1919 in film

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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic5 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

The top six 1919 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1919
Rank Title Studio Domestic rentals
1 Male and Female Paramount $1,256,267<ref name="birchard">Template:Cite book</ref>
2 Daddy-Long-Legs First National $1,250,000<ref name="quig">Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937–38 (1938) p 942 accessed January 28, 2017</ref>
3 The Miracle Man Paramount $1,000,000<ref name="quig"/>
4 Broken Blossoms United Artists $600,000<ref name="tino">Template:Cite bookp30-31</ref>
5 Don't Change Your Husband Paramount $292,394<ref name="birchard"/>
6 For Better, for Worse $256,072<ref name="birchard"/>

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Notable films released in 1919 around the world

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  • Nabeshima Neko Sodo (Japanese) a ghost-cat film produced by Nikkatsu Films, starring Matsunosuke Onoe, based on the Kabuki play by Joko Segawa III<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 209">Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.</ref>
  • Okazaki Kaibyo-den (Japanese) starring Matsunosuke Onoe, another ghost-cat movie based on an early 1820s Japanese novel (which was adapted as a Kabuki play in 1827)<ref name="Workman, Christopher 2016 p. 209"/>

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Comedy film series

Only the films of the series released in 1919 are collected.

Buster Keaton (1917–1941)

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Films starring Roscoe Arbuckle, featuring Buster Keaton released in 1919:

Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)

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Charlie Chaplin wrote, produced, directed, and starred in 9 films for his own production company between 1918 and 1923. These films were distributed by First National. Below the movies filmed in 1919:

Score composed for 1973 re-release

Uncompleted and unreleased films
  • The Professor as Professor Bosco, Slated as a two-reeler, but never issued

Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)

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Glasses character ("The Boy"):

Animated short film series

Out of the Inkwell.

Koko the Clown (1919–1934)

Koko the Clown was the first animated movie cartoon series. Below list of short films released in 1919:

  • The Tantalizing Fly
  • The Clown's Pups
  • Out of the Inkwell
  • Slides
  • Experiment No. 2
  • Experiment No. 3
  • Out of the Inkwell

Felix the Cat (1919–1936)

Felix the cat in his first cartoon Feline Follies.

Below list of Felix the Cat short films released in 1919:

November 9: Feline Follies
November 16: The Musical Mews
December 14: The Adventures of Felix

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See also

References

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