1911 in film

The year 1911 in film involved some significant events.

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Events

February: The Motion Picture Story Magazine, the first American film fan magazine, is published. It is followed later in the year by Photoplay.
April 8: Winsor McCay releases his first film Little Nemo, one of the earliest animated films.
October 23 : Svetozar Botorić's The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Karađorđe premieres in Belgrade and becomes the first feature film made in Serbia and the Balkans.
October 26: Defence of Sevastopol premieres at the Crimean palace of Tsar Nicholas II and becomes the first feature-length film made in the Russian Empire and one of the first in the world. It is also the first known film to use a multiple-camera setup
October 27: David Horsley's Nestor Motion Picture Company opens the first motion picture studio in Hollywood.
November: The Kalem Company of New York pays the estate of author Lew Wallace $25,000 in legal settlement for having adapted Ben Hur (1907 film) from his novel without securing prior rights.

Notable films

Films produced in the United States unless stated otherwise

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The Fall of Troy , directed by Giovanni Pastrone, based on the Greek epic poem the Iliad by Homer –

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame , directed by Albert Capellani, based on the 1833 novel by Victor Hugo –

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L'Inferno , directed by Francesco Bertolini and Giuseppe de Liguoro, based on the 14th-century narrative poem by Dante Alighieri –
The Italian Barber, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Joseph Graybill and Mary Pickford

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The Last Drop of Water, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet
The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Karađorđe , directed by Ilija Stanojević –
Little Nemo, animated film directed by Winsor McCay
The Lonedale Operator, directed by D. W. Griffith

M

The Miser's Heart, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lionel Barrymore
Der Müller und sein Kind, directed by Walter Friedemann –
The Mummy'', produced by the Thanhouser Company

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The Odyssey , directed by Francesco Bertolini and Giuseppe de Liguoro, based on the Greek epic poem by Homer –

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The Pasha's Daughter, produced by the Thanhouser Company, starring William Garwood

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She, directed by George Nichols, based on the 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard
Sweet Memories, directed by Thomas H. Ince, starring Mary Pickford and King Baggot
Swords and Hearts, directed by D. W. Griffith

T

A Tale of Two Cities, directed by Charles Kent, starring Maurice Costello and Florence Turner, based on the 1859 novel by Charles Dickens

Births

January 5 – Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor
January 7 – Butterfly McQueen, actress
January 22 – Mary Hayley Bell, actress, writer and dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills
January 30 – Hugh Marlowe, actor
January 31 – Eddie Byrne, actor
February 6 – Ronald Reagan, actor, United States President
February 9 – Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and burlesque dancer
February 14 – Florence Rice, actress
February 19 – Merle Oberon, actress
February 20 – Margot Grahame, actress
March 3 – Jean Harlow, actress
March 10 – Edward Norris, actor,
March 18 – Smiley Burnette, actor, musician
April 23 – Ronald Neame, cinematographer, producer and director
May 7 – Ishirō Honda, director
May 11
*Louise Campbell, actress
*Phil Silvers, actor
May 17 – Maureen O'Sullivan, actress
May 18 – Sigrid Gurie, actress
May 23 - Bert Morrison, American actor, singer and jazz player
May 27 – Vincent Price, actor
May 30 – Douglas Fowley, actor
June 1 – Gertrude Michael, actress
June 3 – Ellen Corby, actress
June 20 – Gail Patrick
June 29 – Bernard Hermann, composer
July 6 – Laverne Andrews, singer, actress, member of Andrews Sisters
July 14 – Terry-Thomas, actor
July 16 – Ginger Rogers, actress, dancer
July 18 – Hume Cronyn, actor
July 28 – Ann Doran, actress
August 2 – Ann Dvorak, American actress
August 3 – Alex McCrindle, British actor
August 5 – Robert Taylor, actor
August 6 – Lucille Ball, actress
August 7 – Nicholas Ray, director
August 12 – Cantinflas, actor
August 19 – Constance Worth, actress
September 2 – Erwin Hillier, cinematographer
September 10 – Renée Simonot, actress and voice artist
October 13 – Ashok Kumar, actor, India
October 20 – Will Rogers, Jr., actor
October 27 – Leif Erickson, actor
October 30 – Ruth Hussey, actress
October 31 – Sheila Bromley, actress,
November 5
*Roy Rogers, singer, actor
*Baby Marie Osborne, child actress
November 10 – Harry Andrews, actor
December 8 – Lee J. Cobb, actor
December 9 – Broderick Crawford, actor
December 23 – James Gregory, actor
December 29 – Claire Dodd, actress
December 30 – Jeanette Nolan, actress

Deaths

January 18 – Arthur Marvin, cinematographer,
May 29 – W. S. Gilbert, producer of musicals, half of the team of Gilbert and Sullivan,
July 18 – Genevieve Lantelme, actress,
August 11 – Verner Clarges, actor,
October 27 – Francis Boggs, director,
November 2 – Kyrle Bellew,,
December 22 – Wright Lorimer, stage actor, screenwriter,
Unknown – Woodville Latham, producer and exhibitor whose desire to shoot an entire boxing match on a single reel of film led to the invention of the Latham loop

Debuts

Lionel Barrymore – The Battle
Francis X. Bushman – His Friend's Wife (short)
Paul Kelly – Jimmie's Job
Edgar Kennedy – Brown of Harvard
Ann Little – The Indian Maiden's Lesson
Harold Lockwood – The White Red Man
Anna Q. Nilsson – Molly Pitcher
Anita Stewart – A Tale of Two Cities as Anna Stewart
Lenore Ulric – The First Man
Lois Weber – director, actress, A Heroine of '76 ; writer, On the Brink

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