The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
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Welcome. Yes, the coding is gleefully retro here - who knew that websites could look "so 1998". But here we focus our geekery elsewhere: on movies, and more specifically, on the chronology of all movies, pasted together in a big list. Keep your submissions coming in! You make this. The list runs on one simple premise: that everything you see in the movies is true - the real mixes with the fictitious, so long as it's reported in a movie somewhere. So do join in - the above left links should help you Submit the event from the film you'd like, although do a Search first - we may well have it already!
NEWS! We have a Twitter account. Follow @MovieTimeline. You'll then be treated to one 'event' a day from the world of movie history - some'll be real world stuff, some'll be the world of fiction.
I recently blogged about my personally handpicked journey through history in 100 movies. Do click and read. It's in 3 parts, so click on the links at the bottom after part 1.
Today in movie history...
1773: 9th February: William Henry Harrison is born. (Virginia - Tecumseh)
1864: 9th February: Union General George Armstrong Custer marries Elizabeth Bacon. (Monroe, Michigan - The Hard Ride)
1900: 9th February: When her advisors threaten to declare her insane, Queen Victoria reminds them that she has reigned for 62 years and 234 days. (Scotland - Victoria and Abdul)
1949: Wednesday 9th February: Shakka Holland, alias Shakka Kupor is born of wealthy parents; a spoiled woman who kills without provocation. (Tangiers, Morocco - Nighthawks)
1950: Thursday 9th February: Senator Joseph McCarthy claims that he has a list with the names of over 200 members of the Department of State that are "known communists." (Wheeling, West Virginia - Citizen Cohn)
1964: Sunday 9th February: The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. (I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
1964: Sunday 9th February: Tony Smerko is almost struck by lightning when he attempts to sabotage the transmitter on top of the CBS auditorium. (New York - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
1964: Sunday 9th February: The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. (In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
1964: Sunday 9th February: Comedian Buddy Young Jr unfortunately makes his Ed Sullivan Show debut following The Beatles. (Mr. Saturday Night)
1974: Saturday 9th February: Leigh Crosby is born. (Black Christmas)
1974: Saturday 9th February: Madison Elizabeth Frank born. (Vermont - What Lies Beneath)
2001: Friday 9th February: Robert dies. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
2003: Sunday 9th February: Oskar has a free day. (New York City - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
2004: Monday 9th February: Walter Sparrow tracks down the supposed author of The Number 23 by Fed-Exing 23 boxes to his PO Box address. (The Number 23)
2013: Saturday 9th February: Parade begins. (New Orleans, Louisiana - Hatchet III)
2014: Sunday 9th February: Linda Gunderson and Tulio Monteiro find the feather of a blue Spix's macaw in the Amazon. Blu, Jewel, and their kids see them on the news at 8:25 A.M. (Brazil - Rio 2)
Here are a few recent films we've put in their chronological place...
Bridesmaids
Tintin
Captain America
Hugo
Moneyball
The Woman In Black
Sherlock Holmes
The King's Speech
Friends With Benefits
...as well as many others.
You can explore the dates on the left-hand bar to see discover...
When Harry Met Sally - that'll be 1977.
The Day The Bubble Burst - it was a Tuesday.
The Day The Earth Stood Still - that was a Wednesday.
Employee of the Month - that month was November 2006.
Hogwarts was founded just 61 years after King Arthur sought the Holy Grail by storming a castle with a large wooden rabbit.
Plus the coincidences, for instance...
- Gangs of New York's Amsterdam Vallon was killing Butcher Bill, down the road Abraham Lincoln was being kidnapped by Bill & Ted...
- Lucky Al Capone - he was sent to Alcatraz by Eliot Ness just in time to miss King Kong rampaging around New York...
- Andy Dufresne was wrongly sentenced to Shawshank a few short months before someone else was framed - Roger Rabbit...
Submit your own historical event from a movie (not TV - yet) by clicking here. It can be a real event (eg. the sinking of the Titanic) or a far-from-real event (eg. Marty McFly attending his parents' school dance) - so long as it's found in a film. It must be a verifiable date - whether a year subtitled at the start ("1941, France..."), a visible clue in the film (character picks up a newspaper), or some historical backdrop (From Hell's Jack The Ripper). If you know what year a movie is set in, let me know.
Thanks for linking to us and please continue to plug us on your journeys round the net. For now please ignore the crappy straightforward appearance - explore the information and trivia, have some fun with it - it really is a very simple idea. But it needs your help!
In the beginning... God created the heavens and the earth (The Bible)
Shortly after the beginning... God subcontracts the fjords to Slartibartfast, a planetary construction engineer from Magrathea (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
26,000,000,000BC Los Angeles (and everywhere else) - The Earth's crust begins to harden (Adaptation)
A long time ago... Luke Skywalker and Han Solo lead a rebellion against the evil empire(Star Wars)
1 zillion BC October 9: Cavemen discover fire, and the joys of eating dinosaur egg (Caveman, 1981)
From this point on the dates get more sensible - begin the timeline...
Some other sites you may like...
The Movie Timeline twitter feed. Do follow.
Movie Banter - our podcast 'n' blog
My site as a stand-up, with gig guides, cv, etc
Ruined Endings (plots and endings of all the best films. And some bad ones.)
And unaffiliated, but friendly sites...