* 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-American film producer ( d. 1978 )

* 1944 – Andrew G. Vajna, Hungarian-American film producer

* 1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American businessman and film producer, founded Marvel Studios

* 1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

* Adrian Hoven ( 1922 – 1981 ), Austrian actor, producer and film director

* 1946 – Dawn Steel, American film producer ( d. 1997 )

* The Spirit of Aachen – documentary film by SportsQuest International

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

* 2012 – Irving Fein, American film and television producer and manager ( b. 1911 )

* 1953 – Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film from a major American studio, entitled House of Wax.

* 1969 – Martin Koolhoven, Dutch film director and screenwriter

* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

The film is ultimately significant insofar as it displays the first enunciation of De Palma's style in all its major traits – voyeurism, guilt, and a hyper-consciousness of the medium are all on full display, not just as hallmarks, but built into this formal, material apparatus itself.

* Blackball – a 2003 comedy film about a young bowls player, based upon Griff Sanders.

* Crackerjack – a 2002 Australian comedy film about a wisecracking layabout who joins a lawn bowls club in order to be allowed to use a free parking spot but is forced to play bowls with the much older crowd when the club enters financial difficulty.

* Balance ( film ), a 1989 Academy Award – winning short animated film

Dealing with issues of poverty and parent – child separation, The Kid is thought to be influenced by Chaplin's own childhood and was the first film to combine comedy and drama.

The documentary film Quantum Hoops concerns the events of the Beavers ' 2005 – 06 season.

* The film Carlo Goldoni – Venice, Grand Theatre of the World, directed by Alessandro Bettero, was released in 2007 and is available in English, Italian, French, and Japanese.

Cecil Blount DeMille ( August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959 ) was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films.

Morris himself delivered disturbing monologues, one of which was revamped and made into the BAFTA-winning short film, My Wrongs # 8245 – 8249 & 117.

Chris Marker (; 29 July 1921 – 29 July 2012 ) was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist.

The copy itself, including any text or illustrations, is reproduced in full color directly on a thin Mylar polyester film by a photo screen process.

The film has an adhesive on the back which permits it to be stripped onto the acrylic panels forming the sign, and also to be stripped off for replacement by new copy as required.

As used by Industrial Electric Inc., the film panels are printed one at a time, as are 24-sheet posters.

Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

An early film by a competitor of the Wizard of Menlo Park simply showed a long kiss performed by two actors of the contemporary stage.

Overnight, for one thing, Porter's film multiplied the standard running time of movies by ten.

The physical film is cut with a knife at the end of one complete sequence, and the cut edge is joined physically, by cement, to the cut edge of the beginning of the next sequence.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

Workshops are conducted by the system's audio-visual consultant for the staffs of member libraries, teaching them the effective use of film as a library service.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

An Academy Award is an award bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

In need of a model for his statuette, Gibbons was introduced by his future wife Dolores del Río to Mexican film director and actor Emilio " El Indio " Fernández.

Actrius ( Catalan: Actresses ) is a 1996 film directed by Ventura Pons.

* Alien ( film ), a 1979 film by Ridley Scott

** Aliens ( film ), a 1986 sequel by James Cameron

* Ada ( film ), 1961 film by Daniel Mann