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1. Stanley Kubrick started his career doing short documentaries. His first two pictures were made in 1951. 'Day of the Fight' told the story of a boxer and his day before a big fight and 'Flying Padre', featured a Catholic priest and his travels through various events. Two years later, what third documentary gave him the economic opportunity to launch his first movie 'Fear and Desire' (1953)?
2. In his early career, Steven Spielberg started directing TV pilots until he attracted the attention of Universal Studios, that contracted him to film some episodes of the famous TV show 'Columbo'. What 1974 movie about an outlaw couple made Spielberg a promising film director?
3. Palme d'Or-winning film director Quentin Tarantino entered the movie world by studying acting in 1985. He worked in a video rental store where he provided movie information to customers. Two years later, he and a friend (Craig Hamann) did an early project that would start Tarantino as a writer and director. What was this 1987 project?
4. Young James Cameron started working as an art director especially in the Sci-Fi field. His first short movie was 'Xenogenesis' (1978), that told the story of two humans looking for a "new cycle of creation". After this, Cameron's abilities for direction where requested in Murakami's 'Battle Beyond the Stars' (1980) and what 1981 John Carpenter movie?
5. Prolific Italian-American director Martin Scorsese started making short films while in the New York University Film School, most of them in the '60s. After 'It's Not Just You, Murray!' (1964) and 'The Big Shave' (1967), Scorsese made his first important achievement as a director with what feature-length film, also of 1967, involving famous actor Harvey Keitel?
6. 'Citizen Kane' (1941) was Orson Welles's first official film. Although it was a huge-success, it wasn't Welles's first creation. When he was 18 years old, he filmed his first short movie, 'Hearts of Age', and four years later, he made a 40-minute long film based on a William Gillette's screenplay. What was this movie, that started Welles as a director?
7. At age 13, Tim Burton made a couple of short films with his friends, 'The Island of Doctor Igor' and 'Houdini', which gave him the opportunity to study arts and animation in California. Some of his first shorts were 'Vincent' and 'Frankenweenie', both of them showing Burton's unique essence. The following year, Burton made his debut with what adventure-comedy film?
8. Woody Allen started writing lots of television, theatre and film productions, all of them were a success and Allen gained a good reputation in those days. He created NBC's 'Colgate Comedy Hour' (1953) and 'The Tonight Show' (1964) to name a few. In the meantime, Allen and co-writers Lasser and Maxwell made what script that would eventually became Allen's first movie?
9. Epic director George Lucas was also a creative writer. In his early days, he used to film shorts at the USC university, most of them, based on human expressionism. In 1967 he created a Sci Fi-inspired film about a prisoner escaping from an electronic labyrinth. What was this short, that eventually gave rise to Lucas's first motion picture in 1971?
10. In his beginnings as a director, Ron Howard made his debut with 'Grand Theft Auto' (1977), a car-chase comedy with no success. After this, he worked in some TV show productions until in 1982 he got the idea for a comedy movie involving two young men, a city morgue and Kevin Costner's second cameo ever. What's the movie I'm talking about?
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