1914 - KinoSovrin

Events:
• February 2 – Charlie Chaplin's first film, Making a Living is released.
• February 7 – Release of Charlie Chaplin's second film, the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice, in which his character of The Tramp is introduced to audiences (although first filmed in Mabel's Strange Predicament, released two days later).
• February 8 – Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur greatly advances filmed animation movement techniques.
• February 10 – Release of the film Hearts Adrift; the name of Mary Pickford, the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees.
• February – Lewis J. Selznick and Arthur Spiegel organize the World Film Corporation, a distributor of independently produced films located in Fort Lee, New Jersey,
• March 8 – D. W. Griffith's first feature film, Judith of Bethulia, is released. It is his last production for the Biograph Company.
• March 20 – Tess of the Storm Country makes Mary Pickford an icon in the US and a celebrity around the world.
• March 31 – The serial The Perils of Pauline is an early example of the damsel in distress in film.
• April 12 – The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City.
• April 18 – Cabiria, directed by Giovanni Pastrone, is released in Italy, the first epic film, featuring the first extensive use of a moving camera dolly in a feature film, and introducing the long-running character Maciste.
• May 8 – Paramount Pictures is formed as a film distributor by William Wadsworth Hodkinson.
• September – The Neptune Film Company opens the Neptune Studios (the first "dark stage" in England) at Borehamwood, north of London.
• November 19 – William Fox's Box Office Attractions Company releases its first production, Life's Shop Window.
• December 3 – William S. Hart appears in his first feature film, The Bargain, which makes him a star.
• December 21 – Release of the first American made feature-length comedy film, Tillie's Punctured Romance, which also contains Marie Dressler and Charlie Chaplin's feature film debuts.
• December – Chaplin joins Essanay Studios for $1,250 per week.
• Filoteo Alberini introduces a new 70 mm format, Panoramico, with the film Il sacco di Roma.
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