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The sketch that Jack drew of Rose wearing the famous necklace in the blockbuster movie Titanic was really drawn by director James Cameron, who was also responsible for all the other sketches that were in Jack's sketchbook.
The hands that are seen drawing the sketch are also Cameron's.
There are more than 232 puppets in the Disney film, the Lion King.
In the movie Gandhi 300,000 extras appeared in the funeral scene. Of the 300,000, approximately 100,000 received a small fee, and the other 200,000 did it for free.
There have been about 30 films made at or about Alcatraz, the now-closed federal prison island in San Francisco Bay, including The Rock, in 1996, Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962, and Escape from Alcatraz in 1979.
Walt Disney's 8-minute 1934 film, The Wise Little Hen, featured the first appearance of Donald Duck.
The science-fiction series Lost in Space, set in the year 1997, premiered on CBS in 1965.
The Grand Ole' Opry, which began broadcasting in 1925 as a series of Saturday night barn dances, is American's longest running radio program.
The world's longest running television show is Meet the Press. It began on NBC on November 6, 1947, and continues to be aired today.
Walt Disney holds the record for the most Oscar nominations with sixty-four.
Tweety used to be a baby bird without feathers until censors made him have feathers because he looked naked.
The Wizard of Oz was a Broadway musical 37 years before the MGM movie version was made.It had 293 performances and then went on a tour that lasted nine years.
Because of television censorship, actress Mariette Hartley was not allowed to show her belly button on Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek. Later Roddenberry got even when he gave Hartley "two" belly buttons in the sci-fi movie Genesis II in 1973.
The Black Hole, 1979, was Disney's first PG-rated movie.
The first issue of People Magazine, in 1974, cost 35 cents and featured actress Mia Farrow on the cover.
In 1987 Playtex premiered the first U.S. television commercials with real lingerie models displaying their bras and underwear.
Titanic was only the second film in history to win a total of 11 Academy Awards, the other film was Ben-Hur.
That first Academy Awards ceremony took place during a banquet held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929.
The first annual Grammy Awards were awarded in 1959.
In 1969, Midnight Cowboy became the first and only X-rated production to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its rating has since been changed to R.
On MTV, 75% of videos that tell a story involve sexual imagery, over half involve violence, and 80% combine the two, mostly suggesting violence against women.
The Wizard Of Oz, Toto the dog's salary was $125 a week, Judy Garland's was $500 a week.
Chocolate syrup was used for blood in the famous 45 second shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's movie, Psycho, which actually took 7 days to shoot.
The Monty Python movie The Life of Brian was banned in Scotland.
The name for Oz in The Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz.".
Eighty percent of Hollywood executives believe there is a link between television violence and real-life violence.
In 1938 Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel sold all rights to the comic-strip character Superman to their publishers for $130.
King Kong was the first movie to have a sequel. Son of King Kong was released the same year.
20th Century Fox was so sure Star Wars was going to be a disaster that they came within a matter of days of selling off their stake in the film. Due to positive feedback from an advanced screening they changed their minds and the profits from the film ended up saving the studio from bankruptcy.
60 Minutes is the only CBS television program that doesn’t have a theme song.
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