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The History of Cinema: 1914 |
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Austria-Hungary - Germany |
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Austria-Hungary |
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| 16/8 - |
The government bans all films made by enemy countries, and decrees that only patriotic films are to be shown. [ADD] |
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| 30/9 - |
Film companies compete for the sale of newsreel footage of the Great War. [ADD] |
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Belgium |
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| 1/5 - |
Alfred Machin’s Maudit soit la guerre is released in Belgium after being held back by Pathe because of fears over public reaction to its pacifist message. [ADD] |
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| 14/11 - |
German director Stellan Rye dies in a French hospital in Flanders after being wounded during the fighting at Ypres. [ADD] |
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| 2/2 - |
The country’s first feature film, Evangeline, directed by William Cavanaugh and Edward P. Sullivan, is released by the Canadian Bioscope Company. [ADD] |
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| China | ||||
| – Chinese cinema declines due to a shortage of film stock as a result of the Great War. [ADD] | ||||
| Denmark | ||||
| 23/3 - |
Benjamin Christensen's first production is released. He stars in the leading role of The Mysterious X after giving up stage acting due to extreme stage fright. [ADD] |
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| 24/4 - |
Forest Holger-Madsen’s Opiumsdrommen (Opium Dreams) is released. [ADD] |
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– Nordisk’s output increases to over 140 fiction films and almost 50 non-fiction films during the year. [ADD] |
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| 26/2 - | Estonia's first fiction film, Karujaht Parnumaal, is released. It is filmed by Johannes Paasuke. [ADD] | |||
| Finland | ||||
| Spring - | Lyyra Filmi produce the country’s first cinema newsreels. [ADD] | |||
| France | ||||
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| 2/1 - |
Le Systeme du Dr Goudron et du Professeur Plume, former actor Maurice Tourneur’s directorial debut, is released. [ADD] |
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| 27/2 - |
The first issue of Andre Herze and Georges Quellien’s Le Film is published. [ADD] |
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| 29/3 - |
Sarah Bernhardt turns down the opportunity to appear in Abel Gance’s La Victoire de Samothrace. Gance never makes the film and Bernhardt stars in Adrienne Lecouvrer instead. [ADD] |
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| 18/4 - |
Various cinema organisations publish leaflets protesting against the cinema tax approved by the Chamber of Deputies on the 23rd March. [ADD] |
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| 3/6 - |
A commemorative monument to Etienne-Jules Marey, a pioneer of cinematography, is unveiled in Paris by Raymond Poincare. [ADD] |
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| 1/7 - |
The director Andre Antoine signs for Pathe. [ADD] |
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| 25/8 - |
Abel Gance acts as stretcher-bearer after being exempted from military service due to poor health. [ADD] |
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Germany |
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Oskar Messter’s weekly newsreel, Messter-Woche, begins. [ADD] |
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– Emil Jannings makes his film debut in Im Schutzengraben (In the Trenches). [ADD] |
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– Erich Pommer founds Decla (Deutsche Eclair) after the outbreak of war in Europe means he can no longer continue as Eclair’s Central European representative. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1914 |
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| Bulgaria | ||||
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Such is War [ADD] |
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| Chile | ||||
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The Life of General Rafael Uribe (Di Domenico Brothers) [ADD] |
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| France | ||||
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Bout-de-Zan series (Louis Feuillade) [ADD] |
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Le Calvaire (Louis Feuillade) [ADD] |
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Ceux de chez nous (Sacha Guitry) [ADD] |
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Les Quatre-vingt-treize (Albert Capellani) [ADD] |
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Napoleon: du sacre a Saint-Helene (Alfred Machin) [ADD] |
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| Gt. Britain - Turkey | ||||
| USA: January-June | ||||
| USA: July-December | ||||
