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June 24 – Mary Pickford signs a contract for $10,000 a week plus profit participation, guaranteeing her over $1 million per year. July 19 – Famous Players–Lasky is formed through a merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company and Jesse L. Lasky's Feature Play Company. Later in the year, they acquire distributor Paramount Pictures.
In 1914, Laemmle published an essay titled - Doom of long Features Predicted. [8] In 1916, Laemmle ran an advertisement extolling Bluebird films while adding the following vocabulary on the top of the ad. [c] Carl Laemmle released 91 feature-length films in 1916, as stated in Clive Hirschhorn's book, The Universal Story. [10]
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1916 American silent film directed by Stuart Paton. The film's storyline is based on the 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne . It also incorporates elements from Verne's 1875 novel The Mysterious Island .
Intolerance is a 1916 epic anthology silent film directed by D. W. Griffith.Subtitled as Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages and A Sun-Play of the Ages, [2] [3] the three-and-a-half-hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines, each separated by several centuries: first, a contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; second, a Biblical story: Christ's mission and death; third, a French ...
The Fall of a Nation is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Thomas Dixon Jr., and a sequel to the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith.Dixon, Jr. attempted to cash in on the success of the controversial first film. [1]
3 + 5 ⁄ 8 × 2 + 7 ⁄ 8 in: 10 or 12 with original Polaroid; 8 with Polaroid Originals/Impossible Project: Discontinued by Polaroid in 2008; reintroduced by Impossible Project in 2010; discontinued by Polaroid Originals in 2019. Captiva, Type 500: Polaroid integral film pack: 1993: 2006: 2 + 7 ⁄ 8 × 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 in: 10: InstantACE: Fuji ...
Civilization is a 1916 American pacifist drama film produced by Thomas H. Ince, written by C. Gardner Sullivan and Edward Sloman, and directed by Ince, Reginald Barker and Raymond B. West. The story involves a submarine commander who refuses to fire at a civilian ocean liner supposedly carrying ammunition for his country's enemies.
The 1916 print of Sherlock Holmes had long been considered a lost film. However, on October 1, 2014, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) and the Cinémathèque Française announced that a print of the film had been found in the Cinémathèque's collection in Paris. [ 8 ]