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The History of Cinema: 1918 |
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Ufa assumes control of all cinemas previously owned by the Danish company Nordisk. [ADD] |
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The Decla Film Company, formed by Erich Pommer with financing from French film company Eclair, becomes wholly German after buying all stocks. [ADD] |
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The Rat der Volksbeauftragten (Council of the People's Representatives) abolish state censorship. [ADD] |
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Ernst Lubitsch’s second feature film, Carmen, is released in Berlin. The film stars Pola Negri and Harry Liedtke, both of whom starred in his first feature, Die Augen der Mumie Ma, earlier in the year. [ADD] |
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– The Nederlandse Bond voor Theater– en Bioscooppersoneel (The Dutch Union for Theatre and Cinema employees) wins a raise of 20% for its members. [ADD] |
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– Cinema owners form their own union, the Bond van Exploitanten van Nederlandsche Bioscooptheaters (Union of Dutch Cinema Owners). [ADD] |
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– S N Patankar directs the first Indian serial, the four-part Ram Vanwas (The Exile of Shree Rama) [ADD] |
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– Censorship comes to India when the Cinematograph Act comes into effect. [ADD] |
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– The Kohinoor Film Co. is founded. [ADD] |
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– Dadasaheb Phalke’s Hindustan Cinema Films Co. is founded. [ADD] |
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- The first Bengalee owned film company, Indo British Film Co., is opened by Dhirendra Nath Ganguly. [ADD] |
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| 1/6 - | Dziga Vertov, under the supervision of director Lev Kuleshov, becomes chief editor of Kino-Nedelia (Cinema Weekly), a filmed news periodical. [ADD] | |||
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The Soviet Cinema Committee begin filming Signal, the first state-produced fiction film. Aleksandr Arkatov directs from a story by Vladimir Mikhailovich Garshin. [ADD] |
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| 13/8 - |
Lenin’s newly installed government harnesses the power of film to spread its propagandistic message with the maiden journey of its propaganda train. The train, equipped with projector equipment and darkroom is despatched to the Kazan region to film the struggles of the civil war in an attempt to dispel counter-revolutionary propaganda by the Bolsheviks. [ADD] |
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Switzerland |
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– Josef Lange founds Iris Film in Zurich. [ADD] |
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– Weissman-Emelka open offices in Zurich. [ADD] |
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Syria |
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– Following the burning of the country's first cinema in 1916, Zahrat Dimashq, the country's second cinema, is opened by Salo, who operated the first cinema's machines, and the proprietor of the cafe on which the cinema was built. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1918 |
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Die Augen der Mumie Ma (Ernst Lubitsch) [ADD] |
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| Great Britain | ||||
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Dombey and Son (Maurice Elvey) [ADD] |
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Hindle Wakes (Maurice Elvey) [ADD] |
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Hungary |
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Az aranyember (The Golden Man) (Sandor Korda) [ADD] |
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| Ireland | ||||
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Knocknagow (Fred O’Donovan) (Feature) [ADD] |
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Willy Reilly and his Colleen Bawn (John McDonagh) [ADD] |
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| Italy | ||||
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La Vagabonda (Musidora & Eugenio Perego) [ADD] |
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| Russia | ||||
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Proekt Inzhenera Prayta (Lev Kuleshov) [ADD] |
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Otets Sergei (Yakov Protazanov) [ADD] |
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Zheleznaya pyata (Vladimir Gardin) [ADD] |
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Jenny the Maid (Yakov Protazanov) [ADD] |
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Kinondelia series (Dziga Vertov) [ADD] |
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Baryshnya I khuligan (Yevgeni Slavinsky & Vladimir Mayakovski) [ADD] |
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Little Ellie (Yakov Protazanov) [ADD] |
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Fyrvaktarnas dotter (Georg af Klercker) [ADD] |
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Nobelpristagaren (Georg af Klercker) [ADD] |
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Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru (Victor Sjostrom) [ADD] |
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