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Origins of movies (until 1929)

Characteristics:

During this time, movies were filmed with an only black & white technique. A movie from this time can be only 5 or 10 minutes long, but there were also very long movies. First movie stars appeared like Charles Chaplin or Buster Keaton.

Those movies were muted, without sound. The main problem was how to synchronize dialogues, how to use amplification and different techniques of recording and playing.

Arrival of a train (1898) . The Lumiere Brothers

The Circus - Charlie Chaplin

Normally, each movie theater had a pianist to play some music to complete the movie. Sometimes the music was composed for the movie, and sometimes pianists were free to play. Bigger theaters could use even a little orchestra. Some classical composers worked as movies composers, like Saint-Saëns or Shostakovich. PIano arrangements and ragtime pieces were the music most played in early movies.

The use of theatrical techniques was important during this time, especially through mime, slapstick and body language. Stories must be simple, with basic lines, because of the sound. There was no sound, so movies used signs to complete the plot. A use of wide camera shots was also frequent.

Charles Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, known as Charles Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He was born in 1889 and died in 1977. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona “The Tramp” and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years.
Chaplin began performing at an early age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor and comedian. At 19, he traveled to America. Chaplin was scouted for the film industry and began appearing in 1914. He soon developed the Tramp persona and formed a large fan base. Chaplin directed his own films from an early stage and by 1918, he was one of the best-known figures in the world.
In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him complete control over his films. His first feature-length was The Kid (1921), followed by The Gold Rush (1925), and The Circus (1928). He refused to move to sound films in the 1930s,instead producing City Lights (1931) and Modern Times (1936) without dialogue. Chaplin became increasingly political, and his next film, The Great Dictator (1940), satirised Adolf Hitler.

He abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include Monsieur Verdoux (1947) and Limelight (1952).

Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in, and composed the music for most of his films. He was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. In 1972, as part of a renewed appreciation for his work, Chaplin received an Honorary Academy Award for "the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century".

Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face". Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor–director in the history of the movies".

His career declined afterward with a dispiriting loss of his artistic independence when he was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, his wife divorced him, and he descended into alcoholism. He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and revived his career to a degree as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award.

Many of Keaton's films from the 1920s, such as Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1926), and The Cameraman (1928), remain highly regarded, with The General widely viewed as his masterpiece. Among its strongest admirers was Orson Welles, who stated that The General was cinema's highest achievement in comedy, and perhaps the greatest film ever made.

MOVIES

A trip to the moon

The birth of a Nation

DIRECTOR

Georges Méliès

D.W.Griffith

F.W.Murnau

Newmeyer & Taylor

S. Einsenstein

Charles Chaplin

Buster Keaton

Fritz Lang

Alan Crossland

ACTORS

George Méliès

Liliah Gish

Mae Marsh

Henry Walthall

Miriam Cooper

Liliah Gish

Vera Lewis

Mae Marsh

Max Schreck

G. von Wagenheim

Greta Schröder

Harold Lloyd

Mildred Davis

Bill Strother

Aleksandr Antonov

Vladimir Barsky

Grigori Aleksandrov

Charles Chaplin

Mack Swain

Tom Murray

Buster Keaton

Marion Mack

Glen Cavender

Brigitte Helm

Alfred Abel

Gustav Fröhlich

Al Johnson

May McAvoy

Warner Oland

YEAR

1902

1916

1922

1923

1925

1926

1927

PLOT

The film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants), and return to Earth with a captive Selenite.

The film chronicles the relationship of two families in Civil War and Reconstruction-era America: the pro-Union Northern Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy Southern Camerons over the course of several years. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Agent Knock dispatches his associate, Hutter, to Count Orlok's castle in Transylvania as the Count wants to purchase a isolated house in Wisbourg. They plan on selling him the one across the way from Hutter's own home.

When a store clerk organizes a publicity stunt, in which a friend climbs the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime.

The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.

When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

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Movies in the 30's & 40's

The 1930s decade has been nostalgically labeled "The Golden Age of Hollywood". The 30s was also the decade of the sound and color revolutions and the advance of the 'talkies', and the further development of film genres (gangster films, musicals, comedies, westerns and horror to name a few). It was the era in which the silent period ended, with many silent film stars not making the transition to sound. By 1933, the economic effects of the Depression were being strongly felt, especially in decreased movie theatre attendance.

The American film industry was dominated by major corporate-style studios in the 1930s: 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO Radio, and minor studios like Columbia, Universal, United Artists, Republic Pictures, and Monogram.

Some characteristics of this time were:

Black and white movies, some of them get colored (manually).
The sound challenge was hard at the beginning.
Limitation of sound equipment.
Musical films were born: The Jazz Singer (1927)
Dialogue based stories.
Some actors and directors ended their careers because of the sound.
Beginning of the “Golden Age” of Hollywood.
Prebelic movies, with a patriotism style.

Errol Flynn - Robin Hood (1938)

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rodgers - Swing time (1934)

The Marx Brothers were a family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in motion pictures from 1905 to 1949.
The core of the act was the three elder brothers, Chico, Harpo, and Groucho; each developed a highly distinctive stage persona. The two younger brothers, Gummo and Zeppo, did not develop their stage characters

Movies:
   - Duck Soup (1933)
   - A night at the Opera (1935): The Sanity Clause; The crowded cabin;
   - A day at the races (1937): The hint book
   - At the circus (1939): Harpo playing harp
   - Go west (1940): Chico playing piano

By 1932, Hollywood studios had glutted the public's tired appetite and their overexposed song-and-dance epics (often sacrificing plot and character development) went into a commercial decline, coinciding with the height of the Great Depression. Audiences bypassed many of the musical films that were being cranked out and preferred to watch other genre creations, such as the early gangster films. The novelty of sound had worn off and the popularity of musicals suffered. Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire's first teaming was in RKO's Flying Down to Rio (1933), famous for its image of a plane wing holding dancing girls. From then on, their films combined light sophistication, misunderstandings and mistaken identity, stylish backdrops, witty wisecracks, and - of course, incomparable, expressive dance numbers.

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the most well-known and commercially successful adaptation based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The film stars was Judy Garland. Notable for its use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score and unusual characters, over the years it has become one of the best-known films and part of American popular culture.

The early years of the 40s decade were not promising for the American film industry, especially following the late 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese and the resultant loss of foreign markets. However, Hollywood film production rebounded and reached its profitable peak of efficiency during the years 1943 to 1946 - a full decade and more after the rise of sound film production, now that the technical challenges of the early 30s sound era were far behind. Advances in film technology (sound recording, lighting, special effects, cinematography and use of color) meant that films were more watchable and 'modern'. Following the end of the war, Hollywood's most profitable year in the decade was 1946, with all-time highs recorded for theatre attendance.

The world was headed toward rearmament and warfare in the early to mid-1940s, and the movie industry, like every other aspect of life, responded to the national war effort by making movies, producing many war-time favorites, and having stars (and film industry employees) enlist or report for duty. The US government's Office of War Information (OWI), formed in 1942, served as an important propaganda agency during World War II and coordinated its efforts with the film industry to record and photograph the nation's war-time activities. Films took on a more realistic rather than escapist tone, as they had done during the Depression years of the 30s.

The most popular box-office stars of the entire decade were: Humphrey Bogard, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power, Judy Garland, Bette Davis, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Wallace Beery, Gene Autry, Gary Cooper, Greer Garson, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, and Ingrid Bergman

The First Appearance of Major Cartoon Characters:

Animated films' cartoon characters Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Mighty Mouse, and Casper (among many others) made their film debuts in the 40s decade. The short film A Wild Hare (1940) introduced the wise-cracking, carrot-chomping Bugs Bunny, soon to be one of Warner Bros' biggest stars. Tom & Jerry, created by Hanna & Barbera, were debuted by MGM in Puss Gets the Boot (1940). (Tom was called Jasper and Jerry didn't have a name yet.). The characters of the RoadRunner ("Accelerati Incredibulis") and the Coyote ("Carnivorous Vulgaris") were debuted in the short animated film Fast & Furry-ous (1949).

The Golden Age of Disney Feature Film Animation:

The golden decade of Disney animation was heralded by Pinocchio (1940), and the wildly-experimental film Fantasia (1940) that blended classical music (from Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra) with animated sequences (including The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Mickey Mouse). Other Disney feature-length animations included Dumbo (1941) and Bambi (1942).

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MOVIES

Duck Soup

A night at the opera

Snow White and the seven dwarfs

The Wizard of Oz

Gone with the wind

The Great Dictator

Fantasia

The sorcerer's apprentice

Citizen Kane

Casablanca

Anchors Aweigh

The Three Musketeers

ACTORS

Colin Clive

Mae Clarke

Boris Karloff

Fay Wray

Robert Amstrong

Bruce Cabot

Groucho Marx

Chico Marx

Harpo Marx

Zeppo Marx

Margaret Dumont

Groucho Marx

Chico Marx

Harpo Marx

Zeppo Marx

Margaret Dumont

Adriana Caselotti

Lucille La Verne

Harry Stockwell

Judy Garland

Frank Morgan

Ray Bolgen

Clarke Gable

Vivian Leigh

Leslie Howard

Charlie Chaplin Paulette Goddard

Orson Welles

Joseph Cotten Dorothy Comingore

Humphrey Bogard

Ingrid Bergman

Paul Henreid

Gene Kelly

Frank Sinatra

Kathryn Grayson

Rita Hayworth

Glenn Ford

Gene Kelly

Lana Turner

DIRECTOR

James Whale

Merian C. Cooper

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Leo McCarey

Sam Wood

David Hand

Victor Fleming

Walt Disney (prod.)

Hanna & Barbera

Warner Bros

Charlie Chaplin

Walt Disney (prod.)

Orson Wells

Walt Disney (prod.)

Michael Curtiz

George Sidney

Carles Vidor

George Sidney

YEAR

1931

1933

1935

1937

1939

1940

1941

1943

1945

1946

1948

PLOT

A scientist and his assistant dig up corpses to build a man animated by electricity, but his assistant accidentally gives the creature an abnormal, murderer's brain.

A gigantic, prehistoric, island-dwelling ape called Kong is captured and bring to town. The monster dies in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman.

Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) gains the power to reign in the small, bankrupt country of Freedonia. Meanwhile, neighboring Sylvania is attempting to annex the country. Sylvanian ambassador Trentino tries to foment a revolution by sending in spies Chicolini (Chico) and Pinky (Harpo).

A young chorister, Ricardo Baroni, tries to follow his beloved fiancé to her premiere night in New York as Prima Donna. Groucho, Chico, and Harpo will be there to help him fulfill his dreams.

Snow White has to run away from the castle because of the envy of her beauty. She finds seven dwarfs who take care of her against the evil Queen. Only the Prince's true love will save Snow White's life.

Dorothy Gale lives in Kansas with her dog Toto, when a tornado takes her home to the magical and wonderful world of Oz. There, Dorothy must look for a way back with the help of her new friends, a tinman, a scarecrow and a lion. The wizard of Oz seems to be the key.

Scarlett O'Hara is a fancy girl who lives with her parents and sisters at Tara, a cotton plantation mansion. The American Civil War will break her dreams to live a normal life.

An old wood-carver named Geppetto who carves a wooden puppet named Pinocchio. The puppet is brought to life by a blue fairy, who informs him that he can become a real boy if he proves himself to be "brave, truthful, and unselfish".

It centers on a rivalry between its two title characters, Tom and Jerry, and many recurring characters, based around slapstick comedy.

Bugs is a gray hare who is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality, with a catch phrase "Eh... What's up, doc?", usually spoken while chewing a carrot.

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music.

Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

Dumbo is ridiculed for his big ears, but in fact, he is capable of flying by using his ears as wings. Throughout most of the film, his only true friend, aside from his mother, is the mouse, Timothy.

Set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate who must choose between his love for a woman and helping her Czech Resistance leader husband escape the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis.

Two navy sailors who have a four-day leave try to get fun in Hollywood. One has his heart set on spending time with his girl, the unseen Lola. The other wants to learn how to get girls.

A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino learns that his ex-lover is married to his employer.

D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Royal Prime Minister Richelieu to usurp the King's power.

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Movies in the 50's & 60's

Films of the 1950s and 60's were of a wide variety. As a result of the introduction of television, the studios and companies sought to put audiences back in theaters. They used more techniques in presenting their films through widescreen and big-approach methods, such as Cinemascope. Big production and spectacle films perfect for this gained popularity, with the many historic and fantasy epics: Ben-Hur, Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.

Charlon Heston in "The ten Commandments"

Battle from "The war of the Worlds" (1953)

This spectacle approach a renewed interest in science from the atomic bomb, as well as increased interest in the mysteries of outer space and other forteana, lent itself well to what this film decade is best known for, science fiction. The science fiction genre began its golden age during this decade with such notable films as The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953). It employed a wider range of special effects, as in the original of The Time Machine (1960) and Mysterious Island (1961), or with animated aliens or mythical creatures, as in the Harryhausen animation for Jason and the Argonauts (1963) and One Million Years B.C. (1966). Some extensive sets were built to simulate alien worlds or zero-gravity chambers, as in space-station and spaceship sets for the epic 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the psychedelic, and with ape-city in the original Planet of the Apes (1968).

Comedy films became more elaborate, such as The Pink Panther (1963). Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) elevated the concept of a comedy-drama, where the subtle comedy conceals the harsher elements of the drama beneath. Musical films evolved into more dramatic situations, as we can watch in West Side Story or The Sound of Music.

The decade was equally adept at both character and realistic films. The highly noted actors James Stewart, John Wayne, and Marlon Brando were at the peak of their popularity. Brando mastered versatile roles in films such as A Streetcar Named Desire (1953), Julius Caesar, On the Waterfront (1954). The spaghetti westerns (made in Italy and Spain), were typified by Clint Eastwood films, such as For a Few Dollars More (1965) or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

Peter Sellers' Pavlova parallels scene

Director Alfred Hitchcock was at the peak of his craft, with films such as To Catch a Thief (1955), Vertigo (1958), and North by Northwest (1959). Psychological horror films extended, beyond the stereotypical monster films of Dracula/Frankenstein or Wolfman, to include more twisted films, such as Psycho (1960). Akira Kurosawa's films Rashomon (1950) and Seven Samurai (1954) are also among the greatest films of all time.

Beginning in the middle of the decade due to the start of the cultural revolution and the abolition of the Hays Code, films became increasingly experimental and daring and were taking shape of what was to define the 1970s.

Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950)

John Wayne (1907-1979)

He was an American film actor, director and producer.
An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.
He won an Academic Award.
Movies:

–The quiet man (1952)

–The Searches (1956)

–The wings of eagles (1957)

–The man who shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Marlon Brando (1924-2004)

He was an American screen and stage actor.
He is widely regarded for bringing a gripping realism to film acting and is generally considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century.
A cultural icon, Brando is most famous for his Oscar-winning performances as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972).
Movies:

A streetcar called Desire (1951)

Julius Caesar (1953)

The Godfather (1972)

Apocalypse now (1979)

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

She was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol.
She spent much of her childhood in foster homes.
In 1953, she brought a lead in Niagara, a melodramatic film noir that dwelt on her seductiveness.
She died from an overdose of barbiturates.
Movies:

–Niagara (1953)

–Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

–How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

–The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)

–Some Like It Hot (1959)

Clint Eastwood (1930-)

•He is an American film actor, director, producer, composer, pianist, businessman, investor, and politician.

•Since 1967, Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso productions.

•Movies as actor:

–Dollars trilogy (1960’s) Dirty Harry (1970’s)

–The bridges of Madison County (1995)

–Gran Torino (2008)

•Movies as director:

–Unforgiven (1992) Million Dollar Baby (2004)

–Mystic River (2003) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Sean Connery (1930-)

•He is a Scottish actor and producer.

•Connery is best known for portraying the character James Bond, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.

•Movies:

–The Untouchables (1988).

–The name of the rose

–Indiana Jones and the last Crusade.

–The hunt of the Red October.

–Highlander.

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998)

•He was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor.

•Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter.

•Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, became the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

•Movies:

•Rashomon (1950)

•The seven samurai (1954)

•Yojimbo (1961)

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)

•He was an English film director and producer.

•He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres.

•He framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing.

•Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and feature strong sexual overtones.

•Movies:

–Rebecca (1940) To catch a thief (1955)

–The man who knew too much (1956)

–Vertigo (1958) North by northwest (1959)

–Psycho (1960)

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)

•He was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, and editor.

•His films, are noted for their "dazzling" and unique cinematography, attention to details to achieve realism and an inspired use of music scores.

•Movies:

–Spartacus (1960)

–2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

–Barry Lyndon (1975)

–A clockwork orange (1971)

–The Shining (1980)

–Full Metal Jacket (1988)

MOVIES

Alice in wonderland

Singing in the Rain

Vertigo:

Ben-Hur:

North by northwest

Psycho

Cleopatra

2001: a Space Odyssey

The Pink Panther

The Party

Breakfast at Tiffany's

James Bond

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The sound of music

Mary Poppins

West Side Story

Jason and the Argonauts

Planet of the Apes

ACTORS

Gene Kelly

Donald O'Connor

Debbie Reynolds

Toshiro Mifune

Takashi Shimura

Keiko Shutsima

James Steward

Kim Novak

Charlon Heston

Jack Hawkins

Stephen Boyd

Cary Grant

Eva Mary Saint

James Mason

Anthony Perkins

Janet Leigh

Vera Miles

Elisabeth Taylor

Richard Burton

Rex Harrison

Keir Dullea

Gary Lockwwod

William Sylvester

David Niven

Peter Sellers

Robert Wagner

Peter Sellers

Claudine Longet

Natalia Borisova

Audrey Hepburn

George Peppard

Patricia Neil

Sean Connery

Ursula Andress

Clint Eastwood

Eli Wallach

Lee van Cleef

Julie Andrews

Christopher Plummer

Julie Andrews

Dick van Dyke

Natalie Wood

George Chakiris

Richard Beymer

Todd Armstrong

Nancy Kovack

Gary Raymond

Charlon Heston

Roddy McDowall

Kim Hunter

DIRECTOR

Clyde Geromini

Wilfred Jackson

Stanley Donen

Gene Kelly

Akira Kurosawa

Alfred Hitchcock

William Wyler

Alfred Hitchcock

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Stanley Kubrick

Blake Edwards

Terence Young

Sergio Leone

Robert Wise

Robert Steveson

Jerome Robbins

Robert Wise

Don Chaffey

Franklin J. Schaffner

YEAR

1951

1952

1954

1958

1959

1960

1963

1968

1963

1968

1961

1962

1966

1965

1964

1961

1963

1968

PLOT

Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.

A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.

Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet--a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink Panther."

A clerical mistake results in a bumbling Indian film star being invited to an exclusive Hollywood party instead of being fired.

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building.

A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

A magical nanny helps bring the two children she's in charge of closer to their father through songs and magical adventures.

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

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Origins of movies (until 1929)

Charles Chaplin

Buster Keaton

Best movies

Movies in the 30's & 40's

Best movies

Movies in the 50's & 60's