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The year 1907 in film involved some significant events.
Events
January 19 - Variety publishes its first film review.
May 7 - Seattle film maker William Harbeck sets up a camera at the front of a B.C. Electric streetcar and films the downtown streets of Vancouver, British Columbia. Pieces of the film, the earliest surviving footage of the city,[1] have disappeared, only about 7 minutes remain.[2]
June 20 - L'Enfant prodigue, the first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, opens in Paris.
Carl Laemmle, later of Universal, experiments with combining audio from phonographs with film. Laemmle's experiments lead to the German development of "Syncroscope." Syncroscope had several successful demonstrations, but was eventually abandoned.
La Marseillaise, directed by Georges Mendel [An early sound film that has the singing of the French National Anthem. May be the longest sound film up to that point in time.]