The Cinematograph Films Act 1927 was passed in order to boost local production, requiring that cinemas show a certain percentage of British films.

The replacement Cinematograph Films Act 1938 provided incentives for UK companies to make fewer films of higher quality and, influenced by world politics, encouraged American investment and imports.

The Cinematograph Films Act 1927 introduced protective measures, leading to recovery and an all-time production high of 192 films in 1936 ( see 1936 in film ).

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The Act was modified by the Cinematograph Films Act 1938 and further acts, and eventually repealed by the Films Act 1960.

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He was chairman of the Cinematograph Films Council and a Governor and later, Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors, of the London School of Economics.

After only one production, Stranglehold ( 1931 ), the studio was acquired by Warner Brothers to turn out so-called " quota quickies "-British-made films which fulfilled a legal quota ( created by the Cinematograph Films Act 1927 ) before American-made films could be shown.

Further under the Cinematograph Act, the district magistrate is the licencing authority in his jurisdiction.

In the United Kingdom, for example, this requirement was introduced in the Cinematograph Act 1909, and effectively prevented the projectionist from also carrying out a public-facing role.

The Eady Levy came into effect on 9 September 1950 but was not established on a statutory basis until its incorporation in the Cinematograph Film Act of 1957.

In 1927, the British Government, in order to promote the market in India for British films over American ones, formed the Indian Cinematograph Enquiry Committee.

In 1919, his first job in the film industry was as an assistant cinematographer at the Nippon Katsudou Shashin Kabushiki-kaisha ( Nippon Cinematograph Company or Kokkatsu for short ) in Kyoto, which later became better known as Nikkatsu.

Like most of ITV, Thames was beset by conflicts with trade unions, notably the Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians ( ACTT ) – indeed, the worst strike to hit the network originated at Thames.

His late years were tragic from 1910 when, crushed by the new Cinematograph, dejected and penniless, he threw the greater part of his irreplaceable work and unique equipment into the Seine as the public had deserted his " Théatre Optique " shows which had been a celebrated attraction at the Musée Grevin between 1892 and 1900.

The first Indian movie released in India was Shree pundalik a silent film in Marathi by Dadasaheb Torne on 18 May 1912 at ' Coronation Cinematograph ', Mumbai.

The machine that presented the movie session at the Real Colyseu was not the Cinematograph of the Lumiére brothers, but rather one of its competitors, the Teatrograph, also by Robert W. Paul, that merely projected.

Moreover, the 1927 Films Act was up for renewal.

A little-known law called the Films Act bans the making, distribution and showing of films containing " wholly or partly, either partisan or biased references to, or comments on any political matter " in Singapore.

Then people can decide ", he said, adding that, as far as he knew, this was the first film that was considered political under the Films Act.

In 1997, under his former production company banner Carrie Films, Glover executive produced numerous films of first time directors including Pamm Malveaux's neo-noir short film Final Act starring Joe Morton, which aired on the Independent Film Channel.

A documentary made by film maker Martyn See about his 17 years as a political prisoner in Singapore was banned by the Board of Film Censors under the Films Act, which prohibit its possession and distribution.

Lionsgate was originally known as IMI Computer Corp. on May 26, 1986 and later known as Beringer Gold Corp. Beringer Gold later was incorporated as Lions Gate Films under the Business Corporation Act in British Columbia and was founded on July 3, 1997 by Frank Giustra, a Canadian investment banker hoping to capitalize on the growing film industry in his home town.

It was established under Section 76 of the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 ( FVPC Act ), replacing various film classification acts, including the Indecent Publications Tribunal.

* The Censorship of Films Act, 1923 was an act " to provide for the official censoring of cinematographic pictures and for other matters connected therewith ".

It was amended by the Censorship of Films ( Amendment ) Act, 1925, in connection with advertisements for films.

It was amended by the Censorship of Films ( Amendment ) Act, 1930 to extend the legislation to " vocal or other sounds " accompanying pictures.

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* New Moon, 1940, based on Sigmund Romberg's 1927 Broadway hit, became one of Eddy's most popular films, although in 1978 it was included in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

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The Jazz Singer is a 1980 American drama film and a remake of the 1927 classic The Jazz Singer, released by EMI Films and United Artists.

Samuel Lloyd Spence ( born 1927 ) is an American soundtrack composer best known for his work with NFL Films.

Films following this route invariably included female figures in light, skimpy draperies, and indeed sometimes wearing nothing at all, doing " expressive " dances or striking plastic poses in sylvan settings.

Films that he made at Vitagraph in 1915 such as The Right Girl and His Phantom Sweetheart have a large number of reverse-angle cuts in interior, as well as exterior, scenes.

The film would not have been made without former Beatle and Python fan George Harrison, who set up Handmade Films to help fund it at a cost of £ 3 million ( a move later described by Eric Idle as the " world's most expensive cinema ticket ").

The original backers, EMI Films, had been scared off at the last minute by the subject matter, particularly Bernard Delfont.

The screenplay was optioned by Ron Howard and Imagine Films and is currently under development at Paramount Pictures.

The film company Ironbound Films produced a biopic about Downey entitled Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, which premiered April 19, 2012 at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.

Films are effective propaganda tools because they establish visual icons of historical reality and consciousness, define public attitudes of the time they ’ re depicting or that at which they were filmed, mobilize people for a common cause, or bring attention to an unknown cause.

Films such as the 1986 Thrashin < nowiki >'</ nowiki >, Grind and Lords of Dogtown, have helped improve the reputation of skateboarding youth, depicting individuals of this subculture as having a positive outlook on life, prone to poking harmless fun at each other, and engaging in healthy sportsman's competition.

They won the NFC Championship Game in 2005, and went on to lose in the Super Bowl against the Pittsburgh Steelers ( though it was not without controversy as NFL Films has Super Bowl XL at number 8 on its top ten list of controversial calls ).

* The Elephant Will Never Forget, an 11-minute film made in 1953 by British Transport Films to celebrate the London tram network at the time of the last few days of its operation.

Films such as Class ( film ), The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mannequin ( 1987 film ), Porky's, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, St. Elmo's Fire ( film ), Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science and Valley Girl were popular teen comedies of the era and launched the careers of several major celebrities such as: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage.

In 1957, Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister at the time, invited him to India to make the documentary India and put some life into the floundering Indian Films Division.

* Marty Feldman: The Radical Comedian at Unsung Films

It also ranks at number 99 in Empire magazines list of the 500 Greatest Films of All Time, and as the highest ranked animated movie.

* 2002 — Donnie Darko won the " Special Award " at the Young Filmmakers Showcase at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.

Five Star Final was nominated for an Outstanding Production Academy Award in 1931 / 1932 at the 5th Annual Academy Awards ( Outstanding Production is known today as ' Best Picture '), and was named by Film Daily as one of the Ten Best Films of 1931.

Films competing in the Foreign Language Film category must have been first released in the country submitting them during the eligibility period defined by the rules of the Academy, and must have been exhibited for at least seven consecutive days in a commercial movie theater.

In 1983, via its revived theatrical division, ABC Motion Pictures, Silkwood was released in theaters, and The Day After ( again produced in-house by its by-then retitled television unit, ABC Circle Films ) was viewed on TV by 100 million people, prompting discussion of nuclear activities taking place at the time.

But the network did acquire Orion Pictures ' television division in the wake of the studio's bankruptcy ( after a brief attempt at acquiring the studio itself ), later merging it with its in-house division ABC Circle Films to create ABC Productions.

** In 2001, the film came in at # 84 on " The Best Films of All Time " as voted by channel 4.

Films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock ( Peter Weir, 1975 ) and Sunday Too Far Away ( Ken Hannam, 1975 ) made an impact on the international arena.

Films featuring Depp have grossed over $ 3. 1 billion at the United States box office and over $ 7. 6 billion worldwide.

The film also ranks at number 98 in Empire magazines list of the 500 Greatest Films of All Time.

Fantasia ranked fifth at the 1940 National Board of Review Awards in the Top Ten Films category.