The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1957
Lionel Pritchard and his girlfriend Paquita battle a horde of zombies. (New Zealand) (Braindead)
Michael Myers born. (Halloween)
The Iron Giant. (The Iron Giant)
Scientists, from Labcentral try to stop a giant rampaging engery stealing robot from another planet. (Los Alamos, New Mexico) (Kronos)
Lana Turner meets Johnny Stompanato. (Los Angeles) (LA Confidential)
October Sky. (October Sky)
Monday 28th January: The United Nations opens debate on the French/Algerian Question. (New York, NY) (The Battle of Algiers)
Tuesday 29th January: The FNL calls for a seven-day general strike for all Arab Algerians. (Algiers, Algeria) (The Battle of Algiers)
April: Stratogirl sucked into a jet turbine. (The Incredibles)
Thursday 2nd May: Joseph McCarthy dies. (Bethesda, Maryland) (Tail Gunner Joe)
July: Jason Voorhees purportedly drowns in Crystal Lake when the counselors are having sex - no body is found. (Friday The 13th)
Friday 5th July: Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra divorce. (The Rat Pack)
August: Ben & May Parker are married. (Queens, NY) (Spider-Man 3)
Wednesday 7th August: Oliver Hardy dies. (North Hollywood, California) (Sunset)
Friday 4th October: Sputnik One launched, starting the Space Race. (Soviet Union) (The Right Stuff)
Saturday 16th November: Edward Gein murders his last victim Bernice Worden. (Plainfield, Wisconsin) (In the Light of the Moon)