Paramount
set up Artcraft
Pictures to primarily handle Mary Pickford Productions.
Cameras first use of optical rangefinders
Radios get tuners
Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE)
formed in US
Vitagraph
buys out partners in VLSE
Vitagraph
buys Kalem
German High Command establishes Bild &
Film Amt (BUFA) - Office of Photography & Film - to influence
public opinion
Noble Johnson and his brother George form
Lincoln
Motion Picture Company, the first black studio to release
a film.
Cinematograph Film Censor Act in New Zealand
Ousted Paramount
founder Hodkinson
forms Superpictures Incorporated and takes on duty as President
of Triangle Films
Christiana Film Co formed in Norway
Biograph
Company stopped production but didn't disband.(still in
existance)
Essanay
Pictures closes it's operations.
Goldwyn Pictures created by Samuel Goldfish
<-1915
+ 1917 ->
