1917

Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1917 in film involved some significant events.

Events

• Foundation of Universum Film AG (UƒA), as a propaganda film company, in Berlin.
• Technicolor System 1, a two-color process, is introduced. The first film to use it was The Gulf Between.
• World's first feature-length animated film is made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani (El Apóstol)
• Movette, another revision of the 17.5 mm film format, is made available.
• Buster Keaton makes his film debut.
• April 25 - Thomas Lincoln Tally, in a meeting in New York, co-founds the First National Exhibitors Circuit.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	Cleopatra
2.	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
3.	The Poor Little Rich Girl

Films released in 1917

• The Man Without a Country, starring Florence La Badie
• The Adventurer, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Bad Boy, starring Robert Harron, Mildred Harris and Colleen Moore
• Big Timber
• Bucking Broadway, directed by John Ford.
• The Butcher Boy, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short (Keaton's film debut).
• Camille, starring Theda Bara
• Cleopatra, starring Theda Bara
• Coney Island, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• The Cure, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Dying Swan, a Russian film aka Umirayushchii Lebed
• Easy Street, starring Charlie Chaplin
• El Apóstol, animated by Quirino Cristiani
• Great Expectations, starring Jack Pickford
• The Gulf Between
• His Wedding Night, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Her Right to Live, starring Peggy Hyland, Antonio Moreno, Mae Costello and John S. Robertson, directed by Paul Scardon
• The Immigrant, starring Charlie Chaplin
• Joan the Woman, starring Geraldine Farrar; directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• The Little American, starring Mary Pickford; directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
• A Little Princess, starring Mary Pickford, Norman Kerry and ZaSu Pitts, directed by Marshall Neilan.
• Oh Doctor!, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• The Poor Little Rich Girl, starring Mary Pickford.
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
• A Reckless Romeo, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle short.
• The Rough House, a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Straight Shooting, directed by John Ford.
• Teddy at the Throttle, a Keystone comedy with Gloria Swanson.
• Terje Vigen
• Tom Sawyer, starring Jack Pickford
• The Tornado, directed by John Ford (his debut)
• The Wild Girl, starring Eva Tanguay and Thomas J. Moore

Short film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913-1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914-1923
• Buster Keaton (1917-1941)

Film Debuts

• Buster Keaton
• Elsie Ferguson
• Mary Garden
• Marjorie Rambeau
• Bela Lugosi

Deaths

• February 21 - Fred Mace, actor & comedian
• July 2 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, stage & screen star
• October 13 - Florence La Badie, pioneer actress
• October 25 - Jack Standing, silent film actor, age 30, son of Herbert Standing and brother of Guy Standing & Wyndham Standing.
• December 20 - Eric Campbell, actor & a main member of Charles Chaplin's stock company.