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It will play an important role in developing slapstick comedy as the home to the Keystone Cops, English actor Charlie Chaplin, and others. July 12 – Queen Elizabeth is the first film released by Famous Players. July 26 – Edison Studios releases What Happened to Mary, the first ever motion picture serial.
First movie with African-American interracial marriage: One Potato, Two Potato, [81] actors Bernie Hamilton and Barbara Barrie, written by Orville H. Hampton, Raphael Hayes, directed by Larry Peerce First African-American man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor : Sidney Poitier ( Lilies of the Field , 1963) (See also: James Baskett , 1948)
This era of filmmaking, dubbed by film historian Tom Gunning as "the cinema of attractions", offered a relatively cheap and simple way of providing entertainment to the masses. Rather than focusing on stories, Gunning argues, filmmakers mainly relied on the ability to delight audiences through the "illusory power" of viewing sequences in motion ...
A trailer [166] and the Vitaphone soundtrack survive. The Patriot: Ernst Lubitsch: Emil Jannings: A few fragments and a trailer survive at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A six-minute reel was found in the Portuguese Archive and copied to safety stock. [177] Red Hair: Clarence G. Badger: Clara Bow, Lane Chandler: A part-color silent movie.
Excerpt from the surviving fragment of With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), the first feature-length film in natural colour, filmed in Kinemacolor. This is a list of early feature-length colour films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major ...
1945 – Brief Encounter, Children of Paradise, Fallen Angel, Leave Her to Heaven, The Lost Weekend, The Naughty Nineties, Anchors Aweigh, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Spellbound, Along Came Jones 1946 – It's a Wonderful Life , Notorious , My Darling Clementine , Great Expectations , The Best Years of Our Lives , Song of the South , The Big ...
It was dubbed and re-edited, changing it to pro-German propaganda. Stefan Dekierowski informed the Polish underground, and the remaining three copies (out of five total) were hidden in winter 1939; the movie is believed to be lost. 1939: The Good Old Days: Roy William Neill: Max Miller, Hal Walters, Kathleen Gibson
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Abbott and Costello in Hollywood: S. Sylvan Simon: Abbott and Costello, Lucille Ball, Rags Ragland: Comedy: MGM: Adventure: Victor Fleming: Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell