Questions tagged [first-appearance]
What was the first movie/show to use a certain characteristic or technique?
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What would be the earliest film to showcase a low angle shot of car door opening and foot planted on the ground?
There's this trope that has been used countless times throughout the industry where from a close low angle, we see a car door open and a character steps out of the vehicle and onto the pavement ...
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What is the origin of the "Cool guys don't look at explosions" trope?
You see this all the time in movies and TV: Guy blows something up, walks away in slow motion without looking back. It is a bit goofy, but I get why it works - the guy is so used to explosions and/or ...
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What was the first time a victim was shown with a laser dot on their body in a TV show or movie?
What was the first TV show or movie telling the audience that a victim was being targeted because of a laser dot on their body? Did the victim realize they were being targeted because they also ...
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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 Movie or TV show had the first "Interpol Agent" and started the false assumption that INTERPOL employs supernational cops?
Popular culture invented the "Interpol Agent", basically a supernational police officer that chases criminals across a myriad of foreign countries, as if those countries were US states and ...
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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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What was the first film to use the imaginary character twist?
I've always assumed this originated from
...but I'm not positive. What was the first movie or TV show of a character being introduced to the audience as real and then later turning out to be a ...
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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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Is Disney’s Robin Hood (1973) the first animated movie to include the actors’ names and their roles together?
I know Looney Tunes did include Mel Blanc and June Foray in the credits prior to Robin Hood but I don't think they ever included their roles though.
So is Disney’s Robin Hood (1973) the first to do ...
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What's the first movie with a non-happy ending where the good guys lose or die?
What's the first movie with a non-happy ending where either the bad guys win or they lose, but the good guys die regardless?
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What's the first movie or TV show with a bad guy protagonist?
We have lots of examples of movies or TV shows with the protagonist being a bad guy or a villain, like Breaking Bad and Joker. In these films, the antagonists are the good guys.
But what's the first ...
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What's the first movie with peanut allergy as a subplot?
There are several movies with peanut allergy as a subplot in them like Firewall, The Smurfs 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, etc. But what was the first movie featuring it?
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What's the first movie adapted from A Christmas Carol but set in a different special day or country?
In the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by English author Charles Dickens, a mean person becomes good on Christmas Day after dreaming of four spirits encouraging him to change his attitude to life.
I ...
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What was the earliest US live-action movie or TV series where an American character's voice was dubbed by another actor in the same language?
I am Iranian, and in Iran, it's pretty common for an Iranian character to have a voice-actor of the same language.
This is mostly practiced in historical movies and series here. There is a simple ...
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What’s the earliest surviving martial arts film?
I know Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (1928) is the first martial arts film but it’s lost media.
What’s the earliest surviving martial arts film?
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