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The History of Cinema: 1945 |
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Albania - India |
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Albania |
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The communist government founds the Albanian Film Institute, which will later become Kinostudia Shqipλria e Re. [ADD] |
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The Australian National Film Board is created as a department of the federal government. It is modeled after the National Film Board of Canada on the recommendation of a report by John Grierson. [ADD] |
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Cinema attendance reaches a peak of 151 million admissions. [ADD] |
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The British Rank Organisation acquires a 50% stake in Greater Union. [ADD] |
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The musical comedy Arshin mal-alan, directed by Nikolai Lashchenko and Rza Takhmasib, is released. Attacked by authorities for its bourgeoisie inclinations, the film only escapes censorship because of Soviet leader Josef Stalins fondness for it. [ADD] |
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Colombia |
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Camilo Correa founds the Pelco film company in Medellin, and Procinal film company in Bogota. [ADD] |
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Czechoslovakia |
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Jiri Trnka and partners create the Batri v Triku (Trick Brothers) animation unit. [ADD] |
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The film industry is nationalised by the National Union government. All film production companies become state property under the collective name Statny Film. [ADD] |
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Denmark |
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Carl Theodor Dreyers Tva Manniskor (Two People) premieres in Copenhagen. [ADD] |
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Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jrs story of the Danish resistance, De Rode Enge (The Red Earth) is released. Lisbeth Movin and Paul Reichhardt star. [ADD] |
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Finland |
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The Finnish Film Producers Association is established. [ADD] |
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Germany |
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Veit Harlans Kolberg is released. An epic propaganda piece, the film utilized up to 20,000 real German troops, recalled from Germanys crumbling battle fronts for the purpose. [ADD] |
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At a conference during the final days of the war in Europe Joseph Goebbels reportedly beseeches his colleagues, Gentlemen, a hundred years from now, a wonderful colour film will be shown about these terrible days we are going through. Stand firm today, so that the audience does not whistle you down when you appear on the screen in a hundred years' time. [ADD] |
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Following the defeat of Germany, the US Office of War Information (OWI) confiscates German films and shows documentaries intended to impress upon the German people their responsibility for the war. [ADD] |
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India |
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The government withdraws controls over raw film stocks. [ADD] |
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Film production reaches an all-time low of 99 films, 74 of which are in Hindi. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1945 |
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Armenia |
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Yerkir hayreni (Gurgen Balasanyan, Levon Isahakyan, G. Zargaryan) [ADD] |
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Colombia |
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La cancion de mi tierra (Federico Katz) [ADD] |
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Sendero de luz (Emilio Alvarez Correa) [ADD] |
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El Sereno de Bogota (Gabriel Martinez) [ADD] |
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Denmark |
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Kornet er i fare (Hagen Hasselbalch) [ADD] |
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Stop tyven (Ole Palsbo) [ADD] |
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Den usynlige Hζr (Johan Jacobssen) [ADD] |
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Greece |
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I Villa me ta noufara (The Villa with the Water Lilies) (Dimitris Ionnopoulos) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1945 |
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| Albania - India | ||||
| France | ||||
| Gt. Britain | ||||
| Italy - Vietnam | ||||
| USA January - June | ||||
| USA July - December | ||||
