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57 -- Number of people in file 149 -- Number of events in file === PEOPLE -1 George Melies 1861 0 1938 0 Pioneered stop action camera technique 2 2 -2 Auguste Lumiere 1862 0 1954 0 Inventor of cinematograph 2 5 -3 Charles Pathe 1863 0 1957 0 2 5 -4 Louis Lumiere 1864 0 1948 0 2 5 -5 Edwin S. Porter 1870 0 1941 0 Discovered the 'shot' -- use of cutting to expand from simple theatrical tableaux 1 2 -6 Adolf Zukor 1873 0 1976 0 4 4 -7 D.W. Griffith 1875 0 1948 0 1 2 -8 Mack Sennett 1880 0 1960 0 Ran Keystone Studio comedies 1 2 -9 W. C. Fields 1880 0 1946 0 1 1 -10 Cecil B. DeMille 1881 0 1959 0 1 2 -11 Douglas Fairbanks 1883 0 1939 0 1 1 -12 Erich von Stroheim 1885 0 1957 0 4 3 -13 Boris Karloff 1887 0 1969 0 3 1 -14 F. W. Murnau 1888 0 1931 0 4 2 -15 Charlie Chaplin 1889 0 1977 0 3 3 -16 Fritz Lang 1890 0 1976 0 4 2 -17 Groucho Marx 1890 0 1977 0 1 1 -18 Stan Laurel 1890 0 1965 0 3 1 -19 Oliver Hardy 1892 0 1957 0 1 1 -20 Ernst Lubitsch 1892 0 1947 0 4 2 -21 Mary Pickford 1893 0 1979 0 1 1 -22 Vsevolod I. Pudovkin 1893 0 1953 0 5 2 -23 Harold Lloyd 1893 0 1971 0 1 1 -24 Alexander Dovzhenko 1894 0 1956 0 5 2 -25 Jean Renoir 1894 0 1979 0 2 2 -26 Josef von Sternberg 1894 0 1969 0 4 2 -27 John Ford 1895 0 1973 0 1 2 -28 Buster Keaton 1895 0 1966 0 1 3 -29 Howard Hawks 1896 0 1977 0 1 2 -30 Sergei Eisenstein 1898 0 1948 0 5 2 -31 Alfred Hitchcock 1899 0 1980 0 3 2 -32 Humphrey Bogart 1899 0 1957 0 1 1 -33 Lev Kuleshov 1899 0 1970 0 theory of montage 5 2 -34 Walt Disney 1901 0 1966 0 1 4 -35 Clark Gable 1901 0 1960 0 1 1 -36 Gary Cooper 1901 0 1961 0 1 1 -37 David O. Selznick 1902 0 1965 0 1 4 -38 Darryl F. Zanuck 1902 0 1979 0 1 4 -39 Peter Lorre 1905 0 1964 0 4 1 -40 Lon Chaney, Jr 1906 0 1973 0 1 1 -41 Luchino Visconti 1906 0 1976 0 6 2 -42 Agnes Moorehead 1907 0 1974 0 1 1 -43 Laurence Olivier 1907 0 1989 0 3 3 -44 Akira Kurosawa 1910 0 1992 1 7 2 -45 Alec Guinness 1914 0 1992 1 3 1 -46 Federico Fellini 1920 0 1992 1 6 2 -47 Lauren Bacall 1924 0 1992 1 1 1 -48 Marlon Brando 1924 0 1992 1 1 1 -49 Paul Newman 1925 0 1992 1 1 1 -50 Richard Burton 1925 0 1984 0 3 1 -51 Marilyn Monroe 1926 0 1962 0 1 1 -52 Mel Brooks 1927 0 1992 1 1 2 -53 Stanley Kubrick 1928 0 1992 1 1 2 -54 Jean Luc Godard 1930 0 1992 1 2 2 -55 Louis Malle 1932 0 1992 1 2 2 -56 Michael Caine 1933 0 1992 1 3 1 -57 Francis Ford Coppola 1939 0 1992 1 1 2 === EVENTS -1 Galloping horses 1872 0 1877 0 Muybridge uses multiple cameras to show that galloping horses lift all 4 hooves off the ground 3 3 3 -2 Chronophotography 1882 0 1882 0 Etienne Jules Marey records live action photograph with his 'chronophotographic' gun 3 2 2 -3 Celluloid 1887 0 1888 0 Goodwin invents celluloid roll film. Geo. Eastman begins mass production & marketing 3 3 1 -4 Projection 1889 0 1895 0 Development of projection systems 3 2 1 -5 Kinetograph 1889 0 1889 0 Edison labs inventor, William Dickson 3 1 1 -6 Cinematographe 1895 0 1895 0 Invented by Lumiere brothers, first commercially successful projector 3 2 2 -7 Pathe 1896 0 1896 0 Founding of French film company 2 2 2 -8 Voyage to the Moon 1902 0 1902 0 George Melios, director & star 1 2 2 -9 Great Train Robbery 1903 0 1903 0 1 1 1 -10 Exchange 1903 0 1903 0 Miles brothers est. a film exchange system for distribution of films 2 1 1 -11 Nickleodeon 1905 0 1905 0 First appears in Pittsburgh 3 1 1 -12 Hollywood 1908 0 1913 0 Eastern production companies move to a small Los Angeles suburb 2 1 1 -13 MPPC Trust 1909 0 1917 0 Edison & others form the Motion Picture Patents Co in an attempt to form a monopoly on cinema 2 1 3 -14 Universal 1912 0 1912 0 Universal Pictures formed 2 1 1 -15 Quo Vadis 1913 0 1913 0 First commercial success of a multireel film -- birth of the 'feature' film 1 7 7 -16 Paramount 1914 0 1914 0 Paramount founded 2 1 1 -17 Cabiria 1914 0 1914 0 First extensive use of tracking shots & moving camera shots 1 7 7 -18 Birth of a Nation 1915 0 1915 0 Lilian Gish, Henry Walthall, Mae Marsh D.W.Griffith, dir 1 1 1 -19 Intolerance 1916 0 1916 0 D.W. Griffith, dir 1 1 1 -20 Cabinet Dr. Caligari 1919 0 1919 0 Robert Wiene, dir First horror movie 1 4 4 -21 United Artists 1919 0 1919 0 Founded by Chaplin, Griffith, Fairbanks and Pickford 2 1 1 -22 The Sheik 1921 0 1921 0 Rudolf Valentino, Diane Mayo George Melford, dir 1 1 1 -23 Scandal 1921 0 1923 0 Fatty Arbuckle rape/murder trial and acquittal leads to industry attempts at self regulation 2 1 1 -24 Robin Hood 1922 0 1922 0 Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery 1 1 1 -25 Nosferatu 1922 0 1922 0 Frederich Wilhelm Marnau, dir 1 4 4 -26 MGM 1924 0 1973 0 Metro Goldwyn Mayer formed by merger 2 1 1 -27 Columbia 1924 0 1992 1 2 1 1 -28 Battleship Potemkin 1925 0 1925 0 Sergei Eisenstein 1 6 6 -29 The Gold Rush 1925 0 1925 0 Charlie Chaplin, star & dir 1 1 1 -30 Metropolis 1926 0 1926 0 Fritz Lang, dir 1 4 4 -31 Mother 1926 0 1926 0 Pudovkin, dir 1 6 6 -32 The General 1927 0 1927 0 Buster Keaton 1 1 1 -33 Academy Awards 1929 0 1929 0 First started 4 1 1 -34 RKO 1929 0 1953 0 2 1 1 -35 The Blue Angel 1930 0 1930 0 Marlene Dietrich Josef von Sternberg, dir 1 4 4 -36 L'Age d'Or 1930 0 1930 0 Surrealist film by Dali & Bunuel 1 2 2 -37 Earth 1930 0 1930 0 Dovzhenko, dir 1 6 6 -38 Frankenstein 1931 0 1931 0 James Whale, dir 1 1 1 -39 Dracula 1931 0 1931 0 Bela Lugosi Tod Browning, dir 1 1 1 -40 Socialist Realism 1932 0 1932 0 Soviet 20th Party Congress sets the line and devastates Soviet art and experimentation 2 6 6 -41 King Kong 1933 0 1933 0 1 1 1 -42 Triumph of the Will 1934 0 1934 0 Leni Riefenstahl, dir 1 4 4 -43 Mutiny on the Bounty 1935 0 1935 0 Clark Gable, Charles Laughton 1 1 1 -44 20th Century Fox 1935 0 1992 1 2 1 1 -45 Night at the Opera 1935 0 1935 0 1 1 1 -46 The 39 Steps 1935 0 1935 0 1 3 3 -47 Snow White/7 Dwarves 1937 0 1937 0 1 1 1 -48 The Lady Vanishes 1938 0 1938 0 1 3 3 -49 Divestiture 1938 0 1948 0 Fed litigation eventually finds majors in violatin of antitrust laws. (Guar'd dist & wkly audience) 2 1 1 -50 Gone With The Wind 1939 0 1939 0 1 1 1 -51 Stagecoach 1939 0 1939 0 1 1 1 -52 Hunchback Notre Dame 1939 0 1939 0 1 1 1 -53 La Regle de Jeu 1939 0 1939 0 Renoir 1 2 2 -54 Great Dictator 1940 0 1940 0 1 1 1 -55 The Bank Dick 1940 0 1940 0 1 1 1 -56 Citizen Kane 1941 0 1941 0 1 1 1 -57 High Sierra 1941 0 1941 0 1 1 1 -58 Maltese Falcon 1941 0 1941 0 1 1 1 -59 TV 1941 0 1941 0 NBC & CBS begin broadcasting about 15 hrs/wk 2 1 1 -60 Casablanca 1942 1 1942 1 Bogart & Bergman 1 1 1 -61 Magnificent Amberson 1942 0 1942 0 1 1 1 -62 Bambi 1942 0 1942 0 1 1 1 -63 For Whom Bell Tolls 1943 0 1943 0 Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman Sam Wood, director 1 1 1 -64 Gaslight 1944 0 1944 0 Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman George Cukor, director 1 1 1 -65 Children of Paradise 1944 0 1944 0 Jean-Louise Barrault Marcel Carne, dir 1 2 2 -66 Cannes 1946 0 1946 0 First Cannes Film Festival 4 2 2 -67 The Big Sleep 1946 0 1946 0 Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall Howard Hawks, dir 1 1 1 -68 Hollywood 10 1947 0 1951 0 HUAC purge of the Hollywood 10 and other liberals exploits anti-communist hysteria, ruins careers 2 1 1 -69 Treasure SierraMadre 1948 0 1948 0 Humprhey Bogart, Walter Huston John Huston, dir 1 1 1 -70 The Third Man 1949 0 1949 0 Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten Carol Reed, dir 1 1 1 -71 StreetcarNamedDesire 1951 0 1951 0 Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh Elia Kazan, dir 1 1 1 -72 Rashomon 1951 0 1951 0 Toshiro Mifune Akira Kurosawa, dir 1 5 5 -73 African Queen 1951 0 1951 0 Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn John Huston, dir 1 1 1 -74 Blacklist 1951 0 1968 0 Self imposed censors leads to sterility as controversy and serious topics are avoided 2 1 1 -75 High Noon 1952 0 1952 0 Gary Cooper, Lloyd Bridges Fred Zinneman, dir 1 1 1 -76 Lavender Hill Mob 1952 0 1952 0 Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway Charles Chricton, dir 1 3 3 -77 3D 1952 0 1954 0 Cinerama and 3D try to meet the challenge of TV 2 1 1 -78 Shane 1953 0 1953 0 Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur George Stevens, dir 1 1 1 -79 La Strada 1954 0 1954 0 Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn Federico Fellini, dir 1 7 7 -80 On the Waterfront 1954 0 1954 0 Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger Elia Kazan, dir 1 1 1 -81 Rear Window 1954 0 1954 0 James Stewart, Grace Kelly Hitchcock 1 1 1 -82 Oklahoma! 1955 0 1955 0 1 1 1 -83 East of Eden 1955 0 1955 0 James Dean, Julie Harris Elia Kazan, dir 1 1 1 -84 Rebel Without aCause 1955 0 1955 0 James Dean, Natalie Wood Nicholas Ray, dir 1 1 1 -85 The Seventh Seal 1956 0 1956 0 Max von Sydow Ingmar Bergman, dir 1 8 8 -86 InvasionBodySnatcher 1956 0 1956 0 1 1 1 -87 Wild Strawberries 1957 0 1957 0 1 8 8 -88 Bridge on River Kwai 1957 0 1957 0 Alec Guinness, William Holden David Lean, dir 1 3 3 -89 Paths of Glory 1957 0 1957 0 Kubrick 1 1 1 -90 Breathless 1959 0 1959 0 Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg Jean-Luc Godard, dir 1 2 2 -91 400 Blows 1959 0 1959 0 Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Maurier Francois Truffaut, dir 1 2 2 -92 North by Northwest 1959 0 1959 0 Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint Alfred Hitchcock, dir 1 1 1 -93 La Dolce Vita 1959 0 1959 0 Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg Federico Fellini, dir 1 7 7 -94 Ben-Hur 1959 0 1959 0 1 1 1 -95 Some Like It Hot 1959 0 1959 0 Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon Billy Wilder, dir 1 1 1 -96 Psycho 1960 0 1960 0 Tony Perkins, Janet Leigh Alfred Hitchcock, dir 1 1 1 -97 West Side Story 1961 0 1961 0 1 1 1 -98 Jules and Jim 1961 0 1961 0 Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner Francois Truffaut, dir 1 2 2 -99 Yojimbo 1961 0 1961 0 Kurosawa 1 5 5 -100 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 0 1962 0 Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness David Lean, dir 1 3 3 -101 Lolita 1962 0 1962 0 James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers Stanley Kubrick, dir 1 1 1 -102 8½ 1963 0 1963 0 Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee Federico Fellini, dir 1 7 7 -103 Dr. No 1963 0 1963 0 Sean Connery 1 1 1 -104 Tom Jones 1963 0 1963 0 Albert Finney, Susannah York Tony Richardson, dir 1 3 3 -105 Dr. Strangelove 1964 0 1964 0 George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden Stanley Kubrick, dir 1 3 3 -106 Alphaville 1965 0 1965 0 Jean Luc Godard 1 2 2 -107 Blow-Up 1966 0 1966 0 Michelangelo Antonioni 1 3 3 -108 The Graduate 1967 0 1967 0 Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft Mike Nichols, dir 1 1 1 -109 Weekend 1967 0 1967 0 Jean Luc Godard 1 2 2 -110 The Producers 1968 0 1968 0 Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder Mel Brooks, dir 1 1 1 -111 Butch Cassidy 1969 0 1969 0 Paul Newman, Robert Redford George Roy Hill, dir 1 1 1 -112 Satyricon 1969 0 1969 0 Federico Fellini, dir 1 7 7 -113 Patton 1970 0 1970 0 1 1 1 -114 M*A*S*H 1970 0 1970 0 Donald Sutherland, Eliot Gould Robert Altman, dir 1 1 1 -115 A Clockwork Orange 1971 0 1971 0 Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee Stanley Kubrick, dir 1 3 3 -116 Sorrow & the Pity 1971 0 1971 0 Marcel Ophuls, dir 1 2 2 -117 The Godfather 1972 0 1972 0 Francis Ford Coppola, dir 1 1 1 -118 Cabaret 1972 0 1972 0 Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Michael York Bob Fosse, dir 1 1 1 -119 Sleuth 1972 0 1972 0 Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine Joseph L. Mankiewicz, dir 1 1 1 -120 Last Tango in Paris 1973 0 1973 0 Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider Bernardo Bertolucci, dir 1 7 7 -121 Sleeper 1973 0 1973 0 Woody Allen, Diane Keaton Woody Allen, dir 1 1 1 -122 The Sting 1973 0 1973 0 1 1 1 -123 Chinatown 1974 0 1974 0 Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston Roman Polanski, dir 1 1 1 -124 Amarcord 1974 0 1974 0 Fellini 1 7 7 -125 Man Who WouldBe King 1975 0 1975 0 Sean Connery, Michael Caine John Huston, dir 1 1 1 -126 Jaws 1975 0 1975 0 Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider Steven Spielberg, dir 1 1 1 -127 Rocky 1976 0 1976 0 1 1 1 -128 Taxi Driver 1976 0 1976 0 Robert DeNiro, Cybill Shepard, Jody Foster Martin Scorcese, dir 1 1 1 -129 Network 1976 0 1976 0 Faye Dunnaway, Peter Finch Sidney Lumet, dir 1 1 1 -130 Annie Hall 1977 0 1977 0 1 1 1 -131 Star Wars 1977 0 1977 0 George Lucas, dir 1 1 1 -132 Deer Hunter 1978 0 1978 0 Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep Michael Cimino, dir 1 1 1 -133 Alien 1979 0 1979 0 Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt Ridley Scott, dir 1 1 1 -134 Manhattan 1979 0 1979 0 Woody Allen, dir 1 1 1 -135 Apocalypse Now 1979 0 1979 0 Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall Francis Ford Coppola, dir 1 1 1 -136 Raging Bull 1980 0 1980 0 Robert DeNiro Martin Scorsese, dir 1 1 1 -137 Kagemusha 1980 0 1980 0 Kurosawa 1 5 5 -138 Raiders of Lost Ark 1981 0 1981 0 Steven Spielberg, dr 1 1 1 -139 My Dinner with Andre 1981 0 1981 0 Louis Malle, dir Andre Gregory, Wallace Shawn 1 1 1 -140 Gandhi 1982 0 1982 0 1 1 1 -141 Ran 1985 0 1985 0 Akira Kurosawa, dir 1 5 5 -142 Platoon 1986 0 1986 0 Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe Oliver Stone, dir 1 1 1 -143 Last Emperor 1987 0 1987 0 John Lone, Joan Chen Bernardo Bertolucci, dir 1 7 7 -144 Full Metal Jacket 1987 0 1987 0 Stanley Kubrick, dir 1 1 1 -145 Do the Right Thing 1989 0 1989 0 Spike Lee, dir 1 1 1 -146 Henry V 1989 0 1989 0 Kenneth Branagh, dir 1 3 3 -147 Cook,Thief,WifeLover 1990 0 1990 0 Michael Gambon Peter Greenaway, dir 1 1 1 -148 Goodfellas 1990 0 1990 0 Robert DeNiro Martin Scorsese, dir 1 1 1 -149 Miller's Crossing 1990 0 1990 0 Albert Finney 1 1 1 === FACTIONS -1 American 7 -2 French 5 -3 British 6 -4 German / Austrian 5 -5 Russian 2 -6 Italian 5 -7 Japanese 7 -8 7 -9 7 -10 7 -11 7 -12 7 -13 7 -14 7 -15 7 -16 7 -17 7 -18 7 -19 7 -20 7 === OCCUPATIONS -1 Actor 7 -2 Director 6 -3 Actor/director 5 -4 Producer 2 -5 Inventor 3 -6 7 -7 7 -8 7 -9 7 -10 7 -11 7 -12 7 -13 7 -14 7 -15 7 -16 7 -17 7 -18 7 -19 7 -20 Other 7 === GROUPS -1 Movie 7 -2 Economic 6 -3 Inventions 5 -4 Awards & festivals 4 -5 7 -6 7 -7 7 -8 7 -9 7 -10 7 -11 7 -12 7 -13 7 -14 7 -15 7 -16 7 -17 7 -18 7 -19 7 -20 7 === NATIONS -1 United States 7 -2 France 1 -3 Britain 6 -4 Germany 5 -5 Japan 2 -6 Russia / USSR 7 -7 Italy 7 -8 Sweden 7 -9 7 -10 7 -11 7 -12 7 -13 7 -14 7 -15 7 -16 7 -17 7 -18 7 -19 7 -20 7