Unanswered Questions
42 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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First appearance of the walk down a black hallway with evenly spaced circles of light?
What is the first film or television show to employ this trope: character walks away down a blackened hallway with overhead light fixtures creating evenly spaced circles of light on the floor?
In ...
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What is the first appearance of Will Waring's signature pineapple-in-a-shot running gag?
Will Waring is one of the directors for the Stargate series, and his signature for each episode he directs is a pineapple hidden somewhere in the episode in clear view.
According to https://screenrant....
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Who pioneered the use of Laughing Kookaburra birds to create the impression of a jungle setting?
I was sent a link to the first video below and it immediately sent me back to my childhood watching reruns of what were already old films on Sunday afternoon television.
I'm sure I've heard this bird'...
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First use of super-slow zoom in horror films to create tension
Here I'm not talking specifically about a "dolly zoom", first introduced by cinematographer Irmin Roberts in Hitchcock's Vertigo, but about the agonizingly slow zoom that you see not ...
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What was the first movie to show a crazy person's wall covered with photos & articles connected by colored yarn?
In movies such as A Beautiful Mind, a crazy / obsessed person will cover a wall with photographs and news articles, and connect them with colored yarn. (This is called link analysis). We've all seen ...
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What's the first movie to show newspaper spinning towards screen?
In old movies, they used to show newspaper spinning towards screen like this:
Here is the example from The Godfather (1972):
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What was the first movie depicting a bat wielding educational professional?
The tough education professional who wields a baseball bat to bring order to a troubled school has become something of a trope. I'm wondering what the first appearance was.
Morgan Freeman depicted ...
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What is the first movie where the voice of the receiving person can be heard in phone conversations?
In classic movies, they simply mute the receiving person's voice in phone conservation scenes.
So what is the first movie where we hear the receiver's voice in the phone conversation?
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Which movie first did the chase sequence/pane of glass gag?
There's a common gag/cliche/trope/whatever in chase sequences in movies/tv/cartoons where two people are carrying a window/mirror/pane of glass across a road that gets smashed during the chase. In ...
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First movie to show All Persons Fictitious Disclaimer
I was reading this Wikipedia article about All Persons Fictitious Disclaimer. The disclaimer came as a result of a case filed by Princess Irina for the 1932 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film Rasputin and the ...
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When was the first time subtitles were used for the original target audience?
Subtitles are traditionally (and, probably, most often) used for movies that were originally made for speakers of a different language--e.g., English-language subtitles added to a movie made in Danish,...
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Is Touch of Evil (1958) the first movie to allow actors to drive vehicles?
Recently I watched the movie Touch of Evil (1958), in which Mike Vargus was really driving vehicles with a moving real background:
Usually in classic movies, they put running background and the actor ...
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What was the first martial arts movie where someone plucked out an eye?
In the Kill Bill movies, Pai Mei and The Bride each pluck out one of Elle's eyes. In Five Fingers of Death (1972), one of the characters has his eye plucked out in the same fashion.
Is Five Fingers ...
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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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Does David Lynch's eerie atmosphere (closer to german "Unheimlich"), have a definition and clear origin?
One aspect that all of lynch's films have is that eerie feeling that something is not quite right, but I find that atmosphere to be different from pure surrealism. Did Lynch start this? Or does it ...
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