The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Max Schrek, the last remaining vampire, cast as Nosferatu, a movie vampire based on Bram Stoker's creature; vampires saved from extinction and unleashed on modern society. (Romania - Shadow of the Vampire)
Saturday 3rd January: Babe Ruth purchased by the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox. (The Babe)
Saturday 3rd January: Clive Candy is appointed commanding officer of troops in North China and relinquishes the temporary rank of Brigadier-General. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Sunday 28th March: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford marry. (Chaplin)
Wednesday 30th June: Dwight D Eisenhower and George S Patton demoted to Captain because of peacetime. (Patton)
Friday 23rd July: Future nightclub owner Victor Demond opens his first hamburger stand. He commemorates the occassion by stuffing and mounting his first burger. (Lambert Technical University, USA - Sweetheart of the Campus)
Friday 20th August: Papa Justify records the voodoo spell Conjure of Sacrifice onto an LP. (New Orleans - The Skeleton Key)
October: T.E. Lawrence starts to help Arabs to fight a guerilla war against the Ottoman Empire. (The Hitaz Region, Arabia - Lawrence of Arabia)
Sunday 28th November: The Mask of Zorro opens, starring Douglas Fairbanks. (Chaplin)
Ingrid Vassman born, with her original Jewish name. (The Aryan Couple)
Captain Elliott Spenser purchases the demonic Lament Configuration (black puzzle box) from a market in India, which later transforms him into Pinhead (Hellraiser)
Prohibition; Noodles and Max go into business against Bugsy, till he exacts his revenge. (New York - Once Upon a Time in America)
Jem Finch born. (Maycomb, Alabama - To Kill A Mockingbird)
Saturday 16th April: Eric Liddell is guest speaker at an athletics meeting. (East Weymss, Scotland - Chariots of Fire)
Tuesday 5th July: The "Black Sox" are accused of throwing the World Series. (Eight Men Out)
Saturday 20th August: Jacqueline Susann is born. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Isn't She Great)
Sunday 4th December: The manslaughter trial for actor and director Fatty Arbuckle ends in a hung jury. (Life of the Party)
Future writer Briony Tallis is born. (Atonement)
Frida Kahlo sees artist Diego Rivera painting and seducing a nude model, she later gets into a bus accident and is impaled, but lives. (Mexico City - Frida)
Irish patriot Michael Collins dies. (Michael Collins)
Millie Dillmount and friends smash a white slave trade ring run by Mrs Meers. (New York - Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Tuesday 10th January: Arthur Griffith is elected president of the newly established Irish Free State. (Michael Collins)
Sunday 12th March: Jack Kerouac is born. (Lowell, Massachusetts - Kerouac, the Movie )
Saturday 20th May: Rudolph Valentino arrested for bigamy. (Los Angeles, California - Good Night Valentino )
Tuesday 30th May: Former President Taft dedicates Lincoln Memorial. (The Winds of Kitty Hawk)
Saturday 10th June: Judy Garland (born Frances Gumm) is born. (Grand Rapids, Minnesota - Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows )
Tuesday 8th August: Alberto Granado, future friend to Che Guevara, is born. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Tuesday 22nd August: Michael Collins is killed in an ambush. (West County Cork, Ireland - Michael Collins)
Sunday 24th December: Ava Gardner is born. (Smithfield, North Carolina - The Aviator)
Gray's, future publishers of a Sports Almanac, is founded. (Back to the Future Part II)
St Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage is built. (Chicago, IL - The Blues Brothers)
Ailing novellist Virginia Woolf begins to write 'Mrs Dalloway'. (England - The Hours)
Anne born to Alfred and Mac Kinsey. (Kinsey)
Rick O'Connell's French Foreign Legion troops are overrun by Arab forces. (Hamunaptra - The Mummy)
Saturday 2nd June: Scotland face France in athletics at the Wanderers Club. (Edinburgh - Chariots of Fire)
Friday 15th June: Lou Gehrig plays first professional baseball game for the New York Yankees. (The Pride of the Yankees)
Saturday 7th July: Eric Liddell races against Harold Abrahams. (London - Chariots of Fire)
Friday 27th July: John Dillinger joins the Navy in an attempt to avoid prosecution. (Young Dillinger)
Monday 19th November: New York paper "American", published by the Hearst Corp., hires Louella Parsons as movie editor. (The Cat's Meow)
Kay Adams born. (The Godfather)
Puyi loses his throne and is forced to leave the Forbidden City. (Beijing, China - The Last Emperor)
Monday 7th January: George Gershwin completes "Rhapsody in Blue". (Rhapsody in Blue)
Saturday 10th May: J. Edgar Hoover begins his legacy with the FBI. (Hoover)
Saturday 28th June: Aubrey Montague writes to his mother from the Carlton Hotel. (Broadstairs, Kent - Chariots of Fire)
July: Harold Abrahams wins the 100m dash and Eric Liddell wins the 400m race at the Olympics. (Paris - Chariots of Fire)
Wednesday 1st October: Jimmy Carter is born. (Plains, Georgia - The Cayman Triangle)
The Duluth Bulldogs football team is disbanded, the backers cite financial problems. (Leatherheads)
Professer Challenger, along with several companions, discovers a lost worls populated with prehistoric animals. (The Lost World - The Lost World)
The Majestic cinema opens. (The Majestic)
Dill Harris born. (To Kill A Mockingbird)
Saturday 14th February: Three men hunt for the treasure of the Sierra Madre. (Mexico - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Saturday 4th July: Edward Wilson's father commits suicide. (The Good Shepherd)
Monday 10th August: Arthur Nixon dies of tuberculosis. (Nixon)
Wednesday 7th October: Christy Mathewson dies. (Saranac Lake, New York - The Pride of the Yankees)
Friday 20th November: Robert F Kennedy born. (Bobby)
Evy saves Rick O'Connell from the gallows to lead an expedition to Hamunaptra, where they inadvertently resurrect High Priest Imhotep. (Cairo, Egypt - The Mummy)
Scout Finch born. (Maycomb, Alabama - To Kill A Mockingbird)
Al Capone files his last income tax return. (Chicago, Ill - The Untouchables)
Tuesday 18th May: Popular evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears. (Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California - Aimee Semple McPherson )
Thursday 12th August: Clive Candy places an ad thanking all those who have sent sympathies to him on his irreparable loss. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)