Balboa
Films opened in Long Beach, California
Portable phonograph released
Cecil B DeMille, Jesse Lasky and Samuel Goldfish
form Jesse
L Lasky Feature Play Company
Literaria builds a new glass studio in Tempelhof,
Germany
Eclectic
Films opens to distributed for Pathe
JD Williamson Amusement Co and General Film
Co form production (Australasia Films) and exhibition (Union
Theatres) partnership in Australia
Mack Sennett, Thomas Ince & DW Griffiths
found Triangle Films
Hodkinson
forms Progressive Pictures Company to distribute films for Jesse
Lasky Feature Play and Zukor's
Famous Players
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke releases Raja Harishchandra,
Indian cinema's first feature
All
Star Feature Films created in New York
Asia Film & Theatre Co founded by Zhang
Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu, releases Nanfu nanqi (Suffering
Husband and Wife) - first Chinese fiction film
Zhuangzi shiqi (Zhuangzi Tests His Wife)
is first Hong Kong fiction film
Oskar Messter founds Messter Film GmbH in
Germany
Carreras family founds Blue Hall theatre
chain
Selig
purchases 32 acres near Los Angeles to become the Selig
Zoo.
Atelier Apollo in Finland closes
William Fox forms Box Office Attraction Co
First true serial released by Selig
'Adventures
of Kathyrn'
<-1912
+ 1914->
