1924 in film

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The year 1924 in motion picture involved some significant events and films.

Events

• January 10 - CBC Distributions corp. is renamed as Columbia Pictures.
• April 17 - Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. MGM and the estate of L. Frank Baum failed to come to an agreement so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures.

Top grossing films (U.S.)

Notable films released in 1924

U.S.A. unless stated

• Aelita, directed by Yakov Protazanov - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Alaskan, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Thomas Meighan and Estelle Taylor
• Along Came Ruth, directed by Edward F. Cline
• America, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Au Secours! (Help), directed by Abel Gance, starring Max Linder - (France)
• Ballet Mécanique, directed by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger - (France)
• Beau Brummel, directed by Harry Beaumont; starring John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis and Irene Rich
• Captain January directed by Eddie Cline; starring Baby Peggy and Hobart Bosworth
• Carlos and Elisabeth, starring Conrad Veidt - (Germany)
• Claude Duval, starring Nigel Barrie, Fay Compton (GB)
• The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) - (Austria)
• Dante's Inferno, directed by Henry Otto
• The Enchanted Cottage dir. by John S. Robertson and starring Richard Barthelmess and May McAvoy
• Entr'acte, directed by René Clair - (France)
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Neobychainye priklyucheniya mistera Vesta v strane bolshevikov) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Forbidden Paradise, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; starring Pola Negri, Adolphe Menjou and Rod La Rocque
• Girl Shy, starring Harold Lloyd
• Gösta Berlings saga, directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Greta Garbo - (Sweden)
• The Grand Duke's Finances (Die Finanzen des Großherzogs), directed by F. W. Murnau - (Germany)
• The Great Well directed by Henry Kolker - (GB)
• Greed, directed by Erich von Stroheim; starring ZaSu Pitts and Gibson Gowland
• Happiness, directed by King Vidor
• The Hands of Orlac, starring Conrad Veidt - (Austria)
• He Who Gets Slapped, directed by Victor Sjöström; starring Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer and John Gilbert
• Helena, directed by Manfred Noa (Germany)
• Helen's Babies, starring Edward Everett Horton, Baby Peggy and Clara Bow
• Her Night of Romance, directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Constance Talmadge and Ronald Colman
• His Hour, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert
• Hot Water, starring Harold Lloyd
• The Humming Bird, starring Gloria Swanson
• Icebound, directed by William C. deMille, starring Richard Dix and Lois Wilson
• L'Inhumaine (The Inhuman Woman) - (France)
• The Iron Horse, starring George O'Brien
• Isn't Life Wonderful, directed by D. W. Griffith
• Janice Meredith, starring Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, and Tyrone Power, Sr.
• The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann), directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Emil Jannings - (Germany)
• Little Robinson Crusoe, starring Jackie Coogan
• The Marriage Circle, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
• Michael, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Germany)
• Monsieur Beaucaire, directed by Sidney Olcott; starring Rudolph Valentino and Bebe Daniels
• The Navigator, starring Buster Keaton
• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, directed by Fritz Lang; starring Paul Richter - (Germany)
• Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, by Fritz Lang - (Germany)
• Open All Night, starring Viola Dana
• The Passionate Adventure, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Clive Brook - (GB)
• Peter Pan, starring Betty Bronson
• The Sea Hawk, starring Milton Sills
• Secrets, starring Norma Talmadge
• Sherlock, Jr., starring and directed by Buster Keaton
• Stupid, But Brave, directed by Fatty Arbuckle
• Symphonie diagonale - (Germany)
• The Thief of Bagdad, directed by Raoul Walsh; starring Douglas Fairbanks
• Three Weeks, starring Conrad Nagel and Aileen Pringle
• Three Women, directed by Ernst Lubitsch
• Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett), directed by Paul Leni, starring Conrad Veidt and Emil Jannings - (Germany)
• Wild Oranges, directed by King Vidor
• Wine, directed by Louis J. Gasnier; starring Clara Bow
• Wine of Youth, directed by King Vidor; starring Eleanor Boardman and ZaSu Pitts

Short film series

• Buster Keaton (1917–1941)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
• Our Gang (1922-1944)

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1934)
• Alice Comedies
  • Alice's Day at Sea
  • Alice's Spooky Adventure
  • Alice's Wild West Show
  • Alice's Fishy Story
  • Alice and the Dog-Catcher
  • Alice the Peacemaker
  • Alice Gets in Dutch
  • Alice Hunting in Africa
  • Alice and the Three Bears
  • Alice the Piper

Births

Deaths

Film debuts

• Clark Gable - White Man and Forbidden Paradise
• John Gielgud - Who Is the Man?
• Johannes Heesters - Cirque hollandais