Motion Pictures During World Wars I and II
The American motion picture industry began making war movies soon after its first filmmakers stepped behind their cameras and yelled, "Action!"...
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Capturing Life Onscreen: the Invention of Motion Pictures
Overview
Motion pictures combined three earlier technologies. Early nineteenth-century experimenters knew how to make drawings appear to move,...
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Motion Picture
The science of photography gave birth to modern motion pictures. This was not, however, a rapid process. The motion pictures we know today are the result of a long evolution of arts and...
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Male Domination of the
Hollywood Screen
On every Hollywood front, and for nearly every major screen talent, the 1960s proved to be far more agreeable to male actors. In particular, the years from 1967...
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The Postwar Motion
Picture Industry
After the shooting stops..., Hollywood naturally will go back to the business of making films strictly for profit. But it will also do something else. Now that Holl...
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The Motion Picture Industry in 1940 1941
Prologue: January 1940
The American cinema in early 1940 was a study in paradox, with Hollywood in the full flowering of its "golden age" while the industry fo...
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The issue whether film industry is destroying culture and tradition is at present a matter of considerable controversy. It is often suggested that the global monoculture dominated by Western values ...
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Modes of entertainment have undergone a revolutionary change. Today the most popular form recreation is cinema. Its phenomenal popularity and development is due to its mass appeal. A motion picture ba...
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The drastic decline of moviegoers is a major concern for the film industry. It's quite shocking that so few people watch movies in theaters anymore. To put it in perspective, Jay Epstein mentioned th...
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Sarajevo (dpa) - The jury of the 13th Sarajevo Film Festival
(SFF), chaired by the Oscar winner Jeremy Irons, awarded Turkish
movie A Man's Fear of God by Ozer Kiziltan the ...
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Sig Libowitz played a lawyer on TV before he became one in real life. Now, he's bringing his entertainment industry expertise to the debate over the rights of suspected enemy combatants.Working fro...
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It's fitting that a movie titled "Constellation" was filmed in a city that boasts the country's only vertically erect Saturn V rocket, a white beacon that stretches 363 feet into the sky.The fearle...
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Frank Lucas, at 77 years old and in a wheelchair, still has a small gang doting on him. Sons, publicists and friends swirl around Lucas in nearly perpetual commotion, fetching him everything from p...
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Beijing (dpa) China's State Administration of Radio, Film, and
Television (SARFT) on Friday once again banned the controversial film
Lost in Beijing as well as instru...
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A total of eight Japanese films will be showcased over the
course of the British Film Institute's annual London Film Festival
which opened Wednesday as a celebration of the world's contempora...
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Peter Zinner, who worked as a film editor on the first two "Godfather" films and won an Oscar for his work on 1978's "The Deer Hunter," has died. He was 88.Zinner died Tuesday at St. John's Health ...
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DUBAI, Dec 16 (Reuters) - "Under the Bombs", a movie about
interfaith love during the 2006 war in Lebanon, was named best
film in Dubai's awards for Arab cinema, in a year when films
about conflic...
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Berlin's annual film festival opened Thursday with a tribute to the turbulent story of diva Edith Piaf _ part of a strong French contingent at this year's event.Olivier Dahan's "La Vie en Rose" was...
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Cannes, France (dpa) - The Cannes Film Festival on Saturday saw
the premier of Japanese director Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest
(Mogari no mori), which draws on a theme ...
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Motion Pictures During World Wars I and II
Capturing Life Onscreen: the Invention of Motion Pictures
Motion Picture
Male Domination of the
The Motion Picture Industry Is Threatening to Destroy Culture and Tradition
Sarajevo Film Festival ends
