Celluloid, the first plastic, was developed from cellulose in 1855 by an English inventor named Alexander Parkes. When Parkes dissolved pyroxylin, a partially nitrated cellulose, in alcohol and ether-containing camphor it yielded a hard solid which...

Celluloid is the name of a class of compounds created from nitrocellulose and camphor, plus dyes and other agents. Generally regarded to be the first thermoplastic, it was first created as Parkesine in 1856 and as Xylonite in 1869 before being...

CELLULOID FAME: PEPPERELL FILMMAKER KATHY MACKEL HOPES TO FOLLOW THE GOOD FORTUNES OF "MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING," A FILM THAT BECAME A BOX-OFFICE BLOCKBUSTER BY WORD-OF-MOUTH MARKETING. MACKEL RELEASED HER FIRST FEATURE FILM, "HANGMAN'S CURSE," BASED ON THE NOVEL BY FRANK PERETTI ABOUT...

Ausstellung in Berlin über Juden in der frühen Filmwelt "Keineswegs steht es uns Zeitgenossen an, ein Wiederaufleben [des ] Antisemitismus zu ubersehen [... ]. Unheilvollere Manifestationen als das Hinschmieren von Hakenkreuzen an noch nicht umgeworfene Grabsteine oder kürzlich wiederhergestellte Tempelmauern lassen sich kaum...

My favorite still from a movie made in New York is not in this book. I first saw it as a child of 11 or 12—I could have been leafing though Daniel Blum’s A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen (1953). (My future was all...

My favorite still from a movie made in New York is not in this book. I first saw it as a child of 11 or 12—I could have been leafing though Daniel Blum’s A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen (1953). (My future was all...