E: ? Win A Celebration Of Blockbusters Boxset

catz747

Celebration of Blockbusters Boxset

http://www.6degreesfilm.com/competitions.php?id=37

The films being released individually (RRP: £5.99) are as follows:

Walk the Line, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Day After Tomorrow, Raging Bull, I, Robot, Fight Club, Master and Commander, Romeo + Juliet, The Usual Suspects, House of Flying Daggers, There's Something About Mary, Speed, Silent of the Lambs, Dances with Wolves, Platoon, Independence Day, Planet of the Apes, Fantastic Four, Alien, Kingdom of Heaven

When was the very first feature length motion picture released at cinemas ?

Answer: Think the answer they are looking for is 1907 Thanks everyone

catz747

The Oberammergau Passion Play of 1898 was the first commercial motion picture ever produced ......


just trying to find out if it was feature length

littleholly

How about Quo Vadis in 1912?

'1912 Director Enrico Guazzoni's overblown but successful two-hour spectacle Quo Vadis? was released - one of the first films with over two hours running time. It is often considered the first successful feature-length motion picture. Italian epics would briefly dominate the international film market'.

catz747

Not sure, just found this:

Based on length, the first feature film was the 70-minute film The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)

anniebanannie

I think the answer is in the second paragraph.

100 Years ago the very first feature length motion picture was opened to the public in Paris. Cinema has progressed in leaps and bounds since then, and you cannot find better examples of fantastic special effects, side-splitting comedy and edge-of-your-seat action than in this fantastic collection from the Twentieth Century Fox, MGM and Pathé Distribution Ltd back catalogues.

Good Luck!

littleholly

I think its gonna be a difficult one!!! Its hard to determine exactly which one it is?!

isitenough

I found this:

"The first feature-length movie originally conceived and shot as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927.

The Jazz Singer is a 1927 U.S. movie musical, notable for being the first feature-length motion picture with talking sequences. Released by Warner Bros., it was directed by Alan Crosland and starred Al Jolson, who sings five songs."

Any other ideas? This one is tough!

Birth of a Nation (1915)
"On the one hand, D.W. Griffith's notorious Civil War epic offers an alarmingly racist and simpleminded view of what was then fairly recent history — this is the film, after all, in which the climax depicts a heroic band of Ku Klux Klansmen saving noble whites from a bloodthirsty black mob! At the same time, there's no denying the cinematic trailblazing at work. Generally considered the first feature-length motion picture (films up to then had mainly been 20 minutes long),..."

catz747

We want a film from Paris in 1907 then

anniebanannie

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

isitenough

L'Enfant prodigue

L'Enfant prodigue (France, 1907) (The Prodigal Son) was the first feature-length motion picture produced in Europe, running 90 minutes. Directed by Michel Carré, fils from his own three-act stage pantomime, the film was basically an unmodified record, filmed at Gaumont studio in May 1907. It premiered at the Théâtre des Variétés on the Boulevard Montmartre, in Paris, on June 20, 1907.


CATZ - thanks for the thanks, but appararently the previous answer was completely wrong!!!

catz747

Anyone know the answer to the xbox360 competition as well :rotfl::rotfl: