The History of Cinema Timeline: Australia-Hungary 1932

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			Australia

		Sep -	Cinesound Review absorbs its rival The Herald Newsreel. [MORE]

		Oct -	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. [ADD]

			– On Our Selection, the first sound film to feature Steele Rudd’s Dad and Dave characters, is released. [ADD]

			– Fox Film Corporation becomes a major shareholder in Hoyt’s Australian cinema chain. [ADD]



			Burma

			– Ngway Pay Lo Ma Ya, Burma’s first sound picture is released. It is directed by Toke Kyi in Bombay, India. [ADD]



			China

		3/3 -	Japanese bombs destroy a number of studios and cinemas in Shanghai, forcing 30 companies to cease production. [ADD]



			Cyprus

			– The first sound film is screened in a cinema in Lemesos (Limassol) [ADD]



			Denmark



		6/5 -	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. [ADD]

			– Dansk Kulturfilm (DK) is established to promote Danish business overseas. [ADD]



			Egypt

		14/3 -	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. [ADD]

		14/4 -	Egypt’s first talkie, Inshudat el fuad, is released. It is directed by Mario Volpi and Stephan Rosti. [ADD]



			Estonia



		3/11 -	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. [ADD]



			Germany



	24/3 -	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). Leni Riefenstahl also stars in the picture. [ADD]

	30/5 -	Slatan Dudow’s Kulde Wampe oder: Wem gehort die Welt? is released after authorities lift its ban following protests. [ADD]

	1/6 -	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. [ADD]



	18/8 -	Max Ophuls' Die verkaufte Braut (The Bartered Bride), starring Jarmila Novotna and Karl Valentin, premieres in Munich. [ADD]

	14/9 -	Der traumende 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. [ADD]

	15/9 -	Fritz Lang starts filming Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse at the UFA studios in Neubabelsberg. [ADD]

	31/12 -	UFA recovers from its financial crisis to employ 5,000 people under the management of Alfred Hugenberg. [ADD]

		– The Bavarian Film Company takes over the Emelka Film Studios in the Munich suburb of Gastelgasteig. [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. [ADD]

		– 127 films are produced in Germany in 1932. [ADD]



		Hungary



	4/11 -	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. [ADD]

		– Bertold Bartosch’s L’idee, on which he has worked for two years, is released. [ADD]




		Other Key Films of 1932

		Germany

		Razzia in St. Pauli (Werner Hochbaum) [ADD]



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