| 1905 |
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| February 1 |
After a court ruling to end unlicensed recording of copyright music, Pathé lays off 1,200 workers from its record department. |
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| February |
In the UK Gaumont Ltd now claims to be producing 15-20 new films a month, 80,000 ft of film a week, at an average cost of £300. Actors are paid 2s 6d (12p) a day plus 4d (1.5p) for train fare. Extras (known as 'supers', presumably from supernumerary) are paid in beer at local pubs. |
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| February |
Dr Doyen is granted copyright protection by a Parisian court in the films of his surgical operations that his cameraman, A-F Parnaland, has been selling. Doyen is deemed the 'principal author' of the films. |
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| April 1 |
French audio trade journal Phono-Gazette first appears, edited by Edmond Benoît-Lévy. |
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| April 23 |
 Biografteatret cinema is opened at 47 Vimmelskaftet, Copenhagen by Ole Olsen [left] |
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| June |
 In Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, vaudeville operator Harry Davis opens the first nickelodeon [right]. |
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| July 15 |
Biograph screenings close at the Union Square Theatre in New York after more than eight years. |
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| August |
The Daily Mirror is the first UK newspaper to be extensively illustrated using half-tone photographic reproduction. |
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| September |
By now Pathé's French laboratories are printing 40,000 feet of positive film a day, much of it for the US market. [0071] |
> 1906 June |
| September |
Chicago has now become established as 'the leading film market in the world', according to Billboard and a major location for film sales and rental companies. [0071] |
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| October 1 |
French audio trade journal Phono-Gazette becomes Phono-Ciné-Gazette from issue 13—the first to report the naw industry. Its coverage particularly includes legal, patent and technical matters. |
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La Bonne Presse sets up a film distribution and equipment sales operation in Paris. In its first year it sells 460 projectors (its own design) and 67,500 metres of film. [0068] |
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| December 16 |
First issue of US entertainment trade paper Variety is published by Sime Silverman. The 16-page paper costs five cents. |
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Pre-selective jukebox, the Multiphone, is invented by John C Dunton of Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
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First film studio in Italy is built by the Cines Company, headed by Marchese Ernesto Pacelli and Barone Alberto Fassini. Another is built by Alberini & Santoni. |
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First Italian fiction film: La Presa di Roma, 20 settembre 1870 by Filoteo Alberini. |
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First commercial film shows in Persia are run by Sahâf Bâshi in Avenue Cheraq Gaz, Tehran. |
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Gramophone Company in UK presents commemorative miniature gold discs to violinist Marie Hall. |
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R W Paul invents the Maltese cross intermittent shutter mechanism for film projectors, synchronised with the pulldown mechanism in the gate. |
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Pathé is now producing 200 pieces of film equipment (cameras, projectors) a month from its factory at Belleville, Paris. At Joinville-le-Pont it is producing 12,000 feet of film prints a day from the 12,000 feet of negative produced during the year at its Vincennes studio. The cost of printing is Ffr 0.50 a foot. Sales typically run to 250 copies of a title, Pathé breaking even at around a dozen copies. [0068] |
Equipment > 1906 |
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Léon Gaumont begins production of short sound films using his Chronophone, a sound film system linking film with discs. The projector and disc player are each driven by a dc motor, each with the same number of armatures, connected to the corresponding armatures of the other motor. To maintain synchronisation, the operator can use a lever to slow the projector and speed up the disc player or vice versa. Among subjects filmed are Coquelin in a scene from Cyrano de Bergerac, also filmed in 1900 by Clément-Maurice with his Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre system. [0024,0025, 0026a] |
> 1907 |
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Lumière Brothers ceases film production. |
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English film producer Cecil Hepworth builds an indoor studio with artificial lighting at Hurst Grove, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. 0019 |
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Wireless Telegraphy Act is passed in Canada; the responsible authority is the Department of Marine and Fisheries. |
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