Commemorates the centennial of American movies with a montage of clips and music scores from the most important movies of the century.
Take a look back at these Hollywood icons in their early days to see how far they've come in their careers—and how little they've visibly aged.
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Title: 100 Years at the Movies (1994– )
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| Woody Allen | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Julie Andrews | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Fred Astaire | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Dan Aykroyd | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Lauren Bacall | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Warren Beatty | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Wallace Beery | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Ingrid Bergman | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Humphrey Bogart | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Ward Bond | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Clara Bow | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Marlon Brando | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
| Nicolas Cage | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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James Cagney Jr. | ... | Self (archive footage) |
| Eddie Cantor | ... | Self (archive footage) | |
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The first commercially available movie in the United States aired on Broadway in New York City on April 14, 1894. The footage shown there was viewed through a narrow slot in a former shoe store. This short film celebrates the first 100 years of American movies from that time. With certain themes often tying them together, clips from landmark American movies are shown in somewhat chronological order, the clips played over an orchestral score, which is often itself based on landmark movie scores. Seventeen movies are specially mentioned, these seventeen perhaps not the best or most influential movies, but rather ones that provide insight to movies from that era. Written by Huggo
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Turner Entertainment gratefully acknowledges the distributors, production organizations, labor organizations, and the many individuals whose talent and gracious assistance made this 100th Anniversary celebration possible. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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CAREFULLY ASSEMBLED, AND without any visible signs of favouritism toward any period or genre, this one reeler does its best in evoking the steady evolution of the motion picture from humble beginnings in peep show novelty, to the Nickelodeon days, the Silents, the Talkie Era, the Great Depression, World War II and right up through the post-studio system and the advent of the shopping center multiplex.
SANS ANY NARRATION, be it flowery and self-congratulatory or not, the 9 minutes of pure cinematic heaven flows by much like a beautiful dream. We aren't sure just how many micro-clips of archival scenes from how many other a film are included and quite frankly, we don't even care to guess.
SERVING AS SORT of an audio catalyst in melting all into a single, coherent screen montage, we have a section of the soundtrack of the score for CITIZEN KANE, by Bernard Hermann. The musical quotation used is from the scene where we see a very happy, young 9 year old enjoying his playing in the snow in Colorado. It is repeated several times and is well used in its function in blending it all together.
WE'VE LONG BELIEVED that Hollywood oft takes itself far too seriously and tends to exaggerate its own importance as an art form. This ever so brief 9 minutes of shear cinematic pleasure does more than all of the awards shows, red carpet events and gossip could ever hope to accomplish! AS FOR THE rating for this, both Schultz and I say maximum stars allowed!