Facts about Movies
The 1967 Russian movie War and Peace had 120,000 extras. The South Korean movie Monster Wang-magwi from the same year featured 157,000 extras. The 1945 German movie Kolberg had 187,000 and the movie with the most extras, the 1982 British movie Gandhi, featured 300,000 extras. On average, a movie makes about 5 times more from its video sales than ticket takings. About one quarter of movie videos sold are animations. In the 1926 film version of Don Juan actor Lionel Barrymore set the record for the most kisses ever in a single film. Barrymore embraced Mary Astor and Estelle Taylor 127 times. The longest kiss in a movie is in Andy Warhol's Kiss. Rufus Collins and Naomi Levine kissed for the entire 50 minutes of the movie. The first porn movie was the 1908 Fench film al'Ecu d'or oula bonne auberge, a French film made in 1908. The first movie to use sound was "The Jazz Singer," released in 1927: the first words, spoken by Al Jolson, were: "Wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet." The home video recorder was introduced in 1972 by Philips of the Netherlands. Japanese company JVC introduced the VHS system in 1976. About 80% of VCRs are made by Japanese companies. The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975. In "Father of the Bride", Annie and Bryan marry on January 6. But in the opening montage of "Father of the Bride 2" there is a framed invitation of their wedding which states that they were married on October 9. Towards the end of the Forrest Gump, Forrest narrates that his wife died on a Saturday. When he is at her grave in the next scene, the tomb stone shows her passing on March 22, 1982, which is a Monday. STAR TREK's Captain James T. Kirk's middle name is Tiberius. The largest movie theatre in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York, opened in 1932 - it seats almost 6,000 people. The first film animation was "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces" made in 1906 by American J. Stuart Blacton. The video recording machine was invented by the Ampex corporation of California in 1956. The first video recorder, the Ampex VR1000, stood 1,1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and weighed as much as a small car: 665 kg (1,466 lb). |
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