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  2. History of film - Wikipedia

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    Released in 1901, the British film Attack on a China Mission was one of the first films to show a continuity of action across multiple scenes. [33] The use of the intertitle to explain actions and dialogue on screen began in the early 1900s. Filmed intertitles were first used in Robert W. Paul's film, Scrooge, or Marley's Ghost. [54]

  3. Georges Méliès filmography - Wikipedia

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    Georges Méliès (1861–1938) was a French filmmaker and magician generally regarded as the first person to recognize the potential of narrative film. [1] He made about 520 films between 1896 and 1912, [2] covering a range of genres including trick films, fantasies, comedies, advertisements, satires, costume dramas, literary adaptations ...

  4. The Jazz Singer - Wikipedia

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    The first aired August 10, 1936; the second, also starring Gail Patrick, on June 2, 1947. [54] Disney made reference to the film, and its follow-up The Singing Fool, in the title of the 1929 Mickey Mouse short, The Jazz Fool. [55] The Jazz Singer was parodied in the 1936 Warner Bros. cartoon I Love to Singa, directed by Tex Avery.

  5. Georges Méliès - Wikipedia

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    For example, after experimenting with multiple exposure, Méliès created his film The One-Man Band in which he played seven different characters simultaneously. [9] Scene from A Terrible Night. Méliès began shooting his first films in May 1896, and screening them at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin by that August.

  6. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    The Crooked Circle was the first film to be broadcast on television, on March 10 in Los Angeles. [citation needed] Morgenrot was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany, and thus the first film of Nazi Cinema. Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, the film became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi ...

  7. List of directorial debuts - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release.Many filmmakers have directed works which were not commercially released, for example early works by Orson Welles such as his filming of his stage production of Twelfth Night in 1933 or his experimental short film The Hearts of Age in 1934.

  8. List of musical films by year - Wikipedia

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    The Cheetah Girls (television film) From Justin to Kelly; Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (animated) The Fighting Temptations; The Jungle Book 2 (animated) The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (animated) Marci X; The Music Man (television film) Not on the Lips (Pas sur la bouche) Piglet's Big Movie (animated)

  9. List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition from silent film to sound, between 1926 and 1929. [1] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone , as well as sound on ...