Only Charlie Chaplin — who reportedly slightly surpassed Pickford's popularity in 1916 — had a similarly spellbinding pull with critics and the audience.

From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them.

Chaplin made 14 films for Essanay, the last of which was a parody of Carmen named Burlesque on Carmen ( 1916 ).

He also often employed inanimate objects in his films, often transforming them into other objects in an almost surreal way, such as in The Pawnshop ( 1916 ) and One A. M. ( 1916 ), where Chaplin is the only actor aside Chester Conklin's brief appearance in the very first scene.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

In Denmark the Nordisk company increased its production so much in 1915 and 1916 that it could not sell all its films, which led to a very sharp decline in Danish production, and the end of Denmark's importance on the world film scene.

By 1916 there are a number of films in which there are around 15 to 20 true reverse-angle cuts per hundred shot transitions, such as The Deserter ( Scott Sidney ) and Going Straight.

While recovering from his injuries and shell shock in 1916, he wrote some scenarios and ideas for films.

In 1916, Pickford signed a new contract with Zukor that granted her full authority over production of the films in which she starred, and a record-breaking salary of $ 500 a week.

Actresses such as Mary Pickford in all her films, Eleonora Duse in the Italian film Cenere ( 1916 ), Janet Gaynor in Sunrise, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and Greta Garbo in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting a virtue.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice ( 1909 ), Love's Surprises Are Futile ( 1916 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1917 ), Dary magów ( Poland, 1972 ), part of O. Henry's Full House ( 1952 ), The Gift of Love ( 1978 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1958 ), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street ( 1978 ), Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas gift ( 1999 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 2004 ) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time.

Silent films titled Disraeli were released in 1916 and 1921, with the 1921 version also starring Arliss.

Category: 1916 films

Category: 1916 films

Category: 1916 films

Young Creighton lived in various homes and boarding schools until 1916, when his father ( now employed in films ) married Hazel Hastings and could provide a stable home.

Set designer Danny Hall sketched out Chaplin's early ideas for the film, with Chaplin returning to one of his older films, The Vagabond ( 1916 ), and drawing upon similar story ideas and themes for The Circus.

In 1916 she founded her own production company, taking control of every detail of her films.

Compson made 25 films in 1916 alone, although most of them are shorts.

Lillian went on to star in many of Griffith's most acclaimed films, including The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), Broken Blossoms ( 1919 ), Way Down East ( 1920 ) and Orphans of the Storm ( 1921 ).

In 1916, she appeared in her first film as Julia Lovelace in Her Greatest Performance and continued to act in London and on tour, also making a few more films through 1922, including The Invasion of Britain ( 1918 ), Pillars of Society ( 1920 ), Victory and Peace, Potter's Clay ( 1922 ), and The Bohemian Girl as Buda the nursemaid, with Ivor Novello and Gladys Cooper ( 1922 ).

Shakeel Badayuni ( Hindi: शक ी ल बद ा य ु न ी, Urdu: شکیل بدایونی ) ( August 3, 1916 – April 20, 1970 ) was an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in Hindi films.

In 1916, Frawley had appeared in two short subject silent films.

Those persons who were lucky enough to see and hear the performance of his work at the Brest-Silevniov Festival in August, 1916, will certainly welcome his return to public notice ; ;

Further decrees along this line were issued in 1916 and 1919.

( Older models have another 4-bead wire for quarter-kopeks, which were minted until 1916.

Chemical bonds between atoms were now explained, by Gilbert Newton Lewis in 1916, as the interactions between their constituent electrons.

In March 1916, the Bureau of Investigation suspected German terrorists were making bombs in the tunnel, and broke through the roof of the tunnel with jackhammers.

High-alcohol liquor, two forms of which were in the US Pharmacopoeia up until 1916 and in common use by physicians well into the 1930s, has been used in the past as an agent for dulling pain, due to the CNS depressant effects of ethyl alcohol, a notable example being the American Civil War.

Three works Team Cars with 16-valve twin cam engines were built for racing and record breaking: chassis number 1914, later developed as the Green Pea ; chassis number 1915, the Razor Blade record car ; and chassis number 1916, later developed as the Halford Special.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

A colony was established, and a series of military governors were posted to Clipperton from that time, the last of whom would be Ramón Arnaud ( 1906 – 1916 ).

Yuan's imperial ambitions were fiercely opposed by his subordinates ; faced with the prospect of rebellion, he abdicated in March 1916, and died in June of that year.

The Army changed regulations on July 6, 1916, so that all soldiers were issued two tags: one to stay with the body and the other to go to the person in charge of the burial for record-keeping purposes.

Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.

All 16 police fatalities and 22 of the British soldiers killed were Irishmen British families came to Dublin Castle in May 1916 to reclaim the bodies and funerals were arranged.

According to Anne Applebaum, approximately 6000 katorga convicts were serving sentences in 1906 and 28, 600 in 1916.

On one side were Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria ( the Central Powers / Triple Alliance ), while on the other side stood Serbia and the Triple Entente – the loose coalition of France, Britain and Russia, which were joined by Italy in 1915, Romania in 1916 and by the United States in 1917.

The winter of 1916 – 1917 was known as the " turnip winter ," because that vegetable, usually fed to livestock, was used by people as a substitute for potatoes and meat, which were increasingly scarce.

However, the plot was discovered on 21 April 1916 and the weapons were lost when the ship carrying them, the Aud, was scuttled to prevent the arms from falling into the hands of the British.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

Between December 1916 and August 1918, a total of 37 Katzenjammer Kids silent cartoon shorts were produced by William Randolph Hearst's own cartoon studio International Film Service, which adapted well-known comic strips owned by Hearst for animation.

The first coal mines were established in 1907, later a chemical plant was established in 1916.

The Peakes were given leave to visit England just before World War I in 1914 and returned to China in 1916.