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Flickchart Film School: 1925
6, Jul 2011
by Ross Bonaime
In 1925, the dawning of a new age in film that is right around the corner can already be seen. One of the largest steps is not only seeing film, but also hearing it. A big step towards this process was made when Western Electric and Warner Bros. decide to work together in order to make a system to make motion pictures with sound. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: 1925, 1926, Ben-Hur: A Tale of Christ, Charles Chaplin, F.W. Murnau, Faust: A German Folk Legend, Georgia Hale, Gone With the Wind, Harold Lloyd, King Kong, Lita Grey, Lon Chaney, Mack Swain, The Battleship Potemkin, The Big Parade, The Freshman, The Gold Rush, The Lost World, The Phantom of the Opera, Tom Murray, Warner Bros., Western Electric
Flickchart Film School: 1924
28, Apr 2011by Ross Bonaime
In 1924, two of cinema’s most famous film studios were created. Three companies, Marcus Loew’s Metro Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Picutres Company combined to form MGM. The first film under the MGM banner was Lon Chaney’s He Who Gets Slapped, which would also be the first film to begin with the infamous lion roar that would be the logo for MGM for decades after. In the same year, brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joseph Brandt would change their C.B.C. Film Sales Company into the Columbia Film Corporation.
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- Tags: 1924, 1925, Aelita: Queen of Mars, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Columbia, Douglas Fairbanks, Eisenstein, Erich von Stroheim, Ethel Barrymore, F.W. Murnau, Greed, He Who Gets Slapped, Karl Freund, Lita Grey, Lon Chaney, MGM, Sherlock Jr, Strike, The Gold Rush, The Last Laugh, The Navigator, The Thief of Baghdad, Thomas Ince, Time Magazine, Ward Crane, William Randolph Hearst