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Summer - Last year for prize giving at the Venice Film Festival until it is revived in 1980. From 1969 to 1979, the festival is non-competitive. From 1969 to 1979, the festival is non-competitive. August 8 - Kirk Kerkorian buys 24% of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , becoming the biggest shareholder.
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 15 More Dead Than Alive: Aubrey Schenck Productions: Robert Sparr (director); Clint Walker, Vincent Price, Anne Francis
1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1969 per Variety. The data from April 9, 1969, is per Variety' s weekly 50 Top-Grossing Films chart which was first published on April 23, 1969.
[18] [19] Jones's death at age 27, followed in succession by the deaths of three other 27-year old rock musicians — Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison— in the two-year period that followed, would give rise to the notion of the "27 Club", the concept that popular musicians were more likely to die after their 27th birthday and before ...
July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins) lifts off from Cape Kennedy toward the first human landing on the Moon. July 17 – The New York Times publicly takes back the ridicule of the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published on January 13, 1920, that stated that spaceflight is impossible. [5]
1893 – Blacksmiths, the first film shown publicly on the Kinetoscope, a system given to Edison; Thomas Edison created "America's First Film Studio", Black Maria. 1894 – Carmencita was made. According to film historian Charles Musser the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera was in the film. She may have been the ...
29 languages. العربية ... 1969 film awards (15 P) B. 1969 in British cinema (2 P) F. 1969 film festivals (1 C, 5 P) Film franchises introduced in 1969 (2 C) I ...