Death from a Distance

1935 mystery directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Russell Hopton, Lola Lane and George F. Marion, Wheeler Oakman and Robert Frazer. The film's sets were designed by the art director Edward C. Jewell. While a renowned astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter butt heads as they both try to break the case. (They don’t really “butt heads,” but it would be cool if they did).

Notable as the first feature film broadcast on U.S. commercial television, on July 2, 1941, during the first week of official commercial broadcasts on NBC's New York television station WNBT-TV.