1) A group of scientists and silent movie stars stepped out of a train car into the Florida sunlight to film America's first feature-length colour motion picture a century ago. On Sept. 13, 1917, the Technicolor production "The Gulf Between," a romantic comedy now considered a lost film, opened.
2) The Nickelodeon debuted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 19, 1905. ALEX CHADWICK, HOST: America's first motion picture cinema opened to the public a hundred years ago on Sunday.
3) The Oscars, perhaps the most well-known award in American cinema, are given out every year to actors, directors, producers, and other film professionals who worked on the greatest films of the previous year. The Academy Awards ceremony first aired in 1929, and it today attracts over a billion viewers around the world.
4) Dadasaheb Phalke was born in Tryambakeshwar, 30 kilometres from Nashik, in the year 1870. (Maharashtra). In the Indian film industry, Dadasaheb Phalke worked as a producer, director, and screenwriter. Because he made India's first full-length feature film, he is known as the "Father of Indian Cinema."
5) On November 1, 1895, the Berlin Wintergarten theatre hosted the world's first cinema, a short film presented by the Skladanowsky brothers.
6) D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," the first film to be shown at the White House, was shown in the main building.
7) In 1968, a family-oriented rating system was implemented for the first time. The new criteria were created by Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) leader Jack Valenti, who replaced the infamous Hays Code.
8) “The Last Gunfight,” Steven Spielberg's debut film, was nine minutes long and shot on 8 mm film. It allowed him to complete the requirements for his Boy Scout photography merit badge when he was only 11 years old.
9) Harry Chandler, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, created the sign in 1923. It all started with a $21,000 billboard promoting Chandler's Hollywoodland real estate development. In 1949, the sign was shortened to the one we are all familiar with.
10) Dadasaheb Phalke, the "Father of Indian Cinema," was a producer, director, and screenwriter.
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