| 1918 |
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| January 19 |
Technicolor Corporation completes the first two-strip film production, The
Gulf Between. |
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| February 14 |
Premiere of the first film version of Tarzan of the Apes. |
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| February |
Famous Players Lasky Corporation acquires
Paramount Pictures. |
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| August 15 |
The Sinking of the Lusitania, the first full-length feature cartoon film, is
released in the US. Made by Winsor McCay, it incorporates 25,000 drawings and has
taken 22 months to make. |
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| October 1 |
Lucien Lévy takes out his second patent on
superheterodyne transmission. |
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| December 19 |
Robert Ripley's Believe It or Not column first appears in the New
York Globe. It later transfers to other media. |
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US replaces Britain as main source of film imports in South America. |
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By now all but one UK film studio (at Shoreham near Brighton) use artificial light sources. |
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Film Company of Ireland makes Willy Reilly and
his Colleen Bawn, under cover of which they make an appeal film for the 1919 Irish Republican Loan. |
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First Egyptian dramatic film is Sharaf el Badawi, made by the Italo-Egyptian
Cinematograph Company. |
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Weir House studio at Teddington, west of London is
leased by Master Films, which develops the site. |
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First Indian film serial is four-part Ram Vanwas (The Exile of Shree Rama),
directed by S N Patankar. |
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Neptune Films mortgages two-thirds of its land at Borehamwood. |
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US film exports: 84.5m feet. |
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Dr Ralph Jupp sells his Provincial Cinematograph Theatres to Sir William Jury
(newly knighted for services in providing film entertainment to the war fronts). |
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Pathé Frères becomes Pathé-Cinéma, sells off its
foreign distribution interests and closes its SCAGL distribution subsidiary. |
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