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The History of Cinema: 1951 |
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The first Japanese colour film, Keisuke Kinoshita’s Karumen kokyo ni kaeru (Carmen Comes Home), starring Hideko Takamine, is released. It is filmed in Fujicolor. [ADD] |
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Hakuchi, Akira Kurosawa's version of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, is released. The film stars Masayuki Mori and Toshiro Mifune. [ADD] |
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Kenji Mizoguchi's Woman of Musashino, starring Kinuyo Tanaka and Masayuki Mori is released. [ADD] |
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Macedonia |
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The Commission of Cinematography establishes the State Film Archive. [ADD] |
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Malaysia |
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– Hsu Chiu Meng establishes the Nusantara Film Company. [ADD] |
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After a turbulent courtship, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner get married at the home of theatrical agent Lester Sachs. [ADD] |
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Luis Buñuel's Susana (The Devil and the Flesh), starring Rosita Quintana and Fernando Soler, is released. [ADD] |
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Nepal |
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– Satya Harishchandra, the first film in the Nepali language, is filmed in India. [ADD] |
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Puerto Rico |
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Serbia |
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The Film Industry Committee is disbanded by the government. [ADD] |
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– The Filmske novosti film studio is established in Belgrade. [ADD] |
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– UFUS (Association of Freelance Film Workers) is formed in Belgrade. [ADD] |
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Singapore |
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– Buluh Perindu, the first film from the Cathay-Keris Production Company formed by the merger of Wan Tho’s Cathay Productions and Ho Ah Loke’s Keris Productions, is released. [ADD] |
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Phandi Majumdar’s Hang Tuah, the country’s first colour film, is released. [ADD] |
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Sri Lanka |
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– Sirisena Wimalaweera founds the Navajeevana Film Studios. [ADD] |
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Sweden |
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Gustaf Molander’s Frånskild (Divorced) is released. The film stars Inga Tidblad and Alf Kjellin, and is based on an idea by Ingmar Bergman. [ADD] |
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Other Key Films of 1951 |
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Pakistan |
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Chanway (Noor Jehan) [ADD] |
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Philippines |
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Roberta (Olive La Torre) [ADD] |
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Puerto Rico |
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Los Peloteros (Jack Delano) [ADD] |
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Romania |
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Ratoiul neascultato (The Naughty Duckling) (Ion Popescu-Gopo) [ADD] |
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Slovenia |
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South Africa |
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The Pennywhistle Blues (Donald Swanson) [ADD] |
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Song of Africa [ADD] |
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Tajikistan |
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Soviet Tajikistan (Boris Kimiyagarov) [ADD] |
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The History of Cinema: 1951 |
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