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The First Movie Sequel
The first recorded sequle of a movie was Sherlock Holmes II a sequel to Sherlock Holmes i Lvsfare. However, today they would be considered more of as a episode in a series, due to their short run time. Though many say the first movie sequel was Birth of a Nation. -
Cut aways
Battleship Potemkin was the first film to use cutaways to describe events in a film. -
First to make Sound
Jazz Singer was the first feature film to have audio. -
Colors on the Big Screen
"Becky Sharp" was the first movie to feature color in a movie. -
Rivals at First
When T.Vs starte to become a common thing in households the movie industry took a hit in ticket sales. To increase ticket sales they widen the screen and produced larger epics for the new screens that are common today. -
Nine Sequances
Seven Samurai was the first to start with the end of the movie. -
Movie Commercials
Around this time the movie Jaws was realesed, the way it changed the industry was by showing 30 seconds of commercial of the movie during prime time. This broke the trend of only allowing a few newspapers to addvertise the movie and having a select few theaters feature the film. -
Making it Personal
The Blair Witch Project was different from other thrillers, on how it made things personal and making it look very realistic in terms of horror. -
3D is here to stay
Avatar was a technical marval, but waht made the movie more successful was the 3D glasses that made them main stream for todays blockbusters.