{"id":38756,"date":"2013-12-02T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=38756"},"modified":"2013-12-01T09:13:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T14:13:59","slug":"week-film-history-12-01-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=38756","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Film History, 12.01.13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 1, 1903<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <a title=\"The Great Train Robbery (1903)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/the-great-train-robbery\/\">Edwin S. Porter&#8217;s <i>The Great Train Robbery<\/i><\/a>, the first motion picture to use intercutting scenes to form a unified narrative, is released.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 2, 1910<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Hefty funnyman John Bunny, the cinema&#8217;s first comedy star, makes his debut in Vitagraph&#8217;s <i>Jack Fat and Jim Slim at Coney Island<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 7, 1919<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Director\/actor Erich von Stroheim, &#8220;The Man You Love to Hate,&#8221; makes his directorial debut with <i>Blind Husbands<\/i>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 4, 1924<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: <i>Greed<\/i>, previewed in a nine-hour, 42-reel version earlier in the year, opens in a studio-mandated 10-reel cut that director Erich von Stroheim disavows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 4, 1925<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: A bureau known as the Central Casting Corporation is set up by the major Hollywood studios as a pool of extras available to film productions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 1, 1938<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: The first movie with an <a title=\"&quot;All-midget cast,&quot; the B-western The Terror of Tiny Town\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/from-the-files-of-dr-strangefilm-1\/\">&#8220;all-midget cast,&#8221; the B-western <i>The Terror of Tiny Town<\/i><\/a>, opens to a Lilliputian box office. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 7, 1955<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: United Artists withdraws from the MPAA over the refusal to grant approval to the drug addiction drama <i>The Man With the Golden Arm<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 7, 1964<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: Director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/musite\/findresults_director.asp?search=Sam+Peckinpah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sam Peckinpah<\/a> is fired by the producer of <i>The Cincinnati Kid<\/i> for shooting nude scenes that were not written in the script.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 5, 1976<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: The first film to take advantage of Garret Brown&#8217;s Steadicam, a device which stabilizes handheld cameras, <i>Bound for Glory<\/i>, is released. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: red; font-family: VERDANA;\">December 6, 1979<\/span><span style=\"font-family: VERDANA;\">: A decade after the TV show left the airwaves, <i>Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/i> opens and gives new life to the Enterprise crew.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was exactly 110 years ago this week that film storytelling as we know it had its genesis with the release of Edwin S. 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