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This is an overview of 1921 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The top nine films released in 1921 by U.S. gross are as follows:
| Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic rentals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Metro | $4,500,000 [1] |
| 2 | The Kid | First National | $2,500,000 [1] |
| 3 (tie) | The Three Musketeers The Sheik | United Artists Paramount | $1,500,000 [1] |
| 5 | The Affairs of Anatol | Paramount | $1,191,789 [2] |
| 6 | Fool's Paradise | $906,937 [2] | |
| 7 | Forbidden Fruit | $848,121 [2] | |
| 8 | School Days | Warner Bros. | $546,000 [3] |
| 9 | Why Girls Leave Home | $410,000 [3] |
United States unless stated.
This is an overview of 1929 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The following is an overview of 1928 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. Although some films released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent. This year is notable for the introduction of the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company, Mickey Mouse, in the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first film to include a soundtrack completely created in post production.
The following is an overview of 1926 in film, including significant events, a list of films released, and notable births and deaths.
This is an overview of 1925 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
This is an overview of 1924 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
This is an overview of 1923 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
This is an overview of 1922 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.
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".
The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1915 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.
1913 was a particularly fruitful year for film as an art form, and is often cited one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1917. The year was one where filmmakers of several countries made great artistic advancements, producing notable pioneering masterpieces such as The Student of Prague, Suspense, Atlantis, Raja Harischandra, Juve contre Fantomas, Quo Vadis?, Ingeborg Holm, The Mothering Heart, Ma l’amor mio non muore!, L’enfant de Paris and Twilight of a Woman's Soul.
The year 1912 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1911 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1910 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1903 in film involved many significant events in cinema.
Carl Alwin Heinrich Neuß was a German film director and actor, noted for playing Sherlock Holmes in a series of silent films during the 1910s. He also played the dual role of Jekyll and Hyde in the 1910 Danish silent film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, directed by August Blom. He played Jekyll and Hyde again in the 1914 German silent film Ein Seltsamer Fall, scripted by Richard Oswald.
