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Excerpt from the surviving fragment of With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), the first feature-length film in natural colour, filmed in Kinemacolor. This is a list of early feature-length colour films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major ...
Many of the great wartime film studios had collapsed and been replaced by American studios. American corporations began investing in British studios, keeping the domestic industry afloat. Socially conscious films became popular, with many Northern, working-class anti-heroes dominating the big screen.
This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926 and 1929. [1] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone, as well as sound on disc formats like ...
- Man of Aran (1934) Director: Robert Flaherty. The father of the documentary and ethnographic film forms, Michigan-born Robert Flaherty made his name in 1922 with the release of Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful non-fiction feature length film released.
- Hell Drivers (1957) Director: Cy Endfield. Like fellow American Joseph Losey, Pennsylvania-born Cy Endfield relocated to Britain in 1953 after falling foul of HUAC.
- The Servant (1963) Director: Joseph Losey. America’s loss was most definitely Britain’s gain when director Joseph Losey’s blacklisting saw him settle in Britain – in the same year as Endfield.
- The Bed Sitting Room (1969) Director: Richard Lester. Richard Lester’s intriguingly diverse filmography includes The Mouse on the Moon (1963); A Hard Day’s Night (1964), for which he was handpicked by The Beatles; the Palme d’Or winning The Knack… and How to Get It (1965); and such commercial crowd pleasers as The Three Musketeers (1973) and Superman II (1980).
1980s. 1990s. 2000s. 2010s. 2020s. Art cinema. Film technology. See also. References. Further reading. External links. Cinema of the United Kingdom. The oldest known surviving film (from 1888) was shot in the United Kingdom as well as early colour films.
Release Date: May 22, 1897. Country of Origin: United States. Producer and Director: William Aloysius Brady (producer) and Enoch J. Rector (director) Starring: James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons as themselves. Running Time: over 100 minutes. photo source: Wikimedia Commons.
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