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First African-American man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor: Sidney Poitier (Lilies of the Field, 1963) (See also: James Baskett, 1948) First feature film made for network television: See How They Run. Richard Burton's Hamlet was the first stageplay recorded on tape (Electronovision) and given a theatrical release. [78]
The 1913 opening of the Regent Theater in New York City signaled a new respectability for the medium, and the start of the two-decade heyday of American cinema design. The million dollar Mark Strand Theatre at 47th Street and Broadway in New York City opened in 1914 by Mitchell Mark was the archetypical movie palace.
By 1989, only four such theaters remained on Broadway, [5] [6] as these cinemas were generally smaller neighborhood theaters, which struggled to compete with larger multiplex theaters. [7] The Metro was the only remaining movie theater on the Upper West Side stretch of Broadway by the beginning of the 21st century. [5] [8]
American films by year; 1890s; 1890–1899: 1900s; ... American film at the Internet Movie Database "The 100 Greatest American Films", BBC.com This page was last ...
Filled with behind-the-scenes footage of the painstaking studio recording process, the film captures both the musical direction and insight of composer Sondheim. Several Company songs appear in the film, including "Another Hundred People", "Getting Married Today", and "Being Alive"—all recorded with a live orchestra, done in multiple takes, over the course of a lengthy studio session.
1895 – In Paris on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris making the first commercial public screening ever made, marked traditionally as the birth date of the film. Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, was founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.
The oldest Broadway theaters still in use are the Hudson Theatre, Lyceum Theatre, and New Amsterdam Theatre, all opened in 1903, while the most recently constructed theater is the Lyric Theatre, built in 1998. The largest of the Broadway theaters is the 1,933-seat Gershwin Theatre, while the smallest is the 597-seat Hayes Theater.
The Million Dollar was the first movie house built by entrepreneur Sid Grauman in 1918 as the first grand cinema palace in L.A. [6] Grauman was later responsible for Grauman's Egyptian Theatre and Grauman's Chinese Theatre, both on Hollywood Boulevard, and was partly responsible for the entertainment district shifting from downtown Los Angeles to Hollywood in the mid-1920s.