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Stanely Kubrick's innovative 2001:A Space Odyssey. This was a film that influenced film history by challenging qudiences and film makers to use their imagination.
Mike Nochols becmes the first director to be paid $1,000,000, for one film, The Graduate. This influenced film history by encouraging other directors to make films. In 2007, the American Film Insti...
Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde is released with the tagline "They're young. They're in love. They kill people." This was a very controversial tagline for the time and influenced film history by all...
Revisions to the Hays Code allow some films to be recommened for "mature" audiences. This influenced film history by allowing film makers to target their films to certain audiences by aiming for a ...
The Sound of Music surpasses Gone with the Wind as the number one box office hit of all time. Voted number 18 in channel 4's (UK) "Greatest Family Films" According to the British tabloid The Sun, ...
The first video recoreder is sold for $30,000. This influenced film history as the television was now an even greater threat to the film industry as people could tape things and watch them several ...
Sidney Poiter becomes the first black actor to win a Best Actor Oscar, for Lilies of the Field. This influenced film histroy as it gained alot of political attention as it was one of the first time...
The first James Bond film, Dr No is released. Of the £1,000,000 budget, production designer Ken Adam was given £14,000. Adam argued for an extra £6,000 to create his now-exemplary sets. The movie's...
West Side Story recieves 11 Oscar nominations. In the event, it wins all but one. Was the first film to win a Best Director Oscar for two directors (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins). This would not ...
Alfred Hitchcook's Psycho terrifies audiences for the first time. One of the reasons Alfred Hitchcock shot the movie in black and white was he thought it would be too gory in color. But the main re...
Release of Hitchcook's North by Northwest. Cary Grant got $450,000 for this movie - a substantial amount for the time - plus a percentage of the gross profits. He also received $315,000 in penalty ...
Horror film The Fly appears. "The Fly" was originally a story by George Langelaan that appeared in the June 1957 issue of Playboy magazine.
Cecil B. DeMille remakes his own silent epic, The Ten Commandments. It is nominated for seven Oscars. Produced at a then-staggering cost of $13 million, the film went on to become Paramount's bigge...
RKO sells its film library to television. This influenced film history as it introduced films to younger generations through television which could perhaps create 'classics' or encourage re-makes.
On the Waterfront sweeps the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars. This influenced film history by providing greater inspiration for aspiring film makers
Akiea Kurosawa's epic, influential The Seven Samurai released. It was often credited as the first modern action movie. It influenced film history as many now commonly used cinematographic and plot ...
Single - or multi-film contracts replace seven-year contracts for actors. This could have caused an increase in the pressure put on the actors as it means that film maers could be more selective in...
The Academy awards are televised for the first time. Best Motion Picture - From Here to Eternity, Buddy Adler, producer (Columbia). This is significant in film history as it is combining the film a...
MGM releases Singin' in the Rain, perhaps the best-loved musical of all. This brought musicals to a widers audience and is still recognised recently by the American film Institution.
Is the first film to win three acting Oscars, for Vivien Leigh, karl Malden and Kim Hunter. This film was one of the first films to be praised so highly and has continued to do so, in 1999, A Stree...
HUAC opens a second round of hearings in Hollywood, and blacklists 212 people who supposedly were or had been members to the communist party. Senator Joseph McCarthy begins making a name for himse...
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