At the 1994 Academy Awards, in order to commemorate the first 100 years of the movies, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences showed a montage/tribute to the cinema compiled by filmmaker Chuck Workman. It was produced by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and titled 100 Years at the Movies. (Our personal movie library has a copy and it can also be viewed on YouTube). It consists of clips from box-office favorites and historically significant films, in roughly chronological order, accompanied by appropriate musical scores. This page attempts to identify, in detail, each of the many short clips that are included in that film. Where we have a copy in our personal movie library, there is a link.
Clip Description |
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Intro – The Silent Era |
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| “On April 14, 1894 in a former shoe store on Broadway, fascinated New Yorkers looked into a narrow slot and watched the first movies ever shown commercially in the United States. This was the birth of the American film. It was a modest beginning to 100 years of magical memories and unforgettable images.” | The text at the beginning, overlaid on the first 13 clips | |
| Annabelle (Whitford) Moore dancing | Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895) (Edison Kinetoscope Film) (On YouTube) |
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| An early movie-viewing box | Source unknown | |
| Annabelle Moore dancing as a “butterfly” | Butterfly Dance (1897) (Edison Kinetoscope Film) (On YouTube) |
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| Film reels | Source unknown | |
| Annabelle Moore dancing as a “butterfly” (through the narrow slot of a viewing machine) | Butterfly Dance (1897) | |
| Annabelle Moore dancing as a “butterfly” (through the view finder of a camera) | Butterfly Dance (1897) | |
| Annabelle Moore dancing as a “butterfly” (through the view finder of a camera, offset to the right) | Butterfly Dance (1897) | |
| Annabelle Moore dancing as a “butterfly” | Butterfly Dance (1897) | |
| A “strong man” flexing his muscles | Sandow, the modern Hercules (1894) (Edison Kinetoscope Film) (On YouTube) |
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| Two men boxing | Glenroy Brothers (Comic Boxing) (1894) (Edison Kinetoscope Film) (On YouTube) |
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| One man giving another a hair cut | The Barber Shop (1894) (Edison Kinetoscope Film) (On YouTube) |
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| Young girls, in nightgowns, having a pillow fight | Seminary Girls (1897) (Edison Kinetoscope Film) (On YouTube) |
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| George Barnes, as a cowboy, firing a gun at the camera | The Great Train Robbery (1903) (On YouTube) | |
| A placard reading: “The Chariot Race” | Ben Hur (1907) (On YouTube) | |
| A chariot race | Ben Hur (1907) | |
| A hobo looking up into the camera | Source unknown | |
| Two men looking at the camera (in the zeros of the phrase “100 Years at the Movies”) | The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) (On YouTube) | |
| Triple clip (in the zeros of the phrase “100 Years at the Movies”) | Source unknown | |
| A bird carrying a baby (in the zeros of the phrase “100 Years at the Movies”) | Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) (On YouTube) | |
| A woman touching “the Yellow Man Cheng Huan” | Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) (On YouTube) | |
1915 – The Birth of a Nation |
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| A man running, carrying a flag | The Birth of a Nation (1915) | |
| A man stuffing a flagpole in cannon | The Birth of a Nation (1915) | |
| Marching on stairs | Intolerance (1916) | |
| Wide shot of marching on stairs | Intolerance (1916) | |
| Charlie Chaplin being pushed | Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) (On YouTube) | |
| Charlie Chaplin on roller skates | The Rink (1916) (On YouTube) | |
| Charlie Chaplin shaking up a drink | The Rink (1916) | |
| Three men in a violently rocking ship | Shanghaied (1915) | |
| Charlie Chaplin sliding around on a massage table | The Cure (1917) | |
| A clock pendulum knocking Charlie Chaplin down stairs | One A.M. (1916) | |
| Harold Lloyd hanging from clock hands | Safety Last! (1923) | |
| Buster Keaton riding the coupling rod of a locomotive | The General (1926) | |
| Buster Keaton escapes the cops by “catching a ride” | Cops (1922) | |
| A house end falling around an oblivious Buster Keaton | Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | |
| The thief of Baghdad escaping by jumping in pottery | The Thief of Baghdad (1924) | |
| Mary Pickford tilting her hat forward | Little Annie Rooney (1925) | |
| A swinging Zorro swipes a sword from a man | The Mark of Zorro (1920) | |
| A swinging Zorro “lands” on a balcony | The Mark of Zorro (1920) | |
| Zorro leaping over a donkey | The Mark of Zorro (1920) | |
| An Eskimo licking a knife blade after cutting a snow block | Nanook of the North (1922) | |
| Three men placing a damsel on railroad tracks | Barney Oldfield’s Race for a Life (1913) | |
| Warner Bros.’ canine star, Rin Tin Tin | Source unknown | |
| Clara Bow (the “IT” Girl) looking at the camera | Source unknown | |
| Rudolph Valentino dancing with a woman | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) | |
| John Gilbert and Greta Garbo dancing | Flesh and the Devil (1926) or Love (1927) | |
1923 – Greed |
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| Gold coins | Greed (1924) | |
| Desperate man | Greed (1924) | |
| Desperate man handcuffed to his ex-buddy in desert | Greed (1924) | |
| Two chariots riding over the camera | Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) | |
| God drowning the Egyptians in the Red Sea | The Ten Commandments (1923) | |
| Biplanes flying | Wings (1927) | |
| Zoom in on a man at a desk amongst a sea of men at desks | The Crowd (1928) | |
| Renee Adoree running after a truck holding onto a chain | The Big Parade (1925) | |
| John Gilbert, as a soldier in the truck, blowing a kiss | The Big Parade (1925) | |
| Renee Adoree losing her grip on the chain | The Big Parade (1925) | |
1927 – The Jazz Singer |
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| Sign displaying “Producers announce only talking pictures” [sound is Al Jolson singing “Blue Night” from The Jazz Singer (1927)] |
Footlight Parade (1933) | |
| Jimmy Cagney saying, “What a laugh” | Footlight Parade (1933) | |
| Al Jolson singing, “Smiling at me” | The Jazz Singer (1927) | |
| Jimmy Cagney saying, “It’s a fad” | Footlight Parade (1933) | |
| Al Jolson singing, “Nothing but blue skies do I see” | The Jazz Singer (1927) | |
| Paul Muni shooting a “tommy gun” at the camera | Scarface (1932) | |
| Jimmy Cagney smashing a grapefruit in Mae Clarke’s face | The Public Enemy (1931) | |
| Spencer Tracy slapping Mickey Rooney | Boys’ Town (1938) | |
| Kitty Darling dancing | Applause (1929) | |
| Oklahoma land rush | Cimarron (1931) | |
| Edward G. Robinson dying and saying, “Is this the end of Rico?” | Little Caesar (1931) | |
| William Powell in bed slapping Myrna Loy then throwing a pillow at a gunman | The Thin Man (1934) | |
| A woman tackling a fisherman | Min and Bill (1930) | |
| A woman tackling a fisherman [close-up] | Min and Bill (1930) | |
| Clark Gable blowing smoke at a blond woman | Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) | |
| A blond woman getting smoke blown from Clark Gable | Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) | |
| Raoul Walsh lighting a cigarette from Gloria Swanson’s, it still in her mouth | Sadie Thompson (1928) | |
| Joan Crawford blow drying her hair | Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) | |
| Mae West saying to Cary Grant, “Why don’t you come up some time and see me.” | She Done Him Wrong (1933) | |
| Greta Garbo saying, “I want to be alone” | Grand Hotel (1932) | |
| John Barrymore’s legs closing door | Twentieth Century (1934) | |
| John Barrymore and Carole Lombard hugging as a door closes | Twentieth Century (1934) | |
| King Kong’s face | King Kong (1933) | |
| Dr. Frankenstein saying, “It’s alive” | Frankenstein (1931) | |
| Tarzan swinging through trees giving [the Johnny Weissmuller] Tarzan yell | Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) | |
| Dr. Frankenstein repeating, “It’s alive, it’s alive” | Frankenstein (1931) | |
| Wallace Beery telling his brassy wife, Jean Harlow, “Shut up, shut up” | Dinner at Eight (1933) | |
| Dr. Frankenstein repeating, “It’s alive” | Frankenstein (1931) | |
| The Frankenstein table rising | Frankenstein (1931) | |
| Aperture opening and Ruby Keeler rising through opening | The Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) | |
1933 – 42nd Street |
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| Girls turning building fronts towards the camera | 42nd Street (1933) | |
| Girls dancing in front of Vinter’s Grill | 42nd Street (1933) | |
| Guy’s holding gals during a dance sequence | 42nd Street (1933) | |
| A chorus line on the top wing of a biplane | Flying Down to Rio (1933) | |
| Ballroom dance | Source unknown | |
| Groucho & Harpo Marx dancing in front of mirror | Duck Soup (1933) | |
| Oliver Hardy being chased down a sidewalk by a crate [from the side] | The Music Box (1932) | |
| Oliver Hardy being chased down a sidewalk by a crate [from behind] | The Music Box (1932) | |
| Oliver Hardy being chased down a sidewalk by a crate [from the side] | The Music Box (1932) | |
| W.C.Fields stumbling through a hatchway and saying, “I have arrived” | David Copperfield (1935) | |
| Groucho Marx dancing in front of mirror (which does not mimic him) | Duck Soup (1933) | |
1934 – It Happened One Night |
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| A car approaching | It Happened One Night (1934) | |
| Claudette Colbert baring her leg | It Happened One Night (1934) | |
| Clark Gable astounded because Claudette Colbert is “cheating” | It Happened One Night (1934) | |
| Claudette Colbert’s bare leg | It Happened One Night (1934) | |
| A man’s foot being applied to the car’s break pedal | It Happened One Night (1934) | |
| A man’s hand pulling on the emergency break | It Happened One Night (1934) | |
| Tires screeching | It Happened One Night (1934) | |
| Robin Hood and his merry men bounding through the forest | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) | |
| English soldiers waiting for Robin Hood | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) | |
| Robin Hood’s merry man flying through the trees | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) | |
| Robin Hood’s merry man flying through the trees | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) | |
| A swordsman riding a horse, brandishing his sword | Gunga Din (1939) | |
| Water flowing out of gargoyles mouths | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) | |
| Men climbing barricades while water falls upon them from above | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) | |
| Charles Laughton as Quasimodo maneuvers around columns | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) | |
| The Marx Bros. fall out of an overcrowded room | A Night at the Opera (1935) | |
| Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh says, “You mutinous dog” | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) | |
| Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian accepting Charles Laughton’s insult | Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) | |
| Clark Gable as a rubber plantation overseer getting slapped by Mary Astor | Red Dust (1932) | |
| Bette Davis shooting a revolver while coming down steps | The Letter (1940) | |
| Cary Grant almost punching Katharine Hepburn but, instead, pushes her in the face | The Philadelphia Story (1940) | |
| Cary Grant catching Katharine Hepburn as a dinosaur skeleton falls | Bringing Up Baby (1938) | |
1936 – San Francisco |
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| Buildings fall around a man | San Francisco (1936) | |
| A man running in front of a woman | San Francisco (1936) | |
| A close-up of a capitol dome crumbling | San Francisco (1936) | |
| Man jumping down stairs | San Francisco (1936) | |
| A swarm of locusts attacking a field | The Good Earth (1937) | |
| Chinese farmers running while resisting the locust attack | The Good Earth (1937) | |
| Chinese farmers throwing around straw while resisting the locust attack | The Good Earth (1937) | |
| Locusts consuming the field | The Good Earth (1937) | |
| A close-up of the locusts consuming field | The Good Earth (1937) | |
| A lintel crumbling down | San Francisco (1936) | |
| Water flowing down in a blur | San Francisco (1936) | |
| Bricks flying past the camera | San Francisco (1936) | |
| Hydrant pipe bursting and falling over | San Francisco (1936) | |
| A hydrant falling over | San Francisco (1936) | |
| An explosion of water | San Francisco (1936) | |
| Another water explosion | San Francisco (1936) | |
| Spencer Tracy holding onto a ship’s collapsed rigging | Captain’s Courageous (1937) | |
| Close-up of Spencer Tracy, with agony on face, while holding onto the collapsed rigging | Captain’s Courageous (1937) | |
| A little girl, in front of a railing, looking up | San Francisco (1936) | |
| Gary Cooper looking contemplative | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) | |
| Jimmy Stewart looking up (at monuments) | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) | |
| A wall collapsing onto the camera | San Francisco (1936) | |
| A man rolling over and getting covered with dust | San Francisco (1936) | |
1939 – Gone With the Wind |
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| A staging area containing hundreds of wounded soldiers | Gone with the Wind (1939) | |
| Clark Gable carrying Vivien Leigh up the stairs | Gone with the Wind (1939) | |
| Paul Henreid lighting two cigarettes and giving one to Bette Davis | Now, Voyager (1942) | |
| Bette Davis accepting a cigarette and taking a puff | Now, Voyager (1942) | |
| Greer Garson telling Robert Donat, “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” and kissing him | Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) | |
| John Garfield kissing Lana Turner | The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) | |
| Fred McMurray saying, “Hello baby” and kissing Barbara Stanwyck | Double Indemnity (1944) | |
| Katharine Hepburn straightening up [presumably looking at Spencer Tracy] | Woman of the Year (1942) | |
| Spencer Tracy receiving a look [presumably from Katharine Hepburn] | Woman of the Year (1942) | |
1942 – Casablanca |
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| Ingrid Bergman with Humphrey Bogart’s hand on her chin | Casablanca (1942) | |
| Humphrey Bogart [looking into Ingrid Bergman’s eyes] saying, “Here’s looking at you kid” | Casablanca (1942) | |
| Humphrey Bogart kissing Ingrid Bergman | Casablanca (1942) | |
| Lauren Becall kissing Humphrey Bogart and saying, “It’s even better when you help” | To Have and Have Not (1944) | |
| Jeanette MacDonald singing to Nelson Eddy | Naughty Marietta (1935) | |
| Nelson Eddy singing back to Jeanette MacDonald | Naughty Marietta (1935) | |
| Bing Crosby and Bob Hope singing while riding a camel | Road to Morocco (1942) | |
| Gene Kelly using a hand motion to indicate to Judy Garland “let’s dance” | For Me and My Gal (1942) | |
| They get up to dance | For Me and My Gal (1942) | |
| Shirley Temple and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson dance up the stairs | The Little Colonel (1935) | |
| Gene Kelly dances with Jerry, the cartoon mouse | Anchors Aweigh (1945) | |
| The Nicholas Brothers doing a jump in a dance | Down Argentine Way (1940) | |
| The Nicholas Brothers landing after the jump in a dance | Down Argentine Way (1940) | |
| James Cagney dancing | Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) | |
| Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers dancing | Swing Time (1936) | |
| Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron dancing | An American in Paris (1951) | |
| Judy Garland and Margaret O’Brien dancing | Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) | |
| Gene Kelly on the lamppost singing in the rain | Singin’ in the Rain (1952) | |
| Mickey Rooney enthusiastically applauding | Babes in Arms (1939) | |
| Judy Garland bowing as if she is receiving applause | Babes in Arms (1939) | |
| Dorothy and pals skipping down the yellow brick road | The Wizard of Oz (1939) | |
| Humphrey Bogart saying, “The stuff that dreams are made of” | The Maltese Falcon (1941) | |
| Lena Horne admiring herself in a mirror | Cabin in the Sky (1943) | |
| Jane Darwell admiring herself in a mirror as she holds up earrings | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | |
| Jane Darwell again in the dirty mirror | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | |
| A truck driving down a lonely road | The Grapes of Wrath (1940) | |
| Orson Welles dancing and “bumping” with chorus girls | Citizen Kane (1941) | |
| Walter Huston dancing a jig (because they found gold) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) | |
1946 – It’s a Wonderful Life |
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| Jimmy Stewart running away from the camera down the Main Street of Bedford Falls | It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) | |
| Jimmy Stewart running toward the camera down the Main Street of Bedford Falls shouting, “Merry Christmas” | It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) | |
| Jimmy Cagney, with a fire behind him, shouting, “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” | White Heat (1949) | |
| A huge explosion | White Heat (1949) | |
| Bette Davis saying, “Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night” | All About Eve (1950) | |
1948 – Red River |
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| John Wayne walking through cattle, toward the camera | Red River (1948) | |
| A sword fight on the railing of a balcony in an ornate theater | Scaramouche (1952) | |
| A man jumping from a cliff near another man on the ground | The Three Musketeers (1948) | |
| The lion tamer driving his car toward a train and trying to stop it | The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) | |
| The train crashing into the convertible, flipping it up | The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) | |
| Jack Palance drawing his gun | Shane (1953) | |
| Alan Ladd drawing his gun | Shane (1953) | |
| Jack Palance going down | Shane (1953) | |
| Maureen O’Hara slapping John Wayne | The Quiet Man (1952) | |
| Gloria Swanson, holding up her left hand, while watching one of her silent films | Sunset Boulevard (1950) | |
| An idol falling over | Samson and Delilah (1949) | |
| A sideways line of calvary beginning a charge [in color] | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) | |
| A line of calvary charging at and over the camera [in B&W] | Stagecoach (1939) | |
| The backs of Masala’s and Ben Hur’s horses | Ben-Hur (1959) | |
| Masala beating Ben Hur | Ben-Hur (1959) | |
| Tony Curtis chasing a train, reaching for Sidney Poitier’s hand | The Defiant Ones (1958) | |
| Sidney Poitier reaching for Tony Curtis’s hand | The Defiant Ones (1958) | |
| The two hands almost touching | The Defiant Ones (1958) | |
| Ben Hur taking the whip away from Masala and beating him with it | Ben-Hur (1959) | |
| Cary Grant running from a crop dusting biplane | North by Northwest (1959) | |
| Charlton Heston, as Moses, raising his hands to part the Red Sea | The Ten Commandments (1956) | |
| The Red Sea parting | The Ten Commandments (1956) | |
| Masala’s chariot wheel chewing up Ben Hur’s chariot | Ben-Hur (1959) | |
| Grace Kelly stabbing her attacker in the back with a pair of scissors | Dial M for Murder (1954) | |
| Ben Hur’s chariot wheel pulling Masala’s wheel off | Ben-Hur (1959) | |
| Masala’s chariot crashing | Ben-Hur (1959) | |
| Ben Hur looking back to see the crash | Ben-Hur (1959) | |
1954 – On the Waterfront |
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| Marlon Brando riding a motorcycle in full leathers | The Wild One (1953) | |
| Marlon Brando saying, “I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody.” | On the Waterfront (1954) | |
| Clark Gable trying to hold down a horse as Marilyn Monroe runs up grabbing him | The Misfits (1961) | |
| William Holden sitting up as the light cord swings in the background | Stalag 17 (1953) | |
| Judy Garland in front of a bank of microphones | A Star is Born (1954) | |
| Henry Fonda looking out to sea | Mister Roberts (1955) | |
| James Dean climbing a windmill | Giant (1956) | |
| Gary Cooper in the middle of the street | High Noon (1952) | |
| Montgomery Clift looking at Elizabeth Taylor | A Place in the Sun (1951) | |
| Elizabeth Taylor hugging Montgomery Clift | A Place in the Sun (1951) | |
| A wave washing over a man and woman kissing on a beach | From Here to Eternity (1953) | |
| Cary Grant kissing Grace Kelly on couch | To Catch A Thief (1955) | |
| Fireworks | To Catch A Thief (1955) | |
| Audrey Hepburn with a squarish brown hat | Funny Face (1957) | |
| Paul Newman in a cowboy hat, holding a flower | Hud (1963) | |
| Spencer Tracy saying, “There’s not much meat on her, but what’s there is cherce.” | Pat and Mike (1952) | |
| Marilyn Monroe curled in a chair | The Asphalt Jungle (1950) | |
| Sean Connery, probably at a Baccarat table, lighting a cigarette saying, “Bond. James Bond.” | Dr. No (1962) | |
| Audrey Hepburn in Gregory Peck’s pajamas, smiling | Roman Holiday (1953) | |
| John Wayne, as Rooster Cogburn, charging with the reins between his teeth | True Grit (1969) | |
1962 – Lawrence of Arabia |
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| Omar Sharif walking through a door | Doctor Zhivago (1965) | |
| Peter O’Toole standing atop a train | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | |
| Girls screaming | A Hard Day’s Night (1964) | |
| The Beatles playing a song | A Hard Day’s Night (1964) | |
| Elvis jiggling in front of some guys in Hawaiian shirts [B&W] | Jailhouse Rock (1957) | |
| Sue Lyon in a skimpy, print bikini, wearing a sunhat and reading a book | Lolita (1962) | |
| Slim Pickens riding the bomb down | Dr. Strangelove (1964) | |
| Robert Redford and Paul Newman jumping off a cliff | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | |
| Robert Redford and Paul Newman jumping off a cliff, from below | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) | |
| The “Jets” dancing | West Side Story (1961) | |
| Julie Andrews singing in the mountains | The Sound of Music (1965) | |
| Anthony Perkins looking kind of weird | Psycho (1960) | |
| Barbra Streisand singing on the front of a tug boat | Funny Girl (1968) | |
| An ape with a bone in his hand, throwing it up in the air | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | |
| The bone in the air | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) | |
1969 – Easy Rider |
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| Steve McQueen on a motorcycle assessing the height of the fence | The Great Escape (1963) | |
| Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda on a motorcycle | Easy Rider (1969) | |
| Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper on motorcycles with arms out | Easy Rider (1969) | |
| Katharine Hepburn asking, “Guess who’s coming to dinner?” | Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) | |
| Ruth Gordon in weird headgear in a ludicrously distorted fish-eye view through a neighbor’s security door peephole | Rosemary’s Baby (1968) | |
| Gold football-helmeted Jack Nicholson (as lawyer George Hanson) smiling/laughing | Easy Rider (1969) | |
| The crowd at Woodstock | Woodstock (1970) | |
| A Bell helicopter carrying a wounded man | M*A*S*H (1970) | |
| George C. Scott in front of the huge American flag | Patton (1970) | |
| Jon Voight as a cowboy walking in crowded city | Midnight Cowboy (1969) | |
| Bob Dylan holding up two flash-cards: “Chew Gum, Now” and “The Vandals Took All the Handles” | Don’t Look Back (1967) | |
| The front of an abandoned Royal Theater marquee | The Last Picture Show (1971) | |
1972 – The Godfather |
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| Marlon Brando kissing Al Pacino on the cheek | The Godfather (1972) | |
| The office door symbolically closing on Diane Keaton | The Godfather (1972) | |
| Al Pacino dropping his gun and walking out of a restaurant | The Godfather (1972) | |
| Warren Beatty (with Faye Dunaway) saying, “We rob banks” | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | |
| A young Vito Corleone at Ellis Island behind a glass with the Statue of Liberty reflected in it | The Godfather, Part II (1974) | |
| Robert De Niro, as Vito Corleone, behind a piece of glass that has the letters “SH” on it | The Godfather, Part II (1974) | |
| Al Pacino as prematurely aging Michael Corleone being introspective | The Godfather, Part II (1974) | |
| Al Pacino walking in front of a storefront yelling “Attica” | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) | |
| Close up of Al Pacino walking in front of a storefront yelling “Attica” | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) | |
| Robert De Niro asking, “You talkin’ to me?” | Taxi Driver (1976) | |
| Faye Dunaway laying in bed next to Jack Nicholson | Chinatown (1974) | |
| Robert De Niro asking, “Well I’m the only one here.” | Taxi Driver (1976) | |
| John Travolta dancing | Saturday Night Fever (1977) | |
| Robert Hays mimicking John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever | Airplane! (1980) | |
1976 – Rocky |
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| Sylvester Stallone running at the top of the stairs and putting his hands up in the air | Rocky (1976) | |
| Sylvester Stallone at the top of the stairs with his hands up in the air | Rocky (1976) | |
| A car racing under a bridge toward a lady with a baby carriage | The French Connection (1971) | |
| A close-up of a man’s eyes | The French Connection (1971) | |
| A close-up of the woman screaming | The French Connection (1971) | |
| A close-up of Gene Hackman | The French Connection (1971) | |
| Woody Allen throwing [presumably] a black coat | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | |
| Woody Allen drying his hair | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | |
| Woody Allen throwing something white in the air | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | |
| Woody Allen standing in a living room with a guy and a gal | Play It Again, Sam (1972) | |
| Linda Blair’s head turning around | The Exorcist (1973) | |
| A motorcycle biker turning around singing, “Whoa!” | The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) | |
| Paul Newman giving the “finger on the nose” gesture | The Sting (1973) | |
| Robert Redford on the phone | All the President’s Men (1976) | |
| Barbra Streisand with her hand in a brown leather glove along side Robert Redford’s face | The Way We Were (1973) | |
| Lily Tomlin sitting in a booth at a restaurant/bar | Nashville (1975) | |
| A close-up of Jane Fonda | Klute (1971) | |
| A close-up of Henry Fonda during the gunfight | Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) | |
| Princess Leia taking the veil off her head | Star Wars (1977) | |
| Han Solo shouting, “Yahoo!” | Star Wars (1977) | |
| MacKenzie Phillips spraying shaving cream on car windows | American Graffiti (1973) | |
| A laser blast going past a tie fighter | Star Wars (1977) | |
| Luke Skywalker saying, “They’re coming in too fast” | Star Wars (1977) | |
| Helicopters approaching | Apocalypse Now (1979) | |
| The pilot’s view as helicopters approach a shoreline | Apocalypse Now (1979) | |
| The naked woman, from below, swimming | Jaws (1975) | |
| The naked woman, from above, swimming | Jaws (1975) | |
| Kelly Reno, in a loin cloth, riding a horse bareback through the surf | The Black Stallion (1979) | |
| Peter Finch, as Howard Beale, saying, “I want you to get up now” | Network (1976) | |
| Dustin Hoffman helping his son learn to ride a bike | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) | |
| Peter Finch, as Howard Beale, saying, “I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, and stick your head out, and yell...” | Network (1976) | |
| Spaceship hovering over Devil’s Tower National Monument | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | |
| Richard Dreyfus looking at the spaceship | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | |
| Sally Field holding up a Union sign | Norma Rae (1979) | |
| Peter Finch, as Howard Beale, saying, “I’m as mad as Hell and I’m not going to take this anymore” | Network (1976) | |
| A woman throwing water in Shirley MacLaine’s face | The Turning Point (1977) | |
1980 – Raging Bull |
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| Robert De Niro holding up his hands in victory | Raging Bull (1980) | |
| Debra Winger giving a full leg wrap hug to Shirley MacLaine | Terms of Endearment (1983) | |
| Tom Hulce leading an orchestra | Amadeus (1984) | |
| Diane Keaton giving Warren Beatty a hug | Reds (1981) | |
| Warren Beatty hugging back | Reds (1981) | |
| Harrison Ford sitting next to a lantern | Witness (1985) | |
| Kelly McGillis looking back at Harrison Ford | Witness (1985) | |
| Dustin Hoffman, as Tootsie, walking down the street | Tootsie (1982) | |
| Captain Kirk walking a corridor | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) | |
| Seven astronauts walking toward the camera | The Right Stuff (1983) | |
| Maverick and Goose giving a high-five as they walk along the air field | Top Gun (1986) | |
| Jet fighter doing a maneuver | Top Gun (1986) | |
| Indiana Jones being chased by “the ball” | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | |
| The three “ghost busters” zap something | Ghost Busters (1984) | |
| Batman aircraft flying | Batman (1989) | |
| T-1000’s head zipping back together just after being split down the middle | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | |
| Dinosaur running alongside people | Jurassic Park (1993) | |
| Kevin Costner and the indians pursue buffalo | Dances with Wolves (1990) | |
| A portion of the Zapruder film | JFK (1991) | |
| Kevin Costner, startled while watching the Zapruder film | JFK (1991) | |
| A little chinese emperor running away from the camera | The Last Emperor (1987) | |
| Haing S. Ngor in front of a pond with birds flying around | The Killing Fields (1984) | |
| Nicholas Cage kissing Cher | Moonstruck (1987) | |
| Morgan Freeman driving Jessica Tandy, as Miss Daisy | Driving Miss Daisy (1989) | |
| Meg Ryan looking for Tom Hanks | Sleepless in Seattle (1993) | |
| Tom Hanks looking for Meg Ryan | Sleepless in Seattle (1993) | |
| Tom Hanks with AIDS | Philadelphia (1993) | |
| Harrison Ford running away from the US Marshals | The Fugitive (1993) | |
| Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Laurence Fishburne hugging | Boyz ’N the Hood (1991) | |
1994 – Schindler’s List |
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| Oskar Schindler | Schindler’s List (1993) | |
| A trolley car passing in front of the camera | Source unknown | |
| A Reprise of the chariot race | Ben Hur (1907) | |
| A woman with big eyes looking through a window and slowly raising her hand | The Wind (1928) | |
| Greta Garbo with her head on a pillow | Queen Christina (1933) | |
| Elizabeth Taylor riding a horse and waving | National Velvet (1944) | |
| Gary Cooper wetting his sights before shooting | Sergeant York (1941) | |
| Rita Hayworth flipping her hair back | Gilda (1946) | |
| British soldiers marching to work | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) | |
| The six brothers leaping over their competition at the dance of the barn raising | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) | |
| Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon walk alongside the train | Some Like It Hot (1959) | |
| James Dean looking at something | East of Eden (1955)? | |
| John Wayne carrying Natalie Wood | The Searchers (1956) | |
| Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw holding hands | Love Story (1970) | |
| The “Consider Yourself” song | Oliver! (1968) | |
| Whoopi Goldberg in a trance | Ghost (1990) | |
| Macaulay Culkin peering over a bannister | Home Alone (1990) | |
| Elliot flying on his bicycle, with ET in basket | E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | |
| “Butterflies” pursuing a guy | Butterfly Dance (1897) | |
I should acknowledge that I did not know, nor have I seen, all of these movies. I had help from Tim Dirks’ website in determining some of the more obscure references.