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The History of Cinema: 1927

Australia - India

The Australian federal government establishes a Select Committee (which is upgraded to a Royal Commission in June) to investigate monopoly in the Australian film industry. [ADD]

– US productions account for 87% of films screened in Australia.   UK imports account for 5%, and the balance is made up by other countries. [ADD]

A parish letter signed by 17 bishops and archbishops from the province of Quebec prohibits Catholics from going to the cinema on Sundays. [ADD]

– Cine Colombia is established. [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

The Czechoslovakian League proposes a programme of action to protect national creativity. [ADD]

Dominican Republic

– The first sound film, Lucky Boy, is screened at the Independencia in Santa Domingo. [ADD]

Lama Ibrahim’s Kubla fil Sahara (Kiss in the Desert) premieres in Alexandria. [ADD]

Aziza Amir and Wedad Orfy release Laila, the first film from their new production company.   It premieres in the Metropole Theatre in Cairo. [ADD]

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis premieres in front of an audience of 2,500 at the UFA Palast in Berlin. [ADD]

Hugenberg Konzern, headed by Alfred Hugenberg, gains control of UFA, and installs Ludwig Kitszch as Chief Executive. [ADD]

Walter Ruttman’s Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt, an observation of one day in the life of the city, is released. [ADD]

– German releases account for 46.3% of films screened, while US imports account for 36.8%. [ADD]

– The Dutch Filmliga is formed in Amsterdam as a protest against the banning of the Russian film, Matj (Mother).   Founder members include writer and poet Menno ter Braak, critic L. J. Jordaan and editor Henrik Scholte.  [ADD]

– A Cinematograph Committee is formed to censor politically objectionable subject matter from films and to preserve English morals and codes. [ADD]

– The Indian Kinema Arts, predecessor of the New Theatre, is founded in Calcutta. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1927

Xixiang ji (Hou Yao, Li Minwei) [ADD]

Noored Kotkad (Young Eagles) (Theodor Luts) [MORE]

Law and Debt (Kote Marjanishvili) [ADD]

Germany

Alraune (Henrik Galeen) [ADD]

Der Weltkreig (Leo Lasko) [ADD]

Hoppla, wir leben! (Walther Ruttmann) [ADD]

Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney (G. W. Pabst) [ADD]

Dirnentragodie (Bruno Rahn) [ADD]

Greece

Love and Waves (Dimitris Gaziadis) [ADD]

Gun Sandari (Chandulal Jesangbhai) [ADD]

Netaji Palkar (Vankudre Shantaram) [ADD]