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Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Don Juan (1926) Quiz
Famous trivia from Hollywood movie : Don Juan (1926) Quiz
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About the movie:
If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life...
1.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Don Juan (1926)?
a.
Brian J. Smith auditioned for the role of Chris Boyd before being cast as Trey McCoy.
b.
According to The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats, "The Wrath of Khan" can boast of the fastest camera speed on any feature motion picture. Industrial Light and Magic shot the giant explosion scene at 2500 frames per second at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Although it took only one second to film, it took up 104 seconds on-screen at 24fps speed.
c.
William Powell
had a mustache for the entire length of his career, but shaved it off when dressed as a woman.
d.
Although this was the first feature film with a Vitaphone soundtrack (therefore being the first film with a completely synchronized soundtrack), it is by no means the first sound film. The first sound film can be dated back to 1895; the process was re-discovered and improved by a French company (using a gramophone) in 1910. In 1913
Thomas A. Edison
announced that all the problems of sound films were solved, and showed what he called "the first sound film." As in the earlier efforts,
Nursery Favorites
had a gramophone that appeared to synchronize with the film. There was one problem: the film was projected at the wrong speed, and the soundtrack was slowed down inadvertently. This problem happened all too often, and a frustrated Edison abandoned his process. In 1921
D.W. Griffith
employed various experts to film a sound introduction for his film
Dream Street
, which still exists, and the performance went off without a hitch. Griffith soon stopped using sound because he thought it was financial suicide, stating "Only 5% of the world speaks English, so why should I lose 95% of my audience?" However, by 1925 sound had arrived in the form of radio, and it was inevitable that film would follow. Movie studios tried various innovations to keep audiences coming (Technicolor, wide screen, etc.) Warner Brothers, then a lesser film company, bought the old Brooklyn-based Vitagraph Studios and its all-important network of 34 film exchanges (the film distribution network vital to each studio) in 1925 and laid out plans to become a dominant force in the film industry. Sam Warner, one of the four Warner brothers, felt the future was in sound and convinced his skeptical older brother
Harry M. Warner
(the money man) to throw their lot in with Western Electrics 16" disc-based recording system, forming the Vitaphone Corp. on April 20, 1926, as 70% stockholders. Oddly, Sam never envisioned the system for voice synchronization; rather, he saw it as an economical way to add the added dimension of musical accompaniment. The Vitaphone process solved the synchronization problem electro-mechanically, corresponding the projection speed with the recorded disc by utilizing the same motor for both devices. While cumbersome in both recording (editing was impossible) and play back (discs were fragile), Vitaphone represented the peak of technological innovation, albeit briefly. This film, the first Warner Bros. feature to utilize the Vitaphone process, debuted in a gala premiere on August 6th 1926 and while it was a hit, it signaled an industry format war unrivaled until the 1980s Beta vs. VHS battle. Warners
The Jazz Singer
would become a monster hit 13 months later, solidly proving the publics interest in sound. But there were several sound systems then in development and none were interchangeable and the major studios like MGM and Paramount adopted a wait-and-see attitude that persisted well into 1929. The most practical, Foxs Movietone (sound on film) system, eventually won out and Warners abandoned recorded discs in 1930 but kept the Vitaphone trademark before the public into the 1940s.
2.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Don Juan (1926)?
a.
In the opening credits are "Inspired by the legend of the Greatest Lover of all Ages" and "A Warner Brothers Classic of the Screen".
b.
Originally developed in 1988 by director
William Malone
(
House on Haunted Hill
) as "Dead Star" with paintings by
H.R. Giger
and a plot that had been called "
Hellraiser
in outer space".
c.
Although the movie show some important places of Los Angeles city like Terminal Annex, Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles International Airport, Grand Central Market or Dodger Stadium, the library by where the angels walk is located in San Francisco.
d.
Clark Gable
also starred in the 1953 remake
Mogambo
.
3.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Don Juan (1926)?
a.
Director
Orson Welles
saw "The Black Cat" and was so impressed by cinematographer
Stanley Cortez
s atmospheric lighting and angling that he hired Cortez to photograph
The Magnificent Ambersons
which is also set largely inside a Victorian-era mansion.
b.
The launch film for the 2009 London Film Festival.
c.
In addition to the musical performers, this film had a number of cameo appearances by disc jockeys from across the United States, Canada and Great Britain. This insured the producers of some free radio plugs for the film upon its release.
d.
At the films premiere,
Will Hays
, the then "Czar" and censor of the industry, contributed an on-screen introduction, talking in synchronized sound, greeting everyone in the audience with "Welcome to a new era of motion picture." After that, the Los Angeles Philharmonic was filmed playing "Tannhäuser", violinists
Mischa Elman
and
Efrem Zimbalist Sr.
, guitarist
Roy Smeck
, three opera shorts with
Giovanni Martinelli
Marion Talley
and
Anna Case
, and then the feature. It was a huge success.
4.
Which of the following famous movie trivia, is related to the Hollywood movie: Don Juan (1926)?
a.
Ray Liotta
actually ate dark chicken meat during the "brain-eating scene".
b.
Don Juan plants 191 kisses on various females during the course of the film, an average of one every 53 seconds.
c.
David Strathairn
, a non-smoker, smoked pipe tobacco in his prop cigarettes to portray
Edward R. Murrow
.
d.
In early 1947,
Irene Dunne
,
Spencer Tracy
and
Robert Taylor
were set to star.
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