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Cinesound Review absorbs its rival The Herald Newsreel. [MORE] [ADD] |
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The General Theatres Corporation is created by the merger of Greater Union Theatres-Australasian Films-Cinesound and Hoyts Theatres-Fox-Gaumont British. The new organisation raises concern about monopolistic conditions.[MORE] [ADD] |
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– On Our Selection, the first sound film to feature Steele Rudd’s Dad and Dave characters, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Fox Film Corporation becomes a major shareholder in Hoyt’s Australian cinema chain. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Ngway Pay Lo Ma Ya, Burma’s first sound picture is released. It is directed by Toke Kyi in Bombay, India. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Japanese bombs destroy a number of studios and cinemas in Shanghai, forcing 30 companies to cease production. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– The first sound film is screened in a cinema in Lemesos (Limassol) [MORE] [ADD] |
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Vampyr, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s first talking picture (and his first since 1928’s The Passion of Joan of Arc) premieres in Copenhagen. The lead role is taken by Nicolas De Gunzberg, who also financed the film, under the pseudonym Julian West. [MORE] [ADD] |
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– Dansk Kulturfilm (DK) is established to promote Danish business overseas. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Awlad el-zawat (Sons of Aristocrats) is Egypt’s first part-talkie. Directed by Mohammed Karim, it stars Amina Rizk and Youssef Wahbi, a star of the theatre who would later become known as Egypt’s Laurence Olivier. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Egypt’s first talkie,
Inshudat el
fuad, is released. It is directed by
Mario Volpi and
Stephan Rosti.
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Paikese lapsed, Estonia’s first sound film (co-produced with a Finnish production company) is released. It is the last film to be made in Estonia for fifteen years. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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After appearing in four of Arnold Fanck’s mountain films, Leni Riefenstahl turns to directing with the release of Das Blaue Licht (The Blue Light). Riefenstahl also stars in the picture. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Slatan Dudow’s Kulde Wampe oder: Wem gehort die Welt? is released after authorities lift its ban following protests. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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The negatives of Sergei Eisenstein’s unfinished Que Viva Mexico!, which are in transit from America to Moscow, are intercepted by left-wing novelist Upton Sinclair, the film’s financial backer, and returned to Hollywood. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Max Ophuls' Die verkauffe Braut (The Bartered Bride), starring Jarmila Novotna and Karl Valentin, premieres in Munich. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Der tramende Mund (Dreaming Lips), directed by Paul Czinner and Lee Garmes is released. The film stars Elisabeth Bergner and Rudolph Forster. Czinner also directs a French-language version starring Gaby Morlay and Pierre Blanchar. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Fritz Lang starts filming Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse at the UFA studios in Neubabelsberg. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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UFA recovers from its financial crisis to employ 5,000 people under the management of Alfred Hugenberg. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – The Bavarian Film Company takes over the Emelka Film Studios in the Munich suburb of Gastelgasteig. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Wilhelm Schneider, working for Agfa Filmfabrik in Wolfen, patents a technique for manufacturing a tripack colour film stock – a process which becomes known as Agfacolor. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – 127 films are produced in Germany in 1932. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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The Franco-Hungarian co-production Tavski Zapor (Spring Showers) is released in the absence of director Paul Fejos, who has left the country for political reasons. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – Bertold Bartosch’s L’idee, on which he has worked for two years, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| – Attempts to shoot the first Indian colour film fail when the negative for Sairhandri, directed by Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram, is ruined during processing abroad. Bilwamangal, made later in the year by Madan Theatres, is also unsuccessful. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Ayodhyecha Raja (The King of Ayodhya), directed by Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram, is the first film to be made in the Marathi language. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – J. J. Madan’s musical spectacular Indrasabha (The Court of Lord Indra) features more than 70 songs in a running time of 211 minutes. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – 30 talking pictures are made in India this year. Eight of them are made by Madan Theatres, who own a chain of 126 cinemas, most of which are not equipped for sound. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – Setu Bandhan, the last film Indian cinema’s pioneer Dadasaheb Phalke will direct for five years, is released. It is a commercial failure, and Phalke’s company is dissolved. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – The Motion Picture Society of India is founded. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – The East India Film Co. is founded. It makes films in Bengali, Tamil and Telugu. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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The first International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art (Mostra) opens in Venice with the support of Mussolini’s fascist government. The brainchild of sculptor Antonio Mariani, 29 films are shown, including Nikolai Ekk’s Putyovka v zhizn (Road to Life), Rene Clair’s A nous la liberte and Rouben Mamoulian’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Mikio Naruse’s Mushibameru haru (Lost Springtime) is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Yazujiro Ozu’s Otona no mire ehon – Umarete wa mita kareda (I Was Born, But…), a lower middle class domestic drama, is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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The Korzo cinema in Skopje opens the ‘City Cassina’ outdoor cinema in the garden of the Kalamaras. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – Film crews from around the world visit Macedonia to make films: a Paramount cinematographer (John Dorrad?) films a wedding ceremony in Galicnik and the sheepfolds in the mountains of Bistra; the Belgrade Central Press Bureau shoot tourist films, while American and German crews make films about the national costume. A film is also made for Strasbourg University about the area around Skopje. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| - More cinemas open around the country: The Balkans in Prilep (opened by Pane Napeski), Milan Gjorev’s Belgrade Hotel in Veles, The Avala in Skopje, and a hall of the Palas Hotel in Kumanovo. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Following the withdrawal of finance
for Que Viva Mexico!,
Sergei Eisenstein and his colleagues,
Edouard Tisse
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– Santa, Mexico’s first sound film, is released. It is directed by actor Antonio Moreno. [MORE] [ADD] |
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| Pakistan | ||||
| – Jagatrai Pesumal Advani makes his final film in Lahore, Heer Raajha, starring M. Ismail, Rafiq Ghaznavi, Nazeer and Anwari. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| – Constantin Tanase finances, writes and stars in Visul lui Tanase (Tanase’s Dream) in Berlin. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Thailand | ||||
| – Long Tang (Gone Astray), Thailand’s first colour film, is produced by the Wasuwat brothers for the Krungthep Film Company. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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Muhsin Ertugrul’s Bir millet Uyaniyor is released. A film about the Anatolian resistance to invasion, it stars Ercument Behzat Lav and Emel Riza, and is considered to be Turkey’s first film of note. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
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Vselevod Pudovkin’s Prostoy sluchay (A Simple Case) is released. [MORE] [ADD] | |||
| – The first Five Year Plan results in the balance of film trade between the USSR and USA shifting in the Soviet’s favour for the first time. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Yugoslavia | ||||
| – Milutin Ignjacevic’s Na kapiji Orijenta (At the Gate of Orient) is released. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| – 326 cultural and documentary films, newsreel and domestic feature films are produced following 1931’s Film Distribution Law. However, cinema audiences decrease as cinema owners rely on screening old and poorly-made domestic product to meet the quota laid down by the law. [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Other Films of Note | ||||
| Germany | ||||
| Razzia in St. Pauli (Werner Hochbaum) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| India | ||||
| Chandidas (Debaki Bose) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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| Gli uomini, che mascalzoni (Mario Camerini) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| La Tavola dei poveri (Alessandro Blassetti) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Japan | ||||
| Chushingura – Zempn: Akahokyo no maki (The Loyal Forty-Seven Ronin) (Teinosuke Kinugasa) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Poland | ||||
| Sabra (Aleksander Ford) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| USSR | ||||
| Vstrechnyy (Counterplan) (Friedrich Ermler, Sergei Yutkevich) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
| Ivan (Alexander Dovzhenko) [MORE] [ADD] | ||||
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