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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.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Stuart Paton: Jane Gail, Allen Holubar, Matt Moore: Action Adventure: Universal.Based on the novel by Jules Verne: The Abandonment
Lubin was not as adroit as its competitors in shifting to quality feature-length films. Also, a disastrous fire at its main studio in June 1914 damaged nearby buildings and destroyed the negatives for a number of unreleased new films, which severely hurt the business.
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 .
Between 1915 and 1916, the number of feature movies rose 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 times or from 342 films to 835. [6] There was a recurring claim that Carl Laemmle was the longest-running studio chief resisting the production of feature films. [7]
Ramona is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Donald Crisp based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. The film's runtime is about three hours [ 1 ] and is considered to be lost with only reel 5 preserved at the Library of Congress .
Between 1915 and 1916, the number of feature movies rose 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 times or from 342 films to 835. [5] There was a recurring claim that Carl Laemmle was the longest-running studio chief resisting the production of feature films. [ 6 ]
Snow White is a 1916 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by J. Searle Dawley. Winthrop Ames adapted it from his own 1912 Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which was in turn adapted from the 1812 fairy tale (as collected by the Brothers Grimm). The film stars Marguerite Clark and Creighton Hale, Clark reprising her stage ...