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The History of Cinema: 1916 |
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Georgia - Turkey |
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| Georgia | ||||
| - Tsutsunava’s Christine, the country’s first full-length feature, is released. [ADD] | ||||
| Germany | ||||
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| 31/10 - | Deputy Gustav Streseman calls for a parliamentary debate on the importation of foreign films. All foreign films – other than Danish – are subsequently banned. [ADD] | |||
| – The German High Command establishes Bild & Film Amt (BUFA) – the Office of Photography & Film – in an attempt to influence public opinion. [ADD] | ||||
| – Alfred Hugenberg founds Deutsche Lichtspiel-Gessellschaft e. V (DLG, German Motion Picture Company). [ADD] | ||||
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Great Britain |
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| 31/3 - | The Triangle Film Company assumes control of 882 cinemas within the block booking system. [ADD] | |||
| – An entertainment tax is imposed. [ADD] | ||||
| Holland | ||||
| – Cinema employees found the Nederlandse Bond voor Theater– en Bioscooppersoneel (The Dutch Union for Theatre and Cinema employees). [ADD] | ||||
| Hungary | ||||
| – The Star film production company is formed. [ADD] | ||||
| India | ||||
| – R. Nataraja Mudaliar makes Keechak Vadha, the first full length South Indian film. [ADD] | ||||
| Iran | ||||
| – Khan-Baba Khan Mo'tazedi returns to Iran after studying engineering in Paris. Having worked in a film company, Mo’tazedi buys film equipment and becomes a court photographer. [ADD] | ||||
| Italy | ||||
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| 11/9 - | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes his manifesto called The Futuristic Cinema. [ADD] | |||
| New Zealand | ||||
| – The government passes a Cinematograph Film Censor Act – focusing particularly on war subjects. [ADD] | ||||
| Norway | ||||
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– The Christiana Film Company is established. [ADD] |
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| Sweden | ||||
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| 14/8 - | Mauritz Stiller’s Karlek och Journalistik (Love and Journalism), the first domestic comedy, is released. [ADD] | |||
| Syria | ||||
| – The country's first film theatre, called Janaq Qala'at in commemoration of a Turkish military victory over the British, opens in Damascus on the site which now houses the parliament building. Its premiere is attended by Jamal Pasha, the Turkish ruler of Syria, who was treated to a screening of German films. Unfortunately, the theatre burnt down a month later. [ADD] | ||||
Other Key Films of 1916 |
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| Germany | ||||
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| Homunculus (Otto Rippert) [ADD] | ||||
| Rubezahls Hochzeit (Paul Wegener) [ADD] | ||||
| Das Tagebuch des Dr Hart (Paul Leni) [ADD] | ||||
| Great Britain | ||||
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| The Battle of the Somme (Geoffrey Malins & J. B. McDowell) [ADD] | ||||
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| The Real Thing at Last (L. C. MacBean) [ADD] | ||||
| Hungary | ||||
| Feher ejszakak (Sandor Korda) [ADD] | ||||
| Mesék az írógéprol (Tales about the Typewriter) (Sandor Korda) [ADD] | ||||
| Mór Jókai, Mire megvénülünk (When We Grow Old) (Ödön Uher) [ADD] | ||||
| Italy | ||||
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| Il Fuoco (Giovanni Pastrone) [ADD] | ||||
| Mexico | ||||
| Fatal Orgullo (Mexico Lux Films) (Feature) [ADD] | ||||
| New Zealand | ||||
| The Test (Rawdon Blandford) (Feature) [ADD] | ||||
| Russia | ||||
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| Arkasha series (Alexander Uralski) [ADD] | ||||
| A Ballerina’s Romance (Boris Tchaikowsky) [ADD] | ||||
| In a Busy Place (Czeslaw Sabinski) [ADD] | ||||
| The Dying Swan (Evgeni Bauer) [ADD] | ||||
| A Life for a Life (Evgeni Bauer) [ADD] | ||||
| Nelly Raintseva (Evgeni Bauer) [ADD] | ||||
| The Queen of Spades (Yakov Protazanov) [ADD] | ||||
| Queen of the Screen (Evgeni Bauer) [ADD] | ||||
| Slovenia | ||||
| The Battle of Gorizia [ADD] | ||||
| The Destruction of Gorizia [ADD] | ||||
| South Africa | ||||
| De Voortrekkers (Harold Shaw) (Feature) [ADD] | ||||
| Sweden | ||||
| I minnenas band (Georg af Klercker) [ADD] | ||||
| Turkey | ||||
| The Wedding of Himmet Aga (Fuat Azkinay & Sigmund Weinberg) [ADD] | ||||
| Australia - France | ||||
| USA: January - June | ||||
| USA: July - December | ||||
