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Since your question asks What is the first crossover movie? I'll submit two of the earliest I have found, depending on your definition of "crossover". For movie horror/sci-fi franchises, there is Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943). But I think the earliest could be Laurel and Hardy's appearance in the Our Gang comedy short Wild Poses (1933). Both Our ...

I would think Alien vs. Predator would be an example of combining franchises, which was released in 2004. While not a critical success (garnered only 22% Tomatometer), it did gross $80.2 million. It even spawned a sequel, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem in 2007.

Though not strictly a movie, there is the now infamous example of the pilot episode of the X-Files spin-off show, The Lone Gunmen. Airing 6 months before the terrorist attack on 9/11, it depicts the hackers foiling an attempt by a shady organization to fly a plane into the WTC in order to catalyze a Mid-East attack. Dodgy conspiracy theories aside, this is ...

Beginning in the late 1980s, Sony began marketing the concept of "electronic cinematography," utilizing its analog Sony HDVS professional video cameras. The effort met with very little success. In 1998, with the introduction of HDCAM recorders and 1920 × 1080 pixel digital professional video cameras based on CCD technology, the idea, now re-branded as ...

French gentleman thief Arsène Lupin battles the English detective Sherlock Holmes in the 1910 German drama film serial Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes. Wikipedia says: A contemporary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in Francophone countries, has enjoyed a ...

There was no movie rating system in place back in the 1940's, and movies were greatly censored by the US government. In the 1920's the Supreme Court ruled that free speech did not apply to movies, and a control board was arranged where by all film studios had to submit their scripts for censorship. Movie studios were given guide lines by which they had to ...

Lady in the Lake (1947) The entire movie plot unfolds from lead Robert Montgomery's point of view, thus creating a rarity in film: the principal character is only seen on-screen as a reflection in mirrors and windows, and as the narrator speaking directly to the audience.

If we're not talking public domain characters, then my mind immediately turns to Japanese monster movies. There are several monsters with their own movies, but on occasion they would appear together in a "Vs." movie. Earliest one I could find is King Kong vs. Godzilla, which was release in 1962.

Are you asking specifically about comic book franchises? There have been no shortage of public domain crossovers, or crossovers between a branded character set and public domain characters. (For example, The Three Stooges Meet Frankenstein, The Three Stooges Meet Hercules, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (which has Sherlock Holmes meet Sigmund Freud). King Kong ...

Initially it was a intended to be a drama, but as Kubrick started to work on the screenplay he began to see the absurdity and humor in many of the scenes and decided to write instead a "nightmare comedy." To quote Kubrick: After all, what could be more absurd than the very idea of two mega-powers willing to wipe out all human life because of an ...

From the wiki page for 555: The phone companies began encouraging the producers of television shows and movies to use the 555 prefix for fictional telephone numbers, roughly during the 1960s. One of the earliest uses of a 555 number can be seen in Panic in Year Zero! (1962), with 555-2106. In the 1942 film: "Eyes in the Night", starring Edward Arnold and ...

The Golem (1920) is already quite human - but no robot. In Metropolis (1927) you find a robot, which is transformed to a very human looking Maria see this youtube video I found some hints of a 1886 film l'Eve Futur: In 1886, the French novel l'Eve Futur featured a Thomas Edison-like mad scientist building a robot in the likeness of a woman. source ...

The oldest I know is "The Great Train Robbery" (1903). There is a youtube clip, see scene 4, approx. in minute 4ff There are more information about the film at: Wikipedia IMDB

The silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari from 1920 is thought to be the first depiction of zombies in film. While it doesn't feature the walking dead. The story is about the fantasies of an insane man who has dreams of murdering people. His walk, body motion and make up are the bases of modern day zombies. The first appearance of the popular North ...

Hmm, there seems to be plenty of sources for total gross per year but none are adjusted for inflation. Nonetheless, Box Office Mojo have a little explanation detailing how to adjust total gross using annual average ticket prices here. It also has a table of averages stretching back to the early 20th century. The data gets more intermittent the further back ...

This originates in the world of comics, and there have been many "reboots" of comics turned into TV series and/or TV series turned into films. But assuming your definition is restricted to movies rebooted from other movies only, Wikipedia tells us Godzilla is the earliest. First made in 1954, and rebooted at least in 1984 and 2000. As new directors came in ...

Currency conversion rates can change multiple times in a minute, and can vary widely in a day, a week, a month, or a year. So which conversion rate do you use? The closing rate on the day the movie came out? The average rate for the year of production? And inflation rates vary country to country throughout history. Again, which rate do you use? Also some ...

The earliest fictional robots and androids in film listed on Wikipedia are: The Dummy, played by Ben Turpin in the silent short A Clever Dummy, dating from 1917, when the term "robot" did not yet exist. -> Doesn't count: the Dummy was made to replace a postman. The Mechanical Man from the silent film of the same name (1921) -> Doesn't count: the ...

I asked this question on Facebook to a couple of friends of mine (Pablo Hidalgo, content manager and author for Lucasfilm, and Mark Newbold, writer for Star Wars Insider) and as far as they know, this rumor isn't true. Lucas certainly saw Tolkien's work as an influence, but he didn't actively seek to acquire the rights.

It would appear to me that those claims could be true, because researching the subject in Google found many references to George Lucas and Lord of the Rings. You have to also accept that George would have the financial ability to purchase such rights, and he is clearly a huge fan of Tolkien's work. George is referenced in this FOX News report as being close ...

Baseball players in 1911, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1920, 1921, 1927, 1942 The Guide to United States Popular Culture (2001) by Ray Broadus Browne and Pat Browne says: As Linda K. Fuller has noted, "The real story of the success of baseball films is not the batting box, but at the box office. From the beginning, filmmakers were quick to realize the added ...

After some research, the earliest movie I could find, which features a nuclear holocaust (and the survivors) is a 1951 movie, Five, which means that it did not predate Trinity nuclear tests I find it very difficult to cross-validate this, though I referred to List of Nuclear Holocaust Fiction on Wiki, to start with. The movie entry for articles on this ...

Not a definitive answer, but perhaps a clue can be found in this interview with Michael Richards where he claims that the version of events in Man on the Moon was not correct. Three excerpts: Richards: Yeah, and in the movie, "Man in the Moon," that's not correct. That's not how it happened because the network didn't really know about it either. No ...

Pixar’s subsequent films act like a timeline of technological developments in computer graphics. Building on the work of other researchers, 2001’s Monsters, Inc. introduced the on-screen representation of fur. Two years later, Finding Nemo pioneered new techniques in digital lighting, which were used to create realistic-looking water. The Incredibles and ...

The movie The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951) discusses atomic bombs. In the movie, the alien Klaatu comes to earth on a goodwill mission. He has concerns that Earth might be destroyed by other alien civilizations, concerned for their own safety, in the wake of mankind inventing Nuclear Power.

As noted by the OP, the Basil Rathbone scene from 1940 could well be the earliest example of a sword being sliced in two by a sword purely to showcase his prowess. The 1925 movie, Don Q, Son of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks also features candle slicing, albeit with a whip. While I have not seen it, this blog notes that the Errol Flynn swashbuckler, The ...

I'm led to believe that "I'll Never Forget What's'isname" (1967) was the first film to use the f-word. As an interesting aside, here is a list of films in which the word appears most frequently.

Significance It can be argued that some swearing is overused and unnecessary but some films contain swearing because some people swear in real-life, and it can make a film more dramatic or shocking. History It depends on what is considered swearing, which has changed over the years as sensibilities change, and also on culture, but swearing dates back to ...

Here's some I found from searching Subzin.com: Eyes in the Night (1942): 00:20:32 ROSSMORE 555. ... 00:26:01 I WANT ROSSMORE 555. ... 00:26:08 HELLO, ROSSMORE 555? The Second Time Around (1961): 00:29:59 The number is 555 - 3485. ... 00:30:35 That's right. The number is 555 - 3485. KL5 and 555 can be found in a list of (presumably ...

On television, a couple of early examples (though not necessarily the earliest) might be The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show or The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, although it's debatable if those are really fictional versions of themselves or just characters with the same names. Then there is The Monkees in 1962, which is most certainly them playing ...