Cinema Films, DVD Films, DVD Boxsets, DVD TV Series

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23rd March 1940 - the first radio broadcast of Truth or Consequences on CBS

23rd March 1950 - the 22nd Academy Awards, All The King's Men

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25th March 1954 - the 26th Academy Awards, From Here to Eternity, best film

25th March 1954 - RCA manufactured first small colour TV set

25th March 1982 - the first broadcast of Cagney and Lacey on CBS-TV

25th March 1985 - the 57th Academy Awards, Amadeus best film

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26th March 1958 - the 30th Academy Awards, The Bridge on the River Kwai wins for Best Picture

26th March 1971 - Cannon with William Conrad premiered on CBS-TV

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28th March 1935 - the influential Nazi Propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" released showed Nuremberg rallies, commissioned by Adolf Hitler and directed by Leni Riefenstahl

28th March 1969 - the Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis made a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece

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30th March 1895 - British inventor Birt Acres filmed the Oxford and Cambridge boat race

30th March 1946 - the 3rd Golden Globes, The Lost Weekend

30th March 1955 - the 27th Academy Awards, On the Waterfront

30th March 1981 - Chariots of Fire premiered at a Royal Command Film Performance (Best Picture 1982)

30th March 1987 - the 59th Academy Awards, Platoon

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2nd April 1902 - Electric Theatre, first full-time movie theater in the US, opened in Los Angeles, California

2nd April 1968 - 2001 A Space Odyssey, premiered at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.

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4th April 1914 - the film serial Perils of Pauline, shown for the first time in Los Angeles

4th April 1960 - the 32nd Academy Awards, Ben-Hur won for best film

4th April 1975 - the British sitcom The Good Life shown for the first time on BBC One

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5th April 1949 - the Fireside Theater debuted on US television

5th April 1965 - the 37th Academy Awards, My Fair Lady, Rex Harrison won awards

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6th April 1889 - George Eastman began selling his Kodak flexible rolled film for the first time

6th April 1931 - A Connecticut Yankee film, is released

6th April 1959 - the 31st Academy Awards: Gigi won for best picture

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Looney Tunes Big Faces Box Set (2011) - this box set contains 10 volumes of compilations, cartoons including Bugs Bunny, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Price at just £26.00 - standard DVD format

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7th April 1906 - the world's first animated cartoon, Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, is released

7th April 1970 - the 42nd Academy Awards, Midnight Cowboy, won for best film

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Batman - Complete TV Series - this box set edition features all the 120 original broadcast episodes on 18 standard DVD discs, from the 1960s live action series following the DC Comics superheroes

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9th April 1962 - the 34th Academy Awards, West Side Story, won for best picture

9th April 1976 - All the President's Men, film is released

9th April 1979 - the 51st Academy Awards, The Deer Hunter, won for best picture

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10th April 1953 - the House of Wax, first colour 3D film, premiered in New York

10th April 1957 - 12 Angry Men, film released

10th April 1967 - the 39th Academy Awards, A Man For All Seasons, Best Picture

10th April 1968 - the 40th Academy Awards, In the Heat of the Night, Rod Steiger won

10th April 1972 - the 44th Academy Awards, The French Connection, Gene Hackman won

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13th April 1964 - the 36th Academy Awards, Tom Jones, Best Film, Patricia Neal and Sidney Poitier win Best Actor/Actress

13th April 1994 - Asteroid 7373 Takei discovered and named after Star Trek actor George Takei

13th April 2003 - the 49th British Academy Television Awards, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression, for Best Comedy and Spooks for Best Drama

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16th April 1932 - Short film The Music Box released in the US, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (1932 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film)

16th April 1962 - Walter Cronkite began anchoring CBS Evening News

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21st April 1925 - Noël Coward's, Fallen Angels premiered in London

21st April 1928 - The Passion of Joan of Arc, is released in Denmark

21st April 1930 - All Quiet On The Western Front, premiered in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Outstanding Production 1930)

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23rd April 1896 - the Vitascope system of movie projection first shown at Koster and Bial's Music Hall, NYC

23rd April 1953 - the film Shane is released

23rd April 1996 - the 49th British Film and Television Awards, Sense and Sensibility Best Film, Michael Radford Best Director

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26th April 1954 - Seven Samurai, Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, is released

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1st May 1939 - Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27

1st May 1941 - Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles, premiered at the Palace Theater in New York City

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