1929 in film - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed. Also, Laurel & Hardy make their talkie debut in "Unaccustomed As we are[?]" co-starring Thelma Todd[?] at Hal Roach Studios. Rko-Radio[?] studio is established.
1928 in film - First talkie cartoon,"Dinner Time[?]" is produced by VanBuren Studios, the second talkie cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" by Walt Disney is released a month later.
1927 in film - Al Jolson movie The Jazz Singer popularizes sound motion pictures. First talkie newsreel,"Fox Movietone News[?]".
1926 in film - First Vitaphone feature, "Don Juan" starring John Barrymore, released by Warner Brothers. Posthumously released, "The Son Of the Shiek[?]" is Rudolph Valentino's[?] biggest grossing film.
1925 in film - Lon Chaney's[?] greatest film, "The Phantom Of The Opera[?]" is released by Universal with colour sequences. Eric VonStrohiem[?]'s magnum opus, "Greed"
1924 in film - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio established.
1923 in film - Harold Lloyd's[?] greatest movie "Safety Last" produced by Hal Roach, released by Pathe.
1922 in film - Nosferatu, first ever vampire film released. Also, "Our Gang" series begins at Hal Roach studios.
1921 in film -Laurel ad Hardy[?]'s first film together is "A Lucky Dog[?]".
1920 in filmBuster Keaton begins starring in shorts and his first feature, "The Saphead[?]" at Metro.Von Strohiem's[?] "The Devil's Passkey[?]" stars Mae Busch[?] at Goldwyn.

1919 in film - United Artisted founded by Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin[?] and D.W.Griffith[?].
1918 in film - "My Four Years in Germany[?]" is the first Warner Brothers production. First National releases the first Tarzan film, starring Elmo Lincoln[?].
1917 in film - Technicolor is introduced
1916 in film - D.W.Griffith[?]'s second monumental production, "Intolerence[?]" released.
1915 in film - The Country Girl, starring Florence LaBadie[?]. The first great epic of American film, "The Birth Of A Nation[?]" is produced by David Wark Griffith.
1914 in film - "Tillie's Punctured Romance" produced by Mack Sennett, stars Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, and Mabel Normand[?].
1913 in film - The first Charlie Chaplin movies are made
1912 in film - From the Manger To the Cross, directed by Sidney Olcott
1911 in film -
1910 in film - First filmed "Frankenstein" by Edison studios.

1909 in film -
1908 in film - Thomas Edison formed the Motion Picture Patents Company[?]
1907 in film -
1906 in film - Ben Hur[?], directed by Sidney OlcottAlso, The world's first feature film, "The Story of the Kelly Gang" released in Australia.
1905 in film -
1904 in film - The Great Train Robbery, remake by Siegmund Lubin[?]
1903 in film - The Great Train Robbery, by Edwin S. Porter[?]
1902 in film
1901 in film
1900 in film

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!