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1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] [ 54 ] 1946 – A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
This is chronological list of action films split by decade. Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between action and other genres (including, horror , comedy , and science fiction films ); the lists should attempt to document films which are more closely related to action, even if they bend genres.
July 9 — Sci-fi movie Tron is the first feature film to use computer animation extensively. July 23 — During production of Twilight Zone: The Movie , Vic Morrow and two child actors are accidentally killed during a helicopter scene, leading to reforms in filmmaking safety and child-labor laws.
His employer, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, later curtailed McCay's vaudeville activities, so McCay added a live-action introductory sequence to the film for its theatrical release. Gertie was the first film to use animation techniques such as keyframes, registration marks, tracing paper, the Mutoscope action viewer, and animation ...
Thanks for a memorable summer, Barbenheimer. You deserved a better and more coherent movie, Captain Marvel and Ant-Man. That title alone was a win, Cocaine Bear. But the turn of the calendar means ...
24 American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt: Cannon Films: Cedric Sundstrom (director); Gary Conway (screenplay); David Bradley, Steve James, Michele Chan, Calvin Jung, Marjoe Gortner: Bert Rigby, You're a Fool: Warner Bros. Pictures / Lorimar Film Entertainment
March 3 – Dante Testa, Italian actor and director (born 1861) March 26 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (born 1844) May 21 – Charles Kent, veteran actor and director (born 1852) June 11 – Porter Strong, American silent film actor; June 17 – Macey Harlam, screen actor (born 1873) July 12 – Harry Lonsdale, stage and screen actor ...
A number of television films and long-form special episodes of original television shows have been produced for broadcast on American children's cable network Nickelodeon since 1998 and have been broadcast under the banner "Nickelodeon Original Movie".