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The History of Cinema: 1924 |
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Hungary |
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– The first national newsreels appear. [ADD] |
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– Savitri, the Country’s first co-production – between Madan Theatres of Calcutta and U C Italiana of Rome – is released. [ADD] |
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Producer Giuseppe Barattolo withdraws his financial support from Abel Gance’s Napoleon because of a crisis in the Italian film industry. [ADD] |
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Less than 20 films are produced this year, down from 921 in 1912 and 220 in 1920. [ADD] |
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– Istituto LUCE (L’Unione Cinematografica Educativa) is founded in Rome to produce documentaries. [ADD] |
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– Park Sung-pil’s Dangsongsa establishes a cinematography division and makes Changhwa Hongnyonjon ("The Tale of Changhwa and Hongnyon"). [ADD] |
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Mauritz Stiller’s adaptation of Selma Lagerlöff's novel The Atonement of Gösta Berling is released. Stiller’s 18-year-old protégée Greta Garbo stars as the daughter of a labourer. [ADD] |
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Polish-born engineer and aviator Lazare Wechsler establishes Praesens Film production company. [ADD] |
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– Albert Samama Chikly’s Ain el-Ghezal ou la fille de Carthage (The Girl from Carthage) which is made entirely on location, becomes the country’s first feature-length film. [ADD] |
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The Prolekult commissions Sergei Eisenstein to make Strike, the first film in a cycle entitled Towards Dictatorship. [ADD] |
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The Soviet film industry is centralised with the foundation of Sovkino, which is created to attract increased financial backing for film production. [ADD] |
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– The Mezhrabpom film production company is established with financial and technical support from the German communist group Internationale Arbeitshilfe (International Workers' Aid). The group also establish a German-Soviet distribution agency, Prometheus, in Berlin. [ADD] |
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– The Association of Revolutionary Cinematography (ARC) is founded in Moscow by Sergei Eisenstein and Lev Kuleshov, amongst others. [ADD] |
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– FEX (Factory of the Eccentric Actor) becomes a cinema collective. The organisation was formed in Leningrad in 1921 as a theatre workshop by Grigory Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. [ADD] |
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– Buchkino Studio, a subsidiary of Leningrad’s Sewsapinko studio, opens in Buchara. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1924 |
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Kala Naag (Homi Master) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Pachta-Aral (Nikolai Shtsherbakov) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Minaret of Death (Vyatsheslav Viskovsky) [MORE] [ADD] |
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