9 Interesting Firsts in Film

1. First stunt woman on Indian screen: Fearless Nadia aka Mary Ann Evans (Mary Evans Wadia)
2. Toy Story was the first CGI feature film 
3. The Power of Love was the first 3-D film released in the year 1922
4. The first film to be rated PG-13 was Red Dawn (1984)
5. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) was the first film to have a commercially released soundtrack  
6. The first Shakespeare adaptation was King John in 1899
7. The first Sherlock Holmes film was Sherlock Holmes Baffled in 1900
8. The first Woman to win a Best Director Oscar was Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2010)
9. The first black person to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel in 1940 (photographed above)

All information and image found at the sites listed below:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/72060/36-film-history-firsts

http://cassavafilms.com/list-of-9/nine-unheralded-firsts-in-film

http://listverse.com/2009/11/24/top-10-firsts-in-feature-films/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cinematic_firsts

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/african-american-oscar-winner-oscarssowhite-870533/item/common-john-legend-african-american-870592

http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/02/_75_years_ago_hattie_mcdaniel_became_the_first_african_american_to_win_an.html