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- DirectorJohn LasseterStarsTom HanksTim AllenDon RicklesA cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.First: CGI Feature Film
It took 27 animators to make the 114,420 frames of animation that make up the film. Each character was made out of clay and then computer designed, before being assigned motion controls (Woody had the most, at 723, including 212 for his face alone). Every frame took between two and fifteen days to make, and 800,000 machine hours were required to complete the film. - DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonEdward FurlongA cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.First: 100 milion dollar budget movie.
Starting to use big budget for movies. - DirectorArch ObolerRobert ClampettStarsRobert StackBarbara BrittonNigel BruceBritish railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.First: 3-D Feature Film
It was filmed and shown using a Natural Vision 3-D process, and the film was released by Arch Oboler Productions, after being turned down by 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Columbia and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The first 3-D film to be released by a major company was The Man in the Dark (1953), distributed by Columbia. - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanHarry d'Abbadie d'ArrastStarsClara BowCharles 'Buddy' RogersRichard ArlenTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.First: Best Picture Winner at the Oscars
The 1st Academy Awards in 1929 had an alternative to the Best Picture award (introduced the following year) called the Most Outstanding Production award, so one could argue that the first official Best Picture winner was All the King’s Men, but that would be overly pedantic. - DirectorAlan CroslandStarsAl JolsonMay McAvoyWarner OlandThe son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.First: Feature Film with Audible Dialogue
- DirectorJohn FordStarsHarry CareyWinifred WestoverJ. Farrell MacDonaldThis is the same plot as Three Godfathers. Three outlaws rescue a baby in the desert and with barely any water left try to return to the town in which they just robbed a bank.First: Remake of a Feature Film (The Three Godfathers – 1916)
According to Wikipedia, this is the first ever feature film remake. - DirectorQuirino CristianiArgentinian President Yrigoyen burns Buenos Aires using Jupiter's thunderbolts.First: Animated Feature-Length Film
This is a 1917 Argentine animated cartoon, and also the world’s first animated feature film. It was written and directed by Quirino Cristiani, and consisted of a total of 58,000 frames played over the course of 70 minutes (which would have meant 14 FPS) - DirectorThomas Dixon Jr.StarsLorraine HulingPercy StandingArthur ShirleyThree acts and a prologue. Act 1: A nation falls. Act 2: The heel of the conqueror. Act 3: The uprising two years later.First Feature Film Sequel
This film is the sequel to the groundbreaking The Birth of a Nation (1915, pictured above), and was directed by Thomas Dixon, Jr., a Ku Klux Klan supporter who wrote the novel on which the first film was based. - DirectorF. Martin ThorntonStarsFrank EsmondStella St. AudrieWellington BriggsA crooked lawyer schemes to dispossess the heir to a baronetcy.First Color Feature Film
Very little is known about this English film, made for £10,000. It uses the Kinemacolor process whereby two color filters are used in taking the negatives and only two in projecting the positives. - DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsMary PickfordHenry B. WalthallFrancis J. GrandonRamona is a little orphan of the great Spanish household of Moreno. Alessandro, the Indian, arrives at the Camulos ranch with his sheep-shearers, showing his first meeting with Ramona. There is at once a feeling of interest noticeable between them which ripens into love. This Senora Moreno, her foster mother, endeavors to crush, with poor success, until she forces a separation by exiling Alessandro from the ranch. He goes back to his native village to find the white men devastating the place and scattering his people. The Senora, meanwhile, has told Ramona that she herself has Indian blood, which induces her to renounce her present world and go to Alessandro. They are married and he finds still a little shelter left from the wreckage. Here they live until the whites again appear and drive them off, claiming the land. From place to place they journey, only to be driven further until finally death comes to Alessandro just as aid comes in the person of Felipe, the Senora's son, who takes Ramona back to Camulos.For the first time, the rights to adapt a novel are bought from a publisher, (Little, Brown & Company who published Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona. The film is made by D.W. Griffith.
- DirectorCharles TaitStarsElizabeth TaitJohn TaitNicholas BrierleyOriginally 70 minutes in running time, only 17 minutes of the world's first full-length narrative feature film survived in stills and other fragments and tell the story of Ned Kelly, an infamous 19th-century Australian outlaw.In 2007, The Story of the Kelly Gang was inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register for being the world's first full-length feature film.