35mm still camera invented
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors
& Publishers) founded
World War I begins
Hodkinson
changes name of company from Progressive Pictures to Paramount
Pictures
Messter-Woche weekly newsreel in Germany
Mutual
Film acquires Keystone, Kay Bee and Bison studios.
Chaplin
signs with Essanay
Pictures in Niles, California.
Harry
Aitken lures D.
W. Griffith to Mutual
Film
Pathe
ceases production in US
Percy Nash & John East found Neptune
Films, build studio at Borehamwood (Elstree) in UK
Vitagraph
expands from production into distribution
Tenkatsu studio and Nippon Kinetophone founded
in Japan
Jupp forms London Film in UK
French government seizes control of Melies
Star Films to use to make war and propaganda films
Windsor Film formed in UK
Kodachrome patented
<-1913
+ 1915 ->