Unexpected film trivia you possibly didn’t know

Fun facts about cinema have always been appealing to the audience. Here is another batch.

traditional theaters or carnivals were the only places where most movies were shown prior to 1907. With the advent of movie theaters, the films became an attraction in themselves.

Early on, cameras were stationary, so you had to move the entire camera and tripod to get any kind of movement. In 1897, the pan shot was first invented. This is where the word pan comes from – panorama is the name of a shot made with a panning camera.

The first moving pictures were invented by Thomas Edison. They comprised small film images that could be viewed in a box. Initially, he was opposed to showing movies on the big screen because he thought one-on-one viewing would be more profitable.

The character most frequently portrayed in horror films is Count Dracula, the creation of the Irish writer Bram Stoker (1847-1912)

Adolph Hitler put the studio head Jack Warner on his “extinction list” because of his film Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939).

A real bridge with a real train crossing it was blown up for the 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai.

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