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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.
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 Video Game Revolution: Greg Palmer: PBS: History of Video Games: Unknown: No before than February 2005: Discovery Asia: Game On!: The Unauthorized History of Videogames: Bob Waldman: 2006: CNBC: The story of the video games industry at the Wii and PlayStation 3 console launches I, VIDEOGAME: Unknown: 2007: Discovery: Rise of the Video Game ...
Anatomy of a Hit: Long-Run Plays on Broadway from 1900 to the Present Day. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1966. Schildcrout, Jordan. In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays. New York and London: Routledge, 2019. Sheward, David. It's a Hit!: The Back Stage Book of Longest-Running Broadway Shows, 1884 to the Present. New York: Back ...
Show time: a chronology of Broadway and the theatre from its beginnings to the present (1997) online; Burke, Sally. American Feminist Playwrights (1996) online; Fisher, James. ed. Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010 (2 vol. 2011) Krasner, David. American Drama 1945 – 2000: An Introduction (2006) Krasner, David.
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Mary Henderson in her book The City and the Theatre breaks down theater on the street Broadway into three time periods. "Lower Broadway" from 1850 to 1870, "Union Square and Beyond" from 1870 to 1899, and "Times Square: the First Hundred Years" (1900–2000). [8] The current official Broadway/Off-Broadway division began with the 1949 Actors ...