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CINEMA RECORD- HOLDERS

The world?s most prolific film industry is no longer in Hollywood, but in Mumbai in1979-a boom year for the Indian cinemas- 714 feature films were produced. Each lasting at least an hour. In that same year, Japan produced 335 films, France 234, Turkey 195, the Philippines 170 and United States 167. Only 38 films were made in Britain.
The world?s most perennially popular author among film-maker is William Shakespeare. There have been almost 300 films produced of his major plays, with 41 versions of Hamlet alone.
Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more often than any other fictional character. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s detective has been played by 62 actors in177 films. The next most portrayed character is Count Dracula, with 133 films appearance, followed by Frankenstein?s monster (91films), Tarzan (83), Hopalong Casssidy (66) and Zotto (66).
The longest commercially made talking film seen at one screening is Lawrence of Arabis. It was made by the British director David Lean in 1962 and stars Peter o? Toole. It runs for 3 hour 42 minutes- two minutes longer than Gone with the Wind.
The longest film ever made was a British underground movie called The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World. In its original version, which was premiered at a Paris cinema in October 1970, it ran for 48 hours.
The world?s most expansive film was War and Peace made by the Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk between 1963and 1967. The eight- hour-long film- which was screened over three to four evening- is reported to have cost more than 65 million pounds. It was shot on 168 different locations- the biggest total for any film-and included a cast of 120,000 extras from the Red Army.
The film to be shown to airline passengers in flight was a silent version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s The Last World. It was screened during an imperial Airways flight from London in April 1925.
The largest make-up budget for any film was $1 million for the 1968 American production Planets of the Apes; the sum took up 17 % of film?s total production cost. The longest make-up job was the ?tattooing? used on Rod Steiger in the 1968 film The Illustrated Man. It took nine men about 20 hours to apply the ?tattoos? all over his body.
The most financially disastrous film ever was United Artists ?Heaven?s Gate, a western. It cost an estimated $40 million and on its opening day in New York and Toronto, in November 1980, it did such poor business that it was withdrawn immediately. The film was re-edited from 219 minutes to 153, and released throughout North America in April 1981. by the autumn of 1982, it had earned less than 5 per cent of its outlay and had caused the downfall of United Artists, sold to MGM got $380 million. At one stage during filming, the director, Michael Cimino, insisted that the set of an entire western town be shifted back 900mm (3ft) ? at a cost of $ 1 million.

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