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Originally Posted by MichaelG

Thank you.

According to that site, Rosemary's Baby doesnt really count.



And an avant gard film by Kenneth Anger (1972) may have been the first (but it's not clear on whether that film actually contained any direct reference to this number.)

There is no overt reference to the number, but Kenneth Anger was heavily into numerology, alchemy and all sorts of arcane things, so there's no telling what all he may have hidden inside the film. It's been decades since I saw a long cut of the fiolm at a university, and I do remember there was one sequence that showed repeatedly, back to back, because the number had a magical signifigance.