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* 1897 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director ( d. 1987 )
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* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.
* 1897 – Franco-Hova Wars: The town of Anosimena is captured by French troops from Menabe defenders in Madagascar.
During the Invasion of the Kuril Islands, Akira Nakamura ( b. 1897 ) was captured by the Soviet army and his elder son Takeshi Nakamura ( 1925 – 1945 ) was killed in the battle.
1897 and Rouben
Rouben Zachary Mamoulian ( pronounced: roo-BEN ma-mool-YAN ; October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987 ) was an Armenian American film and theatre director.
1897 and film
The standard pattern for early film studios was provided by the studio which Georges Méliès had built in 1897.
The first of these was made in France in 1897, and it was followed in the same year by a film of the Passion play staged yearly in the Czech town of Horitz.
Preminger's next film would be another period piece based on a literary classic, Oscar Wilde's 1897 play Lady Windermere's Fan.
The first 70 mm format film was most likely footage of the Henley Regatta, which was projected in 1896 and 1897, but may have been filmed as early as 1894.
Melbourne was also home of one of the world's first film studios, the Limelight Department, operated by The Salvation Army between 1897 and 1910.
They had two children, Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy ( later Princess Antoine Bibesco ) ( 1897 – 1945 ) and the film director Anthony ( 1902 – 1968 ).
Douglas Sirk ( born Hans Detlef Sierck ; April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987 ) was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.
The composer Paul Dukas used the contrabass sarrusophone to great effect in 1897 in his The Sorcerer's Apprentice, where the instrument begins the bassoon's macabre dance motif ( familiar to all who recall Disney's animated film Fantasia ).
In Blackburn, England, the discovery of approximately 800 well-preserved nitrate negatives shot by the British film pioneers Mitchell and Kenyon, active from 1897 to 1913 but previously known for only a handful of surviving titles, became a major contribution to early cinema.
* 1897 – 125 people die during a film screening at the Charity Bazaar in Paris after a curtain catches on fire from the ether used to fuel the projector lamp.
His wife Elena died in 1897 and in 1899 he married Nina Boucicault ( Nina was a first cousin of her namesake, Nina Boucicault, the celebrated Irish stage and film actress ), who helped him entertain on a lavish scale.
John Gilbert ( July 10, 1897 – January 9, 1936 ) was an American actor and a major star of the silent film era.
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