Years in film Years in film (1911 in film) * Alkali Ike's Auto ...more on Wikipedia about "1911 in film"
(1912 in film) * July 26 - Edison Studios releases What Happened to Mary?, the first ever motion picture serial. ...more on Wikipedia about "1912 in film"
* D. W. Griffith completes his series of Biograph Shorts, begun in 1909, and leaves the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in New York City to make full length motion pictures. ...more on Wikipedia about "1913 in film"
*The 3,300-seat Strand Theater opens in New York City. ...more on Wikipedia about "1914 in film"
(1915 in film) # The Birth of a Nation ...more on Wikipedia about "1915 in film"
(1916 in film) * Harold Lloyd ( 1913- 1921) ...more on Wikipedia about "1916 in film"
(1917 in film) #Cleopatra ...more on Wikipedia about "1917 in film"
(1918 in film) # Mickey ...more on Wikipedia about "1918 in film"
* Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, starring pioneering African-American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture. ...more on Wikipedia about "1919 in film"
* November 27 - The Mask of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens. ...more on Wikipedia about "1920 in film"
* February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres. ...more on Wikipedia about "1921 in film"
* November 26 - Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor ( The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed). ...more on Wikipedia about "1922 in film"
(1923 in film) #The Covered Wagon ...more on Wikipedia about "1923 in film"
* Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of The Wizard of Oz. MGM and L. Frank Baum failed to come to an agreement so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures. ...more on Wikipedia about "1924 in film" Enjoy www.shortopedia.com.
# Ben-Hur ...more on Wikipedia about "1925 in film"
* August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film. ...more on Wikipedia about "1926 in film"
* Best Production: Wings ...more on Wikipedia about "1927 in film"
* Best Actor: Emil Jannings for The Last Command and the 1927 movie The Way of All Flesh ...more on Wikipedia about "1928 in film"
(1929 in film) * Best Picture: The Broadway Melody - MGM ...more on Wikipedia about "1929 in film"
(1930 in film) * Best Picture: All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal Studios ...more on Wikipedia about "1930 in film"
# Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff ...more on Wikipedia about "1931 in film"
* Disney released Flowers and Trees their first cartoon in three-strip Technicolor film. ...more on Wikipedia about "1932 in film"
(1933 in film) # I'm No Angel ...more on Wikipedia about "1933 in film"
* January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn (of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finally purchased the film rights to The Wizard of Oz from L. Frank Baum for $40,000.00. ...more on Wikipedia about "1934 in film"
* Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty - MGM ...more on Wikipedia about "1935 in film" Come again to shortopedia Years_in_film
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