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Overview of the events of 1912 in film
The year 1912 in film involved some significant events.
Events February - Babelsberg Studio outside Berlin begins operation with shooting of The Dance of the Dead Der Totentanz ) by Danish director Urban Gad starring Asta Nielsen (released September 7).
April 30 - Universal Film Manufacturing Company is founded in New York, the oldest surviving film studio in the United States
May 8 - Famous Players Film Company , the forerunner of Paramount Pictures , is founded by Adolph Zukor
May 18 - Shree Pundalik Dadasaheb Torne , the first Indian film , is released.
June 8 - New York Motion Picture Company is merged with Universal, giving Universal a studio in Edendale, Los Angeles
July 4 - Mack Sennett , who has previously worked as an actor and comedy director with D. W. Griffith , forms a new company with New York City entrepreneur Adam Kessel, Keystone Studios . It will play an important role in developing slapstick comedy as the home to the Keystone Cops , English actor Charlie Chaplin , and others.
July 12 - Queen Elizabeth
July 26 - Edison Studios releases What Happened to Mary serial .
October 31 - The Musketeers of Pig Alley D. W. Griffith , debuts as the first gangster film .
Edison introduces the Home Kinetoscope, a home film-projector which uses a 22 mm print consisting of three rows of frames.Pathé releases Pathe Kok , their first entry into the amateur market, with a gauge of 28 mm.Alexander F. Victor improves on the 17.5 mm format with his Duoscope , which uses two center perforations instead of the typical one.
Bell & Howell introduce the first all-metal camera, the 2709 35mm.Films released in 1912 All for a Girl At the Foot of the Ladder Thanhouser Company Aurora Floyd Theodore Marston Baby Hands The Bandit of Tropico A Battle of Wits Beautiful Leukanida The Belle of Bar-Z Ranch Thomas Ricketts A Business Buccaneer The Cameraman's Revenge Cleopatra Helen Gardner ; one of the earliest American feature filmsConductor 786 The Copper Beeches , starring Georges Treville as Sherlock HolmesThe County Fair The Conquest of the Pole Georges Méliès Custer's Last Fight Francis Ford A Dash Through the Clouds Mack Sennett , starring Mabel Normand and American aviation pioneer Philip Parmelee .The Deserter Thomas H. Ince Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Female of the Species D. W. Griffith , starring Mary Pickford The Fickle Spaniard , directed by Mack Sennett , starring Mabel Normand For His Son D. W. Griffith , starring Blanche Sweet Frankfurters and Quail Friends D. W. Griffith , starring Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore From the Manger to the Cross Sidney Olcott (One of the earliest American feature film.)Geronimo's Last Raid The Girl and Her Trust D. W. Griffith , starring Dorothy Bernard and Wilfred Lucas The Half-Breed's Way The Honor of the Family Hot Stuff , starring Mack Sennett , Mabel Normand , and Dell Henderson How a Mosquito Operates Indian Romeo and Juliet In Nacht und Eis The Independence of Romania The Invaders It Happened Thus Keystone Comedy The Land Beyond the Sunset Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth Queen Elizabeth ), first film released by Famous Players Film Company , starring Sarah Bernhardt The Lesser Evil D. W. Griffith , starring Blanche Sweet The Little Girl Next Door Mabel's Lovers Mack Sennett , starring Mabel Normand Making An American Citizen The Massacre , directed by D. W. Griffith , starring Blanche Sweet and Lionel Barrymore Maud Muller The Mender Of Nets , directed by D. W. Griffith , starring Mabel Normand and Mary Pickford The Miracle Das Mirakel The Musketeers of Pig Alley D. W. Griffith , starring Lillian Gish A New Cure for Divorce The New York Hat D. W. Griffith , starring Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore The Old Actor Oliver Twist Onesime, Clock-maker , directed by Jean DurandThe Passer-By , directed by Oscar Apfel . Not the first moving camera shot, but it may be the first long-shot-to-close-up dolly moving camera shot. May also be the first dolly moving camera shot.Petticoat Camp Pilgrim's Progress Please Help the Pore The Power of Melody A Primitive Man's Career to Civilization Put Yourself in His Place Resurrection Richard III Robin Hood Saved From the Titanic A Six Cylinder Elopement A Spanish Dilemma , directed by Mack Sennett , starring Mabel Normand The Speed Demon , directed by Mack Sennett , starring Fred Mace Standing Room Only The Star of Bethlehem The Street Singer The Tell-Tale Message The Thunderbolt Tomboy Bessie , directed by Mack Sennett , starring Mabel Normand An Unseen Enemy D. W. Griffith , debuts of Lillian and Dorothy Gish The Voice of Conscience The Water Nymph Mabel Normand and Mack Sennett . First Keystone comedy.What Happened to Mary? Mary Fuller .When the Fire Bells Rang When the Heart Calls Lee Moran , Russell Bassett and Louise Glaum With Our King and Queen Through India With the Mounted Police The Young Millionaire Births February 19 - Saul Chaplin , American film composer (died 1997 )
February 19 - Dorothy Janis , American actress (died 2010 )
February 21 - Arline Judge , American actress (died 1974 )
February 26 - Dane Clark , American actor (died 1998 )
March 22 - Karl Malden , American actor (died 2009 )
April 8 - Sonja Henie , Norwegian Olympic ice-skater , actress (died 1969 )
April 16 - Catherine Scorsese , American actress (died 1997 )
April 18 - Wendy Barrie , English actress (died 1978 )
May 9 - Pedro Armendáriz , Mexican actor (died 1963 )
May 18 - Perry Como , American singer, actor (died 2001 )
May 23
May 29 - Iris Adrian , American actress (died 1994 )
June 1 - Doris Wishman , American filmmaker (died 2002 )
June 26 - Jay Silverheels , Canadian actor (Tonto ) (died 1980 )
July 4 - Viviane Romance , French actress (died 1991 )
July 5 - Ilona Massey , Hungarian-born American actress (died 1974)
August 2 - Ann Dvorak , American actress (died 1979 )
August 12 - Samuel Fuller , American director (died 1997)
August 15 - Wendy Hiller , English actress (died 2003 )
August 23 - Gene Kelly , American actor (died 1996 )
August 29 - Barry Sullivan , American actor (died 1974)
September 5 - Kristina Söderbaum , Swedish-born German actress (died 2001)
September 21 - Chuck Jones , American animator (died 2002)
September 23 - Martha Scott , American actress (died 2003)
September 29 - Michelangelo Antonioni , Italian director (died 2007 )
October 11 - Betty Noyes American singer/dubber (died 1987 )
October 12 - Peer Guldbrandsen , Danish screenwriter, actor, film director and producer (died 1996 )
October 13 - Cornel Wilde , Hungarian-born American actor (died 1989 )
October 31 - Dale Evans , American actress (died 2001)
November 8 - June Havoc , American actress (died 2010 )
November 21 - Eleanor Powell , American dancer, actress (died 1982 )
November 24 - Garson Kanin , American writer (died 1999 )
December 11 - Carlo Ponti , Italian producer (died 2007) Deaths March 30 - Karl May , writer, Apache Gold
April 15 - Jacques Futrelle , writer, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Titanic
April 20 - Bram Stoker , writer, Dracula
May 14 - August Strindberg , writer, Miss Julie
May 19 - Bolesław Prus , writer, Faraon
June 1 - Philip Parmalee , actor (with Mabel Normand in A Dash Through the Clouds Wright brothers (born 1887)
July 1 - Harriet Quimby , writer (seven scenarios for D.W. Griffith); actress in one film; pioneer American aviator (born 1875)
December 14 - Harry Cashman, comedy producer and actor for the Chicago-based Essanay company. Film debuts
