Celluloid
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 ...
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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 Sile...
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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 Sile...
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Sydney (dpa) - Hollywood muscle man Sylvester Stallone had 48
vials of human growth hormone in his luggage when he arrived at
Sydney airport from the United States in Februa...
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Background Info
Lee
was born on 27 May 1922 into an illustrious family. His father was a distinguished soldier while his mum was a famed ‘it’ girl of the Edwardian era called the Cont...
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Background Info
Norman
Wisdom
was born in
London
on 4 February 1915. His mother left the family when he was a boy, and his alcoholic father abandoned him soon after that. He spent a period slee...
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Background InfoBorn in Watford on 4 May 1927,
Terry
Scott
had a natural love of acting that led him to join a local amateur dramatics group as a teenager. He went on to follow a ‘sensible&#...
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Ingrid
and
Isabella
Ingrid
Bergman
's place as a celluloid goddess was assured when she was cast as
Humphrey
Bogart
's lost love in ‘Casablanca’. Her daughter
Isabella
Rosselli...
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Baz
's Boyhood
Baz
Luhrmann
's upbringing was as multi-layered as the films he would go onto make. Brought up in a tiny town in the Australian outback, he balanced the grubby chores of his famil...
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How Much Is
Jackie
Worth?
Jackie
's parents were so poor that they were almost forced to sell him to pay for the cost of delivering him in hospital! The doctor, who was British, offered the
Hon...
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Celluloid
From Park Slope to Katz\'d5s Deli: Gotham Captured on Celluloid
