The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
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Welcome. Yes, the coding is gleefully retro here - who knew that websites could look "so 1998". But here we focus our geekery elsewhere: on movies, and more specifically, on the chronology of all movies, pasted together in a big list. Keep your submissions coming in! You make this. The list runs on one simple premise: that everything you see in the movies is true - the real mixes with the fictitious, so long as it's reported in a movie somewhere. So do join in - the above left links should help you Submit the event from the film you'd like, although do a Search first - we may well have it already!
NEWS! We have a Twitter account. Follow @MovieTimeline. You'll then be treated to one 'event' a day from the world of movie history - some'll be real world stuff, some'll be the world of fiction.
I recently blogged about my personally handpicked journey through history in 100 movies. Do click and read. It's in 3 parts, so click on the links at the bottom after part 1.
Today in movie history...
1840: 10th February: Queen Victoria of England marries her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha at St. James Palace. (London, England - Sixty Glorious Years)
1858: 10th February: Millard Fillmore marries Caroline Carmichael McIntosh. (Albany, New York - The Monroe Doctrine)
1899: 10th February: Herbert Hoover marries Lou Henry. (Monterey, California - The Day the Bubble Burst)
1916: Thursday 10th February: Lindley Garrison resigns as U.S. Secretary of War. (Wilson)
1930: Monday 10th February: Future Korean War fighter and racist Walt Kowalski is born. (Gran Torino)
1942: Tuesday 10th February: All European and American residents of the Raffles Hotel are informed of the impending Japanese invasion and advised that women and children must be evacuated immediately on the British vessel, Prince Albert. (Singapore - Paradise Road)
1950: Friday 10th February: Adrianna Pennino is born. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky Balboa)
1967: Friday 10th February: Lieutenant Commander Michael J. Lander of the United States Navy is captured while fire-bombing a civilian hospital. (Near Ninh Bihn, Vietnam - Black Sunday)
1968: Saturday 10th February: Laura Tollins is born. (The Number 23)
1976: Tuesday 10th February: Claire Kuchever is born. (Deja Vu)
1991: Sunday 10th February: Laura Tollins is murdered. (The Number 23)
2000: Thursday 10th February: Day one of the UCA Nationals is held in Florida. (Daytona Beach, Florida - Bring it On)
2004: Tuesday 10th February: Walter Sparrow discovers who murdered Laura Tollins and vindicates an innocent man. Walter begins narrating his story by saying it all began a week ago on his birthday. (The Number 23)
2004: Tuesday 10th February: Narendra and the Winlevosses send a cease and disist letter to Zuckerberg. (Cambridge, Massachusetts - The Social Network)
2013: Sunday 10th February: Marybeth Dunston goes on a swamp tour to avenge her father Sampson by hunting Victor Crowley. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Hatchet)
2013: Sunday 10th February: Parade ends. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Hatchet III)
2014: Monday 10th February: Diário Açu headline: "PÁSSAROS RAROS NA AMAZÔNIA." Blu, Jewel, and their children Carla, Bia, and Tiago meet more blue Spix's macaws in the Amazon. (Brazil - Rio 2)
Here are a few recent films we've put in their chronological place...
Bridesmaids
Tintin
Captain America
Hugo
Moneyball
The Woman In Black
Sherlock Holmes
The King's Speech
Friends With Benefits
...as well as many others.
You can explore the dates on the left-hand bar to see discover...
When Harry Met Sally - that'll be 1977.
The Day The Bubble Burst - it was a Tuesday.
The Day The Earth Stood Still - that was a Wednesday.
Employee of the Month - that month was November 2006.
Hogwarts was founded just 61 years after King Arthur sought the Holy Grail by storming a castle with a large wooden rabbit.
Plus the coincidences, for instance...
- Gangs of New York's Amsterdam Vallon was killing Butcher Bill, down the road Abraham Lincoln was being kidnapped by Bill & Ted...
- Lucky Al Capone - he was sent to Alcatraz by Eliot Ness just in time to miss King Kong rampaging around New York...
- Andy Dufresne was wrongly sentenced to Shawshank a few short months before someone else was framed - Roger Rabbit...
Submit your own historical event from a movie (not TV - yet) by clicking here. It can be a real event (eg. the sinking of the Titanic) or a far-from-real event (eg. Marty McFly attending his parents' school dance) - so long as it's found in a film. It must be a verifiable date - whether a year subtitled at the start ("1941, France..."), a visible clue in the film (character picks up a newspaper), or some historical backdrop (From Hell's Jack The Ripper). If you know what year a movie is set in, let me know.
Thanks for linking to us and please continue to plug us on your journeys round the net. For now please ignore the crappy straightforward appearance - explore the information and trivia, have some fun with it - it really is a very simple idea. But it needs your help!
In the beginning... God created the heavens and the earth (The Bible)
Shortly after the beginning... God subcontracts the fjords to Slartibartfast, a planetary construction engineer from Magrathea (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
26,000,000,000BC Los Angeles (and everywhere else) - The Earth's crust begins to harden (Adaptation)
A long time ago... Luke Skywalker and Han Solo lead a rebellion against the evil empire(Star Wars)
1 zillion BC October 9: Cavemen discover fire, and the joys of eating dinosaur egg (Caveman, 1981)
From this point on the dates get more sensible - begin the timeline...
Some other sites you may like...
The Movie Timeline twitter feed. Do follow.
Movie Banter - our podcast 'n' blog
My site as a stand-up, with gig guides, cv, etc
Ruined Endings (plots and endings of all the best films. And some bad ones.)
And unaffiliated, but friendly sites...