The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Saturday 10th March: Walter Collins goes missing. (LA - Changeling)
Monday 12th March: Poor weather downs R.J. Mitchell's Supermarine Napier seaplane during speed trials in an attempt to break Supermarine's own speed record. Flight-Lieutenant S.M. Kinkead is killed instantly. (Strait of Solent, England - The First of the Few)
Sunday 25th March: Rev Gustav Briegleb preaches against police corruption. (LA - Changeling)
April: Margaret gives John a Church Hymnary book. (The 39 Steps)
Tuesday 3rd April: Christine Collins relentlessly makes phone calls to trace her son's whereabouts. (LA - Changeling)
Thursday 14th June: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is born. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Friday 15th June: Eagle's Nest Gymnasium is founded. (Los Angeles, CA - Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel)
Monday 6th August: Andy Warhol is born. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - I Shot Andy Warhol)
Thursday 16th August: Carl Panzram is arrested. (Washington, D.C. - Killer: A Journal of Murder)
Saturday 18th August: A child is found matching Walter Collins' description. (Illinois - Changeling)
Monday 20th August: Christine Collins is told that her son has been found in Illinois. (LA - Changeling)
Saturday 15th September: Christine Collins is incarcerated in a mental asylum for refusing to accept a returned child as her son. Gordon Northcott's brother confesses that he helped Gordon kill 20 children. (LA - Changeling)
Thursday 20th September: Gordon Northcott arrives at his sister's house. (Canada - Changeling)
Wednesday 24th October: A demonstration takes place against police corruption, following the wrongful incarceration of Christine Collins. (LA - Changeling)
Tuesday 6th November: Arnold Rothstein is killed by a gun shot. (New York - Mobsters)
Thursday 6th December: Hagrid born. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Clyde Barrow goes to prison for armed robbery. He would serve 2 years. (Texas - Bonnie and Clyde)
Roxie Hart murders her lover. (Chicago, IL - Chicago)
1929 Standing Liberty Quarter is made. (Drag Me To Hell)
Springwood Orphanage is established. (Springwood, OH - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare)
Sam Spade investigates the Maltese Falcon. (The Maltese Falcon)
Memoirs of a Geisha. (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Stella predicts the stock market crash when she nurses the director of General Motors. (New York City - Rear Window)
Jake dies when he hits the gas instead of the brakes. (The Roost)
Lee Bros' Meat Packing Co. is established. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning)
Rose's ex-fiance Cal Hockley commits suicide. (Titanic)
Thursday 10th January: Donald Myers born. (Halloween)
Sunday 13th January: Wyatt Earp dies. (Los Angeles, California - Wyatt Earp)
Thursday 14th February: St Valentine's Day Massacre; two male musicians witness it and escape dressed as women. (Some Like It Hot)
Friday 22nd February: Sarah Fredrick is born. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Wednesday 1st May: Inge Betzler born. (Germany - Jojo Rabbit)
Sunday 12th May: Sound test takes place. (The Artist)
Monday 3rd June: Chuck Barris is born. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)
Tuesday 25th June: James Jupp dies. (Darkman II: The Return of Durant)
Thursday 24th October: George Valentin overhears Peppy Miller saying that people prefer hearing young actors in film. (Hollywoodland, California - The Artist)
Friday 25th October: Peppy Miller sees George Valentin's silent film Tears of Love and is emotionally touched. Her film, Beauty Spot, premeirs and attracts a large audience. (Hollywoodland, California - The Artist)
Tuesday 29th October: The Day the Bubble Burst, aka Black Tuesday, aka the Great Crash, aka the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange. (New York - The Day the Bubble Burst)
Tuesday 29th October: George Bailey & Mary Hatch marry; The Bailey Building & Loan manages to stay open with only $2 left. (Bedford Falls, New York - It's a Wonderful Life)
Tuesday 29th October: The New York Chronicle runs the headline "Stock Market Collapses." Variety runs the headline "Theatres Dump Vaude-Switch to Pix." The Billboard runs the headline "Free Dishes Fail to Hypo Biz." (There's No Business Like Show Business)
Tuesday 29th October: Wall Street Stock Market Crash. (New York City - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
Wednesday 30th October: Lyle Atwood and an unknown man jump from a Wall St skyscraper. They vanish, before Lyle reappears and lands on a car, dead. (Timecop)
Friday 8th November: George Valentin has his things packed and leaves Doris. (Hollywoodland, California - The Artist)
Thursday 14th November: Jim Piersall is born. (Waterbury, Connecticut - Fear Strikes Out)
George Valentin stops paying Clifton. (The Artist)
Howard Hughes produces 'Hell's Angels'. (The Aviator)
11 year-old Leonard Lowe begins showing signs of Encephalitis Lethargica. (New York - Awakenings)
Edmund Pevensie is born. (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Benjamin first meets Daisy who is visiting her Grandmother. He falls in love with her right away. (New Orleans - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives wrongly raise tariffs to alleviate The Great Depression. (Washington - Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Pamela Voorhees born. (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter)
Julia meets her future husband Alfred Lennon. (Liverpool, England - In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Sanjay Masrani is born (Bombay, India - Jurassic World)
Lucien Carr's parents separate. (Washington, D.C. - Kill Your Darlings)
Clive Candy shoots a moose. (Nova Scotia - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Eliot Ness teams up with James Malone to take on Al Capone. (Chicago - The Untouchables)
Tree cut down. (Vertigo)
Wednesday 29th January: THE AFRICAN newspaper headline is "AN EXTRAORDINARY MYSTERY: REPORTER TINTIN UNMASKS TRIBE OF GANGSTERS". (Africa - The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn)
Monday 10th February: Future Korean War fighter and racist Walt Kowalski is born. (Gran Torino)
Thursday 13th March: Shredder is born. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Friday 16th May: Studio boss Sam Otis fires philandering director Frank Buelow by invoking Section 13-A of his contract with the studio. (Hollywood, CA - Show Girl in Hollywood)