Happy B-Day To Cinema

Exactly 117 years ago, on December 28 1895, brothers Lumière made their first screening of very first short movie in Salon Indien du Grand Café, France. The movie was named Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, with length of 50 seconds and 17 meters.

This day has been considered as the birth of Cinematography.

Here are some important dates (that might be interesting) in movie history:

• 1908-05-21 - 1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
• 1927-10-06 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
• 1951-01-28 - "La Vie Commence Demain," which depicted artificial insemination & is the 1st X-rated movie, opened in London
• 1952-11-26 - 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood

Source: Google

AFI: Most Memorable Movie Quotes

American Film Institute has listed 100 most memorable movie quotes of all time. Some of my favorites are:

What's your favorite quote of all time?

AFI: 100 Movie Quotes

Longest Running TV Series

I have always believed that around 6 episodes is a normal length for TV Series not to become boring. But sometimes some of them make you grow up with them, live and die and they never lose their very first sparkle you loved during its first seasons. 

This post is dedicated to series that has been making history during the years and have breached the stereotype of long-running series to be tedious. Here is a list TV Series with most original episodes:

(Obviously, most of them are soap operas)

10. Coronation Street

Airing Date: 1960 (52 years)

Episodes: 7,970

The show was aired in 1960 and still runs. During its 52 years 7970 original episodes has shown on TV. Originally Coronation Street is British series but since 2010 it has been widely adopted by numerous countries including United States. 

Just after screening very first episode the critics claimed the series to last maximum three weeks, but the show really draw viewers attention by its original and ordinary characters. Well, I see this show is popular even now.

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