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The Limelight Department, the world's first film studio was established in Melbourne, Australia. It produced the first feature-length film and documentary in the world.
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At the Paris World's Fair, The Lumiere Brothers projected Cinematograph films onto a giant screen visible to more than an audience of 20,000.
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Filmdom's first major comedy star of the silent film era, John Bunny, made his film debut in Vitagraph's "Jack Fat and Jim Slim at Coney Island".
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Black filmmaker Oscer Micheaux was the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture feature film with films "Within our Gates" and "The Homesteader" (lost film).
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An ex- Disney employee, Ub Iwerks first animated film "Fiddlesticks" was the first complete sound cartoon to be shot in two-strip Technicolor.
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Disney's "Fantasia" film was given a special certificate at the 1941 Academy Awards for its revolutionary Fantasound. It had a "stereo-like", multi-channel soundtrack.
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King's Solomon's Mines was the first MGM and Hollywood film in the talkie era made without a studio musical score or soundtrack. It used only African music and was shot on locations of Africa.
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Henry Koster's musical "Flower Drum Song", the movie version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical, was the first Hollywood movie to have Asian Americans as leads.
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"Love Story", directed by Arthur Hiller and made from Eric Segal's screenplay and thin novel, was the first modern romance film blockbuster.
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This film was the first segment in one of the longest running, successful horror film series of all time. One of the first splatter-films to be picked by major studio as a franchise.
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Showed the first use of real-time computer graphics (aka digital puppetry) to create a character's face. Given an example in the movie, facial movements were controlled by a computer operator, in real-time.
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Director Pitof's "Vidocq" was the world's first feature film shot entirely on Hi-Def digital video. Was shot using a Sony HD-CAM 24P1 high-defintion digital camera.
