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Q1 The earliest known X film was a series of short silent films made during the Spanish American War in 1898 created by Vitagraph Studios. At an epic 120 min running time, the 1912 Romanian Independenţa României is the first fictional X film in the world with a deliberate message. Filmed with a budget that will not be reached by a Romanian movie until 1970, the movie was meant to shift the perception of the Romanian public towards an acceptance of Romanian involvement into an expected Balkan conflict (the First Balkan War).

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The earliest known X film was a series of short silent films made during the Spanish American War in 1898 created by Vitagraph Studios.At an epic 120 min running time, the 1912 Romanian Independenţa României is the first fictional X film in the world with a deliberate message. Filmed with a budget that will not be reached by a Romanian movie until 1970, the movie was meant to shift the perception of the Romanian public towards an acceptance of Romanian involvement into an expected Balkan conflict (the First Balkan War).

Such movies are rampant during wartime.

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Propaganda Films

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Faisal Mohammad, began his career at Raj Comics. He left his passion of a cartoonist to find a gaming studio called Greek Mentors. However, he soon began exploring cartooning under the smelly and highly attractive banner of X. It tells the tales of Y and Z and their daily experiences with Ammi, Daddy, Amit Ji, Laila, Baba Tinday Shah and others. Most of episodes are based on the writer’s own childhood.X, Y, Z?

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A clerical error at NTA prevented the copyright from being renewed properly in 1974. Despite the lapsed copyright, television stations that aired it still were required to pay royalties. Although the film's images had entered the public domain, the film's story was still protected by virtue of it being a derivative work of the published story "The Greatest Gift", whose copyright was properly renewed by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1971. The film became a perennial holiday favorite in the 1980s, possibly due to its repeated showings each holiday season on hundreds of local television stations.

Identify the film.

Has been named the most inspiring and powerful movie of all time on a number of lists.

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Piyush Jha is a film director and screenwriter and novelist of Indian origin, most known for his acclaimed films Sikandar (2009), King of Bollywood and Chalo America.His first attempt at a novel has been a bestseller for some time and comprises of 3 potboilers set in Mumbai. A very direct question. Name the book will soon be adapted into 3 different films.

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They've been known for long as the infamous "Five Lost Hitchcocks" among film buffs, and were re-released in theatres around 1984 after a 30-year absence. Hitchcock had left them as a legacy for her daughter

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If you are at NASA and taking the Armageddon test, what are you doing?

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NASA shows the film as a part of its management training program. Prospective managers are asked to find as many accuracies a possible. As many as 168 impossible things have been found during these screenings.

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In medieval times, people were buried alive as sacrifices into the foundations of structures as it was a belief that the person buried would stand guard for eternity and hence prolong the structure’s life. In what context have we learnt this story in the kindergarten?

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London Bridge is falling down.

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•Dilruba•Alibaba•Thanda Thanda Pani•Double Gadbad•Mai Bhi Madonna•Dr Dhingra•Indian Romyo in Tokyo•Tora Tora•Miss Loomba Loomba•America me Indian Dhaba•Welcome To Mumbai•Pinga Pinga•_____ _____ _____•______ ___ _____•Mumbai City (2012)•Pawa Pawa Pawan Kalyan (2012)

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X’s title is a reference to a translation of the question "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", posed by the Roman satirist Juvenal. It is intertwined with Tales of the Black Freighter, a fictional comic book from which scenes appear in issues three, five, eight, ten, and eleven. The fictional comic's story, "Marooned", is read by a youth in New York City. The creators conceived a pirate comic because they reasoned that since the characters of X experience superheroes in real life, "they probably wouldn't be at all interested in superhero comics. X was the only of its kind to appear on Time's 2005 "All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels" list.Identify X

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X is an annual multi-city festival that began in 2002 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Festival's main event each year is a night of unlimited bowling with various contests including Costume, Trivia, Hardest and Farthest Travelled contests. Various celebrities from the film have attended some of the events, including Jeff Bridges. The British equivalent, inspired by X, is known as The Dude Abides and is held in London.

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