1924 in film

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.

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

Yolanda, directed by Robert Vignola; starring Marion Davies and Ralph Graves

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

Film debuts

Clark Gable - White Man and Forbidden Paradise

John Gielgud - Who Is the Man?

Johannes Heesters - Cirque hollandais