The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
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)
Saturday 17th May: Down-on-his-luck Broadway impressario Jimmy Doyle negotiates a deal with Hollywood producer Sam Otis for the motion picture rights to Doyle's latest musical flop "Rainbow Girl". (Brooklyn, New York - Show Girl in Hollywood)
Wednesday 28th May: Jimmy Doyle, author and producer of the Broadway flop "Rainbow Girl", arrives in Hollywood from New York via train along with John Barrymore, Billie Burke, Delores Costello, Al Jolson and Irving Berlin. Doyle heads straight to the studio to meet with film producer Sam Otis about casting Dixie Dugan in the lead of the film adaptation of "Rainbow Girl". (Hollywood, California - Show Girl in Hollywood)