The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1947
Howard Hughes test-flights the Blue Spruce. (The Aviator)
Elizabeth Short is found brutally murdered & bizarrely mutilated; Emmett Linscott family is implicated. (Los Angeles, Ca) (The Black Dahlia)
Brighton Rock. (Brighton Rock)
Philadelphia Mass Turbulence, related to 'symmetrical bookstacking'. (Philadelphia, PA) (Ghostbusters)
Tom Hagen becomes consigliere to Don Corleone; Michael Corleone marries Apollonia in Sicily, who dies very soon after. (The Godfather)
"Smiler" Grogan robs a tuna factory of $350,000 and buries the money under the big W at Rosita Beach State Park. (Santa Rosita, CA) (It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World)
A little girl named Susan and her mom meet the real Kris Kringle. They learn to believe. (New York, New York) (Miracle on 34th Street)
Andy Dufresne begins sentence at Shawshank for the murder of his wife. (The Shawshank Redemption)
The Grand Hotel hosts a graduation prom. (Straits of Mackinac) (Somewhere In Time)
Roger Rabbit is framed. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Wednesday 15th January: A year and a half after the end of WWII the body of Elizabeth Short (aka Black Dahlia) was found cut in half. (Los Angeles, California) (The Black Dahlia)
Tuesday 15th April: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. (Brooklyn, New York) (The Jackie Robinson Story)
Thursday 24th April: Willa Cather dies. (New York) (Willa Cather: The Road Is All)
Friday 25th April: President Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley. (Washington DC) (Truman)
Sunday 11th May: Enzo Ferrari makes racing debut. (Piacenza, Italy) (Ferrari)
Friday 20th June: Bugsy Siegel killed by gunshot. (Bugsy)
Sunday 6th July: John Rambo is born. (Phoenix, Arizona) (Rambo: First Blood Part II)
September: Mathematician John Nash goes through Princeton graduate school orientation. (Princeton University) (A Beautiful Mind)
Tuesday 14th October: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier. (The Right Stuff)