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  2. Florence Lawrence - Wikipedia

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    Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress.She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was long thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly [1] until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. [2]

  3. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    First movie with African-American interracial marriage: One Potato, Two Potato, [77] 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)

  4. Walter D'Arcy Ryan - Wikipedia

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    Lighting at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, 1915, designed by Ryan, including the Scintillator searchlight display. Walter D'Arcy Ryan (Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 17, 1870 – Schenectady, New York, US, March 14, 1934) was an influential early lighting engineer who worked for General Electric as director of its Illuminating Engineering Laboratory.

  5. 18 of the best anti-Christmas movies to watch if you're over ...

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    The sequel to 1989's "Batman," 1992's "Batman Returns" stars Michael Keaton once again as Bruce Wayne, aka Batman. This time, he's joined by Michelle Pfeiffer as Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, Danny ...

  6. Raja Harishchandra - Wikipedia

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    He published advertisements in various newspapers calling for the cast and crew. As no women were available to play female roles, male actors performed the female roles. Phalke was in charge of scriptment, direction, production design, make-up, film editing, along with film processing. Trymbak B. Telang handled the camera. Phalke completed ...

  7. First Man into Space - Wikipedia

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    Variety wrote: "First Man Into Space is a good entry in the exploitation class. It has excitement and some genuine horror. It is generally well-made and suffers only from a tendency to get cosmic in philosophy as well as geography." [13] Dennis Schwartz from Ozus' World Movie Reviews gave the film a C grade:

  8. History of film - Wikipedia

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    The Photo-Drama of Creation, first shown to audiences in 1914, was the first major screenplay to incorporate synchronized sound, moving film, and color slides. [83] Until 1927, most motion pictures were produced without sound.

  9. The Terminator - Wikipedia

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    The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, written by Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd and produced by Hurd. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cybernetic assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son will one day save mankind from extinction by Skynet, a hostile artificial ...