Movie and Music Trivia

In the film, 'Titanic', when Jack walks through the french doors for dinner with Rose and her family, a camera man's reflection can be seen on the glass.
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During one scene in 'The Sound of Music', an orange box can be clearly seen stamped with the words 'Produce of Israel'. The film was set in 1938, ten years before Israel was founded.
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Some of the chariot racers in 'Ben Hur' were seen to be wearing wristwatches.
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In the 1985 movie, 'Falling in Love', a reflection of the camera can be seen in a mirror.
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Esteemed actor Richard Harris was seen wearing an elastoplast on his neck when playing King Arthur in the film 'Camelot'.
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Edward G Robinson's character in 'The Last Gangster' gets sent to Alcatraz in 1927. This was probably not as bad a sentence as you might imagine since the prison wasn't opened there until 1934.
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In one scene from this movie a young boy who is nothing to do with the film is seen moving across the set. Later, when this was discovered, no-one knew who he was and rumours started to spread about a possible haunting.
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Television aerials can clearly be seen on the roofs of Victorian London in the comedy, 'The Wrong Box'.
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A red London bus can be seen in the background of one of the battle scenes from the Arthurian legend film, 'Excalibur'.

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The song with the longest title is 'I'm a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o, Hirohito Blues' written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1943. He later claimed the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest was a joke.
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Michael Jackson won the most grammys ever with a total of eight.
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The longest piano piece of any kind is 'Vexations' by Erik Satie. It consists of a 180-note composition which, on the composer's orders, must be repeated 840 times so that the whole performance is 18 hours 40 minutes. Its first reported public performance in September 1963, in the Pocket Theater, New York City, required a relay team of 10 pianists. The New York Times critic fell asleep at 4 a.m. and the audience dwindled to 6 masochists. At the conclusion, one sado-masochist shouted 'Encore!'
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Everyone knows that the Buggles 'Video Killed the Radio Star' was the first video to premire on MTV on August 1, 1981. The millionth video to air on MTV was 'Video Killed the Radio Star', aired on MTV February 27, 2000. It's also the 3rd most aired video in MTV history. Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' is #1.
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The longest rendering of a national anthem was 'God Save the King,' performed by a German military band on the platform of Rathenau railway station in Brandenburg, on February 9, 1909. King Edward VII was struggling inside the train to get into his German Field-Marshall uniform, so the band had to play the anthem 17 consecutive times.
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'Billie Jean' by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black artist. Initially, the channel did not want to air any music by black artists.
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3-Day advance purchase tickets for the first Woodstock (1969), were $18.00. The price at the gate, $24.
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Jim Morrison (of the 60's rock group The Doors) was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.
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In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Interesting, huh?