However, due to the controversy over Vélez's suicide at that time, the film was never produced.

Vélez's personal life was often difficult ; a five year marriage to Johnny Weissmuller and a series of romances, were highly publicized.

Vélez's notable work was Resurrection, directed by Edwin Carewe ( the previous version was realized by Carewe in 1927 with Dolores del Río ).

One of Vélez's more publicized relationships was with actor Gary Cooper.

By the end of the silent era, Vélez's popularity rivaled that of the " It Girl " Clara Bow.

Vélez's, character displayed aggressive sexual behavior and the ability to promote herself, a parody of Vélez's own off-screen abilities.

The Spitfire films rejuvenated Vélez's career, and for the next few years she starred in musical and comedy features for RKO, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Pictures in addition to the Spitfire films.

Vélez's parents moved from Puerto Rico in the early 1950s and lived in the Brooklyn section of New York City where she and her twin sister were born.

He also played Lupe Vélez's frenetic manager in Gregory LaCava's The Half-Naked Truth ( 1932 ), and portrayed John Barrymore's agent in Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ), directed by George Cukor.

Vélez's goalkeeper José Chilavert scored one of the penalty kicks and saved another one.

The first feature-length computer animated film was the 1995 movie Toy Story by Pixar.

In 1995, Clokey's production company produced an independently released theatrical film, Gumby: The Movie ( aka Gumby 1 ), marking the clay character's first feature-length adventure.

Among the notable films were Clan Phantasm's Devil's Covenant, the first feature-length Quake movie ; Avatar and Wendigo's Blahbalicious, which the QML awarded seven Quake Movie Oscars ; and Clan Undead's Operation Bayshield, which introduced simulated lip synchronization and featured customized digital assets.

The film is considered the first feature-length documentary, though Flaherty has been criticized for staging several sequences and thereby distorting the reality of his subjects ' lives.

* 1995 – Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.

Chicken Run, his first feature-length production, grossed over $ 100 million at the North American box-office, and garnered critical praise.

Night of the Living Dead was the first feature-length film directed by George A. Romero.

* French — Burguet, Paul Henry: The Imprint, or The Red Hand ( 1908 ; Gaston Séverin plays Pierrot ); Carné, Marcel: Children of Paradise ( 1945 ; see above under The Pantomime of Deburau at the Théâtre des Funambules ); Carré fils, Michel: The Prodigal Son a. k. a. Pierrot the Prodigal ( 1907 ; the first feature-length film and the first film of a stage-play Carré's pantomime of 1890 ; George Wague plays Pierrot père ); Feuillade, Louis: Pierrot's Projector ( 1909 ), Pierrot, Pierrette ( 1924 ); Guitry, Sacha: Deburau ( 1951 ; based upon Guitry's own stage-play # Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues | Plays, playlets, pantomimes, and revues above ); Guy, Alice: Pierrot, Murderer ( 1904 ); Leprince, René: Pierrot Loves Roses ( 1910 ); Méliès, Georges: By Moonlight, or The Unfortunate Pierrot ( 1904 ).

* The Name of the Game: A 1971 episode of the series is entitled L. A. 2017. Notable as the first feature-length piece directed by Steven Spielberg, the episode features Gene Barry as a magazine publisher transported to a dystopian Los Angeles in 2017, where the residents have been driven underground by pollution.

John Lasseter received an Academy Special Achievement Award in 1996 " for the development and inspired application of techniques that have made possible the first feature-length computer-animated film.

In 1980, Greenaway delivered The Falls ( his first feature-length film ) – a mammoth, fantastical, absurdist encyclopedia of flight-associated material all relating to ninety-two victims of what is referred to as the Violent Unknown Event ( VUE ).

The first feature-length motion picture with sound, it effectively changed the cinematic landscape overnight and signaled the end of the silent motion picture era.

At first, the sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue — known as " talking pictures ", or " talkies "— were exclusively shorts ; the earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects.

On May 1, 1921, Dream Street was re-released, with love song added, at New York City's Town Hall theater, qualifying it — however haphazardly — as the first feature-length film with a live-recorded vocal sequence.

The Warner Bros. technology, named Vitaphone, was publicly introduced on August 6, 1926, with the premiere of the nearly three-hour-long Don Juan ; the first feature-length movie to employ a synchronized sound system of any type throughout, its soundtrack contained a musical score and sound effects, but no recorded dialogue — in other words, it had been staged and shot as a silent film.

One of Europe's first two feature-length dramatic talkies was created in still a different sort of twist on multinational moviemaking: The Crimson Circle was a coproduction between director Friedrich Zelnik's Efzet-Film company and British Sound Film Productions ( BSFP ).

On September 30, the first entirely German-made feature-length dramatic talkie, Das Land ohne Frauen ( Land Without Women ), premiered.

" It was the first feature-length film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans ; the second, eight years later, was Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North.

The Living Desert was the first feature-length film in Disney ’ s True-Life Adventures series of documentaries focusing on zoological studies ; the previous films in the series, including the Academy Award-winning Seal Island, were short subjects.

With the release of the first feature-length Superman movie in 1978, a vastly less idyllic image of Krypton, compared to the previous comics ' versions, was presented.

Shot in black and white with a shoestring budget in April 1969, Fassbinder's first feature-length film, Love is Colder than Death ( 1969 ) ( Liebe ist kälter als der Tod ), was a deconstruction of the American gangster films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

His first feature-length film, The Boy in Blue, a drama inspired by the famous Thomas Gainsborough painting, was released in 1919.

Sam died of pneumonia in 1927 ( just before the premiere of the first feature-length talking picture, The Jazz Singer ), and Jack became sole head of production.

Two feature-length films released on the cusp of MTV's first appearance on the dial contributed enormously to the development of the form.

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.

The first two forces are directly interrelated and depend upon film thickness, whereas Af is independent of these two and is a constant for a given knife/coating combination.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

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.

In about seven years Griffith either invented or first realized the possibilities of virtually every resource at the disposal of the film maker.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!

Rutherford, who was 70 years old when the first film was made, insisted that she wear her own clothes during the filming of the movie, as well as having her real-life husband, Stringer Davis appear alongside her as the character ' Mr Stringer '.

( Coincidentally, Hickson had played a housekeeper in the first film in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple.

There, he met director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance is mine.

His television work led to assignments as an assistant director for several Latin American film productions including Gaby: A True Story and Romero, and in 1991, he landed his first big-screen directorial assignment.

In 1995, Cuarón released his first feature film produced in the United States, A Little Princess, an adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

* 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.

It was the first all-talking non-musical film to win the Best Picture Oscar.

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

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

After two successful comedy albums, Comedy Minus One ( 1973 ) and the Grammy Award-nominated A Star Is Bought ( 1975 ), Brooks left the stand-up circuit to try his hand as a filmmaker ; his first film, The Famous Comedians School, was a satiric short that appeared on PBS and was an early example of the mockumentary sub-genre.