It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

The AFI Catalog of Feature Films, started in 1968, is an online database that preserves the history of American film in encyclopedic detail.

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

Lisa commented that Marge's retelling of Mozart's history sounded like the film " Amadeus ", which Lisa described as inaccurate and then she pointed out Salieri was a respected composer.

It was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House. President Woodrow Wilson supposedly said the film was " like writing history with lightning.

The owner of textfiles. com, Jason Scott, also produced BBS: The Documentary, a DVD film that chronicles the history of the BBS and features interviews with well-known people ( mostly from the United States ) from the heyday BBS era.

This trade has become renowned as one of the most lopsided in baseball history, including a mention by Susan Sarandon in her opening soliloquy in the 1988 film Bull Durham: " Bad trades are a part of baseball.

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

It grossed US $ 128 million in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history.

Another early step in the history of computer animation was the 1973 movie Westworld, a science-fiction film about a society in which robots live and work among humans, though the first use of 3D Wireframe imagery was in its sequel, Futureworld ( 1976 ), which featured a computer-generated hand and face created by then University of Utah graduate students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.

Do the Right Thing ( 1989 ), Spike Lee's debut film, and The Color Purple ( 1985 ) were full character studies of African American culture and history.

His films include To Hell and Back, the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who is considered the most decorated soldier in the military history of the United States ; John Wayne's war film The Green Berets ( 1968 ), and opposite Gregory Peck in the space story Marooned about three stranded astronauts.

In the film, he is greeted by arguably the most surreal sequence of scenes in science fiction film history.

" We were the first film company in history allowed to shoot on Liberty Island at the Statue of Liberty at night.

The film, Last Paradise, was launched in 2012 as an " original footage " history of extreme sports culture and adventure travel over 45 years, including the origins of extreme surfing, skiing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, windsurfing, hang gliding and kiteboarding, to the first commercialization of bungee jumping by A. J. Hackett, and his famed jump from the Eiffel Tower.

) This 30-minute film traces the history of Esperanto.

Between 1917 and 1918, they made contracts with Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, the first million-dollar deals in the history of film.

This constitutes the first " reverse angle " cut in film history.

These existed alongside more flamboyant films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ), A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) and A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), as well as Laurence Olivier's 1944 film Henry V, based on the Shakespearean history Henry V. The success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs allowed Disney to make more animated features like Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ).

The historical drama film Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) and its sequel Manon des Sources ( 1986 ) were among the highest grossing French films in history and brought Daniel Auteuil international recognition.

The cinema of the Soviet Union, not to be confused with " Cinema of Russia " despite Russian language films being predominant in both genres, includes several film contributions of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union reflecting elements of their pre-Soviet culture, language and history, although sometimes censored by the Central Government.

At the same time, the nation's film industry, which was fully nationalized throughout most of the country's history, was guided by philosophies and laws propounded by the monopoly Soviet Communist Party which introduced a new view on the cinema, socialist realism, which was different from the one before or after the existence of the Soviet Union.

The " Days of April " ( journées d ' avril ) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d ' avril.

Spalding was, however, known to aggrandise his role in the major moments in baseball's history.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

Secret history, works that document things that are not known to have happened historically but would not have changed history had they happened, is also not to be confused with alternate history.

Amara Simhan ( c. AD 375 ) was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known.

The natural history of Africa encompasses some of the well known megafauna of that continent.

These include Hindu astrology ( also known as " Indian astrology " and in modern times referred to as " Vedic astrology ") and Chinese astrology, both of which have influenced the world's cultural history.

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

In ancient Cretan history Leto was worshipped at Phaistos and in Cretan mythology Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia.

The 1924 town council elections in Cicero became known as one of the most crooked elections in the Chicago area's long history of rigged elections, with voters threatened by thugs at polling stations.

Although the New Synagogue is still an anchor for Jewish history and culture, Oranienburger straße and surrounding areas are increasingly known for the shopping and nightlife.

Its hydroxide was known in pre-modern history as baryta ; this substance does not occur as a mineral, but can be prepared by heating barium carbonate.

Almost everything that is known of Bede's life is contained in the last chapter of his Historia Ecclesiastica, a history of the church in England.

The standard theological view of world history at the time was known as the six ages of the world ; in his book, Bede calculated the age of the world for himself, rather than accepting the authority of Isidore of Seville, and came to the conclusion that Christ had been born 3, 952 years after the creation of the world, rather than the figure of over 5, 000 years that was commonly accepted by theologians.

No such person as Darius the Mede < sup ></ sup > is recorded in known history.

Little is known about Nahum ’ s personal history.

In American history, early gambling establishments were known as saloons.

This phenomenon, known as regulatory capture, has a long history.

The known history of the Central African Republic dates back to the 7th century AD.

The doctor Bernardo Vera, known in the history of the independence, was the author of the verses that were sung to Robles ' music.

The known history of Cuba predates Christopher Columbus ' landing on the island during his first voyage of discovery on 28 October 1492.