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1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood".

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Events

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top five 1917 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1917
RankTitleStudioDomestic rentals
1 Cleopatra Fox Film $1,000,000 [3]
2 The Little American Paramount $446,236 [4]
3 A Romance of the Redwoods $424,718 [4]
4 The Woman God Forgot $340,504 [4]
5 The Devil Stone $296,031 [4]

Notable films released in 1917

United States unless stated

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Theda Bara as Cleopatra

Other 1917 Releases

Comedy film series

Births

Deaths

Film debuts

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References

  1. ↑ Films of the Golden Age. Archived 2004-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ First National filmography.
  3. ↑ Daugherty, Gregory N. (2022). The Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media. ISBN   978-1-3503-4073-2. No data survives, but Bara herself claimed that the epic grossed a million dollars, quite an achievement since it reportedly cost $500,000 to make.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Birchard, Robert S. (2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN   9780813123240.
  5. 1 2 Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  6. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  7. 1 2 Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 185. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  8. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  9. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  10. 1 2 Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  11. 1 2 3 Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  12. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  13. 1 2 Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  14. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  15. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
  16. ↑ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
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