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The History of Cinema: 1913 |
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Australia - Finland |
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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. [ADD] |
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Belgium |
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| 4/3 - |
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. [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. [ADD] |
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Bolivia |
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– Luis Castillo makes Bolivia’s first motion picture. [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. [ADD] |
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| – The Great Unknown, directed by OAC Lund, is Canada’s first feature-length film. [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. [ADD] |
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Cuba |
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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. [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. [ADD] |
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Czechoslovakia |
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The recently formed Asum Company releases Max Urban’s The Bartered Bride, Czechoslovakia’s first feature-length film. [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. [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. [ADD] |
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Finland |
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Kun Onni Pettaa (directed by Konrad Tallroth), Finland’s first feature film, is released. [ADD] |
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– The Atelier Apollo film company closes. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1913 |
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Adrianopels Hemmelighed (Einar Zangenberg) [ADD] |
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| Ballonexplosionen (Kai van der A. Kuhle) [ADD] | ||||
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De dodes O (Vilhelm Gluckstadt) [ADD] |
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Det Hemmelighedsfulde X (Benjamin Christensen) [ADD] |
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| Germany - Gt. Britain | ||||
| Hong Kong - Sweden | ||||
| USA | ||||