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January 10 – CBC Distributions corp. is renamed and incorporated as Columbia Pictures.; D. W. Griffith, co-founder of United Artists, leaves the company.; April 17 – Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gains control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Title Director Featured Cast Genre Note 40-Horse Hawkins: Edward Sedgwick: Hoot Gibson, Anne Cornwall: Comedy: Universal: $50,000 Reward: Clifford S. Elfelt: Ken Maynard, Esther Ralston
Thomas Harper Ince (November 16, 1880 – November 19, 1924) was an American silent era filmmaker and media proprietor. [1] Ince was known as the "Father of the Western" and was responsible for making over 800 films.
The 1920s saw a vast expansion of Hollywood film making and worldwide film attendance. Throughout the decade, film production increasingly focused on the feature film rather than the "short" or "two-reeler." This is a change that had begun with works like the long D. W. Griffith epics of the mid-1910s and became the primary style by the 1920s.
The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. ... In 1924, Sam Goldwyn, ...
The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast, where, at one time, Fort Lee, New Jersey, was the motion-picture capital of America. The American film industry began at the end of the 19th century, with the construction of Thomas Edison's "Black Maria", the first motion-picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
The Clairvoyant (1924 film) Classmates (1924 film) Claude Duval (film) The Clean Heart; The Clicking of Cuthbert (film series) Code of the Sea; Code of the Wilderness; Colibri (film) The Colleen Bawn (1924 film) Comedians of Life; Comedy of the Heart; Commencement Day; Conductor 1492; The Confidence Man (film) The Conspirators (1924 film ...
Synchronized sound film; Presented by Herbert T. Kalmus First color feature with a soundtrack, however its not the first color film by MGM. The first MGM color films have 2 completely lost films with a missing lion mascot named Numa, (nicknamed Bill) called "Buffalo Bill's Last Flight" (1927) and "The Heart of General E. Lee" (1928).