1913 - KinoSovrin

Events:
• January 1 – The British Board of Film Censors is established.
• April 21 – The first full-length Indian (and Marathi) feature film "Raja Harishchandra" (silent) has its première (public release May 3).
• May – Mary Pickford signs a contract with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company for $500 per week, becoming the company's first superstar.
• Jesse L. Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille, Samuel Goldwyn and Oscar Apfel founded Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.
• November 24 - "Traffic in Souls" is an early example of the narrative style of Hollywood film.
• December 29 – Charlie Chaplin signs a contract with Mack Sennett to begin making films at Keystone Studios.
• December 29 – release of "The Adventures of Kathlyn", the second American serial film and the first to feature "cliffhanger" endings that became popular with later serials.
• December 29 – production starts on Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company's "The Squaw Man", the first full-length Hollywood feature film.
• D. W. Griffith ends his series of Biograph shorts, begun in 1908, and leaves the Biograph Company in New York City to make full-length motion pictures.
• Georges Méliès' career as a director comes to an end.
• Cines-Palast in Berlin opens as a cinema with "Quo Vadis".
• Mitchell and Kenyon shoot their last known films in England.
• Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle signs for Mack Sennett at Keystone Studios and his early films for them feature the first known instances of pie thrown on film.

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