* 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.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

No drummers here, no pipers, and the red coats were covered with a fine film of dust.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

In the cleaning process, sorbed greasy soils become coated in this manner with an oriented film of surfactant.

Extruded expandable styrene film or sheet -- claimed to be competitive price-wise with paper -- also showed much potential, particularly for packaging.

In a series of fairy tales and fantasies, Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story, with beginning, middle and end, complications, resolutions, climaxes, and conclusions.

Immediately, the film improved and it improved because in narrative it found a content based on time to complement its own unbreakable connection with time.

The plane of the action in the scene is not parallel with the plane of the film in the camera or on the screen.

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.

As the robbers leave the looted train, the film suddenly cuts back to the station, where the telegrapher's little daughter arrives with her father's dinner pail only to find him bound on the floor.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

During the making recently of an important Biblical film, some 40 volumes of research material and sketches not only of costumes and interiors, but of architectural developments, sports arenas, vehicles, and other paraphernalia were compiled, consulted, and complied with.

But except for a vague adherence to the basic storyline -- i.e., that Ruth remained with Naomi and finally wound up with Boaz -- the film version has little to do with the Bible.

Instead -- and not just to prove my objectivity -- I hasten to report that it's a highly amusing film which probably does a fairly accurate job of reporting on the Easter vacation shenanigans of collegians down in Fort Lauderdale, and that it seems to come to grips quite honestly with the moral problem that most commonly vexes youngsters in this age group -- that is to say, sex.

This French film, set in Italy, is a summertime splurge in shock and terror all shot in lovely sunny scenery -- so breath-taking that at times you almost forget the horrors the movie is dealing with.

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.

The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

* Animal ( 1977 film ), French film ( L ' Animal ) by Claude Zidi with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch

* Animal ( 2001 film ), Argentine film by Sergio Bizzio with Carlos Roffé