What’s your favorite movie? Or do you prefer getting stuck into a series? Either way, here are interesting facts about the best (and worst) films & TV shows ever released!
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Film & TV Facts
Mulan’s avalanche caused nearly 2,000 Hun deaths, making her arguably Disney’s highest kill-count character.
The last major motion picture to receive a public VHS release was David Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence.”
All of the sweaters Mister Rogers wore on his show were hand-knitted by his mother. He said he loved wearing them because they always made him think of her.
The first time Mickey Mouse talked was in the 1929 episode “The Karnival Kid.” His first words were “Hot dogs!”
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.
In a 2009 interview, James Cameron stated his main reason for making “Titanic” was to fund his dives to the shipwreck, not to create a movie.
Ziggy Marley, Bob Marley’s son, wrote the theme song for the popular children’s cartoon, “Arthur,” when he was 26.
In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first Black person to win an Oscar but had to sit at a segregated table at the ceremony due to the hotel’s racist policies.
Godzilla’s roar was created by dragging a resin-coated leather glove along the loosened strings of a double bass.
In the original 1984 “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” comics, the turtles were depicted drinking beer; their love for pizza was introduced in the 1987 animated series.
Spam mail got its name from a “Monty Python” skit that joked about Spam canned meat being everywhere and impossible to avoid.
Real skeletons were used as props in the 1982 film “Poltergeist” because they were easier to source than plastic replicas at the time.
More than ninety TV shows and movies, including Parks & Recreation, Workaholics, and Star Trek, used the same beer prop, Heisler Beer.
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.
The concept of a rocket launch having a countdown originated from Fritz Lang’s 1929 movie “Woman in the Moon,” where the countdown was used to increase tension.
The kookaburra is native to Australia and New Guinea; its calls are often used as sound effects in movies for jungles in Africa or South America.
All the battles in space in Star Wars should be completely silent, as space is a vacuum, and sound doesn’t travel through it.
The phrase “To Protect and Serve” is not codified in law but is merely the motto used by the LAPD and popularized by Hollywood.
Oscar the Grouch was magenta in his concept sketches, then he was orange in Sesame Street’s first season in 1969, and finally became green the following year.
The first Academy Awards, held on May 16, 1929, featured 12 award presentations and lasted just 15 minutes.
In the opening credits of Gilligan’s Island, as the SS Minnow sails out of the harbor, flags can be seen in the background flying at half-mast to honor the death of JFK.
In 2018, Peppa Pig was censored on a popular Chinese social media platform because it was linked to a youth subculture promoting “gangster” behavior.
