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The year 1907 in film involved some significant events.
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1 Events
2 Films released in 1907
3 Births
4 Deaths
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[edit] Events
January 19 - Variety publishes its first film review.
June 20 - L'Enfant prodigue, the first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, opens in Paris.
November 28 - In Haverville, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater (in a few years he had the largest theater chain in New England and in 1917 he founded his own production company, which eventually became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer).
Carl Laemmle of Paramount experiments with combining audio from phonographs with film. Laemmle's experiements lead to the German development of "Syncroscope." Syncroscope had several successful demonstrations, but was eventually abandoned.
The Kalem Company founded in New York City by Frank J. Marion, Samuel Long, and George Kleine. They would make the first Ben-Hur film, directed by Sidney Olcott.
[edit] Films released in 1907
20,000 Lieues Sous les Mers
Ben-Hur
Laughing Gas
L'Enfant prodigue
Salaviinanpolttajat
El Sartorio
Tunneling the Channel
[edit] Births
January 16 - Alexander Knox, actor (d. 1995)
January 20 - Paula Wessley, actress, producer (d. 2000)
January 22 - Mary Dresselhuys, actress, (d. 2004)
February 15 - Cesar Romero, actor (d. 1994)
February 17 - Buster Crabbe, actor (d. 1983)
February 22 - Robert Young, actor (d. 1998)
March 11 - Jessie Matthews, actress, singer (d. 1981)
March 19 - Kent Smith, actor (d. 1985)
March 31 - Eddie Quillan, actor (d. 1990)
April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody, actor (d. 1999)
April 19 - Lina Basquette, actress (d. 1994)
April 29 - Fred Zinnemann, director (d. 1997)
May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress (d. 2003)
May 22 - Lord Laurence Olivier, actor (d. 1989)
May 26 - John Wayne, actor (d. 1979)
June 4 - Rosalind Russell, actress (d. 1976)
June 16 - Jack Albertson, actor (d. 1981)
June 24 - Martha Sleeper, actress (d. 1987)
July 14 - Olive Borden, actress (d. 1947)
July 16 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990)
July 19 - Isabel Jewell, actress (d. 1972)
July 27 - Ross Alexander, actor (d. 1937)
August 3 - Adrienne Ames, actress (d. 1947)
August 12 - Joe Besser, actor, comedian (d. 1988)
September 15 - Fay Wray, actress (d. 2004)
September 29 - Gene Autry, actor (d. 1998)
December 22 - Peggy Ashcroft, actress (d. 1991)
[edit] Deaths
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