Questions tagged [cinema-history]
An account of the historical development of both movies and television series.
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Was the “Wilhelm Scream” used in the classic Three Stooges Short, “Movie Maniacs?”
So here I was, minding my own business and watching the classic Three Stooges short titled, “Movie Maniacs” from February 1936 when suddenly I think I hear the classic “Wilhelm Scream” at about 1 ...
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What was the first film to feature fake end credits partway through the movie?
I came across the question, Has any film before Vice (2018) featured an "early credits roll" in the middle of the movie for comedic (or other) effect?, which includes several examples of ...
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Which live-action TV series was the first to transition from filming in black-and-white to color?
I've been reading about the Adventures of Superman TV series (1952-1958) and discovered that its first two seasons were filmed in black and white, while the final four seasons switched to color. This ...
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Which movie first customized a production logo?
Most movies show one or more production or studio logos either at the start or the end. Some movies show modified versions of the official logo. For example, the Village Roadshow Pictures logo in The ...
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How was the Universal Pictures 1936 opening logo created?
I've always been fascinated with the opening logo used by Universal Pictures in movies starting from 1936 and running a few more years.
Searching on the subject it may have coincided with the change ...
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Is "Blink Twice" the first movie released in theaters with a trigger warning at the start?
Blink Twice (2024) opens with a trigger warning, which I've never seen in a theatrical release before. Here's what it says:
Trigger Warning
Blink Twice is a psychological thriller about the abuse of ...
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Why did so many 30s movies feature posh upper class characters? [closed]
I've watched 50 of them on my list so far and I've noticed a pattern here, especially in screwball comedies and musicals. I'd be more interested in seeing how regular middle class families were ...
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What's the earliest surviving TV sitcom? Key word is "surviving"
I know Mary Kay and Johnny is the first TV sitcom, but I heard none of the episodes survived except maybe one episode from June 1949 that got archived by the Paley Center for Media, but I don't think ...
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What was the last work to feature the World Trade Center as actual footage instead of CGI or stock footage?
I was watching the 1998 Godzilla with my youngest when he remarked, "hey, it's WTC!" as the towers appeared in the background.
This got me wondering, what was the last work produced that ...
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What would be the last decade in the US that wide release movies would be shot, edited and released on film?
It is my understanding that movies started out being shot, edited and released on film - then advances in technology slowly allowed for digital editing, digital releases and then movies shot on ...
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What was the first film to depict the American military as villains?
I just had a talk with a friend and he claimed that Avatar (2009) was the first film that got an American audience cheering for American soldiers being killed. I tried to offer several counter-...
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Who was the first to take Manhattan?
We know that in 1984, the Muppets took Manhattan.
In 1989, Jason Voorhees took Manhattan as well.
Later, DeGrassi took Manhattan, the Weeping Angels took Manhattan, and countless others have taken ...
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What is the longest running death scene?
What is the longest running screen time between a character's cause of death until that character's actual death?
While most fatally wounded characters die rather quickly, others hold on to life for ...
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What is the first film to show characters watching a film?
I’ve found many lists and supercuts of movie characters watching movies. I’m wondering what the first known instance of this (movie characters watching a movie) is.
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What is the oldest piece of visual media involving computerized dating services?
TVTropes mentions the history of digital dating services, and then notes that there's media from before the 1990s about it.
Using computers as dating services did not start with the rise of the ...
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