Remakes

One of the greatest movies of the 1940s was the Mask of Zorro which was recently remade.



Like The Mask of Zorro, many movies of the past are being remade.. such as Halloween, Friday The 13th, Carrie, Freaky Friday, Godzilla, and many many more!

VHS

Remember these guys?! VHS's are a thing of the past. Remember having to rewind them on those rewinder machines!

Greatest Disney Movie of The Past

Top 10 Movies of The 90's

According to Filmsite.org the top 10 movies of the 90s are..

Titanic (1997)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Independence Day (1996)
The Lion King (1994)
Forrest Gump (1994)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Men in Black (1997)
Armageddon (1998)

We all were watching movies in the 90s.. What is your list?!

FiRST M0ViE WiTH S0UND

The nearly three-hour-long Don Juan (1926) was the first major motion picture to employ a synchronized sound system of any type throughout. Its soundtrack contained a musical score and sound effects, but no recorded dialogue-in other words, it had been staged and shot as a silent film.

The first feature-length talkie was The Jazz Singer (1927).

The Nicelodeon

Harry Davis and John P. Harris moved 96 seats into an empty store to create the first movie theater in 1905. It was in our own state, Pennsylvania! To be exact, it was Pittsburgh and the name was the Nickelodeon. The name came from the cost per movie, a nickle, and the greek word for theater, odeon. Imagine that, paying only a nickel to see a movie!! To see a movie now it costs about 10 dollars per person. They played films in this room all day long and the first films shown were Poor But Honest and The Baffled Burglar.



Here is an article about the theater! http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/downtown/down_n71.html

http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/first-movie-theater.html

Drive In Movie

Drive in's were the movie viewing expirence of choice in the past. Now your lucky if you can even find one in existance. Heres a short video portraying drive in movie theater memories..

Famous Movie of The Past

Top 10 Movies of The 80's

Heres filmsites list..

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Rain Man (1988)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Batman (1989)
Back to the Future (1985)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Top Gun (1986)

What do you think of these ??

FiRST DiSNEY M0ViE...

SN0W WHiTE & THE SEVEN DWARFS

Official Release Date: December 21, 1937

Copyright: Walt Disney Productions © 1937

MPAA Rating: G (General Audiences ~ All Ages Admitted)

Length: 83 minutes



Cast
Roy Atwell ~ Doc

Stuart Buchanan ~ Humbert The Huntsman

Adriana Caselotti ~ Snow White

Eddie Collins ~ Dopey

Pinto Colvig ~ Grumpy; Sleepy

Marion Darlington ~ Bird

Billy Gilbert ~ Sneezy

Otis Harlan ~ Happy

Lucille LaVerne ~ The Wicked Queen Grimhilde

Scotty Mattraw ~ Bashful

Moroni Olsen ~ Spirit Of The Magic Mirror

Harry Stockwell ~ The Prince



Characters
Bashful ~ Scotty Mattraw

Bird ~ Marion Darlington

Doc ~ Roy Atwell

Dopey ~ Eddie Collins

Grumpy ~ Pinto Colvig

Happy ~ Otis Harlan

Humbert The Huntsman ~ Stuart Buchanan

The Prince ~ Harry Stockwell

Raven

Sleepy ~ Pinto Colvig

Sneezy ~ Billy Gilbert

Snow White ~ Adriana Caselotti

Spirit Of The Magic Mirror ~ Moroni Olsen

The Wicked Queen Grimhilde ~ Lucille LaVerne

GREATEST M0ViES 0F 1930.

1930's


All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), 105 minutes, D: Lewis Milestone
Based on the anti-war novel by Erich Maria Remarque and one of the best anti-war films. Best Picture award winning film. It is about the experiences of a group of young, patriotic, German schoolboys during World War I. They volunteer to serve their country in 1914, fighting in the trenches on the Western Front battlefields, quickly finding that their illusions of glory are shattered. With innovative uses of a giant crane to provide sweeping views. A powerful, grim and poignant masterpiece.




Animal Crackers (1930), 98 minutes, D: Victor Heerman
The second Marx Brothers film. Another zany, rapid-fire, anarchic hit. A valuable painting has disappeared from the home of wealthy Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont), and African big-game hunter Captain Spaulding (Groucho Marx) is called upon to find it.




Anna Christie (1930), 86 minutes, D: Clarence Brown
A film adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play. One of the earliest talkies, noted for the film in which silent star Greta Garbo first speaks. Her first line of dialogue: "Gimme a viskey..." Garbo plays an ex-prostitute who returns home to locate her barge captain father. She falls in love with a seaman (Charles Bickford), and must tell him and her father about her past.




The Big House (1930), 84 minutes, D: George Hill
One of the earliest and most realistic of prison pictures, with Wallace Beery as condemned prison inmate Machine Gun Butch, a murderous cell-block leader. The film's highlights include a jailbreak to escape from sadistic guards and a bloody massacre. Used by many subsequent dramatic prison films as a model.




The Devil's Holiday (1930), 78 minutes, D: Edmund Goulding
A manipulative manicurist Hallie Hobart (Nancy Carroll) schemes to marry a millionaire's son David Stone (Phillips Holmes), but is opposed by the young man's father Ezra Stone (Hobart Bosworth) and brother Mark (James Kirkwood). She offers to divorce him if paid $50,000. After leaving, her conscience begins to take over and she takes solace in parties and drink. Meanwhile, David is seriously ill as a result of a fall suffered in a fight over her with his brother. She returns to the side of her seriously-ill ex-husband, realizing she really loves him, and she also returns the $50,000.




The Divorcee (1930), 83 minutes, D: Robert A. Leonard
A melodrama that was regarded as hot and racy in its day. Jerry (Norma Shearer) marries newspaperman Ted (Chester Morris), but then when he becomes a flirtatious philanderer with an ex-girlfriend, the recently divorced Janice (Mary Doran), Jerry decides to divorce him and live the adventurous single life as a wayward wife, matching his behavior. After a series of sexual escapades and two weeks on a yacht in the summer with married (but separated) former beau Paul (Conrad Nagel), she selflessly returns and is reconciled to her husband on New Year's Eve in Paris.




Hell's Angels (1930), 135 minutes, D: Howard R. Hughes
Two brothers, Monte (Ben Lyon) and Roy Rutledge (James Hall) leave Oxford to join the British Royal Flying Corps and become fliers during World War I. Both brothers are rivals for the love of beautiful "Platinum Blonde", sexy siren Helen (an 18 year old Jean Harlow), who has fickle, two-timing affections. With sensational aerial photography. At $3.8 million, the most expensive film to date.




Little Caesar (1930), 80 minutes, D: Mervyn LeRoy
Considered as a milestone film which launched the gangster genre. Cesare Enrico Bandello/"Little Caesar" (Edward G. Robinson), a small-time hood and merciless killer, rises to power at the top of the mob in the underworld. A fast-paced crime story, with lots of gunfire, robberies, killings, and implicit violence. Known for one of the most memorable closing lines in films, at Rico's death scene: "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?"

Marilyn Monroe -- Some Like It Hot Movie

First Cartoon Ever !!

The first animation ever was "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" (1906) by newspaper cartoonist J. Stuart Blackton





The first "successful" cartoon ever was "Gertie the Dinosaur" (1914)



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#1 M0ViE 0F ALL TiME..EYES 0F THE CRiTiCS

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Melville Cooper, Ian Hunter

Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley

Arguably Flynn's greatest role, this is the classic, swashbuckling, adventure, costume epic/spectacle about the infamous rebel outlaw and his band of merry men from Sherwood Forest who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor." The charming Robin Hood (Flynn) fights for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Rathbone), the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham (Cooper), and the scheming Prince John (Rains), while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian (de Havilland) - and to save the English throne for King Richard (Hunter). This good-natured, extravagant adventure epic still packs romance, comedy, great sword play action, music, colorful characters and storybook fantasy. One of the earliest films to be shot in three-color Technicolor and, at the time, the most expensive film Warner Bros. had produced ($2 million). William Keighley started directing the film, but Curtiz finished the filming. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Picture. Academy Awards: 3, including Best Interior Decoration, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing.

http://www.filmsite.org/momentsindx1.html

M0ViE HiST0RY

The 1920's were known as the Pre-sound era. These were the top ten movies of the decade


Top 10 movies in the 1920's:

The Big Parade (1925)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
The Ten Commandments (1923)
What Price Glory? (1926)
The Covered Wagon (1923)
Way Down East (1921)
The Singing Fool (1928)
Wings (1927)
The Gold Rush (1925)

Filmin' it old school

Check out this vintage camera. It's a Lumière camera of 1896. Over a hundred years old. Look at the construction of the casing and all the innerds. they don't make em like they used to.

FiRST BASEBALL M0ViE!!

When: 1898

Who: Thomas Edison (Producer)

The first baseball movie: The Ball Game

Summary: Two amateur teams from playing from Newark, NJ.

Both teams playing for it all, giving their all.

Independant Films

Tecnology has really changed the independant film world. Check out this video!


Independent And Art Filmmaking: How has technology changed the independent film world?

First Movie

The first short ever made, "Strongman Sandow," was filmed in 1880. The first short with an actual storry line was "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903, and the first feature length film was "The Story of the Kelly Gang" in 1906. The first movie presented in color was "The World, the Flesh and the Devil," in 1914. Here are some pictures from these movies...

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first movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlMCVFInY8g

im glad we have better movies now.