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The History of Cinema: 1918 |
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| 19/1 - |
The Technicolor Film Corporation complete filming of The Gulf Between, the first two-strip film production. [ADD] |
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| 21/1 - | Charlie Chaplin opens the new studios of the Charles Chaplin Film Company on the corner of La Brea Avenue and Sunset Boulevard to produce films for First National. [ADD] | |||
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| 27/1 - | Rita Jolivet, a survivor of the Lusitania sinking, promotes her film, Lest We Forget, in which she plays a semi-autobiographical role as a survivor of the disaster involved in intrigue and deception. [ADD] | |||
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| 27/1 - |
Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan of the Apes receives his first screen depiction, thanks to Elmo Lincoln, who is directed by Scott Sidney and partnered by Enid Markey as Jane. [ADD] |
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The Famous Players-Lasky Corporation acquires Paramount Pictures. [ADD] |
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| 26/5 - |
D. W. Griffith is elected President of the Motion Picture War Service Association which sells war bonds to aid the American war effort. [ADD] |
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| 1/7 - |
Playmates, a short film directed by Charley Chase for King Bee Productions, is released. The film stars Chase, Billy West, and Oliver ‘Babe’ Hardy. [ADD] |
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| 1/7 - |
The International Film Service and Educational Pictures release Crabs iss Crabs, an animation of the “Katzenjammer Kids” comic strip. Gregory La Cava directs. [ADD] |
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| 6/7 - |
John ‘Jack’ Ford directs Harry Carey as Cheyenne Harry for the ninth time in Hell Bent. [ADD] |
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| 15/8 - |
Winsor McCay’s 12-minute The Sinking of the Lusitania, is released. [ADD] |
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| 13/10 - |
The Romance of Tarzan, a sequel to Tarzan of the Apes which was released earlier in the year, is released. Directed by Wilfred Lucas, the film re-unites its predecessor’s co-stars. [ADD] |
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| 23/10 - |
Charlie Chaplin marries 16-year-old actress Mildred Harris. As a result, Louis B. Mayer offers Harris a six-film, $50,000 contract [ADD] |
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Mary Pickford signs a three-film deal with First National after making her name in 34 films for Adolph Zukor. The deal is worth $250,000 per film plus a $150,000 advance to the actress. [ADD] |
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| 15/12 - |
Cecil B. DeMille completes filming of his second version in four years of his first feature, The Squaw Man. Elliott Dexter and Katherine McDonald star. [ADD] |
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| 31/12 - |
1918 sees an influx of foreign talent to Hollywood. Directors working in America’s film capital by the end of the year include Maurice Tourneur, Emile Chautard, Leonce Perret, and Louis Gasnier. [ADD] |
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– America replaces Great Britain as the chief importer of movies to South America. [ADD] |
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– The Louis B. Mayer Pictures Company is incorporated. [ADD] |
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– Samuel Goldfish changes his name to Samuel Goldwyn. [ADD] |
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– Selig Polyscope stops production. [ADD] |
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– The MPPC’s appeal against the court’s 1916 decision is dismissed. [ADD] |
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– Thomas Edison sells its studio to the Lincoln & Parker Film Company, bringing to an end his company’s involvement in film production. [ADD] |
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– The film business is declared an ‘essential industry’ by the US government under wartime legislation. [ADD] |
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– Rudolph Valentino gets his first major film role as Count Roberto di San Fraccini in The Married Virgin. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1918 |
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Blind Husbands (Erich von Stroheim) [ADD] |
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The Blue Bird (Maurice Tourneur) [ADD] |
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Blue Blazes Rawden (William S. Hart) [ADD] |
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A Dog’s Life (Charlie Chaplin) [ADD] |
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Don’t Change Your Husband (Cecil B. DeMille) [ADD] |
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The Great Adventure (Alice Guy-Blache) [ADD] |
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The Greatest Things in Life (D W Griffith) [ADD] |
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Hearts of the World (D W Griffith) [ADD] |
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Old Wives for New (Cecil B. DeMille) [ADD] |
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Shoulder Arms (Charlie Chaplin) [ADD] |
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When the Clouds Roll By (Victor Fleming) [ADD] |
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The Whispering Chorus (Cecil B. DeMille) [ADD] |
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