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The History of Cinema: 1926

Italy - Vietnam

Gli Ultimo giorni di Pompeii (The Last Days of Pompeii) premieres in Rome.   It is completed by Carmine Gallone after the project was abandoned by Amleto Palermi. [ADD]

The fascist government takes control of  Instituto Luce and decrees that all cinemas must screen Luce newsreels. [ADD]

Kenjo Mizoguchi’s latest offering, Kaminingyo haru no sasayaki (A Paper Doll’s Whisper of Spring) opens in Tokyo. [ADD]

30-year-old Teinosuke Kinugasa's Kurutta Ippeji (A Page of Madness) is released. [ADD]

Woon-gyu Na’s Arirang is released by the Choson Kinema Production company.   It becomes a masterpiece of Korean cinema. [ADD]

– The country’s first film schools and production companies start operating. [ADD]

Macedonia

The Zrinski Café and its cinema in Skopje is burned to the ground. [ADD]

The Officers House and the Ada Kafezi are destroyed by flooding in Veles. [ADD]

Papua New Guinea

– Australian filmmaker Frank Hurley’s Pearl and Savage, the first film shot in Papua New Guinea, is released. [ADD]

– Hipolito Jorge Carron, his brother-in-law Guillermo Quell and his nephew Nicholas Carron Quell, shoot documentary footage of the destruction wreaked by a tornado on Incarnacion. [ADD]

– Liu Peh Jing’s Xin ke (The Immigrant), the first film to be made in Singapore, is released. [ADD]

South Korea

– 1926 marks the beginning of the first Golden Age of Korean cinema.   All films from this period have been lost. [ADD]

– Woon-gyu Na and Park Sung-pil join forces to found Woon-gyu Na Productions. [MORE] [ADD]

– Retailer Anders Sandrew opens his first cinema in Stockholm. [ADD]

– The country’s first film studio is established. [ADD]

Turkmenistan

– Following the granting from the Soviet Union of the status of republic in 1922, the first Turkmenistan film studio, Aschchabad Kinofabrika, is established. [ADD]

During a trip to Moscow, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford visit Sergei Eisenstein and promise to invite him to Hollywood to direct a film for United Artists. [ADD]

Vselevod Pudovkin’s Mat (Mother) is released. [ADD]

Fedor Ozep and Boris Barnet’s Miss Mend is released. [ADD]

Russian inventor P G Tager demonstrates a system of sound film production. [ADD]

– Hanoi photograph studio owner Huong Ky founds a production company.   Amongst its first releases are Khai Dinh’s Funeral and The Throne Ceremony of Emperor Bao Dai, which are both screened in Vietnam in this year. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1926

Nongjungjo [ADD]

Po zakonu (Lev Kuleshov)  [ADD]