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The History of Cinema: 1916 |
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| 1/8 - | Comedian Roscoe Arbuckle signs a contract for producer Joseph M. Schenck which gives him full artistic control over the Comique Film Corporation. Arbuckle will earn $7,000 per week plus 25% of profits. Paramount will finance and distribute the films. [ADD] | |||
| 5/8 - | A selected audience is invited to the screening of D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance at Riverside, California. Featuring, in its Babylon sequence, the largest backdrop to date, the movie is another made on the grand scale. Griffith went into debt to complete filming when his backers faltered. The film, however, is not a popular commercial success, largely due to its groundbreaking structure in which four separate tales are intertwined. [ADD] | |||
| 15/8 - | The Artcraft Pictures Corporation is formed by Paramount to distribute Mary Pickford films. [ADD] | |||
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| 14/9 - | Samuel Goldfish resigns as administrative president of Famous Players-Lasky after a series of disagreements with company President Adolph Zukor. [ADD] | |||
| Sept - | Vitagraph buys out Lubin, Selig and Essanay, its partners in VLSE. It also acquires the Kalem production company. [ADD] | |||
| 12/11 - | Alla Nazimova makes her film debut in Herbert Brenon’s pacifist short, War Brides. [ADD] | |||
| 9/12 - | Charlie Chaplin wins a court case to prevent the publishing of an unauthorised biography, Charlie Chaplin’s Own Story. [ADD] | |||
| 16/12 - | Samuel Goldfish forms a new production company, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, with Broadway producers Edgar Selwyn and Arch Selwyn. Goldfish will soon take the name of Goldwyn as his own. [ADD] | |||
| – The world’s first known ‘twin cinema’ opens at 1540 Chene Street, Detroit. Originally designed by architect C. Howard Crane in 1913, it is enlarged and converted into two auditoria by architect George D. Hurlburt. [ADD] | ||||
| – The National Committee for Better Films is formed. Its aim is to ‘both liberate and formulate thought regarding motion pictures, their uses and possibilities, and the best way to achieve a free screen of the most desirable kind.’ [ADD] | ||||
| – William Fox leases a studio in Edendale, Los Angeles. [ADD] | ||||
| – The Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE) is formed. [ADD] | ||||
| – German-born Harvard psychologist Hugo Munsterburg carries out a study on the effects on audiences of watching films entitled The Photoplay: a Psychological Study. [ADD] | ||||
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| – Siegmund Lubin’s Los Angeles and Coronado studios are closed, while creditors claim his Lubinville and Betzwood studios. [ADD] | ||||
| – Universal sets up Hollywood’s first Indian agency. [ADD] | ||||
Other Key Films of 1916 |
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| Behind the Screen (Charlie Chaplin) [ADD] | ||||
| The Count (Charlie Chaplin) [ADD] | ||||
| Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon) [ADD] | ||||
| The Fireman (Charlie Chaplin) [ADD] | ||||
| Hell’s Hinges (William S. Hart) [ADD] | ||||
| Joan the Woman (Cecil B. DeMille) [ADD] | ||||
| One A.M. (Charlie Chaplin) [ADD] | ||||
| The Pawnshop (Charlie Chaplin) [ADD] | ||||
| The Rink (Charlie Chaplin) [ADD] | ||||
| The Vagabond (Charlie Chaplin) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Where Are My Children (Lois Weber) [ADD] |
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