Numbers you possibly didn’t know about cinema

Momentous events on the big screen often come with backstage facts and figures that you might possibly overlook as you are watching movies. Here are some numbers that translate into fun facts about movies.

324 is the largest number of takes for one scene, which occurred in one of Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 films.

27 is the number of the greatest ever loss of life in a production of a film; this also occurred during the shooting of a 1931 film. The casualties included the director and cinematographer as well, when a ship they were shooting from exploded in the ice off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.

22 million is the biggest cast of living creatures in a production film; the bees were employed in 1978.

First and foremost worldwide was Thomas Edison’s film studio; the frame building covered in black roofing paper was built at the Edison Laboratories in 1893.

13 is the minimum number of frames per second that human brain can process in order to perceive images as motion.

300 is the number of meters that a standard reel of film needs to run, for a 10 minute footage. That’s why projectionists had to change the reels frequently during a single movie screening, to avoid interruptions.

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