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Film & TV Facts
The phrase “To Protect and Serve” is not codified in law but is merely the motto used by the LAPD and popularized by Hollywood.
Released in Australia in 1906, the world’s first full-length movie ran for seventy minutes and was called “The Story of the Kelly Gang.”
In 1971, a pizzeria owner made a movie about the Zodiac killer and hosted a premiere in San Francisco, hoping the real killer would show up and be caught.
Ziggy Marley, Bob Marley’s son, wrote the theme song for the popular children’s cartoon, “Arthur,” when he was 26.
“Seinfeld,” “Mad About You,” and “Friends” all share the same universe. A Seinfeld character sublets an apartment from a main character on Mad About You, who later appears on Friends.
The iconic cement hand-and-footprint tradition at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre began in 1927 when silent film star Norma Talmadge accidentally stepped in wet cement during construction.
In 2016, a UK filmmaker protested high film classification fees by submitting a 10-hour movie of paint drying, which the British Board of Film Classification had to watch in full.
The term “footage” originated from the early days of cinema when film stock was measured in feet, with one foot of 35mm film containing 16 frames.
In 2008, a Buzz Lightyear toy spent 15 months aboard the International Space Station as part of an educational partnership between NASA and Disney Pixar.
Saturn’s moon Mimas bears a striking resemblance to the Death Star from “Star Wars” thanks to an enormous crater called the Herschel Crater.
The boots worn by actors in “Saving Private Ryan” were made by S.M. Wholesale, the same company that supplied boots to American soldiers during WWII.
Viggo Mortensen was offered the chance to return as Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” trilogy, but turned it down because the character doesn’t appear in the books.
Walt Disney holds the record for most Oscars won, with 22 competitive awards and four honorary Oscars, for a total of 26.
While filming “The Hateful Eight,” Kurt Russell unintentionally smashed a 145-year-old Martin guitar, not realizing it wasn’t a prop.
Mel Brooks helped produce the 1986 film “The Fly” but chose to be uncredited so that audiences would not assume it was a comedy.
In 1964, Andy Warhol made “Empire,” an eight-hour film consisting of a single stationary, slow-motion shot of New York’s Empire State Building.
Harrison Ford and Sean Connery starred as father and son in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” despite only having a 12-year age gap.
Cool Runnings was originally titled “Blue Maaga,” and was intended as a serious and heavy sports movie involving life in the Kingston slums.
The iconic tornado in The Wizard of Oz was crafted from a 35-foot muslin sock, suspended on a crane and enhanced with dust effects, costing around $230,000 today.
After the release of the 1996 film “Scream,” which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage tripled in the United States.
Hanna-Barbera pitched “The Flintstones” to networks for eight weeks before it was finally picked up. It became the first-ever animated show to air during primetime.
Karen, Plankton’s computer wife on “SpongeBob SquarePants,” is voiced by Jill Talley, who has been married to Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, since 1996.
