Movie Firsts That Changed Everything

What this quiz asks

• In which city did the Lumière brothers hold their first paid public film screening in December 1895?
• Westworld (1973) was the first feature film to use digital image processing.
• About how many extras appeared in the funeral scene of Gandhi (1982)?
• Select ALL of these that are widescreen film formats introduced in the 1950s.
• Was Becky Sharp (1935) the first feature film shot entirely in three-strip Technicolor?
• Scent of Mystery (1960) released odours into cinemas using which system?
• Order these films by release year, earliest first.
• What was the first fictional feature film to be shot partly in outer space?
• Tiger Child (1970) was the first film made in the IMAX format.
• How many frames per second became the standard speed for sound films?
• Which 1928 Warner Bros. release was the first all-talking feature film?
• Were the Academy Awards first broadcast on television in 1953?
• Select ALL of these stars who won the acting awards at the first Academy Awards, in 1929.
• Which 1952 film, watched through special glasses, kicked off Hollywood's 1950s 3-D craze?
• Order these film festivals by the year of their first edition, earliest first.
• Which country made The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), often called the first feature-length narrative film?
• The Great Train Robbery (1903), an early landmark western, was filmed in the American West.
• In what year did Louis Le Prince film the Roundhay Garden Scene, the oldest surviving motion picture?
• Was Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) the first feature film with a fully computer-generated character?
• Which 1953 biblical epic was the first film released in CinemaScope?