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The History of Cinema: 1967

Algeria - India

Algeria

– The Algerian Centre of the Cinema (C.A.C) replaces the CNC and INC with the aim of centralising the film industry. [ADD]

Argentina

– Cine Cubano publishes Fernando Birri’s ‘Cinema and Underdevelopment,’ a paper advocating revolutionary cinema. [ADD]

Australia

Nov -

The Australian Council of the Arts is founded. Financed with federal funds, the Council includes a Film and Television Committee. [ADD]

Brazil

8/5 -

Glauber Rocha’s Terra em Transe (Land in Anguish), an attack upon contemporary life under military rule, is released. [ADD]

Canada

– The Canadian Film Development Corporation is established to promote production of feature films and encourage filmmaking.

Chile

– The first Festival of the New Latin American Cinema takes place in Viña del Mar. [ADD]

Congo

– Sébastien Kamba’s Kayako is released. [ADD]

Cuba

13/12 -

Santiago Álvarez films Hanoi, Martes 13 (Hanoi, Tuesday 13^th), the story of what happens to the North Vietnamese people during the course of that day. [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

– Kinoautomat, the world’s first interactive film, is shown for the first time at the Czechoslovak Pavilion at the Expo ‚67 Montreal. The audience is given control of the outcome of the film One Man and His House, starring Miroslav Hornicek by being given options at several key moments. [ADD]

Gabon

– M’bolo Gabon is released. [ADD]

Hong Kong

19/11 -

Television Broadcasts Ltd (TVR) begins broadcasting, contributing to a major decline in the production of Cantonese-language films. [ADD]

India

– Pachhi’s Around the World is the first Indian film produced in 70mm Technicolor with stereophonic sound. [ADD]

– Hindustan Photo Films make India self-sufficient in Black-and-white and sound negative film. [ADD]

– The Bengali film monthly Chitrabikshan begins publication. [ADD]

– Popular film star M. G. Ramachandran is shot and wounded by his co-star M. R. Radha. [ADD]

Other Key Films of 1967

Algeria

Hassan terro (Hassan, Terrorist) (Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina) [ADD]

Andorra

Valle de los príncipes (Joan Albert Sabaté) [ADD]

Armenia

Yerankyuni (Triangle) (Henrik Malyan) [ADD]

Yot yerg Hayastani masin (Seven Songs About Armenia) (Grigori Melik-Avakyan) [ADD]

Bangladesh

Ania-0-Abshistha (The Glass & the Residue) (Subhas Dutta) [ADD]

Anowara (Zahir Raihan) [ADD]

Chokori (Ehtesham) [ADD]

Darshna (Meeting) (Rahman) [ADD]

Nayan Tara (Kazi Zahir) [ADD]

Nowab Sirajuddoula (Khan Ataur Rahman) [ADD]

Bulgaria

Otklonenie (Sidetrack) (Grisha Ostrovski, Todor Stoianov) [ADD]

Cambodia

Ombre sur Angkor (Prince Norodom Sihanouk) [ADD]

Chile

Largo Viaje (Patricio Kaulen) [ADD]

Cuba

Las aventuras de Juan Quin Quin (Julio Garcia Espinosa) [ADD]

Czechoslovakia

Hoří, má panenko (The Firemen’s Ball) (Milos Forman) [ADD]

Markéta Lazárová (František Vlačil) [ADD]

Rozmarné léto (Capricious Summer) (Jirí Menzel) [ADD]

Georgia

Didi Mtsvane Veli (Big Green Valley) (Merab Kokochashvili) [ADD]

Umbrella (Michael Kobakhidze) [ADD]

Vedreba (The Entreaty) (Tengiz Abuladze) [ADD]

Greece

The Blue Beads (Yannis Dalianidis) [ADD]

She and Him (Erricos Andreou) [ADD]

Hungary

Csillagosok, katonák (The Red and the White) (Miklós Jancsó) [ADD]

Csend és kiáltás (The Silence and the Cry) (Miklós Jancsó) [ADD]

Tízezer nap (Ten Thousand Days) (Ferenc Kósa) [ADD]

India

Chiriyakhana (The Zoo) (Satyajit Ray) [ADD]

The History of Cinema: 1967