Events
- Foundation of Universum Film AG (UƒA), as a propaganda film company, in Berlin.
- Technicolor System 1, a two-color process, is introduced. The first film to use it was The Gulf Between.
- World's first feature-length animated film is made in Argentina by Quirino Cristiani (El Apóstol)
- Movette, another revision of the 17.5 mm film format, is made available.
- Buster Keaton makes his film debut.
- April 25 - Thomas Lincoln Tally, in a meeting in New York, co-founds the First National Exhibitors Circuit.
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