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1888 Oct 14 Roundhay Garden Scene, the Earliest Surviving Motion Picture, Filmed
Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 British short film directed by inventor Louis Le Prince. It was recorded at 12 frames per second and is the earliest surviving motion picture. Accordin...
1901 Dec 5 Walt Disney is born
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901–December 15, 1966) was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and phila...
1937 May 19 Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons was a Walt Disney animated film released on May 19, 1937 for a limited time to help promote the upcoming release of Snow White and the Seven D...
1937 Dec 21 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is premiered
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated feature based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full length animated feature to be pro...
1939 Dec 15
to 1940 Jan 17
 Gone With the Wind (film) released
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming (Fleming replaced George Cukor). The e...
1941 Jun 20 The Reluctant Dragon is released
The Reluctant Dragon is a combined live action and animated film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Alfred Werker, and released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 20, 1941. Essentially a tou...
1941 Oct 23 Dumbo is released
Dumbo is a 1941 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, D...
1942 Aug 13 Bambi is released
Bambi is a 1942 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on the book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten. The film was released by RKO Radio Pict...
1942 Aug 24 Saludos Amigos is released
Saludos Amigos (Hello, friends in English, Alô, Amigos in Portuguese) is a 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the 6th animated feature in...
1943 Jul 17 Victory Through Air Power
Victory Through Air Power is a 1942 book by Alexander P. de Seversky, and a 1943 Walt Disney Technicolor animated feature film based on the book. de Seversky appeared in the film which wa...
1944 Dec 21 The Three Caballeros is premiered
The Three Caballeros is a 1944 animated feature film, produced by Walt Disney and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The seventh animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics seri...
1946 Apr 20 Make Mine Music is premiered
Make Mine Music is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 15, 1946. It is the eighth animated feature in the Walt Disney Anim...
1946 Nov 12 Song of the South is released
Song Of The South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946, by RKO Radio Pictures and based on the Uncle Remus cycle of stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Th...
1947 Sep 27 Fun and Fancy Free is released
Fun and Fancy Free (first released on September 27, 1947) is a feature film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It was one of the "package films" (feature-length c...
1948 May 27 Melody Time is released
Melody Time (first released on May 27, 1948) is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures. Made up of several sequences set to popular mus...
1949 Jan 19 So Dear to My Heart is released
So Dear to My Heart is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released in Chicago on November 29, 1948 and nationwide on January 19, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures. Like 1946's Song of the S...
1949 Oct 5 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is released
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad is an animated feature produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on October 5, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures. It is the eleventh animated featur...
1950 Jackie Robinson stars as himself in biographical movie, "The Jackie Robinson Story"
Jackie Robinson appears in a film biography, "The Jackie Robinson Story" in which he played himself. Actress Ruby Dee played Rachael "Rae" (Isum) Robinson.
1950 Mar 4 Cinderella is released
Cinderella is a 1950 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on the fairy tale "Cendrillon" by Charles Perrault. Twelfth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, t...
1950 Jul 19 Treasure Island is released
Treasure Island is a 1950 Disney film, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island. It starred Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins, and Robert Newton as Long John Silver. It was Dis...
1951 Jul 26 Alice in Wonderland is released
Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Thirteenth in ...
1952 Jun 26 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men is released
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by hench men of Prince John. Robin takes...
1953 Feb 5 Peter Pan is released
Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie. It is the fourteenth film in the Wa...
1953 Jul 23 The Sword and the Rose is released
The Sword and the Rose, (first released on July 23, 1953) is a United States family and adventure film, produced by Disney and directed by Ken Annakin. The film features the story of Mary...
1953 Sep 16 The Robe (film) released
The Robe is a 1953 Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus. The film was made by 20th Century Fox and is notable for...
1953 Oct 26 Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue is released
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue is a 1953 film, made by Walt Disney Productions. This film is about Robert Roy MacGregor. Richard Todd related in his autobiography that the extras were sol...
1953 Nov 10 The Living Desert is released
The Living Desert is a 1953 Walt Disney nature documentary which shows the everyday lives of the animals of the desert of the southwestern United States. The movie was written by James...
1954 Aug 17 The Vanishing Prairie is released
The Vanishing Prairie was a 1954 documentary film by Walt Disney, which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 1954.
1955 Jun 22 Lady and the Tramp is released
Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on June 22, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution. The fifteenth animated feature i...
1956 Oct 5 The Ten Commandments (film) released
The Ten Commandments is a 1956 motion picture that dramatized the biblical story of Moses, an adopted Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. It was released by Paramount P...
1959 Mar 18 The Film, 'The Diary of Anne Frank', Based on the Play, is Released
The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 motion picture based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name, which was based on the diary of Anne Frank. It was directed by George Stevens, ...
1961 Oct 18 West Side Story (film) released
West Side Story is a 1961 American film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, which itself was adapted from Shakespeare...
1962 Oct 5 Dr. No released
Dr. No (1962), starring Sean Connery, is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely M...
1963 Oct 10 From Russia With Love (film) released
From Russia with Love (1963) is the second spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R....
1964 Sep 16 Goldfinger (film) released
Goldfinger (1964) is the third spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the same name by Ia...
1965 Dec 21 Thunderball (film) released
Thunderball (1965) is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series after Dr. No (1962), From Russia With Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), and the fourth to star Sean Connery as the fict...
1966 Jul 30 Batman: The Movie released
Batman (also known as Batman: The Movie) was the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character. The 20th Century Fox release starred Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward...
1967 Jun 12
to 1967 Jun 13
 You Only Live Twice (film) released
You Only Live Twice (1967) is the fifth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's screenplay was written by R...
1967 Oct 18 Jungle Book is released
The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated feature produced by Disney Animation Studios. Released on October 18, 1967, it is the 19th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classic...
1968 Nov 30 Release of the Film, 'Sympathy for the Devil' (Originally Titled One Plus One)
Composing the movie's main narrative thread are several long, uninterrupted shots of The Rolling Stones in a sound studio, recording and rerecording various parts to "Sympathy for the Dev...
1969 Dec 18 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) released
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, and the only one to star George Lazenby as ...
1970 Dec 11 The Aristocats is premiered
The Aristocats is an animated feature produced and released by Walt Disney Productions in 1970. The twentieth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film is bas...
1971 Dec 17 Diamonds Are Forever (film) released
Diamonds Are Forever (1971) is the seventh spy film in the James Bond series, and the sixth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film is based on Ian Fleming's ...
1973 Jun 27 Live and Let Die (film) released
Live and Let Die (1973) is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Brocco...
1973 Oct 2 Mean Streets is Released
Mean Streets (1973) is an early Martin Scorsese film starring Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro and David Proval , released by Warner Bros. on October 2, 1973. De Niro won the National Societ...
1973 Nov 8 Robin Hood is released
Robin Hood is an animated feature produced by the Walt Disney Studios, first released in the United States on November 8, 1973. The 21st animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Class...
1974 Dec 19 The Man with the Golden Gun (film) released
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. An adaptation of Ian Fleming's...
1974 Dec 20 The Godfather Part II released
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime thriller directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather...
1976 Feb 8 Taxi Driver is Released
Taxi Driver is a 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and featu...
1976 Nov 21 Premiere of 'Rocky'
On this day in 1976, Rocky, starring Sylvester Stallone as the underdog prizefighter Rocky Balboa, debuts in New York City. The movie, which opened in theaters across the United States on...