Approximately 70 film production companies
in the world, 40 were based in the US
UK and Australian Copyright Acts set standard
to provide protection for author's lifetime plus 50 years
Hodkinson
implements new system of exclusive distribution rights, which
a modified version is still used today
West Pictures buys Pathe's Australian division
Aitken
lures Mary Pickford from Laemmle's Sales Company, causing a
parting between the two.
Photoplay and Motion Picture Story magazine
launched - called first 'fanzines'
Pathe
Weekly is first US-wide newsreel
Eastman begins to sell film stock to independent
producers
Amalgamated Picture Co founded in Melbourne
through merger of J&N Tait with Johnson & Gibson Chemicals
Aitken forms Reliance
Pennsylvania establishes first US state film
censorship law
Edison consolidates interests into Thomas
A. Edison, Inc
Nordisk Film goes public
81 cinemas in Finland
William Astor buys Observer from Northcliffe
First Edison multi-reel films released
Vitagraph
Studio launched at Hollywood
National Board of Film Censors established
in Sweden
Kalem
v Harper Bros dispute over unauthorised adaptation of Ben Hur
is landmark copyright case
<-1910
+ 1912 ->
