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The number of feature films (films running longer than one hour) made in the world in 1913 is over 200. Germany makes 49, Russia 31, Italy 29, UK 18, Denmark 13, USA 12, Hungary 11, Rumania 10. |
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J D Williams Amusement Co. and General Film Company join forces to form ‘the combine,’ cinema’s first example of vertical integration. Production and distribution come under the banner of Australasia Films, while exhibition is handled by Union Theatres. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Belgium |
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A gas explosion that destroys a house in rue de la Montagne, Brussels, is shown on the screen by producer and cameraman Isidore Moray five hours after it occurs. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Alfred Machin directs Maudite soit la Guerre (War is Cursed), the country’s first feature film, with a running time of 82 minutes. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Bolivia |
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– Luis Castillo makes Bolivia’s first motion picture. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Brazil |
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– Brazil’s first feature film is made this year. It is O Crime dos Banhados, and it is directed by Francisco Santos. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Canada | ||||
| – The Great Unknown, directed by OAC Lund, is Canada’s first feature-length film. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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China |
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| 31/12 - |
Having been taken over from Benjamin Polaski by American businessmen Essler and Lehrman, the Asia Film Co., releases Nanfu Nanqi, China’s first feature-length narrative film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Cuba |
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| 6/8 - |
Enrique Diaz Quesada directs the tale of a national war hero, El Rey de los Campos de Cuba (The King of the Cuban Plains) aka Manuel Garcia, Cuba’s first feature film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Cyprus |
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- The first commercial screening of a film is held by a Turkish-Cypriot named Mustafa Ali. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Czechoslovakia |
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| 10/10 - |
The recently formed Asum Company releases Max Urban’s The Bartered Bride, Czechoslovakia’s first feature-length film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Denmark |
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| 9/4 - |
The Danske Statens Arkiv for Historiske Film og Stemmer (Danish State Archive for Historical Film & Sound) establishes the world’s first film archive at the Royal Library, Copenhagen. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 26/12 - |
Nordisk’s ambitious Atlantis is released. Directed by August Blom, the film was originally intended to be between 4,000 and 5,000 metres long, which equates to a running time of more than four hours. Less than 2450 metres make it onto the screen. Versions in other countries are even shorter. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Finland |
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Kun Onni Pettaa (directed by Konrad Tallroth), Finland’s first feature film, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The Atelier Apollo film company closes. [MORE] [ADD] |
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France |
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| 17/1 - | The Bebe Theatre is opened by M. Mary, whose son Clement starred in the Gaumont series of the same name. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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The Minister of the Interior bans the screening of any films depicting recently committed crimes or capital punishment. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 22/6 - |
Film director Victorin Jasset dies from complications after surgery at the age of 51. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 26/6 - |
Eclair declare a profit of 943,590 francs, while Pathe boast a staggering profit of 7.3 million francs. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 5/9 - |
Victorin Jasset’s final film, Protea, is released in Paris. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 5/12 - |
The Gaumont Palace in Paris screens Gaumont’s Chronochrome films, one of the first French trichromatic processes. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 13/12 - |
The Lux Company is dissolved and its film lab in Gentilly is put up for sale. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Georges Melies’ Star Film Company is forced into bankruptcy. It is bought out of receivership by Pathe. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Germany |
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Erich Pommer, Managing Director of Deutsche Éclair, buys the majority of the capital from Eclair, the parent company. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Cinema circuit owners Dekage (Deutsche Kinematograph Gesellschaft) expand into film production and sign Viggo Larsen, Suzanne Grandais and Yvette Andreyor. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 3/10 - |
Avant-garde stage director Max Reinhardt makes his first film, Die Insel der Seligen, for PAGU. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Oskar Messter founds Messter Film GmbH [MORE] [ADD] |
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Great Britain |
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British films are distinguished by two classifications by the British Board of Film Censors; Films classified as “U” are suitable for everybody, while films classified as “A” are suitable for adults only. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Mar - |
Reels of film found next to the frozen bodies of Captain Scott and his crew are released in H. G. Ponting’s second film on Scott’s Expedition to the South Pole.[MORE] [ADD] |
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| 21/4 - |
Warwick Trading Co.’s Bioscope Chronicle features the first use of an airplane for the filming of a news event – King George V on the Royal Yacht on a visit to Paris. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Will Barker’s production company releases East Lynne, the UK’s first six-reel film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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United Kingdom Photoplay release the four-reel A Message from Mars. Starring Sir Charles Hawtrey in an adaptation of his hit stage play, it is arguably the first science-fiction feature film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 26/8 - |
Eugene Lauste gives a demonstration of his Photocinematophone sound-on-film system in London. [MORE] [ADD] |
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David Copperfield, directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Len Bethel, becomes the UK’s first eight-reel feature. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Dr. Ralph Jupp forms the London Film Company and begins production at a former skating rink in Twickenham, which becomes the largest British film studio to date. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Will Evans and F. L. Lyndhurst form the Sunny South Film Company in Brighton. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Charles Urban funds Theodore Brown’s Kinoplasticon system of stereoscopic colour film with sound, which is demonstrated at La Scala Theatre in London. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Hong Kong |
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| – Hong Kong’s first fiction film, Zhuangzi Shiqi (Zhuangzi Tests His Wife), directed by Beihai Li, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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India |
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| 12/4 - |
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke’s four-reel Raja Harishchandra premieres at the Olympia Theatre. It is widely believed to be the country’s first feature film, but was beaten the previous year by Pundalik. Phalke’s film is an epic saga based on a Hindu legend. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Phalke has to employ dancers to lure the public into the Coronation Theatre in Bombay to watch Raja Harischchandra. The ploy proves a success as the film runs for a month. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Dhundiraj Govind Phalke releases Mohini Bhasmasur. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy |
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A cinema for the clergy is opened in the Vatican after the pope bans catholic priests from attending public cinemas. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Mongolia |
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- Prince Namnansuren returns to Mongolia with films purchased in Russia to show at the residence of Bogd Khan. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Romania |
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| 13/4 - | Film and theatre director Grigore Brezeanu, in an interview in Rampa magazine, declares, "My dream would have been to build a large film studio. I have come to believe that this is impossible. First of all, we are missing a large capital investment. Without money we cannot rival the foreign studios...A studio, according to our financiers, is something outside art, something in the realm of agriculture or the C.F.R. Hence I have abandoned this dream with great regret." [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| - Leon Popescu forms Film de Arta Leon Popescu (Leon Popescu Art Film), and with a troupe of actors of Marioara Voiculescu he makes three films in 1913 and a further two the following year. Only Cetatea Neamtului (The German Citadel, 1914) is a commercial success. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Russia |
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| – All foreign film activity in Russia is forbidden. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| 17/2 - | Edison again attempt to introduce their Kinetophone Sound film system in cinema in New York, Chicago and St. Louis. 250 films employing the process are made but the system meets with little success [MORE] | |||
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Famous Players’ first film, The Prisoner of Zenda, opens in New York. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Vitagraph makes a permanent move from New York, which has to date been the country’s movie capital, and opens a studio in Santa Monica. [MORE] [ADD] |
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William S. Hart makes his debut in The Scourge of the Devil, a film produced by Thomas H. Ince and directed by Reginald Barker. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Mar - |
JJ Burns and Harry Revier turn the Stern Family Barn at Vine and Streets in Hollywood into a film studio facility. Their first client is the former Sennett comedian Fred Mace. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The actor’s Equity Association union is formed in New York. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| May - |
Driving another nail into their coffin, the MPPC rejects W. W. Hodkinson’s proposed film distribution scheme. Hodkinson resigns to form Progressive Pictures and distribute films on the West Coast. [MORE] [ADD] |
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D. W. Griffith begins filming Judith of Bethulia, his first four-reeler with his highest budget ever: $36,000. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Famous Players Co release In the Bishop’s Carriage, directed by Edwin S. Porter. The film stars new signing Mary Pickford, who is paid $2,000 per week. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Eastman-Kodak release a new panchromatic film which has greater sensitivity to tonal range than orthochromatic, but which lacks stability and takes longer to process. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 25/9 - |
24-year-old British comic Charles Chaplin signs for the Keystone Picture Corp for $150 per week. He arrives in Los Angeles in early December. [MORE] [ADD] |
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D. W. Griffith signs with Reliance-Majestic, a branch of the Mutual Film Corporation, to make two or three feature-length films per year. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 23/11 - |
Jesse Lasky’s Feature Play Co. is incorporated in New York with capital of $50,000. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Traffic in Souls, a sensationalised expose of the white slave trade is released to what the New York World calls “popular hysteria”. Demand to see the Universal film – directed by George Loane Tucker – results in ticket prices at New York’s Weber’s Theatre being raised to an exorbitant 25 cents. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Gaston Melies returns from his world tour to discover that heat has destroyed much of the film shot on the tour, and that his company is on the verge of bankruptcy. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 7/12 - |
The seven-reel The Sea Wolf, the last of twelve feature films made in the US this year, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 20/12 - |
The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. arrives at the Alexandra Hotel in Los Angeles in preparation for production of The Squaw Man. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Cecil B. DeMille takes a lease on the Burns & Revier studio in Hollywood at $25 per month on behalf of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 26/12 - |
26-year-old Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle’s movie career takes off with the release of such films as Fatty Joins the Force and Fatty’s Day Off after signing with Mack Sennett’s Keystone film company and finding himself promoted from the ranks of the Keystone Kops. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Cecil B. DeMille begins shooting The Squaw Man with Dustin Farnum in a converted barn at Selma and Vine in Hollywood. It is the first film to be directed by Jesse Lasky’s Feature Play Co., which he co-founded with brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish, DeMille and Arthur Friend. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Cameramen in California form The Static Club of America, while three Edison cameramen form the Cinema Camera Club. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– William Fox forms the Box Office Attraction Company – the forerunner of Fox Film Company. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The first ‘movie palaces’ appear in New York. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– D. W. Griffith and his cameraman Billy Bitzer make the first use of ‘irising’, the circular masking of a motion picture, in The Battle of Elderbush Gulch, which is released in Germany in November 1913, four months before it is released in the United States. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Siegmund Lubin makes his first feature films at Philadelphia. He also establishes a studio in Hollywood and employs Henry King and Oliver Hardy. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Other Films of Note | ||||
Denmark |
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Adrianopels Hemmelighed (Einar Zangenberg) [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Ballonexplosionen (Kai van der A. Kuhle) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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De dodes O (Vilhelm Gluckstadt) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Det Hemmelighedsfulde X (Benjamin Christensen) [MORE] [ADD] |
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France |
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L’Agonie de Byzance (Louis Feuillade) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Aux mains des brigands (Joe Hamman) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Balaoo (Victorin Jasset) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Le Chevalier des Neiges (Georges Melies) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Fantaisie de milliardare (Henri Fescourt) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Germinal (Albert Capellani) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Le Lumiere qui tue (Henri Fescourt) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Les Millions de la bonne (Louis Feuillade) [MORE] [ADD] |
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La Mort sur Paris (Henri Fescourt) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Le Systeme du professeur Goudron (Maurice Tourneur) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Germany |
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Bumkes series (Gerhard Damman) [MORE] [ADD] |
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…denn alle Schuld racht sich auf erden (Stellan Rye) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Der Student von Prag (Stellan Rye) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Eine venezianische Nacht (Max Reinhardt) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Richard Wagner (William Wauer, Carl Froelich) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Artist and his Model (Ethyle Batley) [MORE] [ADD] |
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David Garrick (Leedham Bantock) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Ivanhoe (Leedham Bantock) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Old Curiosity Shop (Thomas Bentley) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Pickwick Papers (Larry Trimble) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pimple series (Fred Evans) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sixty Years a Queen (Bert Haldane) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Holland |
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De Levende Ladder (Maurits H. Binger) Feature [MORE] [ADD] |
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Hungary |
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A Nagy Tevedes (Raymond Pellerin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Rablelek (Mihaly Kertesz) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Sarga Csiko (Felix Vanyl) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Italy |
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| Addio giovinezza! (Nino Oxilia) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Marcantonio e Cleopatra (Enrico Guazzoni) [MORE] [ADD] |
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I promessi sposi (Eleuterio Rodolfi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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I promessi sposi (Ubaldo Maria Del Colle/Ernesto Maria Pasquali) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (Eleuterio Rodolfi) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Japan |
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The Loyal Forty-Seven Ronin (Shozo Makino) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Peru |
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Negocio al Agua (Frederico Blume) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Russia |
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The Accession of the House of Romanov (1613) (Vasili Goncharov & Pyotr Chardynin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Asya the Student (Kai Hansen) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Brothers (Pyotr Chardynin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Grasshopper and the Ant (Ladislas Starevich) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Keys of Happiness (Yakov Protazanov & Vladimir Gardin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter (Nikolai Larin) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Sorrows of Sarra (Alexander Arkatov) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Tercentenary of the Rule of the House of Romanov (1613-1913) (Nikolai Larin & Alexander Uralski) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Twilight of a Woman’s Soul (Evgeni Bauer) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Blodets Rost (Victor Sjostrom) Feature [MORE] [ADD] |
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Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjostrom) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Med vapen I hand (Georg af Klercker) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Skandalen (Georg af Klercker) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Vampyren (Mauritz Stiller) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Adventures of Kathlyn (F. J. Grandon) [MORE] [ADD] |
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The Battle of the Sexes (D. W. Griffith) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Ivanhoe (Herbert Brenon) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Suspense (Lois Weber & Phillips Smalley) [MORE] [ADD] |
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