1918

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Template:Year nav topic2 Template:Yearsinfilm The year 1918 in film involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Events 2 Top grossing films (U.S.) 3 Films released in 1918 4 Comedy short film series 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Following litigation for anti-trust activities, the US Supreme Court orders the Motion Picture Patents Company to disband.
• 28 mm safety standard film, designed by Alexander Victor, becomes one of the earliest film formats to use "safety film" bases in order to safeguard the amateur market against nitrate fires.

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

Rank	Title	Gross
1.	Stella Maris
2.	Tarzan of the Apes
3.	Mickey
4.	Shoulder Arms
5.	Headin' South
6.	Bound in Morroco

[edit] Films released in 1918

• Alraune
• Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne
• Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley, starring Mary Pickford.
• L'ame du bronze
• America's Answer
• Among the Cannibal Isles of the South Pacific
• The Bell Boy - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle / Buster Keaton short.
• Bound In Morroco, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The City of Dim Faces - starring Sessue Hayakawa and Marin Sais.
• The Cook - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
• A Dog's Life, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• The Embarrassment of Riches
• Father Sergius
• Headin' South, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The Heart of Humanity (starring Erich von Stroheim)
• Hearts of the World, directed by D.W. Griffith.
• The House of Mirth
• Masks and Faces
• Mickey, starring Mabel Normand
• Moonshine - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
• Nocturnal Tunes
• Out of the Inkwell
• Out West - a 'Fatty' Arbuckle/Buster Keaton short.
• The Outlaw and His Wife
• Shoulder Arms, a Charlie Chaplin film.
• The Sinking of the Lusitania - a short animated propaganda film by Winsor McCay.
• Salomé, starring Theda Bara.
• Stella Maris, starring Mary Pickford.
• Tarzan of the Apes, starring Elmo Lincoln and Enid Markey
• The Tenth Symphony
• Tih Minh
• Triple Trouble, a Charlie Chaplin short.
• Vendemiaire
• Under the Yoke, starring Theda Bara

[edit] Comedy short film series

• Harold Lloyd (1913-1938)
• Charlie Chaplin (1914-1940)
• Lupino Lane (1915-1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917-1944)

[edit] Births

• September 5 - Rin Tin Tin, canine actor (d. 1932)

[edit] Deaths

• February 1 - Joseph Kaufman, silent film actor & director, married to film star Ethel Clayton
• February 15 - Vernon Castle, dancer (b. 1887)
• April 30 - "Mother" Mary Maurice, veteran stage & film actress born 1844
• October 19 - Harold Lockwood, American actor
• October 28 - Louise Vale, American actress
• November 6 - William Shea, veteran film actor & director, b. 1862