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. [1][2]
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.