Technicolor Co founded by Herbert Kalmus,
Daniel Comstock & Burton Westcott
Selig
studios in Chicago and Edendale moved to Los Angeles to
the Selig Zoo
DW
Griffith's Birth of a Nation released
Erich Pommer founds Deutsche-Eclair Film
(DECLA)
National
Film Corporation of America formed by William Parsons
Kashii Film buys Pathe interests in Japan
Pathe's US arm becomes Pathe
Exchange
William Fox founds Fox Film Corporation,
integrating production, distribution and exhibition
Mutual
Films boasts offices in 45 US cities, serving 7,000 theaters
with offices in London, Berlin, Rome, and Paris.
Metro Pictures incorporated in US
150 permanent cinemas in Vienna
Zukor's Famous
Players merges with Lasky's
Feature Play to form Famous Players-Lasky.
US court declares Edison's Trust to be illegal
restraint on trade
Vitagraph,
Selig,
Essanay
& Lubin
form VLSE joint distribution company
Universal's
Los Angeles studio (later Universal City) opens
Vachel Lindsay's pioneering The Art of the
Moving Picture
Oscar
Micheaux forms first black film company, Micheaux Book and
Film Company, but doesn't release first film until 1919. (Lincoln's
first release was in 1916)
US Supreme Court rules in Mutual
v Ohio that "cinema is a business pure and simple"
and does not enjoy First Amendment protection "as part
of the press or as organs of public opinion"
Bell & Howell 2709 movie camera allows
close-ups without physically moving the camera
<-1914
+ 1916 ->
