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The History of Cinema: 1922

Hungary - USSR

– Only four films are produced in Hungary in 1922. [ADD]

– The Uher production company goes bankrupt.  [ADD]

– Géza Bolváry and Béla Gaál establish the country’s first film school [ADD]

– Sisir Bhaduri and a group of lawyers found the Taj Mahal Film Company with the intention of producing adaptations of literary works. [ADD]

– An entertainment Tax is levied in Calcutta. [ADD]

New Zealand

– Rudall Hayward’s My Lady of the Cave is released.   The film is financed by a 20-person syndicate, each member of which contributes £50. [ADD]

Switzerland

The Swiss Film Distributors Association is founded. [ADD]

– The release of Tanaka King’s Da fo de tong kong (The Eyes of Buddha) marks the first film to use Taiwanese actors,  something which had previously been prohibited by the ruling Japanese in order to keep the colonial structure intact. [ADD]

– American director Henry MacRae is hired to write and direct Nang Sao Suwan (Miss Suwanna of Siam) using Thai actors.   The film is co-produced by the Royal State Railways Authority, and premieres at the Phathanakorn Cinematograph in Bangkok on 22nd June 1923. [ADD]

– Sam Poi Luang: Great Celebration in the North, is the first film to be produced in Thailand.   It is produced by the Royal State Railways Authority. [ADD]

- The Public Relations Films Division is established to produce newsreels and documentaries. [ADD]

Tunisia

– Albert Samama Chikly makes Tunisia’s first film, a short entitled Zohra.  [ADD]

–  Kemal Film, the first private Turkish film company, is established and produces two fiction films, both directed by Muhsin Ertugrul, who would soon come to dominate Turkish cinema. [ADD]

The Soviet Union begins to use cinema as a form of propaganda as a means to inform and instruct the population. [ADD]

Kino Pravda replaces Kino-Nedelia, and continues to be edited by Dziga Vertov. [ADD]

The Soviet Government forms Goskino to create a film distribution monopoly.   Revenue earned from imported films will finance domestic production. [ADD]

– The Soviet film school VGIK is founded. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1922

Feher gambok a fekete varosban (Bela Balogh) [ADD]

Cirano di Bergerac (Augusto Genina) [ADD]

Niwa no kotori (Teinosuke Kinugasa) [ADD]

Lie for My Sake (Ernest Bosnjak) [ADD]

The Tragedy of Our Children [ADD]

Thomas Graals myndling (Gustav Molander) [ADD]