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...that Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?

...that Kishan Shrikanth, age ten, is in the process of directing a Kannada-language feature film, C/o Footpath, which will almost certainly make him the youngest director ever to release a commercial feature film?

...that Mexican actress Pina Pellicer played the lover of Marlon Brando in One-Eyed Jacks, the only movie Brando directed?

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...that the 1932 comedy Pojkarna på Storholmen, starring Fridolf Rhudin, is one of the most successful Swedish films in history?

DYK 2

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...that the 1975 film Tubby the Tuba marked the first time that computers were used in the production of an animated feature?

DYK 3

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...that Zhuangzi Tests His Wife, the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema, was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?

DYK 4

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...that 1971's Out of the Darkness was the first Thai science fiction film?

DYK 5

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...that the 1935 film Joymoti, produced and directed by the noted Assam poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala, was the first-ever Assamese language film?

DYK 6

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...that Japanese producer Genjiro Arato exhibited his 1980 film Zigeunerweisen across Japan in a specially-built inflatable mobile dome after exhibitors refused to screen it, and the film went on to win 4 Japanese Academy Awards?

DYK 7

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...that copies of the 1982 biopic Will: G. Gordon Liddy, about a Watergate co-conspirator, are stored in the Nixon Presidential Materials collection at the U.S. National Archives?

DYK 8

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...that Battlefield Baseball, a Japanese film, features elements of the sports, martial arts and horror genres, as well as including three musical numbers?

DYK 9

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...that Hell Below, a 1933 WW I film, set the pattern for many WW II submarine dramas, and featured the deliberate sinking of USS Moody, slated for destruction by the London Naval Treaty?

DYK 10

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...that the Hood Event was an incident following the US invasion of Iraq where a group of Turkish special forces operating in northern Iraq was captured and interrogated by the US military, later becoming the basis for the 2006 film Valley of the Wolves Iraq?

DYK 11

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...that The Silent World, an Academy Award winning documentary film by Jacques Cousteau, was the first film to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color?

DYK 12

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...that Vera Kholodnaya, the first Russian silent film star, was rumoured to have been poisoned by the French Ambassador with whom she reportedly had an affair and who believed that she was a spy for the Bolsheviks?

DYK 13

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...that Shin Sang-ok, a South Korean film director was kidnapped in 1978 under orders from future North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and forced to direct a giant-monster film, Pulgasari?

DYK 14

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...that benshi were the people who narrated Japanese silent films until the 1930's?

DYK 15

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...that the 1927 silent film The Scar of Shame is an early example of a "race movie," in which a feature film was made by a black cast exclusively for black audiences?

DYK 16

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...that the phrase "Up to eleven", inspired by a scene from the 1984 film This is Spinal Tap, was entered into the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in 2002 with the definition "up to maximum volume"?

DYK 17

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...that Kishan Shrikanth, age ten, is in the process of directing a Kannada-language feature film, C/o Footpath, which will almost certainly make him the youngest director ever to release a commercial feature film?

DYK 18

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...that the title of the movie I Married a Communist was so unappealing to audiences that their response led the film to be re-released under the title The Woman on Pier 13?

DYK 19

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...that Gustaf Tenggren was a chief illustrator at the Disney Company when Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi and Pinocchio were produced?

DYK 20

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...that Mukh O Mukhosh (The face and the mask), directed by Abdul Jabbar Khan, is the first full-length Bengali language feature film to be produced in the erstwhile East Pakistan, which later became Bangladesh?

DYK 21

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...that Mexican actress Pina Pellicer played the lover of Marlon Brando in One-Eyed Jacks, the only movie Brando directed?

DYK 22

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...that Tanaz Eshaghian's film Be Like Others explores the experiences of transsexuals in Iran, a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery?

DYK 23

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...that Marzieh Meshkini's 2000 film The Day I Became a Woman depicts three stages in the lives of Iranian women, focusing on a nine year old girl, a married woman, and an elderly widow?

DYK 24

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...that Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality?

DYK 25

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...that Japanese film tycoon Haruki Kadokawa built a full-size replica of Columbus' flagship Santa María which sailed from Barcelona to Japan?

DYK 26

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...that Jacqueline Audry was the first commercially successful woman film director of post-war France?

DYK 27

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...that Cheryl Dunye's 1996 film The Watermelon Woman was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian?

DYK 28

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... that Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa?

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