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Overview of the events of 1914 in film
The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.[1]
Events
February 2 - Charlie Chaplin 's first film, Making a Living is released.
February 7 - Release of Charlie Chaplin's second film, the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice , in which his character of The Tramp is introduced to audiences (although first filmed in Mabel's Strange Predicament , released two days later).[2] [3] [4]
February 8 - Winsor McCay 's Gertie the Dinosaur greatly advances filmed animation movement techniques.
February 10 - Release of the film Hearts Adrift ; the name of Mary Pickford , the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees.
February - Lewis J. Selznick and Arthur Spiegel organize the World Film Corporation ,[5] [6] a distributor of independently produced films[7] located in Fort Lee, New Jersey ,[8] [9] [10]
March 8 - D. W. Griffith 's first feature film, Judith of Bethulia , is released. It was his last production for the Biograph Company .
March 20 - Tess of the Storm Country makes Mary Pickford an icon in the US and a celebrity around the world.
March 31 - The serial The Perils of Pauline is an early example of the damsel in distress in film.
April 12 - The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City.
April 18 - The film Cabiria is released featuring extensive use of a moving camera for the first time in film.
May 8 - Paramount Pictures is formed as a film distributor by William Wadsworth Hodkinson .
November 19 - William Fox 's Box Office Attractions Company releases its first production, Life's Shop Window
December 3 - William S. Hart appears in his first feature film, The Bargain , which makes him a star.
December 21 - Release of the first American made feature length comedy film, Tillie's Punctured Romance , which was also Marie Dressler and Charlie Chaplin 's feature film debuts.
December - Chaplin joins Essanay Studios for $1,250 per week.
Filoteo Alberini introduces a new 70 mm format, Panoramico, with the film Il sacco di Roma
The Neptune Film Company opens the first of the Elstree Studios , the first "dark stage" in England, at Borehamwood , north of London.
Highest-grossing films (U.S.)
Rank
Title
Gross
1.
The Million Dollar Mystery
$3,270,000
2.
The Spoilers
$1,000,000[11]
3.
The Squaw Man
$533,446
4.
Dough and Dynamite
$130,000
5.
Rose of the Rancho
$87,028
6.
The Man from Home
$62,091
7.
What's His Name
$61,560
8.
The Call of the North
$52,284
Selected films released in 1914
January - The House of Bondage a lost [12] 1914 silent film drama directed by Pierce Kingsley and starring Lottie Pickford .[13]
January 3 - Engelein , German silent comedy film written and directed by Urban Gad
January 12 - Fantômas Contre Fantômas
January 14 - Captive Souls (Hungarian : Rablélek ) a Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz
January 22 - Absinthe American silent drama film starring King Baggot and Leah Baird and directed by Herbert Brenon
February 2 - Making a Living the first film starring Charlie Chaplin .[14]
February 5 - O Mimi San , starring Sessue Hayakawa , Tsuru Aoki and Mildred Harris
February 7 - Kid Auto Races at Venice , starring Charlie Chaplin
February 8 - Gertie the Dinosaur , an animated film that incorporated many cinematic innovations
February 9 - Mabel's Strange Predicament , starring Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin
February 12 - The Squaw Man , directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille , starring Dustin Farnum
March 5 - Child of the Big City
March 8 - Judith of Bethulia , directed by D. W. Griffith , starring Blanche Sweet
March 24 - The Avenging Conscience , directed by D. W. Griffith , starring Blanche Sweet
March 31 - The Perils of Pauline , (serial ), starring Pearl White
April 6 - The Old Curiosity Shop directed by Thomas Bentley , starring Alma Taylor
April 13 - A Bathing Beauty
April 15 - Brewster's Millions
April 18 - Cabiria , directed by Giovanni Pastrone . Not the first dolly moving camera shot, but it may be the first dolly moving camera shot in a feature film. A blockbuster feature film of 1914.
April 18 - Mabel at the Wheel , starring Mabel Normand , Harry McCoy , and Charlie Chaplin
April 23 - A Little Madonna
May 11 - The Master Mind
May - Mr. Barnes of New York
June 8 - The Wrath of Gods , starring Sessue Hayakawa , Tsuru Aoki and Frank Borzage
June 15 - The Only Son
June 22 - The Million Dollar Mystery , (serial ), starring Florence La Badie
July 13 - My Official Wife , starring Clara Kimball Young
July 13 - The Man on the Box
July 17 - The Stain , starring Theda Bara
July 22 - By the Sun's Rays
August 10 - The Call of the North , starring Robert Edeson [15]
September 7 - The Virginian , starring Dustin Farnum [16]
September 23 - The Aztec Treasure
September 28 - The Patchwork Girl of Oz
September 28 - The Magic Cloak of Oz , starring Mildred Harris
October 14 - His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz , starring Mildred Harris
October 14 - Mabel's Blunder
October 22 - What's His Name , starring Max Figman [17]
November 2 - Salomy Jane
November 7 - The Hazards of Helen , (serial ), starring Helen Holmes
November 7 - His Musical Career , starring Charlie Chaplin
November 9 - The Man from Home
November 9 - The Wishing Ring
November 13 - Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı , directed by Fuat Uzkınay , considered to be the first Turkish movie - (Ottoman Empire )
November 15 - Rose of the Rancho , starring Bessie Barriscale [18]
November 19 - Life's Shop Window , first film produced by William Fox 's Box Office Attractions Company , the forerunner to Fox Film
December 7 - The Ghost Breaker
December 7 - His Prehistoric Past , written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin
December 7 - In the Land of the Head Hunters
December 14 - The Last Egyptian
December 21 - Tillie's Punctured Romance , directed by Mack Sennett , starring Marie Dressler , Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin . First comedy feature film.
December 28 - A Study in Scarlet , directed by George Pearson
December 28 - Cinderella , starring Mary Pickford
December 28 - The Exploits of Elaine , (serial ), starring Pearl White
Short film series
Births
January 5 - George Reeves , actor (died 1959 )
January 6 - Danny Thomas , singer, actor, comedian (died 1991 )
January 14 - Harold Russell , actor (died 2002 )
January 30 - John Ireland , actor (died 1992 )
February 3 - Mary Carlisle , actress (died 2018)
February 17 - Arthur Kennedy , actor (died 1990 )
February 21 - Zachary Scott , actor (died 1965 )
February 26 - Robert Alda , actor (died 1986 )
March 2 - Martin Ritt , director (died 1990 )
March 3 - Charlotte Henry , actress (died 1980 )
April 2 - Alec Guinness , actor (died 2000 )
April 4 - Richard Coogan , actor (died 2014 )
April 16 - John Hodiak , actor (died 1955 )
May 5 - Tyrone Power , actor (died 1958 )
May 24 - Lilli Palmer , actress (died 1986)
June 7 - Khwaja Ahmad Abbas , director (died 1987 )
June 18 - E. G. Marshall , actor (died 1998 )
July 29 - Irwin Corey , comedian (died 2017 )
July 31 - Louis de Funès , actor (died 1983 )
August 2 - Beatrice Straight , actress (died 2001 )
August 14 - Andrea Leeds , actress (died 1984 )
August 31 - Richard Basehart , actor (died 1984 )
September 10 - Robert Wise , director (died 2005 )
September 12 - Desmond Llewelyn , actor (died 1999 )
September 20 - Kenneth More English actor (died 1982 )
September 27 - Sophie Sooäär , Estonian actress and singer (d. 1996 )
October 26 - Jackie Coogan , actor (died 1984)
October 30 - Anna Wing , actress (died 2013 )
November 8 - Norman Lloyd , actor
November 9 - Hedy Lamarr , actress (died 2000)
November 14 - Amelia Bence , actress (died 2016)
November 23 - Roger Avon , British film and television actor (died 1998)
December 10 - Dorothy Lamour , actress (died 1996 )
December 13 - Larry Parks , actor (died 1975 )
December 26 - Richard Widmark , actor (died 2008 )
December 30 - Jo Van Fleet , actress (died 1996)
Deaths
January 9 - Gladys Rankin, American actress as Mrs. Sidney Drew ; writer as George Cameron
January 11 - William A. Russell, 35, American actor
March 25 - Frederic Mistral , 83, French writer, Mireille
June 19 - Brandon Thomas , 65, British writer, Charley's Aunt
July 1
Grace McHugh, American actress died while filming the movie Across the Border
Owen Carter, American cinematographer died while trying to save Grace McHugh, Across the Border
August 21 - Charles J. Hite , 38, President and CEO of Thanhouser Film Corporation
August 22 - David Davie Shelby , 66, actor.
October 24 - Gustav Wied , 56, Danish playwright and novelist
November 14 - Stellan Rye , 34, Danish film director, Dur Verfuhrte, Evinrude, The Student of Prague
Film debuts
References
^ Birchard, Robert S. (2004), Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 1-13, ISBN 0-8131-2324-0
^ Blanke, David (2002). The 1910s . American popular culture through history (Illustrated ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-313-31251-9 .
^ Robinson, David (1986) [First published 1985]. Chaplin: His Life and Art . London: Paladin. p. 113. ISBN 0-586-08544-0 .
^ Chaplin, Charles (2003) [First published 1964]. My Autobiography . London: Penguin Classics. p. 145. ISBN 0-141-01147-5 .
^ "Profit Sharing for Movies" . The New York Times . December 14, 1914. Retrieved 2015-12-12 .
^ "L. J. Selznick Dies; A Film Pioneer" . The New York Times . January 26, 1933. Retrieved 2015-12-12 .
^ Katz, Ephraim (1998). The Film Encyclopedia (3rd ed.). New York: HarperPerennial. p. 1237. ISBN 0-06-273492-X .
^ Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town , Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
^ "Studios and Films" . Fort Lee Film Commission. Retrieved 2011-05-30 .
^ Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry , Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5
^ "The All Time Best Sellers" . International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 . Quigley Publishing Company . p. 942. Retrieved April 8, 2018 .
^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:..The House of Bondage
^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..The House of Bondage
^ "Other titles of 'Making a Living' " . Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 5 March 2014 .
^ Birchard, Robert S. (2004), Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood, Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 19-21, ISBN 0-8131-2324-0
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