1920
launch
of new Emelka studios at Geiselgasteig near Munich
Pearson-controlled
Westminister Press buys UK provincial newspaper chains
Deutsche
Bioskop merges with DECLA as DECLA-Bioskop
German
Reichslichtspielgesetz requires licensing of all films for public
exhibition
first
broadcasting stations opened in US
KDKA
in Pittsburgh broadcasts first scheduled radio programs
first
US transcontinental airmail
D
N Sampat founds Kohinoor Film
Indian
Film Censor Boards set up in Mumbai, Chennai, Calcutta and Rangoon
Durwood
brothers buy cinema in Kansas City, basis of Durwood (later AMC)
chain
Pathé-Cinéma
transfers production and distribution to new Pathé-Consortium-Cinéma
company
Harry
Cohn founds CBC Sales Co and later renames Columbia Pictures Company
Marcus
Loew creates Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer with purchase of Metro Pictures.
Shaw
brothers start producing films in Shanghai
1921
first
feature-length Chinese film, Yan Ruisheng, made and shown in Shanghai
DECLA-Bioscop
becomes part of UFA
Fatty
Arbuckle arrested for death of actress Virginia Rappe
Lau
Lauritzen founds Palladium Film in Denmark
de
Volkskrant founded in Germany
Western
Union begins wirephoto service
soap
powder for washing machines first released
The
first hamburger chain - White Castle
Federal
Trade Commission sues Famous Players-Lasky for anti-trust violation
in refusing independent films in its cinemas
1922
Sid
Grauman opens Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles
first public perfomance in Berlin of sound movie using a film sound
track (Tri-Ergon)
UK
BBC formed as commercial radio broadcasting company
Technicolor
introduces two-color process
Ernst
Lubitsch leaves Germany to work in Hollywood
The first 3-D movie released
Nanook
of the North, first feature-length documentary
first
portable radio in US
average
US weekly movie attendance is 40 million (1.56 per household)
first
film with optical sound track produced by UFA
first
radio advertisement in USA, cost $100 for ten minutes
New
York State Court rules that actors can't prevent re-editing or re-release
of film in which they appear
1923
Sydney
to Brisbane telephone trunk line
Disney
Bros found film studio in Hollywood
Warner
Bros incorporated
electric
guitar invented
Book-of-the-Month
Club founded
Zworykin's
electronic iconoscope camera and kinescope display
A.
C. Nielsen founded
16mm
nonflammable film invented
Kodak
introduces home movie equipment
Petersen
& Poulsen's Sound Film System demonstrated
Time
magazine launched
Pathé-Exchange
sold for 26 million francs, comes under control of Merryl Lynch
Spitzenorganisation
der deutschen Filmwirtschaft (SPIO) founded
1924
Marlboro
is launched, targeted at women with the line 'Mild as May'
invention
of spiral binding for notebooks
The
Eveready Hour is first sponsored radio program in US
IBM
incorporated
Music
Corporation of America (MCA) founded
2.5
million radio sets in the US
CBC
Film Sales and Columbia Pictures become Columbia Studios
Loew
gains controlling stake in Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B Mayer Pictures
Hugo
Stinnes and Vladimir Wengeroff form WESTI
Michael
Balcon forms Gainsborough and Piccadilly Studios
1925
Leica
35 mm camera invented
The
first commercial picture facsimile radio service across the US
electric phonograph invented
Western
Electric and Warner Bros agree to develop movie sound system
wide-screen
film invented
Warner
Bros establishes KFWB radio station in Los Angeles
merger
of Famous Players-Lasky and Balaban & Katz cinema chains to
form Publix
Marinho
takes control of O Globo newspaper
J.
D. Williams, W. Schlesinger & Herbert Wilcox form British International
Pictures (BIP)
first
edition of Ufa-Wochenschau weekly newsreel through merger of DECLA
and Messter newsreels in Germany
UFA
receives $4 million loan from MGM and Paramount
first
Indo-German coproduction, Light of Asia (Prem Sanyas)
1926
General
Electric forms Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
Warner
Bros Don Juan, with John Barrymore, features music but no spoken
dialogue
UK
government nationalises BBC
establishment
of Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) - Japan Broadcasting Corporation
The
first radio jingle is for Wheaties
commercial
picture facsimile radio service across Atlantic
Baird
demonstrates electro-mechanical TV system
first
16mm movie is shot in the US
NBC
radio network if formed
Bell
Labs transmit film by television
Aniline
printing developed
Alliance
Cinematographique Europeen (ACE) established by UFA and SF
Ardeshir
Irani & Abdulallay Esoofally launch Imperial Film in Mumbai
Herbert
Wilcox & Nelson Keys form British & Dominion Film Corporation
at Elstree
Balcon
and Blackwell's Piccadilly Pictures absorbs Gainsborough and Piccadilly
Studios
Swedish
retailer Anders Sandrew opens his first cinema in Stockholm
1927
US
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences founded
NBC
begins two radio networks
Warner
Bros The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson is first global 'talkie' ("Wait
a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet") using
recorded sound on disks
Movietone
offers sound newsreels
Studio
City launched in LA
RCA
announces stake in Film Booking Office, controlled by Wall Street
speculator Joseph P Kennedy
Hugenberg's
Scherl group gains control of UFA, places Ludwig Kitzsch as chief
executive
US
Radio Act declares public ownership of the airwaves and establishes
federal Radio Commission
JVC
formed in Japan
Remington
Rand formed
Indian
Cinematograph Committee established
UK
Films Act provides quota protection for local production
Paramount
renamed Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
Piccadilly/Gainsborough
absorbed by Gaumont-British
Pathé
studios sold to Eastman Kodak, cinema and distribution arm remains
independent
1928
AP
Giannini buys Bank of America
BIP
buys German producer/distributor Sudfilm
US
broadcasters agree to ban radio ads during 'family hour'
John
Logie Baird demonstrates colour TV on electro-mechanical system
Associated
British Cinemas (ABC) formed by John Maxwell
Radio-Keith-Orpheum
(RKO) formed by RCA's David Sarnoff and Joseph Kennedy
Gaumont-British
buys UK cinema chain, becomes Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Studios
rejects Disney's new cartoons, Ub Iwerks modifies Disney's drawings
to create the first Mickey Mouse character
Disney's Steamboat Willie is first cartoon designed for use with
a soundtrack
Pathé-Consortium
becomes Paris-Consortium-Cinéma
Herriot
Decree in France provides quota protection for local production
teletype
machine invented
Baird
beams TV image from UK to US
first
scheduled television broadcasts in US
IBM
adopts 80-column punched card
United
Independent Broadcasters restructured as Columbia Broadcasting System
(CBS)
1929
Cisneros
media group founded
Decca
records founded in UK
telegraph
ticker sends 500 characters per minute
ship
passengers can phone relatives ashore
brokers
watch stock prices on an automated electric board
car
radio invented
first
magnetic sound recording on plastic tape
first
television studio built in London
Basil
Dean forms Associated Talking Pictures (ATP) and builds studio at
Ealing
Bell
Labs transmits stills in colour by mechanical scanning
Zworykin's
cathode-ray tube "kinescope" receiver, 60 scan lines
Baird's
tv transmissions using BBC radio towers during off hours
Bernard
Natan establishes Radio-Natan-Vitus company
Natan
establishes Télévision-Baird-Natan to develop 'visiotéléphonie'
TOBIS-Klangfilm
formed in Germany by Siemens and AEG
GW
Pabst's Pandora's Box stars Louise Brooks
first
Academy Awards in US, with Best Picture going to Wings
Rapid-Film
and Pathé-Cinéma merge, gain control of new Société
de Gérance des Cinémas Pathé
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