Year

Country

Home

People

Films

Articles

Store

The History of Cinema: 1924

Austria - Germany

Belarus

– Belgoskino, the state administration on matters of cinematography and photography, is formed. [ADD]

Chile

– Pedro Sienna’s Agua de Vertiente, the first film to show a naked woman, is released. [ADD]

– The Chile Censorship Council (CCC) is established. [ADD]

Lin Minwei completes filming of Sun Yat-sen's first Kuomintang congress. [ADD]

Dominican Republic

– Francisco Palau’s Las Emboscados de Cupido, the first film to be made in the country, is released. [ADD]

– The Co–operative Association of Denmark's Movie Theatres is formed. [ADD]

– Konstantin Märska's Mineviku varjud (Shadows of the Past), the country’s first full-length feature film, is released. [ADD]

Kriemhild’s Revenge, Fritz Lang’s sequel to Siegfried, is released.   The film is adapted for the screen by Lang’s wife, Thea von Harbou. [ADD]

Danish director Carl Dreyer’s film Michael is released.   It was filmed in Germany with Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor and Walter Slezak in starring roles. [ADD]

Leo Birinski and Paul Leni’s Das Wachsfigurenkabinett (Waxworks), a collection of three stories, is released.   The cast includes John Gottowt, William Dieterle, Olga Belajeff, Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt. [ADD]

F. W. Murnau’s The Last Laugh is released.   Emil Jannings stars as an old hotel doorman, stripped of his uniform and dignity and forced to work as a lavatory cleaner. [ADD]

– A mutual film distribution agreement is reached between Germany’s Ufa and Etablissements Aubert of France. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1924

Die Sklavenkönigin (Mihaly Kertesz) [ADD]

Dominican Republic

La República Dominicana [ADD]

Treasure of Atahualpa [ADD]

al-Bashkateb (The Head Clerk) (Mohammed Bayumi) [ADD]

Three Lives (Perestiani) [ADD]