1907 in film
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The year 1907 in film involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- January 19 - Variety publishes its first film review.
- May 7 - Seattle film maker William Harbeck sets up a camera at the front of a B.C. Electric streetcar and films the downtown streets of Vancouver, British Columbia. Pieces of the film, the earliest survivng of the city[1], have disappeared, only about 7 minutes remain.[2]
- June 20 - L'Enfant prodigue, the first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, opens in Paris.
- November 28 - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater (in a few years he had the largest theater chain in New England and in 1917 he founded his own production company, which eventually became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).
- Carl Laemmle of Paramount experiments with combining audio from phonographs with film. Laemmle's experiements lead to the German development of "Syncroscope." Syncroscope had several successful demonstrations, but was eventually abandoned.
- The Kalem Company founded in New York City by Frank J. Marion, Samuel Long, and George Kleine. They would make the first Ben-Hur film, directed by Sidney Olcott.
[edit] Films released in 1907
- 20,000 Lieues Sous les Mers
- Ben-Hur
- Laughing Gas
- L'Enfant prodigue
- Salaviinanpolttajat
- El Sartorio
- Tunneling the Channel
[edit] Births
- January 16 - Alexander Knox, actor (d. 1995)
- January 20 - Paula Wessley, actress, producer (d. 2000)
- January 22 - Mary Dresselhuys, actress, (d. 2004)
- February 15 - Cesar Romero, actor (d. 1994)
- February 17 - Buster Crabbe, actor (d. 1983)
- February 22 - Robert Young, actor (d. 1998)
- March 11 - Jessie Matthews, actress, singer (d. 1981)
- March 19 - Kent Smith, actor (d. 1985)
- March 31 - Eddie Quillan, actor (d. 1990)
- April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody, actor (d. 1999)
- April 19 - Lina Basquette, actress (d. 1994)
- April 29 - Fred Zinnemann, director (d. 1997)
- May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress (d. 2003)
- May 22 - Lord Laurence Olivier, actor (d. 1989)
- May 26 - John Wayne, actor (d. 1979)
- June 4 - Rosalind Russell, actress (d. 1976)
- June 16 - Jack Albertson, actor (d. 1981)
- June 24 - Martha Sleeper, actress (d. 1987)
- July 14 - Olive Borden, actress (d. 1947)
- July 16 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990)
- July 19 - Isabel Jewell, actress (d. 1972)
- July 27 - Ross Alexander, actor (d. 1937)
- August 3 - Adrienne Ames, actress (d. 1947)
- August 12 - Joe Besser, actor, comedian (d. 1988)
- September 15 - Fay Wray, actress (d. 2004)
- September 29 - Gene Autry, actor (d. 1998)
- December 22 - Peggy Ashcroft, actress (d. 1991)
[edit] Deaths
- (unknown)

