The History of Cinema Timeline: 1917 Argentina-Gt. Britain

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		Argentina - Gt. Britain




		Argentina

		- El Apostol, the world's first animated feature film, is released. Written and directed by Quirino Cristiani, all copies of the film are destroyed by a fire in producer Federico Valle's vaults in 1926. [ADD]



		China

	1/1 -	As supplies of unexposed film become available once more, Zang Sichuan founds the Huei His production company. [ADD]

	31/10 -	Pao Ching-chia’s The Commercial Press introduces a cinema section. [ADD]



		France

	29/3 -	Emile Reynaud, pioneer of cartoons is confined to a hospice for the incurably ill at Ivry-sur-Seine. [ADD]

	5/4 -	Tristan Bernard, Edmond Benoit-Levy and Leon Gaumont form the French League for the Cinema to develop the domestic film industry and define its interests before parliament. [ADD]



	7/4 -	Le Pardon d’Amour, the twelfth and final episode of Louis Feuillade’s Judex serial is released. Starring Rene Creste as the eponymous dashing hero, the series proved to be an enormous success. [ADD]

	12/4 -	At a conference in Paris it is reported that a total of 198 films have been banned or cut by the Commission of Censors, while a tax has been imposed on films that depict crime. [ADD]

	15/6 -	Rene Navarre, the actor who created the character of Fantomas, forms his own production company and releases The Adventures of Clementine, a series of cartoons drawn by Benjamin Rabier. [ADD]

	22/6 -	An article in Le Cinema criticises the background noise on soundtracks. [ADD]

	6/7 -	Eclair release the first series of cartoons by Emile Cohl entitled Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickeles. [ADD]

	26/7 -	Director Jacques Feyder marries actress Francoise Rosay, the star of his 1916 film Abregeons les formalites. [ADD]



	14/11 -	Eclipse release Le Torrent, Marcel L’Herbier’s debut as a scriptwriter. [ADD]



		Germany

	1/1 -	The Deulig (Deutsche Lichtbild Gesellschaft) sets itself the goal of acting whenever possible in defence of German economy and culture throughout the world. [ADD]



	16/11 -	Ernst Lubitsch writes and directs Wenn Vier das selbe machen, which stars Ossi Oswalda, ‘Germany’s Mary Pickford.’ [ADD]

	14/12 -	Universum-Film AG (Ufa) is formed following the buying out of such film production and distribution companies as Messter, Nordisk, Union, PAGU, BB-Film, and Gloria and Joe May Film. It instantly becomes the country’s largest film organisation, boasting vertical integration. [ADD]

		– During the war, the German government creates more than 900 makeshift cinemas for its frontline troops. [ADD]



		Great Britain

	31/3 -	Despite the rising popularity of cinema, the British film industry falls into decline due to a lack of investment. The industry is almost totally comprised of small independent companies lacking the financial resources to make the feature films that have recently become popular. [ADD]

	– The government establishes the Department of Information, with the aim of using film as a means of communication. Headed by novelist John Buchan, productions are made at the British Oak/New Agency film studio in Ebury Street, Westminster, London. [ADD]

	– Patent No. 107167 is awarded to William Baldwin Vansize, an American telegraph engineer of 233 Broadway, New York, for a system which provides actors with a battery-powered microphone that sends radio-waves to a steel tape or wire for recording sound which is synchronised with the movement of film through a camera. [ADD]

	– Neptune Film Studios ceases production. [ADD]




	Other Key Films of 1917


	Azerbaijan

	National Freedom Holiday in Baku [ADD]



	Bulgaria

	Lyubovta e ludost (Vasil Gendov) [ADD]



	Chile

	Alma chilena (Chilean Soul) (Arturio Mario) [ADD]



	Czechoslovakia

	Prazsti Adamite (Antonin Fenci) [ADD]



	Denmark

	Klovnen (A. W. Sandburg) [ADD]



	France

	Le Droit a la vie (Abel Gance) [ADD]

	Mater Dolorosa (Abel Gance) [ADD]

	La Zone de la mort (Abel Gance) [ADD]



	Germany

	Lulu (Alexander von Antalffy) [ADD]



	Great Britain

	Masks and Faces (Fred Paul) [ADD]



	Hungary - Turkey

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The History of Cinema: 1917

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