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Interesting Facts About Films
Royalty and the Film
Royal interest in colour films was shown as early as Julv, 1909, when King Edward VII and H.ISI. Queen Alexandra witnessed a command exhibition of pictures in kinemacolour at Knowsley, Lanes.
In November, 191 8, H.M. the Queen of England took part in a film called Women Who Win, produced for the Women's Service League. The picture showed her Majestj' talking for a few moments to a munition worker at the Agricultural Hall, London.
In 1916 a film version of Tom Broimi's Schooldays won the distinction of being the first picture to be given a command exhibition in Great Britain.
By Royal command, Mr. Cecil M. Hepworth presented at Balmoral Castle before their Majesties the King and Queen of England and several other Royal personages, his film, Through Three Reigns, which gave an authentic record of events from 1898 to 191 1.
In November, 1930, at the churchcinema, Lambeth Road, London, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales showed his personally-taken film record of his tour in Africa.
H.R.H. the Duke of York witnessed at the Albert Hall, London, on February 26, 1929, a special presentation of The Epic of the South Pole, describing Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic.
City Lights, starring Charles Chaplin, was shown at Balmoral Castle In' Royal command
Early Pictures
Cohen at Coney Island, directed bv Mack Sennett, was the first Keystone comedy.
The first war and propaganda picture to be shown in the United States was The Battle Cry of Peace. which J. Stuart Blackton made. It was finished in 1915, the leads having been taken by Norma Talmadge and Charles Richman.
Starring Lady Doris Stapleton with David Devant, the famous magician, as the hero. The Great London Mystery was the first British serial. Released in Januarv, 1922, it contained sixteen episodes.
Towards the end of 191 1 the Edison company began putting on the screen instructive pictures of the tvpe now known as " educational " films.
One of the earliest American films starring a stage actress of world-wide fame was Queen Elizabeth, in which Sarah Bernhardt was the premier attraction. It had its first showing at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, on July 12, 1912.
Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, which was made in 1 91 3, was the first picture taken under the sea. A submarine tube