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The History of Cinema: 1925

Bermuda - Uzbekistan

– Pedro Sambarino shoots the celebration of the country’s national day – considered to be the country’s first feature film. [ADD]

– Pedro Sambarino, in collaboration with Raul Ernst, establishes a film laboratory to process, copy and produce films. [ADD]

– Dana Pratap, the country’s first Burmese feature film, is released by the London Art Photo Company of Rangoon.  [ADD] 

Robert Wiene’s Orlacs Hände (The Hands of Orlac) is released.   The film stars Fritz Kortner and Conrad Veidt. [ADD]

Fritz Lang begins filming Metropolis in the UFA studios from a script written by the director and his wife Thea von Harbou.   The film costs $1.5 million to produce, takes 310 days and 60 nights to shoot and employs 36,000 extras. [ADD]

The Ufa-Palast am Zoo reopens its doors. [ADD]

UFA is rescued from financial collapse by signing a reciprocal agreement (The Parufamet Treaty) with Paramount and MGM for the importation of films between Germany and the USA. [ADD]

Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (The Little Match-girl) is produced by UFA in collaboration with the Swiss firm Tri-Ergon AG.   The film contains a dialogue and sound-on-film track, but is unsuccessful due to technical shortcomings. [ADD]

 – American films exceed the share of German films for the first time with a market share of 42%.  [ADD]

– The government establishes the Film-Industry Fund and the Hungarian Film Agency. [ADD]

– Only two films are produced in Hungary n 1925. [ADD]

– The Great Eastern Corporation of Delhi release Light of Asia, a co-production with German company Emelka Film Co.   Franz Osten directs. [ADD]

Gabriellino d'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby's remake of Quo Vadis? is released to poor reviews.   The film, which received financial backing from UFA, features  Emil Jannings as Nero. [ADD]

The Luce Institute (Educational Cinematographic Union) is nationalized by the Fascist government. [ADD]

– Yun Baek-nam leaves Choson Kinema Inc. and forms  Yun Baek-nam Productions to make ‘pure Choson made films.’ [ADD]

– Hipolito Jorge Carron and his brother-in-law Guillermo Quell and nephew Nicholas Carrón make the film Alma Paraguaya. [ADD]

– Belgian explorer Marquess Robert de Wavrin films unexplored regions of Paraguay. [ADD]

Jean Choux’s The Vocation of André Carrel is released.   Michel Simon, a photographer and actor with the Pitoeff troupe, makes his screen debut.   Blanche Montel and Camille Bert also star. [ADD]

– Shei zhi guo (Whose Fault is This), the first film from Taiwan’s first production company, the Taiwan Motion Picture Study Society, is released. [ADD]

28/4 – Sergei M. Eisenstein's first feature film, Stachka (Strike), is released.   It tells the story of workers who strike when a fellow worker commits suicide after being wrongfully accused of stealing a piece of equipment. [ADD]

21/11 – Chess Fever, Vsevolod Pudovkin’s directorial debut, is released. [ADD]

21/12 – The premiere of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin takes place in Moscow. [ADD]

– The ‘Star of the Orient’ film factory opens in Tashkent. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1925

Eugene O'Neill and John Held in Bermuda (Nicholas Murray) [ADD]

El húsar de la muerte (Pedro Sienna) [ADD]

Bajo el cielo antioqueno (Arturo Acevedo) [ADD]

Moving Pictures (Ísland í lifandi myndum) [ADD]

Mulraj Salanki  [ADD]

Veer Bala (Mohan Bhavani)  [ADD]

Jacob’s Well (aka A Daughter for Israel) (Edward José)  [ADD]

Kaechokja (Pioneer) (Lee Kyong-son)  [ADD]

The Tale of Shimchong (Lee Kyong-son) [ADD]

The Tale of Wonyong (Yun Baek-nam) [ADD]

New Zealand

Rewi’s Last Stand (Rudall Hayward) [ADD]