1916

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Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1916 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Films released in 1916 4 Short film series 5 Deaths 6 Debuts

[edit] Events

• October 17 - A Daughter of the Gods released - first US production with a million dollar budget also credited with first ever nude scene by a major star.
• November 19 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
• 11 mm, an amateur film gauge, appears on the market.

[edit] Top grossing films (U.S.)

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	Intolerance, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Constance Talmadge
2.	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea(1916 film)
3.	The Innocent Lie
4.	Hulda From Holland

[edit] Films released in 1916

• A Daughter of the Gods, starring Annette Kellerman
• The Adventures of Peg o' the Ring, directed by Francis Ford and Jacques Jaccard, starring Grace Cunard
• Alsace
• The Americano
• The Battle of the Somme
• Behind the Screen, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• La Bohème, by Albert Capellani (see disambiguation)
• Cenere
• Civilization, directed by Reginald Barker and Walter Edwards, starring Howard C. Hickman and Enid Markey
• The Curse of Quon Gwon
• The Count, directed by and starring, Charlie Chaplin
• Energetic Eva, starring Eva Tanguay
• Hell's Hinges, directed by Charles Swickard and William S. Hart, starring William S. Hart
• Hoodoo Ann, starring Mae Marsh and Robert Harron
• Hulda From Holland, starring Mary Pickford
• The Innocent Lie, starring Mary Pickford
• Intolerance, directed by D.W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish, Constance Talmadge
• Judex, directed by Louis Feuillade, starring Musidora
• A Life for a Life
• Lights of New York, directed by Van Dyke Brooke, starring Leah Baird and Walter McGrail
• Oliver Twist, starring Marie Doro
• One A.M., directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
• The Phantom of the Opera
• The Reward of Patience, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Lottie Pickford
• Seventeen, directed by Robert G. Vignola and starring Jack Pickford
• Ultus and the Grey Lady by George Pearson
• Where Are My Children?, directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber, starring Tyrone Power, Sr. and Juan de la Cruz

[edit] Short film series

• Broncho Billy Anderson (1910–1916)
• Harold Lloyd (1913–1921)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1923)

[edit] Deaths

• January 17 - Arthur V. Johnson, screen actor
• September 17 - Arthur Hoops, stage & screen actor
• October 6 - Henry Woodruff, stage & screen actor

[edit] Debuts

• Mae Murray
• Alla Nazimova
• Billie Burke