June 11, 1922: The “father of the documentary film,” Robert Flaherty, releases his greatest achievement, Nanook of the North. June 6, 1933: The first drive-in theater opens on a 10-acre site on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Camden, N.J. Now Showing:…
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Movie history take a quick look at pivotal points in the history of cinema. Movie History features noteworthy and historical film facts from the turn of the last century to current hollywood events.
This Week In Film History, 05.15.11
May 15, 1900: The Lumière brothers dazzle audiences at the Paris World’s Fair with films projected onto an enormous 82′ x 49′ wide screen. May 17, 1912: Carl Laemmle oversees the merger of a number of independent production companies to…
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May 12, 1944: Roy Rogers makes his first movie with future wife Dale Evans, The Cowboy and the Señorita, but saves his screen kisses for Trigger. May 10, 1912: The screen’s earliest romantic pairing, Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne, first gaze into each…
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May 5, 1903: The film world first mines the riches of the literary world with Edwin S. Porter‘s version of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. May 4, 1934: With a show-stopping performance of “Baby Take a Bow” in Fox’s…
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March 31, 1915: The nascent serial genre has its first true star when Pearl White plays the hazard-plagued heroine of The Perils of Pauline. March 28, 1920: Broadway legend John Barrymore moves to center stage of the film world with…
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February 18, 1913: The Edison Film Co. introduces its synchronized film-phonograph Kinetoscope process for showing “sound films” in New York. February 14, 1927: Director Alfred Hitchcock first tries his hand at suspense with The Lodger, based on the Jack the…
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January 10, 1927: Set in the year 2000, Fritz Lang‘s sci-fi opus, Metropolis (Metropolis: Fritz Lang’s Timeless Vision), opens. It’s among the first to use miniatures in place of enormous sets. January 10, 1914: With Mack Sennett’s instruction to Charlie Chaplin to “get…
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November 21, 1931: Released only months after Dracula, Universal Pictures has another horror hit in Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff (article archive) as the scientist’s creation. November 25, 1940: Voiced by Mel Blanc, Woody Woodpecker laughs his way into cartoon fame…
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November 19, 1924: Mystery surrounds the death of director Thomas H. Ince. Rumors suggest he was shot aboard the yacht of William Randolph Hearst. November 18, 1928: Mickey Mouse whistles his way onto the screen in his first speaking performance,…
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November 7, 1902: French inventor/film executive Leon Gaumont demonstrates his Chronophone system of showing films with synchronized phonograph cylinders. November 13, 1921: After gaining fame in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Italian-born leading man Rudolph Valentino mesmerizes female filmgoers…
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