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FILM · 1976 · UK

Nickelodeon

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8 Interesting Facts About Nickelodeon

  1. #003

    For the Los Angeles premiere, all guests (and some critics) paid five cents to watch the film, in honor of the early-era ticket prices of the film and of Hollywood. The response to the picture was weak, however, and critic David Sheehan, reporting for CBS News, claimed it was not worth paying five cents to see the picture.

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  2. #004

    On March 20, 2024, TCM aired this film in black and white because the late Peter Bogdanovich had originally wanted it that way.

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  3. #006

    The projectors showing The Birth of a Nation (1915) near the end of the film are Powers model 6B. The projectors are period-appropriate, but the arc lamps used are not correct. These are Strong Electric low-intensity reflector lamps, and they would not be manufactured for another decade. The correct lamp would have been an older rectangular-shaped condenser arc.

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  4. #009

    Almost all of the film cameras are Pathe "Studio" (also known as "Professional") models. These were the highest-grade cameras made before World War I and had a distinctive 400-meter square film magazine on top.

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  5. #013

    Mae Marsh and Henry B. Walthall can easily be spotted in the screening of The Birth of a Nation (1915).

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  6. #014

    At the beginning of the film there is a character named Edna Mae Gilhooley. This name was probably derived from Edna Rae Gillooly, the birth name of Ellen Burstyn, who had her breakthrough role in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971).

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  7. #015

    Irreconcilable Differences (1984) has Ryan O'Neal playing a fictional version of Peter Bogdanovich. In that film, O'Neal's character transforms from a film-historian university professor into a writer and filmmaker, closely reflecting Bogdanovich. The same thing happens in this film, but O'Neal plays a lawyer who becomes a writer and filmmaker (with the same kind of naive and clumsy personality).

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  8. #017

    The real-life cinema figures mentioned are the actresses Mary Pickford and Theda Bara and the director D. W. Griffith.

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