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

Each time a new film of his opens, everything he has done before seems to have been preparation for it.

The film properly opens with Inspector Warren finding the corpse of a male transvestite named Patrick / Patricia, who has committed suicide.

* 1933 – The film King Kong opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

The film opens at a school where a boy is picking on another boy.

These promotional materials consistently change and evolve as a direct consequence of audience research up until the film opens in theaters.

When an image is taken, the mirror moves upwards from its resting position in the direction of the arrow, the focal plane shutter ( 3 ) opens, and the image is projected onto the film or sensor ( 4 ) in exactly the same manner as on the focusing screen.

Romero describes the mood he wished to establish: " The film opens with a situation that has already disintegrated to a point of little hope, and it moves progressively toward absolute despair and ultimate tragedy ".

The film opens as a psychological thriller – IRA foot soldier Fergus and a unit of other IRA fighters, including a woman named Jude and led by Maguire, kidnap Jody, a black British soldier.

The film opens on Château de Fontainebleau in 1814.

* May 25 – Star Wars opens in cinemas and later becomes the historic highest grossing film for that time.

** Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal opens in Sweden.

* October 2 – David Lean's film The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in the UK.

* July 12 – Laurence Olivier's film Henry V, based on Shakespeare's play, opens in London.

** The second James Bond film, From Russia with Love, opens in the UK.

* December 11 – The film Oliver !, based on the hit London and Broadway musical, opens in the U. S. after being released first in England.

* July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theatres and ends up being the highest grossing film of 1985 in the United States and the first film in the successful franchise.

* November 30 – The 1935 British-made film Scrooge, the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens classic, opens in the U. S. after its British release.

Focal-plane shutters are also difficult to synchronise with flash bulbs and electronic flash and it is often only possible to use flash at shutter speeds where the curtain that opens to reveal the film completes its run and the film is fully uncovered, before the second curtain starts to travel and cover it up again.

The film opens with Leia Organa ( Carrie Fisher ) transporting the station's schematics to the Rebel Alliance to aid them in destroying the Death Star.

The film opens with a three-minute, twenty-second tracking shot widely considered by critics as one of the greatest long takes in cinematic history.

The film opens with Larry Talbot ( Lon Chaney, Jr .) making an urgent call from London to a Florida railway station where Chick Young ( Bud Abbott ) and Wilbur Grey ( Lou Costello ) work as baggage-clerks.

In the 2001 film Hannibal, Hannibal Lecter sends Clarice Starling a letter which he writes while intentionally wearing a hand lotion containing ambergris, correctly assuming that this would ultimately aid her in discovering his location in Florence, Italy, due to it being legal only in few parts of the world.

Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centres of film production in the world.

The film generated huge interest in Scotland and in Scottish history, not only around the world, but also in Scotland itself.

Fans come from all over the world to see the places in Scotland where William Wallace fought for Scottish freedom, and also to the places in Scotland and Ireland to see the locations used in the film.

At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.

He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

But if the intended exploitation of the work includes publication ( or distribution of derivative work, such as a film based on a book protected by copyright ) outside the U. S., the terms of copyright around the world must be considered.

Whereas the first part of the film takes place in society restrained by law and order, the second part, including the flashback scene, occurs in the world of individuals and thus the characters seen in the first part of the film are revealed in their true form.

In his native France and throughout the world, Max Linder was a major comic feature and might qualify as the first true film star.

Celebrities may be known around the world ( e. g., pop stars and film actors ), within a specific country ( e. g., a top Australian rugby player ); or within a region ( e. g., a local television news anchor ).

University alumni have also been very prominent in the film industry, with 25 different alumni winning a combined 30 Academy Awards, more than any other school in the world.

* In the film Tron, a programmer was physically transferred to the program world, where programs were personalities, resembling the forms of their creators.

* In the film Virtuosity a program encapsulating a super-criminal within a virtual world simulation escapes into the " real world ".

As a journalist for the BBC, he travelled around the world looking at problems " in out-of-the-way places ," though mostly arguing about whether they could film there.

The book was considered " unfilmable " and Cronenberg acknowledged that a straight translation into film would " cost 100 million dollars and be banned in every country in the world ".

The 2006 science fiction film Déjà Vu revolves around a US federal law enforcement officer using an instrument called Snowhite to view the past four and a half days of anywhere in the world ( limited radius as permissible by the program ) in order to solve a murder and a terrorist bomb attack on a ferry that was being boarded by about 500 citizens and military members.

He was fired for creating A Sixth Part of the World: Advertising and the Soviet Universe for the State Trade Organization into a propaganda film, selling the Soviet as an advanced society under the NEP, instead of showing how they fit into the world economy.

In this documentary, Morris brought to a pinnacle the revolutionary technique that he had first introduced to the world in his 1988 The Thin Blue Line: the use of re-enactments in a documentary film — a technique ( re-enactments ) which had previously been thought to be inappropriate for use in a " documentary " film.

The novel fleshes out the world that these characters exist in, at times presenting a future even bleaker than the one depicted in the film.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).