Editing 1925 in film (section)

==Events==
*June 26: [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[The Gold Rush]]'' premieres. It is voted the best film of the year by critics in [[The Film Daily]] annual poll<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.archive.org/stream/filmdailyyearboo00wids_0#page/n46/mode/1up|title=The Ten Best Pictures of 1925|work=[[The Film Daily]] Year Book 1926|access-date=April 28, 2018}}</ref>
*September 25: [[Ufa-Palast am Zoo]] in [[Berlin]] rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens.
*November 5: MGM's war drama film ''[[The Big Parade]]'' is released. It is a massive commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing picture of the 1920s in the United States.
*December 30: MGM's biblical epic ''[[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925 film)|Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ]]'' premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|3.9|1925}}}} million when adjusted for inflation)<ref name="Hall & Neale (2010)">{{Cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Sheldon |last2=Neale |first2=Stephen |title=Epics, spectacles, and blockbusters: a Hollywood history |year=2010 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jhvrSwOOsRgC&pg=PA163 163]|publisher=[[Wayne State University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8143-3008-1}}</ref>
*[[Hong Shen]] publishes the film script ''Mrs. Shentu'' in the Shanghai magazine ''Eastern Miscellany''. It is never filmed, but is considered a milestone in film history for being the first published film script in China.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ye|first1=Tan|last2=Zhu|first2=Yun|title=Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=javqwyBe0WoC&pg=PA75|year=2012|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8108-6779-6|page=76}}</ref> Hong also directs his first film, ''Young Master Feng'', at [[Mingxing Film Company|Mingxing (Star) Film Company]] in this year.