor studio in Hollywood at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – Pathe opens a production studio in the United States. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – James Quirk publishes Photoplay magazine in Chicago, and Vitagraph’s J. Stuart Blackton publishes Motion Picture Story, thus reputedly beginning the celebrity culture. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| – Adolph Zukor founds the Engadine Corporation to distribute Italian and French films in the US. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – A decision is finally reached in the Kalem Ben Hur copyright case. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Other Films of Note |
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| De Fire Djaevle (Alfred Lind & Robert Dineson/Kinografen) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Balletdanserinden (August Blom) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| André Chénier (Louis Feuillade, Étienne Arnaud) | ||||
| Dans la vie (Leonce Perret) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Anna Karenina (Andre Maitre) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Les Victimes de l’alcool (Ferdinand Zecca) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Camille Desmoulins (Henri Pouctal) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Nick Winter contre Nick Winter (Gerard Bourgeois) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Fin de Paganini (Louis Feuillade) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Notre Dame de Paris (Alberto Capellini) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Little Moritz chasse les grands fauves (Romeo Bosetti) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Calino series (Jean Durand) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Dame aux camellias (Andre Calmettes) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Les Miserables (Albert Capellani) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Les Mysteres de Paris (Albert Capellani) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Zigomar series (Victorien Jasset) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Lieutenant Daring series (Dave Aylott) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Richard III (Frank Benson) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Rob Roy (Arthur Vivian/James Bowie) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Italy |
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La Caduta di Troia (Giovanni Pastrone) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Gerusalemme liberata (Enrico Guazzoni/Cines) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Nozze d’oro (Luigi Maggi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La portatrice di pane (Romolo Bacchini) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Norway |
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Fattigdommens forbandelse (H. Nobel Roede) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Poland |
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| Dzieje Grzechu (Antoni Bednarczyk) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Russia |
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The Kreutzer Scandal (Alexander Khanjonkov) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Demon (Giovanni Vitrotti) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Romance with Double Bass (Kai Hansen) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Tale of the Fisherman and the Little Fish (Kai Hansen) [MORE] [ADD] |
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South Africa |
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| The Star of the South (Springbok Film Co.) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Spain |
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| Lucha por la herencia (Otto Mulhauser) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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USA |
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| A Tale of Two Cities (J. Stuart Blackton & William Humphrey) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Little Nemo (Winsor McCay & J. Stuart Blackton) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| The Battle (D. W. Griffith) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| The Lonedale Operator (D. W. Griffith) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Venezuela |
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| The Lady of Cayenas (E. Zimmerman) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Yugoslavia |
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| Zivot I Dela Besmrtnog Vozda Karadjordje (I. Stojadinovic) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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