The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
Ellis "Red" Redding arrives at Shawshank prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)
The Warner Brothers release the first talking picture "The Jazz Singer"; industry execs predict the new technology will not catch on. (Singin' in the Rain)
H.W. Plainview marries Mary Sunday. (Little Boston, California - There Will Be Blood)
Thursday 24th February: Sidney Poitier is born. (Miami, Florida - Six Degrees of Separation)
Thursday 24th March: Silent film icon Don Lockwood and his friends Kathy Selden and Cosmo Brown concoct a plan to save his new sound picture "The Dueling Cavelier" after a disasterous preview. They celebrate by singing "Good Morning". When Don walks home, he's caught on a rain storm, which calls for more dancing and singing...in the rain. (Hollywood, California - Singin' in the Rain)
Tuesday 19th April: Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity. (Mae West)
Saturday 21st May: Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo flight across the Atlantic. (Meet Me in St. Louis)
Tuesday 27th September: Despite Il Duce's predictions of an Italian victory, the R.J. Mitchell-designed Supermarine S.5 piloted by RAF Lieutenant Geoffrey Crisp wins the Schneider Trophy for England with a top speed of 281 mph. (Venice, Italy - The First of the Few)
Friday 30th September: Babe Ruth sets single season record by hitting 60th home run. (New York City. - The Babe)
The Abominable Dr Phibes. (The Abominable Dr. Phibes)
Eastern Gas and Electric buys Niagra Steam Generation, the company which manufactured the crucial iron bolt found at the crime scene of Mr. Alan Ruben by Amelia Donaghy. (New York - The Bone Collector)
Susan Pevensie is born. (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
An alien gets a genetic sample from a mountaineer. (Korakoram Mountains, India - The Day the Earth Stood Still)
John Hancock watched the film Frankenstein, then was attacked in an alley and lost his memory. (Miami - Hancock)
An interstellar teleportation device is discovered in Giza, Egypt, as well as what appear to be fossils in the stone underneath it. (Stargate)
The mother of Jem and Scout and husband of Atticus Finch dies. (To Kill A Mockingbird)
Friday 9th March: Walter Collins gets into a fight at school. (LA - Changeling)
Saturday 10th March: Christine Collins returns home from an extra shift at the telephone company to discover her adolescent son, Walter, is missing. (Los Angeles, California - Changeling)
Saturday 10th March: Walter Collins goes missing. (LA - Changeling)
Monday 12th March: Poor weather downs R.J. Mitchell's Supermarine Napier seaplane during speed trials in an attempt to break Supermarine's own speed record. Flight-Lieutenant S.M. Kinkead is killed instantly. (Strait of Solent, England - The First of the Few)
Sunday 25th March: Rev Gustav Briegleb preaches against police corruption. (LA - Changeling)
April: Margaret gives John a Church Hymnary book. (The 39 Steps)
Tuesday 3rd April: Christine Collins relentlessly makes phone calls to trace her son's whereabouts. (LA - Changeling)
Thursday 14th June: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is born. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Friday 15th June: Eagle's Nest Gymnasium is founded. (Los Angeles, CA - Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel)
Monday 6th August: Andy Warhol is born. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - I Shot Andy Warhol)
Thursday 16th August: Carl Panzram is arrested. (Washington, D.C. - Killer: A Journal of Murder)
Saturday 18th August: A child is found matching Walter Collins' description. (Illinois - Changeling)
Monday 20th August: Christine Collins is told that her son has been found in Illinois. (LA - Changeling)
Saturday 15th September: Christine Collins is incarcerated in a mental asylum for refusing to accept a returned child as her son. Gordon Northcott's brother confesses that he helped Gordon kill 20 children. (LA - Changeling)
Thursday 20th September: Gordon Northcott arrives at his sister's house. (Canada - Changeling)
Wednesday 24th October: A demonstration takes place against police corruption, following the wrongful incarceration of Christine Collins. (LA - Changeling)
Tuesday 6th November: Arnold Rothstein is killed by a gun shot. (New York - Mobsters)
Thursday 6th December: Hagrid born. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Clyde Barrow goes to prison for armed robbery. He would serve 2 years. (Texas - Bonnie and Clyde)
Roxie Hart murders her lover. (Chicago, IL - Chicago)
1929 Standing Liberty Quarter is made. (Drag Me To Hell)
Springwood Orphanage is established. (Springwood, OH - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare)
Sam Spade investigates the Maltese Falcon. (The Maltese Falcon)
Memoirs of a Geisha. (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Lee Bros' Meat Packing Co. is established. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning)
Sunday 13th January: Wyatt Earp dies. (Los Angeles, California - Wyatt Earp)
Thursday 14th February: St Valentine's Day Massacre; two male musicians witness it and escape dressed as women. (Some Like It Hot)
Monday 3rd June: Chuck Barris is born. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)
Tuesday 25th June: James Jupp dies. (Darkman II: The Return of Durant)
Tuesday 29th October: The Day the Bubble Burst, aka Black Tuesday, aka the Great Crash, aka the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange. (New York - The Day the Bubble Burst)
Tuesday 29th October: George Bailey & Mary Hatch marry; The Bailey Building & Loan manages to stay open with only $2 left. (Bedford Falls, New York - It's a Wonderful Life)
Wednesday 30th October: Lyle Atwood and an unknown man jump from a Wall St skyscraper. They vanish, before Lyle reappears and lands on a car, dead. (Timecop)
Thursday 14th November: Jim Piersall is born. (Waterbury, Connecticut - Fear Strikes Out)
Howard Hughes produces 'Hell's Angels'. (The Aviator)
11 year-old Leonard Lowe begins showing signs of Encephalitis Lethargica. (New York - Awakenings)
Edmund Pevensie is born. (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Benjamin first meets Daisy who is visiting her Grandmother. He falls in love with her right away. (New Orleans - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives wrongly raise tariffs to alleviate The Great Depression. (Washington - Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Pamela Voorhees born. (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter)
Julia meets her future husband Alfred Lennon. (Liverpool, England - In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Clive Candy shoots a moose. (Nova Scotia - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Eliot Ness teams up with James Malone to take on Al Capone. (Chicago - The Untouchables)
Monday 10th February: Future Korean War fighter and racist Walt Kowalski is born. (Gran Torino)
Friday 16th May: Studio boss Sam Otis fires philandering director Frank Buelow by invoking Section 13-A of his contract with the studio. (Hollywood, CA - Show Girl in Hollywood)