Movies History Timeline 1911 - 1920 |
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1911 |
The first feature film is released when the two reels of
D. W. Griffith's Enoch Arden are screened together.
Pennsylvania became the first state to pass a film censorship law. |
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Pathe's Weekly was the first regularly-released US
newsreel. |
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1912 |
The first American serial film was the Edison Company's
melodrama What Happened to Mary? |
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Photoplay debuts as the first magazine for movie fans |
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Oliver Twist, was released - it was the first US feature
film to last over an hour. |
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1913 |
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John Randolph Bray's first animated film, The Artist's
Dream (aka The Dachshund and the Sausage), the first animated cartoon made
in the U.S. by modern techniques was the first to use 'cels' - transparent
drawings laid over a fixed background |
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1914 |
Winsor McCay unleashes Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated
cartoon. |
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The first feature-length color film, The World,
the Flesh, and the Devil, in Kinemacolor, premiered in London. |
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1915 |
In Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of
Ohio, the Supreme Court ruled that states may censor films, encouraging
scrutiny of movies during future decades. |
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The Bell & Howell 2709 movie camera allowed
directors to film close-ups without physically moving the camera. |
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The Birth of a Nation released. |
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1916 |
Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar
Selwyn established Goldwyn Company. |
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D.W. Griffith's expensive follow-up film to The Birth
of a Nation (1915) was the monumental historical and dramatic epic Intolerance,
told with parallel cross-cutting between its four stories, symbolically
linked by the image of Lillian Gish rocking a child |
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Charlie Chaplin signs on with Mutual Studios and earns
an unprecedented $10,000 a week. |
1917 |
The first African-American owned studio, The Lincoln Motion
Picture Company, was founded. |
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Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope to streamline
the frame-by-frame copying process. It was a device used to overlay drawings
on live-action film. |
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Birth of Jane Wyman. |
1918 |
The four Warner brothers, Jack, Albert, Harry and Samuel,
opened their first West Coast studio. |
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The first Tarzan film, the black and white Tarzan of the
Apes, premiered at the Broadway Theater in New York |
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1919 |
Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and
Mary Pickford established United Artists in an attempt to control their
own work. |
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The technique of test screenings of films to obtain
audience feedback was pioneered by Harold Lloyd. |
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Max and Dave Fleischer's "Out of the Inkwell"
series premiered, introducing KoKo the Clown, one of the first animated
characters. |
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1920 |
Bray Picture Corporation's The Debut of Thomas
Cat was the first color (2-color process) cartoon. |
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