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Armenia |
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The Armenian State Committee on Cinema (the Goskino) is established under Soviet government decree. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Australia |
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– 94% of films shown in Australia are made in America. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Austria |
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– Vita-Film-AG goes out of business as film sales decline due to inflation. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Azerbaijan | ||||
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The Council of People’s Commisars establish the Azerbaijan Photo Film Institution (APFI). [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Belgium | ||||
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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. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Bolivia | ||||
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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. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Italian director Pedro Sambarino establishes S.A. Bolivian Cinematografica. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Denmark | ||||
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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. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Dominican Republic |
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– Francisco Arturo Palau films La Leyenda de Nuestra Señora de Altagracia. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Egypt | ||||
| 12/6 - |
The Egyptian government passes the country’s first film censorship laws. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Mohammed Bayumi films the country’s first newsreel, capturing the only cinematic record of the return from exile of nationalist leader Saad Zaghlul. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Finland | ||||
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– Suomen Biografiliitto (later Suomen Filmikameri) is formed. [MORE] [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. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 11/9 - |
Die Flamme, director Ernst Lubitsch’s last German film before departing for the United States, is released. Pola Negri stars. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Former Decla founder Erich Pommer becomes UFA head of production. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Spitzenorganisation der deutschen Filmwirtschaft (SPIO) is founded. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Iceland |
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– The country’s first film, Aevintyri jons og Gvendar, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| India | ||||
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– Jamsetji Framji Madan dies, leaving his Madan Theatres to his five sons. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The government levies a 12.5 % entertainment tax in Bombay. [MORE] [ADD] |
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- Naresh Mitra directs Maanbhanjan, the first adaptation of the works of famed Bengali poet Rabindra Nath Thakur, [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Italy | ||||
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The Fascist regime introduces new censorship laws which allow it to intervene both before and after shooting of a film. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Japan | ||||
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Kenjo Mizoguchi’s directorial debut, Kokyo, premieres in Tokyo. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| 1/9 - |
All film studios are destroyed in an earthquake that decimates the Tokyo and Yokohama regions. The studios work together to make use of Nikkatsu’s old studios in Kyoto. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Korea | ||||
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Yun Baek-nam writes and directs Ulha ui Mengse (Wulha's Vow) arguably the first Korean feature film, although it was actually produced, distributed and promoted by the Japanese Songjuk. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Hayagawa, owner of the Choson Theatre, founds the Dong Ah Munhwa Hyophoe (Donga Cultural Society) and releases Ch'unghwangjon. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Samoa | ||||
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– Frances and Robert Flaherty film Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age in Samoa. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Switzerland | ||||
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L’Appel de la montagne premieres. The film, directed by Arthur Porchet, stars Emile Crettex and Ernette Tam. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Taiwan | ||||
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– The Shi Jie San Guan (World War III Theatre) presents Dan Duyu’s Gu jing chong bo ji" (The revival of an old well), the first Chinese film to be shown in Taiwan. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The government-run newspaper, Taiwan daily news press establishes a film department and shoots a short fiction film called Kan niu han (Cowherd). Praising Japan’s invasion of Taiwan, the film’s title was eventually changed to Lao tian wu qing (An unfeeling God). [MORE] [ADD] |
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Turkey |
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The War of Independence drama Atesten Gömlek (The Ordeal), the first film to feature Turkish Muslim women (Bedia Muhavvit and Neyyire Neyir), premieres in Istanbul [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Uruguay | ||||
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– Juan Antonio Borges’ Almas de la Costa, the country’s first feature-length film, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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25/4 – Sergei Eisenstein inserts a film sequence of The Journal de Gloumov into his stage adaptation of Ostrovsky’s The Wise Man. [MORE] [ADD] |
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25/10 – The cinema section of the Georgian Education Board screens Ivan Perestiani’s Citele Esmakudeni (The Little Red Devils). [MORE] [ADD] |
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