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The History of Cinema: 1913 |
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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. [ADD] | ||||
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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. [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. [ADD] |
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Dhundiraj Govind Phalke releases Mohini Bhasmasur. [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. [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. [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." [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. [ADD] | ||||
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Russia |
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| – All foreign film activity in Russia is forbidden. [ADD] | ||||
Other Key Films of 1913 |
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De Levende Ladder (Maurits H. Binger) Feature [ADD] |
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A Nagy Tevedes (Raymond Pellerin) [ADD] |
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Rablelek (Mihaly Kertesz) [ADD] |
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Sarga Csiko (Felix Vanyl) [ADD] |
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| Addio giovinezza! (Nino Oxilia) [ADD] | ||||
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Marcantonio e Cleopatra (Enrico Guazzoni) [ADD] |
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I promessi sposi (Eleuterio Rodolfi) [ADD] |
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I promessi sposi (Ubaldo Maria Del Colle/Ernesto Maria Pasquali) [ADD] |
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Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (Eleuterio Rodolfi) [ADD] |
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The Loyal Forty-Seven Ronin (Shozo Makino) [ADD] |
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Negocio al Agua (Frederico Blume) [ADD] |
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The Accession of the House of Romanov (1613) (Vasili Goncharov & Pyotr Chardynin) [ADD] |
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Asya the Student (Kai Hansen) [ADD] |
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Brothers (Pyotr Chardynin) [ADD] |
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The Grasshopper and the Ant (Ladislas Starevich) [ADD] |
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The Keys of Happiness (Yakov Protazanov & Vladimir Gardin) [ADD] |
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Merchant Bashkirov’s Daughter (Nikolai Larin) [ADD] |
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The Sorrows of Sarra (Alexander Arkatov) [ADD] |
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Tercentenary of the Rule of the House of Romanov (1613-1913) (Nikolai Larin & Alexander Uralski) [ADD] |
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Twilight of a Woman’s Soul (Evgeni Bauer) [ADD] |
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Blodets Rost (Victor Sjostrom) Feature [ADD] |
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Ingeborg Holm (Victor Sjostrom) [ADD] |
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Med vapen I hand (Georg af Klercker) [ADD] |
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Skandalen (Georg af Klercker) [ADD] |
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Vampyren (Mauritz Stiller) [ADD] |
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