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THE FILM AND THE PUBLIC
1904 Voyage d trovers V Impossible (Georges Melies).
1905 Rescued by Rover (Cecil Hepworth) . Victorien Jasset began film-making in France.
1906 Le Rendu (Max Linder).
1907 D. W. Griffith becomes a film-actor.
Louis Feuillade begins film-making in France. The Legend of Polichinelle (Zecca).
1908 U Assassinat du Due de Guise (Calmettes and Le Bargy). Emile Cohl begins making animated films in France.
D. W. Griffith directs his first film. Uses dramatic close-up
in Enoch Arden. Percy Smith begins his biological and botanical films for
Charles Urban.
1909 Transfiguration (Cohl). The Maccabees (Guazzoni).
The Lonely Villa and Pip pa Passes (Griffith) .
1 9 10 Starevitch begins work in Russia.
The Thread of Destiny (Griffith, with Mary Pickford).
191 1 Quo Vadis? ( Ambrosio.) The first version in Italy of this
subject.) George Pearson begins work in Britain. Urban Gad begins work in Denmark. Thomas Ince begins work in the U.S.A. The Lonedale Operator (Griffith).
19 1 2 Man's Genesis and The Massacre (Griffith).
La Reine Elizabeth (Mercanton, with Sarah Bernhardt). Mack Sennett produces the first Keystone Comedy in the
U.S.A. Abel Gance begins film-making in France. Mauritz Stiller begins film-making in Sweden.
19 1 3 Cabiria (Pastrone).
Mario Caserini and Arturo Ambrosio both make separate versions of The Last Days of Pompeii in Italy.
Feuillade begins the Fantomas series in France.
Cecil B. de Mille begins film-making in the U.S.A.
Victor Sjostrom begins film-making in Sweden.
The Expedition of Captain Scott to the South Pole (Ponting).
The Student of Prague (Stellan Rye. First version of this subject to be made in Germany).
1 9 1 4 Judith of Bethulia ( Griffith) .
Charles Chaplin makes his first film for Keystone. Typhoon (Ince).
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