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1927
Wings is a 1927 American war film which won the first Academy Award for Best Picture. While the sound version of the film has no audible dialogue, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The original soundtrack to the sound version is preserved at UCLA.
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There are some film historians that claim *Top Gun* finished shaping the form of modern Hollywood blockbuster, establishing pattern Hollywood to follow to this day. Few generations ago, another film with nearly identical theme also shaped Hollywood history. It was *Wings*, 1927 silent war epic directed by William A. Wellman, best known as the first film to win Academy Award for Best Picture. The plot begins in small…More
