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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 1927 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
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.
This is an overview of 1921 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths.
The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.
The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.
Lillian Diana Gish was an American actress. Her film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called the "First Lady of American Cinema", and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gish as the 17th greatest female movie star of Classic Hollywood cinema.
The decade of the 1920s in film involved many significant films.
Hollywood is a British television documentary miniseries produced by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV in 1980. Written and directed by film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, it explored the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and their cultural impact during the silent film era of the 1910s and '20s. At the 1981 BAFTA TV Awards, the series won for Best Original Television Music and was nominated for Best Factual Series, Best Film Editing and Best Graphics.
Kevin Brownlow is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. He is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era, having become interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent documenting and restoring film. Brownlow has rescued many silent films and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of early mass-entertainment cinema. He received an Academy Honorary Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 13 November 2010. This was the first occasion on which an Academy Honorary Award was given to a film preservationist.
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow is a three-part television documentary series made in 1987, charting the life and career of Buster Keaton. The series was written and produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill for Thames Television and narrated by Lindsay Anderson. It was one of three such series produced as follow-ups to Brownlow and Gill's epic documentary series Hollywood (1980), falling between Unknown Chaplin (1983) and Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989).
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995) is a documentary film series produced by David Gill and silent film historian Kevin Brownlow. It is a follow-up to their 1980 documentary film series, Hollywood.
David Ian Gill was a British film historian, preservationist and documentarian who documented the history of motion pictures and helped restore many early, silent films.
Thames Silents is a series of releases of films from the silent era produced by the British ITV contractor Thames Television. Kevin Brownlow and David Gill were the two main people involved in the project.
Patrick Stanbury is a British film producer, restorer and historian.
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- ↑ "AWARDS | KEVIN BROWNLOW - MEL NOVIKOFF AWARD | San Francisco Film Festival". Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ↑ "Patrick Stanbury". IMDb. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ↑ "Photoplay – Home Page". photoplay.co.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
- ↑ Michael Guillen. "SFSFF 2010: THE STRONG MAN (1926)--Kevin Brownlow Introduction – ScreenAnarchy". twitchfilm.com. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ↑ "Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic | DOC NYC". docnyc.net. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ↑ "Cheney special". silentsaregolden.com. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ↑ "Silent Era : People". silentera.com. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ↑ "Special Guests – TCM Classic Film Festival 2016". filmfestival.tcm.com. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ↑ "Abel Gance's Legendary "Napoleon," Restored Again by Kevin Brownlow, Heads to Oakland for Unique Screenings | BLOUIN ARTINFO". Art+Auction. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ↑ "'Napoleon' marches across the big screen again – USATODAY.com". USA Today. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ↑ The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- ↑ "The DVD Journal | Reviews : The Phantom of the Opera: The Ultimate Edition". dvdjournal.com. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ↑ The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- ↑ "Kevin Brownlow | Governors Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". www.oscars.org. Archived from the original on 18 November 2010.