Films: History

French brothers – born in Besançon (in eastern France) in 1862 and 1864 respectively, who improved cinématographe (patented by Léon Guillaume Bouly in 1892); their screening of a single film in Paris on 22 March 1895 for around 200 members of the Society for the Development of the National Industry was probably the first presentation of projected film, and their first commercial public screening (of ten short films, each lasting between 38 and 49 seconds), on 28 December 1895, for around 40 paying visitors and invited relations, is traditionally regarded as the birth of cinema		Auguste and Louis Lumière lumiere
The first feature length film (Melbourne, 1906)		The Story of the Kelly Gang
Charlie Chaplin's first 36 films were released in		1914
The first successful talkie (1927)		The Jazz Singer
Britain's first talking film (1929, directed by Alfred Hitchcock)		Blackmail
The first feature–length cartoon film (1937)		Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
X rating of films started in the UK		1951
The first British feature–length cartoon (1954) – partly funded by the CIA because of its anti–communist message		Animal Farm
Group of young French directors, including Truffaut, Godard and Malle, emerged in the late 1950s		Nouvelle Vague (New Wave)
The first X–rated feature length cartoon (1972) – based on a strip cartoon by R. (Robert) Crumb		Fritz the Cat
First film to receive the BBFCs '12' rating (1989)		Batman
The first all–computer–generated full–length cartoon (1995)		Toy Story
First film to receive the BBFCs '12A' rating (1989)		Spider–Man
Overtook Titanic as the highest–grossing film in the UK (2008)		Mamma Mia!

Collective title of a series of shorts (1922–44) about a group of poor children and their adventures: created by Hal Roach, stars included Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Allen Hoskins (Farina), and Mickey Daniels; Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple both failed auditions

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Films: History