Film year 1912

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Film year 1912
The film Saved from the Titanic was released just one month after the sinking of the RMS Titanic .	Carl Laemmle founds the Universal Film Manufacturing Company .

Events

Germany

February 12 : The shooting of the silent film Der Totentanz by Urban Gad with Asta Nielsen in the lead role begins in the newly built “glass house” in Neubabelsberg , from which the Babelsberg film studio will later emerge . Production will be completed in a few days. The film will be banned from youth on July 15th. It will have its world premiere on September 7th.

Another seven films by Urban Gad with Asta Nielsen have their world premieres, including Die Macht des Goldes (February 3), Poor Jenny (March 2), Rushed to Death (April 13), The General's Children (October 5) ) and When the Mask Falls (November 1st). All of them are banned from youth for different reasons. Some of these films are also international successes.

Austria

March 5th : With Der Unbekannte , Austria's first large-scale production appears in cinemas. For the first time, the film features numerous well-known stage actors and is extensively advertised. It is also the longest Austrian film production to date.
May 20 : For the first time , a film is shown in an Austrian school, the Vienna Citizens' School on Friedrichsplatz in the 15th Viennese district of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus .

The International Cinematographers Congress is held in Vienna . In their speeches, representatives of Austrian film and cinema associations vehemently oppose the prohibition of stage actors to participate in films, against film censorship and for the recognition of film as an art form.
In order to achieve an apparent plasticity in the film images, the Viennese Karl Juhasz and Franz Haushofer brought the Wiener Kinoplastikon Ges.mbH into being in a theater on Naschmarkt, later known as the “Wienzeile Kino”. The movie screen is on its own, decorated stage. The Viennese art film industry produced several colored titles especially for this theater in 1913. However, since it did not succeed, the theater did not last long and the idea was forgotten again.
Vienna receives its own cinema law, the cinematograph regulation . Every cinema owner needs a license.

Other events worldwide

April 10 : The RMS Titanic starts her maiden voyage and sinks on April 14. The Titanic myth becomes the subject of several films that make film history.
June 8 : Carl Laemmle founds the Universal Film Manufacturing Company .
12 July : Adolph Zukor founded the Famous Players movie Corp .
December 28th : The silent film The Miracle by director Max Reinhardt has its premiere in London. The screenplay comes from Karl Gustav Vollmoeller based on his play of the same name . The work, which premiered a little later in the USA and in 1914 in Germany, developed into a long-seller.

William Wadsworth Hodkinson founds the film distribution company Progressive Company .

The United States Supreme Court revokes the Motion Picture Patents Company's film-making patent .

Mack Sennett founds Keystone Studios . The slapstick troupe Keystone Kops made their first appearance in the feature film Hoffmeyer's Legacy .

Born

January to March

Karl Malden (born March 22nd)

Richard Brooks (born May 18)

Maria Montez (born June 6)

Aino Taube (born July 11th)

Samuel Fuller (born August 12)

Gene Kelly (born August 23)

Michelangelo Antonioni (born September 29)

Eleanor Powell (born November 21)

January

0January 1: Piero Pierotti , Italian director († 1970)
0January 8: Imai Tadashi , Japanese director († 1991)
0January 8: José Ferrer , American actor and director († 1992)
January 11th: Don Barry , American actor († 1980)
January 11: Nick Cravat , American actor († 1994)
January 15: Kenyon Hopkins , American composer († 1983)
January 28: Ursula Herking , German actress († 1974)

February

0February 2: Stefan Schnabel , German actor († 1999)
0February 4: James Craig , American actor († 1985)
February 12: Eric Barker , British actor († 1990)
February 17: Peter Mosbacher , German actor († 1977)
February 19: Saul Chaplin , American composer († 1998)

March

March 13: Carl Raddatz , German actor († 2004)
March 21: Peter Bull , British actor († 1984)
March 22: Karl Malden , American actor († 2009)
March 22: Wilfrid Brambell , Irish actor († 1985)

April to June

April

0April 5: John Le Mesurier , British actor († 1983)
0April 8: Walentin Chorell , Finnish-Swedish screenwriter († 1983)
0April 8: Sonja Henie , Norwegian actress († 1969)
April 11: Gusti Wolf , Austrian actress († 2007)
April 12: Georges Franju , French director († 1987)
April 16: Catherine Scorsese , American actress († 1997)
April 17th: Marta Eggerth , Hungarian actress († 2013)
April 18: Wendy Barrie , British actress († 1978)
April 21: Marcel Camus , French director († 1982)
April 22: Shindō Kaneto , Japanese screenwriter and director († 2012)
April 27: Zohra Segal , Indian actress († 2014)
April 29: Richard Carlson , American actor († 1977)

May

0May 6: Bill Quinn , American actor († 1994)
0May 9: Pedro Armendáriz , Mexican actor († 1963)
May 18: Richard Brooks , American director († 1992)
May 18: Perry Como , American actor and singer († 2001)
May 23: Marius Goring , British actor († 1998)
May 26: Jay Silverheels , Canadian actor and poet († 1980)
May 28: John Payne , American actor († 1989)
May 30th: Hugh Griffith , Welsh film and stage actor († 1980)
May 31: Otto Kurth , German actor and director († 1996)

June

0June 1: Wolfgang Büttner , German actor († 1990)
0June 4th: Maria Andergast , German actress († 1995)
0June 6: María Montez , Dominican actress († 1951)
0June 8: Henry Brandon , American actor († 1990)
0June 8: Frank McCarthy , American producer († 1986)
June 11: James Algar , American cartoonist, director and producer († 1998)
June 13: Samuel A. Taylor , American screenwriter († 2000)
June 13: Arthur Weiss , American screenwriter and television producer († 1980)
June 17: Carl Lerner , American director and film editor († 1973)
June 22nd: Walter Wottitz , French cameraman († 1986)

July to September

July

0July 4th: Viviane Romance , French actress († 1991)
July 11th: Aino Taube , Swedish actress († 1990)
July 14: Woody Guthrie , American singer-songwriter († 1967)
July 23: Michael Wilding , British actor († 1979)

August

0August 1: Henry Jones , American actor († 1999)
0August 2: Ann Dvorak , American actress († 1979)
0August 8: Daniel Mann , American director († 1991)
August 12: Samuel Fuller , American director († 1997)
August 15: Wendy Hiller , British actress († 2003)
August 18: Kurt Meisel , Austrian actor († 1994)
August 19: Constance Worth , Australian actress († 1963)
August 21: Arthur P. Schmidt , American film editor († 1965)
August 23: Gene Kelly , American actor († 1996)
August 26: Werner Dissel , German actor († 2003)
August 29: Barry Sullivan , American actor († 1994)

September

0September 5: Kristina Söderbaum , Swedish actress († 2001)
0September 8: Alexander Mackendrick , American director († 1993)
September 12: Henry Wilson Allen , American writer and screenwriter († 1991)
September 13: Reta Shaw , American actress († 1982)
September 17th: Irena Kwiatkowska , Polish actress († 2011)
September 21: Chuck Jones , American cartoon director († 2002)
September 22: Martha Scott , American actress († 2003)
September 29: Lukas Ammann , Swiss actor († 2017)
September 29: Michelangelo Antonioni , Italian director († 2007)

October to December

October

October 15: Ettore Giannini , Italian actor, screenwriter and dialogue writer († 1990)
October 16: Lotti Huber , German actress († 1998)
October 16: Maidie Norman , American actress († 1998)
October 26: Don Siegel , American director († 1991)
October 31: Dale Evans , American actress († 2001)
October 31: Ollie Johnston , American animator († 2008)

November

0November 8: June Havoc , American actress († 2010)
November 16: George O. Petrie , American actor († 1997)
November 21: Eleanor Powell , American actress († 1982)
November 24th: Garson Kanin , American screenwriter († 1999)
November 27: Connie Sawyer , American actress († 2018)
November 30th: Gordon Parks , American director († 2006)

December

0December 5: Keisuke Kinoshita , Japanese director († 1998)
December 11th: Carlo Ponti , Italian producer († 2007)
December 13: Dušan Antonijević , Yugoslav actor († 1986)
December 30th: Nancy Coleman , American actress († 2000)

Died

July 1: Harriet Quimby , American aviation pioneer and screenwriter (* 1875)

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