{"id":446,"date":"2018-02-14T11:19:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/steve-jarrett\/?page_id=446"},"modified":"2021-01-09T16:20:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T21:20:05","slug":"the-cinema-century","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/steve-jarrett\/the-cinema-century","title":{"rendered":"The Cinema Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

The idea behind this blog is to look at what the motion picture industry trade papers were reporting on exactly 100 years ago and put those topics in historical context. Select the links below to see what was newsworthy a century ago.<\/p>\n

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February 16, 1918 – The Chaplin Studio<\/a><\/p>\n

February 23, 1918 – The Star System<\/a><\/p>\n

March 2, 1918 – The Million Dollar Theater<\/a><\/p>\n

March 9, 1918 – Early Color<\/a><\/p>\n

March 16, 1918 – Carl Laemmle<\/a><\/p>\n

March 23, 1918 – Inceville<\/a><\/p>\n

March 30, 1918 – Sennett After Keystone<\/a><\/p>\n

April 6, 1918 – Griffith’s HEARTS OF THE WORLD<\/a><\/p>\n

April 13, 1918 – Anita Stewart Lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n

April 20, 1918 – Nitrate Fires<\/a><\/p>\n

April 27, 1918 – Censorship<\/a><\/p>\n

May 4, 1918 – W.W. Hodkinson After Paramount<\/a><\/p>\n

May 18, 1918 – Lois Weber<\/a><\/p>\n

June 1, 1918 – Browning and Chaney<\/a><\/p>\n

June 15, 1918 – Marion Davies<\/a><\/p>\n

April 12, 1919 – John Jasper and Hollywood Studios, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n

April 19, 1919 – General Film and the Patents War<\/a><\/p>\n

May 24, 1919 – United Artists and “Open Booking”<\/a><\/p>\n

June 7, 1919 – Samuel Goldwyn and the “Eminent Authors”<\/a><\/p>\n

July 26, 1919 – Adolph Zukor and Realart<\/a><\/p>\n

August 23, 1919 – Actors’ Equity and the Screen Actors’ Guild<\/a><\/p>\n

February 21, 1920 – Studios open production facilities in New York<\/a><\/p>\n

March 6, 1920 – Jekyll and Hyde<\/a><\/p>\n

April 24, 1920 – THE SAPHEAD<\/a><\/p>\n

May 15, 1920 – William S. Hart and THE TOLL GATE<\/a><\/p>\n

October 16, 1920 – Frances Marion<\/a><\/p>\n

January 8. 1921 – Douglas Fairbanks and THE MARK OF ZORRO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The idea behind this blog is to look at what the motion picture industry trade papers were reporting on exactly 100 years ago and put those topics in historical context. Select the links below to see what was newsworthy a century ago. February 16, 1918 – The Chaplin Studio February 23, 1918 – The Star … <\/p>\n

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