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The History of Cinema: 1923 |
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Armenia - Italy |
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Armenia |
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The Armenian State Committee on Cinema (the Goskino) is established under Soviet government decree. [ADD] |
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Australia |
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– 94% of films shown in Australia are made in America. [ADD] |
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Austria |
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– Vita-Film-AG goes out of business as film sales decline due to inflation. [ADD] |
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The Council of People’s Commisars establish the Azerbaijan Photo Film Institution (APFI). [ADD] |
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The authorities ban Jacques Feyder’s Crainquebille on the grounds that it demonstrates a lack of respect of the country’s laws. [ADD] |
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One day after its release, Jose Maria Velasco Maidana’s Profecia del Lago (Prophecy of the Lake), Bolivia’s first fiction film is banned in La Paz because the plot revolves around an affair between a wealthy landowner and his Indian servant girl that is based on true events. [ADD] |
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– Italian director Pedro Sambarino establishes S.A. Bolivian Cinematografica. [ADD] |
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Axel Peterson and Arnold Poulsen demonstrate their sound-on-film system which uses two interlocked machines – one for an image and one for sound – at the Palads Teatret in Copenhagen. [ADD] |
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Dominican Republic |
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– Francisco Palau films La Leyenda de Nuestra Señora de Altagracia. [ADD] |
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The Egyptian government passes the country’s first film censorship laws. [ADD] |
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– Mohamad Bayuomi films the country’s first newsreel, capturing the only cinematic record of the return from exile of nationalist leader Saad Zaghlul. [ADD] |
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– Suomen Biografiliitto (later Suomen Filmikameri) is formed. [ADD] |
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| Germany | ||||
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William Dieterle’s Der Mensch am Wege (Man by the Roadside) is released. It features Marlene Dietrich in a small role. [ADD] |
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Die Flamme, director Ernst Lubitsch’s last German film before departing for the United States, is released. Pola Negri stars. [ADD] |
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– Former Decla founder Erich Pommer becomes UFA head of production. [ADD] |
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– Spitzenorganisation der deutschen Filmwirtschaft (SPIO) is founded. [ADD] |
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Iceland |
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– The country’s first film, Aevintyri jons og Gvendar, is released. [ADD] |
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| India | ||||
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– Jamsetji Framji Madan dies, leaving his Madan Theatres to his five sons. [ADD] |
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– The government levies a 12.5 % entertainment tax in Bombay. [ADD] |
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- Naresh Mitra directs Maanbhanjan, the first adaptation of the works of famed Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, [ADD] |
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The Fascist regime introduces new censorship laws which allow it to intervene both before and after shooting of a film. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1923 |
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Barsoum Looking for a Job (Mohammed Bayumi) [ADD] |
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Fi Ard Tutankhamun (In the Land of Tutankhamun) (Victor Rossitto) [ADD] |
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The Logroller’s Bride (Erkki Karu) [ADD] |
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| Germany | ||||
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Die Buddenbrooks (Gerhardt Lamprecht) [ADD] |
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Diagonal Sinfonie (Viking Eggeling) [ADD] |
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I.N.R.I. (Robert Wiene) [ADD] |
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Raskolnikov (Robert Wiene) [ADD] |
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Schatten (Arthur Robison) [ADD] |
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Der Schatz (G. W. Pabst) [ADD] |
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| Israel | ||||
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Palestine Awakening [ADD] |
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| Italy | ||||
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Messalina (Enrico Guazzoni) [ADD] |
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| Japan - USSR | ||||
| USA | ||||
