An endless moving picture in which one was an actor.
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Sidebar: this moving picture of Bey has changed my life.
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Even HTC's additions, like the moving-picture Zoes, integrate into Google's apps.
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Even HTC's additions, like the moving-picture Zoes, integrate into Google's apps.
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But cautious because this is a one year snapshot of a moving picture.
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Just what does this pretty moving picture translate to in terms of actual number, though?
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Most of the credit (and the Oscar) belongs to the London-based Moving Picture Company.
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The last time we saw this transformational change was with the advent of the moving picture.
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It was undoubtedly effective, in this era when moving picture was still a brand new and astonishing technology.
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A nearby station allowed them to flip through their creations, while recording the moving picture on their phone.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Before the dawn of film, motion picture entertainment was often literally a moving picture.
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If you're otherwise inclined, however, you you can still save the resulting pieces of moving-picture art to your hard drive.
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She enlists a specialist in facial recognition to determine whether a woman in an ancient moving picture is indeed Guy Blaché.
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"This was the first generation of political leaders who were captured on moving picture film," said Mr. Kehr, the curator at MoMA.
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When the dust settled, the only thing that was obvious is this: When it comes to the moving picture business, nothing is obvious.
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Chinese production, a complex moving picture of price-induced curtailments, pollution controls and capacity swaps, edged 1.6 percent higher to 8.93 million tonnes.
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She has no talking-head interviews; the visual component is entirely composed of archival footage, of either the still or moving-picture variety.
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It happens often when you begin creating something after reading a script or novel, but when put against the moving picture, it doesn't work.
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This deeply moving picture is a formally inventive, thoughtful documentary — and one that it's best you know as little about as possible before watching.
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At this point in his career, he apparently feels he has to push the boundaries of everything the moving picture format can do and be.
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In his modern renditions, Desom brings new life to the optical theater while paying homage to Reynaud's famous moving picture shows such as Pantomimes Lumineuses.
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But there's a lot more going on in the picture — and in the moving picture that shares its name — than that simple declaration would suggest.
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There was a vivid example recently, when a 35-year-old Japanese man married a moving picture—we call it a hologram—of an imaginary singer.
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It also uses Acer's Integrated Visual-Response Boost (VBR) tech to achieve a 1ms MPRT (Moving Picture Response Time), meaning reduced blur in fast-moving images.
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In one moving picture, according to the caption, Lawrence talked to a girl who had stayed in the hospital since July and would soon be released.
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But this is the first true moving-picture taste the public will get of Besson's passion project and follow-up to the ambush smash-hit Lucy.
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According to a new interview with Moving Picture Company VFX supervisor Greg Butler, who worked on the final film, Voldemort could have turned into a tree.
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Having lived in my neighborhood for a decade now, this was a tableau vivant unlike any I'd seen—a quiet, moving picture of gentrifying Fort Greene.
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Although London's Moving Picture Company just won an Oscar for "The Jungle Book," one former employee says it recently laid off that film's entire compositing team.
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Suddenly, your snoozing canine companion is on all fours, at full attention, tail wagging and muzzle barking at the moving picture box in front of you both.
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Unlike the snapshots offered by traditional polls, this approach, like a moving picture, enables us to track how individuals' views change or remain the same over time.
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From insta-celebrity F*ck Jerry to our favorite hipster filter-makers at VSCO Cam, it seems that nearly everyone wants to get into the moving-picture game.
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You can also use the Xbox Console Companion app to tweak the fidelity of the stream, resulting in a faster-moving picture, although at the expense of image quality.
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In movies, there are operations like the Criterion Collection, a company specializing in restoring productions from across the history of the moving picture and repackaging them for the aficionado crowd.
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Martin Scorsese is a cinematic genius, but we should not expect him to write and direct an intimate, nuanced and moving picture about being a young black woman in 21st-century America.
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Before there was the GIF, people got their fix of short form animation from something called a phenakistoscope, a circular device invented in 1832 that created the illusion of a moving picture.
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To make The Martian realistic, and to meld its story and visual effects together in the best way possible, visual effects dynamo Moving Picture Company enlisted the help of NVIDIA's Quadro graphics cards.
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He was writing at the tail end of a societal change that began with the invention of the moving picture and ended with Al Gore saying he invented the Internet in a televised debate.
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Buffalo Bill, was still alive, but his famous touring Wild West Show had long ago fallen out of public favor as cinema, with moving-picture Westerns like The Great Train Robbery, grew in popularity.
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The infotainment screen is also mounted in a way that it reflects in the windshield at night, shining a moving picture of a navigation screen brightly in your eyes when you're trying to drive.
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The footage is gets incredibly cool when the shadow of the four-legged rocket appears in the right half of the moving picture, making the landing look like a scene from a science fiction movie.
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In this graphic novel, Walden ("Spinning") creates a moving picture of the quiet ways that trauma and grief weigh on us, through the story of 18-year-old Bea, who is running away from home.
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The right to a moving picture, in its most apropos and complete form, is one of those unalienable rights of moviegoers, like the right to whip unpopped popcorn kernels at the heads of people using cellphones.
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Milk, who started his career as a director working with artists like Kanye West, The Chemical Brothers and Arcade Fire, compared the potential development of VR to the emergence of moving picture and sound in the 1800s.
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So as we approach a blissful future in which every single college football game is broadcast to every television set, or laptop, or brain-implanted moving-picture device in the country, might regional bias fade away entirely?
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This modest setting becomes a platform for a series of self-reflexive ideas that starts with a simple window that's (not so simply) framing the world, touches on Renaissance perspective and eventually arrives at the moving-picture camera.
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But the glut of moving-picture content that inundates our consciousness — to say nothing of the unending gale of news alerts and the squall of social media — makes local film festivals like New York more important than ever.
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Click here to view original GIFThe Moving Picture Company was one of the many visual effects studios to work on the film, and it handled the scenes where Arnold goes toe-to-toe with the younger version of himself.
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" The mayor of St. Louis quickly took that advice, closing for several weeks "theaters, moving picture shows, schools, pool and billiard halls, Sunday schools, cabarets, lodges, societies, public funerals, open air meetings, dance halls and conventions until further notice.
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It was the first time ever that a war could be recorded with moving picture film; obviously the American Civil War is very famous in the sense that Matthew Brady and many other photographers were able to take photos.
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Since theaters were trying to cater to women – who, according to a 21982 statistic uncovered by Moving Picture World, comprised 1003% of the moviegoing audience — it followed that women would be recruited to create content that appealed to the target demographic.
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The most transformative piece in the show is the video "8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker" (2005), a psychosexual shadow-play of American slavery that bewitches the senses with its astonishing horror.
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We caught up with four of GIPHY's team members during the second day of F8, where the team shared their love of GIFs â€" whether it's the technical format or a general moving picture â€" and explained how their relationship with Facebook has grown.
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But in the US, Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY), a company born out of an HMIT acquisition that still has strong links to some executives who led the Indian company, is selling a different story — that of the moving picture and the silver screen.
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Most movement in the scenes comes from the exceptional camera work, the rapidity of scene cutting, and the various synchronized monitors, which combined with the inactivity of the individual scenes, leads to a feeling of a "moving-picture" as opposed to a more traditional notion of film.
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"There is no doubt in my mind that a woman's success in many lines of endeavor is still made very difficult by a strong prejudice against one of her sex doing work that has been done only by men for hundreds of years," filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché wrote in a 22012 article for Moving Picture World.
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A spaceship mixed with a 1971 Dodge Challenger explores an alien galaxy and discovers new dimensions in the forthcoming full-length VR film, Go Baby Go, from Moving Picture Company (MPC) VR, the virtual reality section of the visual effects studio famous for The Jungle Book, The Martian, and Life of Pi. Directed by Rob Petrie and produced by Tim Dillon, both of MPC, the film pioneers a number of new imaging techniques for VR experiences.
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The Moving Picture World, "C.O. Baumann Talks of Plans", Sep 5, 1914, p.1349The Moving Picture World, "Mecca of the Motion Picture", July 10, 1915, p.
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The CGI for the show was done by Moving Picture Company.
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Moving Picture Company (MPC) was responsible for creating the majority of those shots.
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"Broncho Headliners --- The Quakeress." The Moving Picture World, Volume 17, Issues 1-6. 1913.
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Hiawatha opened at New York City's Berkeley theater where it achieved "splendid sales", according to the Moving Picture News."Hiawatha Selling Fast", Moving Picture News, May 24, 1913. Moore distributed Hiawatha selling the film by states rights to 12 states.Billboard, May 23, 1913.
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625 (2012)Vazzana, Eugene Michael. Silent Film Necrology, p. 13 (2001)Diana Allen Scores in Victor Kremer's "Voices", The Moving Picture World, August 14, 1920, p. 885Blond Swedish Maiden Plays Lead in "The Kentuckians", The Moving Picture World, September 25, 1920, p.
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The Moving Picture World gave the film a brief review, concluding that the film "will make some fun in some houses". The publication also summarized the plot prior to its release. Similarly, the plot was detailed by Moving Picture News in April, 1913.
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Sarah Adler, The Moving Picture World, p. 1086. The film reportedly opened to large crowds at the Grand Theatre in New York City, with Adler in attendance on opening night.(12 September 1914). Called Out Police Reserves, The Moving Picture World, p. 1529.
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The film received reviews from publications including New York Dramatic Mirror and Moving Picture World.
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The Moving Picture World, Volume 27 By Moving Picture > Exhibitors' Association; March 25, 1916; pg. 2028 The postal Record, 1916 > The other night I wandered Into a moving picture show, and the screen play, > by the way, was The Habit of Happiness, with Douglas Fairbanks In the > leading role. No man can see that remarkable picture and remain a grouch. It > Is better than all the pills and medicine and good advice in the world.
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King himself is a fan of "moving picture" stories, which inspired him to write this tale.
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In 1927, he further acquired and merged the magazine The Moving Picture World and began publishing it as Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World, which was later shortened to the more manageable title, Exhibitors Herald World. Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World also incorporated The Film Index that was founded in 1906. After acquiring Motion Picture News in 1930, he merged these publications into the Motion Picture Herald."The Press: Cinema Corner". Time. December 22, 1930.
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Original caption to 1917 image in The Moving Picture Weekly reads, "Jack Ford (kneeling at left) with his company." In its May 19, 1917 issue—three weeks after the release of The Trail of Hate—the trade journal The Moving Picture Weekly informs its readers about "Jack Ford's Company" and features the adjacent photograph of Ford on set with cast members."Jack Ford's Company", The Moving Picture Weekly (New York, N.Y.), May 19, 1917, p. 18. Internet Archive.
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Polyolester oil is used exclusively in jet turbine engines and often used in moving picture film cameras.
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The visual effects were provided by Cinesite, DNEG, Framestore, Image Engine, Moving Picture Company, Milk VFX and Rodeo FX.
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According to Moving Picture World, he was the first actor who was placed upon a permanent salary by Kalem.
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Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p.9.
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"The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995", Norwich, Michael Russell, 15 July 1996, p. 38.
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In 2018, Trace VFX became the sole vendor for all Matchmove and Rotomation for Moving Picture Company's (MPC) Film division.
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Kabahar was the writer and director of the first Cebuano moving picture, Bertoldo ug Balodoy in 1939 and Rosas Pandan.
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"Screen Papers Merged: Exhibitors' Herald and Moving Picture World Close Deal". The New York Times. December 30, 1927. p. 21.
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In February 2007, Tuttle won a fellowship from the Moving Picture Institute that allowed him to pursue filmmaking full-time.
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The film was awarded the SHOUT Jury Award and the Audience Narrative Award at the 2015 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival.
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Megan Leavey was among the 2017 films which were honored with the Truly Moving Picture Award at the Heartland Film Festival.
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The type of assistance that the Moving Picture Institute provides to other filmmakers varies based on the need of the filmmaker.
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Moving Picture World 1912 Litigation and published Studio trade ads In late 1912, Bison's Edendale lot was bought by Mack Sennett.
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The Moving Picture World and The New York Dramatic Mirror offered praise for the novelty of the production without any criticism.
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A Mother's Confession, American Film Institute, Retrieved November 3, 2011(9 September 1917). A Mother's Confession, Odgenburg News(4 September 1915). A Mother's Confession (review), The Moving Picture World(25 September 1915) Ivan Film Productions, Inc. (long plot summary), The Moving Picture World The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1916.
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Born in Cleveland, Ohio,U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 Quigley purchased the film trade journal Exhibitors Herald in 1915. Two years later, he acquired and merged Motography. In 1927, he acquired and merged The Moving Picture World and began publishing as Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World, later shortened to Exhibitors Herald World.
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Kelly, Mary (1922). "'On Her Honor'", review, The Moving Picture World, March 25, 1922, p. 402. Internet Archive. Retrieved December 6, 2019.
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Thomas Edison's moving picture show was shown in Oberlin in February 1900.Blodgett, Geoffery. "The Early Apollo". Oberlin Online: News and Features.
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A page out of the first trade paper called "Moving Picture World" reviewing "The Last Drop of Water"; includes stills from the film.
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His second studio album, A Moving Picture, was released on 4 February 2013. It peaked at number 19 on the UK Albums Chart.
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Video content that is distributed digitally often appears in common formats such as the Moving Picture Experts Group format (.mpeg, .mpg, .mp4), QuickTime (.
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"For the Cause of the South (Jan. 26)", The Moving Picture World, January 20, 1912, p. 284. Internet Archive. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
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According to an advertisement in the Moving Picture News, the weekly release dates were changed at the request of exhibitors. The film received favorable reviews by critics. The Morning Telegraph said the story was too far-fetched to be believable, but it was done in an amusing way. The Moving Picture World stated that the acting and camerawork was satisfactory.
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John Flint Dille (1884–1957) launched John Dille's National Newspaper Service in early 1917; later renaming it the John F. Dille Co. syndicate. The Dille syndicate's first successful strip was Richard A. "Dick" Clarke's Moving Picture Funnies, which debuted in February 1917 and ran until 1946.Holtz, Allan. "Obscurity of the Day: Moving Picture Funnies," Stripper's Guide (March 06, 2017).
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After he presented Wolf Fangs in his theater in Louisville, Nebraska in 1928, Frank Johnson reported in the Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World that the Fox drama, while "suitable", had "Just a bit too much dog and not enough human acting"."Wolf Fangs", Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World, December 8, 1928, p. 68. Internet Archive. Retrieved March 16, 2020.
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Moving Picture World, Nov. 26, 1910, cited in: Desirée J. Garcia. "Subversive Sounds: Ethnic Spectatorship and Boston's Nickelodeon Theatres, 1907-1914." Film History, Vol.
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Retrieved July 29, 2020."THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (Edison)", The Moving Picture World, September 9, 1911, p. 695. Internet Archive. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
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The Moving Picture Man () is a 1977 Venezuelan drama film directed by Luis Armando Roche. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
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Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Michael Russell, 1996. p. 127.Parish, James Robert and Ronald L. Bowers.
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Pandi Raidhi (1931–1999) was an Albanian actor of moving picture and theatre of the 20th century, recipient of the People's Artist of Albania recognition.
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Also, not all film-industry publications supported the photoplay. The Moving Picture World labeled it a "poor imitation" of A Fool There Was and hampered by a "wearisome" plot with overly dramatic scenes that at one point "brought a general laugh from the large audience at a private showing" in New York."'The Devil's Daughter'", The Moving Picture World, June 1915, p. 2120. Internet Archive.
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Even with 90 percent of the final footage and stunts captured in-camera, the post-production work required for Carousel was extensive. An initial telecine transfer was performed by colourist Jean- Clement Soret at The Moving Picture Company in London. The palette for each room was slightly altered to give the illusion of separate spaces,"Philips, Carousel ", Moving Picture Company website, 2009. Retrieved September 22, 2009.
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Promotion of "a story of heart interest" that was "produced in the far North". In trade publications in 1911, the film received generally positive reviews. The Moving Picture World in its July 29 review states, "This picture is unusual enough and good enough to make a good feature picture.""The Way of the Eskimo' (Selig)", The Moving Picture World, July 29, 1911, p. 210.
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In both critical reviews and at the box office, the film proved to be successful during the final quarter of 1911. In its November 4 issue, the trade publication The Moving Picture World describes the production as artful in its interpretation of Tennyson's work and emotionally effective in its spiritual tone: The film continued to be popular and successful in drawing large audiences. Three weeks after the production's release, the motion-picture reviewer for The Moving Picture News reported that Lady Godiva "drew a packed house at the Lyceum [Theatre]" in Cleveland, Ohio."Good Pictures", The Moving Picture News (New York, N.Y.), November 11, 1911, p. 28. HathiTrust.
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It has four core activities: supply chain management, marketing and brand building; EMS; property holding division, and others. Its brand portfolio includes Apple, Asus, Canon, Casio, Cisco, Fuji, Kodak, Lenovo, Nikon, Nokia, Olympus, Orion, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung and Sony. Some of the products distributed under these brands include digital video cameras, digital still cameras, plasma televisions, desktop and notebook computers, personal digital assistants, data projectors, electronic accessories, mobile phones and audio products, including Moving Picture Experts Group layer-3 audio/ Moving Picture Experts Group layer-4 audio/ Moving Picture Experts Group layer-5 audio (MP3/MP4/MP5) players. It also creates and markets consumer products under its own brand name, YES.
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Filming began in September 1920, at the Lasky studio under the title Easy Street.Lila Lee in Paramount Picture. The Moving Picture World. September 25, 1920. Vol.
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Internet Archive. Retrieved June 11, 2019."Miss Grace Cunard", The Moving Picture News (New York, N.Y.), December 2, 1911, p. 8. Internet Archive. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
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Internet Archive. Retrieved May 8, 2020."Frederick Burlingham Is Now Exploring the Wilds of Borneo", Moving Picture World, May 22, 1921, p. 1048. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
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British visual effects firm Moving Picture Company completed 440 effects shots for the film. Additionally, Double Negative also contributed to complete the CGI work on the film.
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Due to song selection and quality of recordings, CD+G is the most popular format for English and Spanish. It is also important to note that CD+G has limited graphical capabilities, whereas VCD and DVD usually have a moving picture or video background. VCD and DVD are the most common format for Asian singers due to music availability and largely due to the moving picture/video background.
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1921 advertisement with Jimmy Callahan, Florence Dixon, and Lottie Kendall Jimmy Callahan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1891 – September 21, 1957, Belleville, New Jersey) was an American actor who made several silent comedy short films in the 1920s.Eugene Michael Vazzana, Silent Film Necrology – 2001 – p. 76 0786410590 Moving Picture World (USA) 9 July 1921, p. 215, "Jimmy Callahan Meets Painful Injury in Hydroplane Accident" Moving Picture World (USA) 30 April 1921, p.
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The Moving Picture World was an influential early trade journal for the American film industry, from 1907 to 1927. An industry powerhouse at its height, Moving Picture World frequently reiterated its independence from the film studios. In 1911, the magazine bought out Views and Film Index. Its reviews illustrate the standards and tastes of film in its infancy, and shed light on story content in those early days.
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Little Red Wagon premiered on October 19, 2012, at Regal Cinemas in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. 220 people attended the "Hollywood-style red carpet event". The film was screened at Utah's Megaplex 20 on November 30, 2012 and received the Truly Moving Picture Award from Heartland Film Festival. The 2012 Truly Moving Picture Award jury were inspired by Bonner's altruism, wondering how they could join his efforts in aiding the indigent.
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6, 1938. In 1911, he became a staff writer for The Moving Picture World. They serialized his Technique of the Photoplay, which was soon published as a book.
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Many studios are specialized in the field of visual effects areas, among which: Digital Domain, DreamWorks Animation, Framestore, Weta Digital, Industrial Light & Magic, Pixomondo and Moving Picture Company.
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Roland Trebicka (13 January 1947 – 6 March 2013) was an Albanian actor of moving picture and theatre of the 20th century, recipient of the Merited Artist of Albania recognition.
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11 Though nearly forgotten today, Wilder was heralded in his lifetime and did not let his dwarfism be an excuse for cheap entertainment. Wilder shunned offers by showmen like P.T. Barnum to instead become an established legitimate stage actor and sketch artist. He made his earliest motion picture appearance in 1897, for which he received $600,The Moving Picture World, Volume 27 By Moving Picture Exhibitors' Association 1916 pg. 1136 and his last in 1913.
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Judson, Hanford C. (14 December 1914). "Should a Woman Divorce", Moving Picture World(23 April 1915). "Should a Woman Divorce" Feature Film at Berkeley, Berkeley Daily Gazette (review appears to be adapted from the Moving Picture World review)Leonid Samoloff and Assisting Artists, The Lyceum Magazine (March 1917, p. 57) The film was directed by Edwin McKim, husband of actress Anna Lehr, who are perhaps best known as the parents of actress Ann Dvorak.
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Who Is the Savage? is a lost 1913 silent dramatic short directed, written by, and starring Romaine Fielding with Mary Ryan.Carson City Daily Appeal(Carson City, Nevada) June 14, 1913 Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot(Bryan, Texas); January 20, 1913 Moving Picture World gave it a favorable writeup, calling it a comedic farce.The Moving Picture World, February 8, 1913 The plot featured a white woman stealing the child of an "Indian" woman.
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In filmmaking, audio post production is the creation and manipulation of audio that is synchronized with moving picture. This includes, but is often distinguished from production audio, which is the audio recorded as filming occurs. Most other aspects of audio for moving picture occur during the post production phase, everything done after filming. This also may include sound design or the creation of sound effects, which can occur during pre-production, production, or post production.
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The Moving Picture Institute (MPI) is an American non-profit organization and film production company founded in 2005 by human rights advocate Thor Halvorssen. Its current president is Rob Pfaltzgraff.
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One of these, The First Woman Jury in America, was made into a film starring Flora Finch."First Woman Jury in America". The Moving Picture World: 892. March 9, 1912.
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Devlin stated on an interview with Tim Westwood on BBC Radio 1Xtra that his second album will be released in October 2012, and it will be called A Moving Picture.
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The visual effects for The Revenant were produced primarily by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). Other companies, such as Moving Picture Company (MPC) and Cinesite, also created visual effects for the film.
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Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) is a future ISO/IEC video coding standard developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) under the project name MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC.
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It had been announced during the 1996 edition of Cannes Film Festival in the 17 May Cannes issues of The Moving Picture and Screen International. The project didn't take off though.
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In the months after its release in September 1911, the film received positive reviews both nationally and internationally. The New York-based trade publication The Moving Picture World in its September 9 pre-release review describes the Edison Company's film as "altogether creditable" and expresses admiration for the production's attention to detail in its sets: The assessments of the film by The Moving Picture World only continued to improve in later issues of the trade journal. It was so impressed with the "excellent" film that it even promoted the idea of utilizing it in classrooms: "It is a historic picture of unusual educational value and would be useful anywhere in teaching history.""'The Battle of Trafalgar' (Edison)", The Moving Picture World, October 7, 1911, p. 40.
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Though the film bears similarity in title and character, the plots were entirely different. Rex's film was also the first release by the new company. For the release of this patriotic film, Thanhouser made additional efforts for promoting the film in trade publications. A film still was used as the cover illustration on the February 11, 1911 issue of The Moving Picture News and a full-page still would be included in The Moving Picture Worlds February 11 issue.
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One Law for Both was director Ivan Abramson's most involved production to that point in terms of expense, length, and cast, featuring a well-known cast of respected actors.(5 May 1917). Ivan's "One Law for Both" Finished, The Moving Picture World, p. 817 The Moving Picture World found the finished product to be "far too long" with a "very slow and somewhat tedious" tempo, and with rapid unexplained jumping of scene between America and Russia.
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The Moving Picture World, November 22, 1913 Jane Gail (August 16, 1890 – January 30, 1963), born Ethel S. Magee in Salem, New York, was an early American silent movie and stage actress.
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"Keeping In Touch", Moving Picture World, April 30, 1921, p. 957. Internet Archive. Retrieved May 9, 2020."Frederick Burlingham", obituary, New York Herald/New York Tribune, June 12 1924, p. 15. ProQuest.
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McElravy, Robert (1916). "'From Broadway to a Throne'", image from review, The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), July 22, 1916, page 651. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved October 7, 2018.
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Lahue, Kalton C. , Continued Next Week: A History of the Moving Picture Serial, 1964, University of Oklahoma Press Rainey, Buck, Serials and Series, a World Filmography, 1912-1956, 1999, McFarland & Co., Inc.
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To cover his debts he had already sold the rights to the 1889 moving picture camera patent for £500 (£60,000 in 2016 terms). The renewal fee was never paid and the patent lapsed.
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The Moving Picture Institute's Hollywood Career Launch Program places interns with partner production companies and provides living stipends for the duration of their internship. Since 2006, MPI have awarded over 200 paid internships.
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Cine- Mundial, the Spanish-language version of Moving Picture World, gave the film a positive review, calling it "light", "comical", and "unpretentious", and an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half.
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"'The Witch'", review, The Moving Picture World, March 18, 1916, pp. 1845-1846. Internet Archive. Retrieved January 5, 2020. Acquaintances of Zora and Riques now betray the clandestine lovers and reveal their affair.
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The extant footage survives at the Library of Congress and is scheduled for release on DVD and online streaming in October 2020. To capitalize on the event, Thanhouser Company advertised this release in the October 7th issue of The Moving Picture News and the October 14th issue of The Moving Picture World as First on the Spot coverage of the Calamity The Motion Picture News headlined a review of the footage as a Scoop for Thanhouser – Special Austin Flood Pictures.
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The trick of having the boy join the girl in her apparent banishment by hiding in her trunk is the one discordant note in an otherwise plausible and human comedy." The Moving Picture World was more brief, acknowledging the plausibility of the scenario and that the acting was convincing. The Moving Picture News review was also brief, stating, "The film calls for shrieks of laughter; it deserved it, for it is built upon human nature. A story anyone can see and enjoy.
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Having gained a new perspective from his nightmare, he vows never again to steal from a nest."The Old-Time Nightmare (Sept. 19)", The Moving Picture World, September 16, 1911 p. 824. Internet Archive.
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The Moving Picture Institute masterclass program features industry professionals, such as television showrunners, Oscar and Emmy-nominated writers, post-production experts, directors, and more. These masterclasses primarily occur in Los Angeles and New York.
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He subsequently referred to it as the company's first "release of 1,000 feet"."Twenty-One Years in the Business", The Moving Picture World, May 12, 1917, p. 948. Internet Archive. Retrieved July 12, 2020.
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"Notes From All Over", Motography, December 18, 1915, p. 1301, col. 1. Retrieved June 10, 2019."Ayres Producing 'John o' the Mountains'", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), December 18, 1915, p. 451.
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Bradley resigns as chaplain and insists that Laura stay. Bradley's employer refuses his resignation due to his noble acts, and Laura begs forgiveness.(22 August 1914). Feature Film Stories, The Moving Picture World, p.
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Louis Reeves Harrison, writing for The Moving Picture World, gave a overview of the story and complemented the acting and the casting, noting that "Director Sturgeon has done well with his company and his setting".
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The visual effects are provided by Moving Picture Company, Sony Imageworks, Mammal Studios and Ollin VFX and Supervised by Robert Winter, Mark Breakspaer, Gregory D. Liegey, Charlie Iturriaga and Jerome Chen as the Production Supervisor.
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Audio post production is all stages of audio production relating to sound produced and synchronized with moving picture (film, television, or video). It involves sound design, sound effects, Foley, ADR, sound editing, audio mixing, etc.
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The single reel comedy, approximately 1,000 feet long, was released on October 4, 1910. The film had a wide national release, with theaters showing the film in South Dakota, Indiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Washington, Kansas, Maryland, and New Hampshire. The film review by Walton of The Moving Picture News and The Moving Picture World bear an unusual expression about laying siege to an heiress that is used in both summaries. Bowers says both reviews were probably adapted from a "canned" review supplied by Thanhouser.
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The single reel drama, approximately 1,000 feet long, was released on October 18, 1910. The film is known to have had a wide national release, with showing theaters in South Dakota, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, North Carolina, Montana, and Missouri. The film was also shown in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by the Province Theatre. The Moving Picture News and The Moving Picture World were both neutral in their review of the film, giving neither specific praise nor criticism of the production.
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The single reel comedy, approximately 1,000 feet long was released on November 8, 1910. The film had a wide national release, advertising theaters are known in Montana, Texas, Kansas, South Dakota, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana, and Missouri. The film was also shown in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by the Province Theatre. Bowers does not cite any trade publication reviews for this film, making it unlikely that the film was given attention in The New York Dramatic Mirror, The Moving Picture World or The Moving Picture News publications.
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Walton of The Moving Picture News, praised the film as a success, but did not provide any details as to why it was successful. The Moving Picture World provided a detailed review which praised the adaptation of the novel and found the staging and the acting to be clear and strong. The New York Dramatic Mirror review was negative, criticizing the garb, tempest scene, and describing the acting as lacking in feeling. The Nickelodeon, an uncommon source for Thanhouser reviews, was not fooled by Crane's outfit.
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One of the last advertisements for the film's showing was in September 1913. The film was positively reviewed by critics, but contained within the reviews were often criticism on the execution of the story and plot. A review in The Moving Picture World was positive to the moral lesson the film asserted and found the acting to be satisfactory. Walton of The Moving Picture News criticized the type of film as invoking sudden and unnatural changes in character for the sake of a moral lesson.
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The motion picture was officially released in the United States on October 11, 1912 and was generally well received across the country by both reviewers and theatergoers. Two weeks afternoon the film's release, the Midwest correspondent for The Moving Picture World reported it as "a tremendous hit in Chicago theaters", adding "Great applause has greeted its presentation at all houses where it has been shown."McQuade, Jas. S. "Chicago Letter / Chicago Film Brevities", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), October 25, 1912, p. 328.
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It was unclear if this was a play or a film script. An obituary described him as: > One of the stoutest champions of Australian moving picture production. > Although his sanguine views of the business as a profitable investment were > not shared by all his friends, it was conceded by everyone who kn6w him, > that he had the courage of his convictions. In the early years of moving > picture development, as a medium for dramatic expression, Mr. Lincoln > achieved success as a maker of photodramas.
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In addition to directing and acting in this film, William Mong wrote its screenplay or "scenario". The production at the time was one of several that Selig Polygraph planned with an Arctic theme. The trade journal The Moving Picture World reported in July 1911 that the film was among a "series of pictures made by Selig in the far north last winter"."American-Born Eskimo Girl Plays Leading Part in Selig Film", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), August 5, 1911, p. 291.
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1, 1912, "How Carl Laemmle Succeeded In Breaking The Moving Picture Trust," p. SM 14. but eventually lost. Before long, the independents began moving to Southern California, and opened up a West Coast movie-making industry.
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Internet Archive. Retrieved January 2, 2019. Arbuckle and Luke featured in Moving Picture World, January 1919 Luke's reliability and experience as a performer earned him a top salary during his career of $150 a week ($ today).
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The most famous of her 300 or so leading roles was the redeemed prostitute Katusha Maslova in Jacob Gordin's play based on Tolstoy's Resurrection.(22 August 1914). Mme. Sarah Adler, The Moving Picture World, p. 1086.
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The edition of April 16, 1910 of The Moving Picture World provided three testimonials that the film was of excellent quality and one attributed a doubling of patrons because of the film. The film is presumed lost.
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The film was released on March 29, 1910 and was met with some positive reviews. The film was known to have an alternate or working title of The Liar and the Thief, which is credited by Bowers and appears in an index in the Moving Picture World. Another reference for the film instead shortens the name to Done it Again. Two reviews for the film would appear in Moving Picture World, with the first praising the release and using a testimonial by Ray Norton to support that it is a good comedy.
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The single reel comedy, approximately 1,000 feet long, was released on October 14, 1910. The film had a wide national release, with known theaters in North Carolina, Washington, Montana, Arizona, Kansas, and Minnesota. The film was also shown in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The review received barely a sentence from Walton of The Moving Picture News who stated it was: "Good from A to Z." The Moving Picture World offers little more, highlighting that the film would please children and offered a brief summary devoid of criticism or praise.
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The film was presented to the public on 27 February 1911 in various theatres in London and in the provinces, and was a huge success. The Moving Picture World wrote, "The picture is without doubt the greatest that has even been attempted in this country, and I am almost tempted to say in any other ... the acting passes anything ever seen in moving pictures before.... The effect on the moving picture industry here will be enormous."Hamilton Ball, Robert. "The Shakespeare Film as Record: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree", Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol.
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Another scene with Nelson (fifth from right) and his officers on poop deck of HMS Victory A month after the film's release, the "Western Correspondent" for Moving Picture News reported from Arkansas that his wife, who reviewed the picture, thought it "was about the best battle scene and military reel she has looked at in many days", adding that "Because it was historical in character she raved about it.""The Man in the Baths" (1911). "From Our Western Correspondent", Moving Picture News, October 21, 1911, p. 26. Internet Archive. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
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The scene at the moving picture show, where the committee passes upon a similar situation, was to the point and interesting. The minister forgives his wife after her confession, remembering the biblical admonition, "Judge not that ye be not judged".... This is very well done for this type of offering. The photography is very good and the cast handles the story well." -- Moving Picture World "A delicate story handled in a manner which will not offend by Joseph De Grasse's company headed by Pauline Bush, Lon Chaney and William Dowlan.
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Indeed, Blake's book cites a review from "Moving Picture World" that stated "Edwin August has written a brilliant two-part drama along this theme....", but he doesn't state if a two-part movie means one or two reels.
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Fort Lee: The Film Town . John Libbey, 2004. p. 99. Moving Picture World , June 19, 1915, p. 1922. According to Film Daily (June 1926), the first episode of The Leather Pushers (1922) with Reginald Denny was filmed there.
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Released on July 1, 1910, the film took place within living memory of the war and a reviewer in The Moving Picture World noted that the film would not offend its audience members. The film is presumed lost.
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Fort Lee: The Film Town . John Libbey, 2004. p. 99. Moving Picture World , June 19, 1915, p. 1922. According to Film Daily (June 1926), the first episode of The Leather Pushers (1922) with Reginald Denny was filmed there.
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The couple then depart for Zak's village, where together they can begin a new life."The Way of the Eskimo", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), July 15, 1911, p. 54. Internet Archive. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
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Ford Beebe was born on November 26, 1888, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Before moving to Hollywood he was a freelance writer who was also experienced in advertising.Ford Beebe with Signal. The Moving Picture World, volume 28, p. 995.
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As a child, Porten and her sister would often appear in school plays and moving picture image collections featuring opera and arias that their father shot. As a director, Porten's films were notable for featuring storylines centered on women.
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The Moving Picture World spared only a brief summary of the film with a simple approval for the romantic story. The New York Dramatic Mirror found another reason that the film was worth seeing - the absence of a villain.
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145, 193. The couple divorced in 1914, the year before Powell's marriage to Emma H. Miller, another actress who professionally used the name Jane Miller."Powell a Benedict", The Moving Picture World, November 27, 1915. p. 1673. Internet Archive.
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It was officially declared an international standard by the Moving Picture Experts Group in April 1997. It is specified both as Part 7 of the MPEG-2 standard, and Subpart 4 in Part 3 of the MPEG-4 standard.
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"Moving Picture World" stated: "Pauline Bush gives a good portrayal...It is a disagreeable part and a hard one, but she makes much of it. There are good mountain backgrounds."Blake, Michael F. (1998). "The Films of Lon Chaney".
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Known production details state that it was shot on a beach resort and used a miniature train. The film had a wide release and was reviewed by The Moving Picture World as a low comedy suited for the burlesque theaters.
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Motion Picture News gave the film a "fair" rating. They enjoyed the flow of the story, and the novelty of the characters' motivations. They also highlighted the cinematography of Ray Reis. The Moving Picture World gave the picture a better review.
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"Elmer Booth Killed",Moving Picture World, July 3, 1915, p.75. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved November 18, 2019. Later reports blamed the accident on heavy fog; nevertheless, Elmer's sister Margaret never forgave Browning for the loss of her brother.
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A silent film version directed by Lois Weber premiered in April 1916, starring Tyrone Power, Agnes Emerson, and Frank Elliott. The screenplay was by Olga Printzlau.(25 March 1916). Tyrone Power with Bluebird, The Moving Picture World(16 April 1916).
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The American Film Institute cites four bibliographic sources ending with an advertisement in Moving Picture World in January 1911 says that the releases would be delayed for a "few days". The film does not appear to have ever been released.
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David has won multiple Gold ADDY Awards for editing, directing, and his creative strategies. David is a Board Member of The Joint Photographic Experts Group (Jpeg), The Moving Picture Experts Group, and is an advisor to the Sacramento Film Commission.
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"Ghost Ship", co- written by Jarrad, Devlin and Alex Clare was released on A Moving Picture, the second studio album by English rapper Devlin. The album was released on 4 February 2013 and peaked at number 19 on the UK charts.
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There was also a market, churches, a hospital,Richard C, 2010. Page 5 a moving picture theatre (named Capital Theatre),Richard C, 2010. Page 100 a jetty, government offices, government resident quarters, a government clinic, and a community hall.Richard C, 2010.
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2155Weitzel, Edward. Reviews of Current Productions, The Moving Picture World (July 7, 1917), p. 75 The film was based on an 1898 short story by Francis Hopkinson Smith. The short story first appeared in the Ladies' Home Journal in late 1898.
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Bandwidth Requirements for Video Transmission of American Sign Language and Finger Spelling, Science, AAAS, November 14, 1980, Vol. 210, pp.797-799, .Whybray, M.W. Moving Picture Transmission at Low Bitrates for Sign Language Communication, Martlesham, England: British Telecom Laboratories, 1995.
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Around 1919, musical accompaniment cue sheets start suggesting the tune "a la burlesque" to mock-dramatic scenes.Cue sheet to "That's Good," prepared by S. M. Berg, from "Musical Cue Sheets of Current Releases." Moving Picture World, 12 April 1919, P. 248.
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Sundance Film Festival: "Frannie's Christmas" (1993). Aspen Shortsfest 1999: Won special recognition for "Herd" (1999). Atlanta Film Festival 1999: Won Honorable Mention for Best Narrative Short: "Herd" (1999). Birmingham Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival 1999: Won first prize for "Herd" (1999).
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Moving Picture World also gave the film a positive review, saying that the story was set forth in a "...rational and entertaining manner throughout..." They praised Nelson's performance, and gave good marks to the rest of the cast as well.
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Advertisement in The Billboard, 1911 During the silent era, it was common practice for production companies to load two short films onto a single reel, creating what was referred to then as a "split reel". Advertisement for three 1911 films of Powers Moving Picture Company, including the split-reel releases Lost in a Hotel and An Old-Time Nightmare, The Moving Picture World, September 16, 1911, p. 809. Retrieved June 17, 2020. Combining films onto one reel not only reduced the number of reels shipped to theaters by distributors, it also reduced the number of reel changes on the projectors at those locations.
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Prompt Payment was praised by The Billboard as an ingenious comedy film that had good photography. A review in The Moving Picture World and a review by Walton of The Moving Picture News both agreed that the subject's comedy of the film was in seeing the lawyer ultimately pay the creditors back with their own money. The New York Dramatic Mirror praised the film, calling it a "capital farce, and it is most effectively presented." Stealing a Ride was met with positive reviews for the clear photography and the realism of the subject which makes for a cautionary tale.
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Arthur Melbourne-Cooper's A Dream of Toyland (1908), one of the earliest animation films Hertfordshire was the home of the pioneering British film maker Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, who was born in St Albans in 1874. He worked in Hertfordshire (but later what became the London Borough of Barnet), and witnessed the birth of the movies as an assistant/cameraman of Birt Acres (1854–1918). Acres, in 1895, co-developed the first British 35 mm moving picture camera under the guidance of British engineer R.W. Paul. Cooper, for the next 20 years, made contributions to the British moving picture industry.
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In addition to presenting and celebrating all aspects of the moving picture on the big screen, the Cinematheque also provides a forum where film lovers and students can hear the world's leading filmmakers, actors, writers, editors, cinematographers, and others discussing their craft.
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The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has normalized Annex H of MPEG-4 AVC in March 2009 called Multiview Video Coding after the work of a group called '3DAV' (3D Audio and Visual) headed by Aljoscha Smolic at the Heinrich-Hertz Institute.
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"Edison Films", advertisement for four releases, The Moving Picture World, January 20, 1912, p. 182. Internet Archive. Retrieved June 9, 2020. Armed with a pistol, she ultimately has to choose between her loyalty to family and the Confederacy or her love for Charles.
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The 1916 film publications Motography and The Moving Picture World both described the production's plot as "unusual" and "original". Rosson, at age 17, was already an experienced film actress when she was cast to costar in the film. Motography called her performance "refreshing".
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The serial was a remake of the 1918 Universal serial The Brass Bullet, which was based on the story "Pleasure Island."Lahue, Kalton C. Continued Next Week: A History of the Moving Picture Serial. Stillwater, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964; Langman, Larry.
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Although Hall's appearances were unique and well-received by the audiences, film reviewer Hal Erickson, notes, "... Moving Picture World was not quite so chivalrous: 'Lieutenant Hall rings true, but his story does not'."Erickson, Hal. "Review: 'A Romance of the Air'." Allmovie.
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We came back; the ship was half underwater. They towed us back to northern Africa. I got a message that another ship was going to have a moving picture in their hold." West went on to say, "[t]he picture had already started.
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Pictures Stimulate Interest in Play, The Moving Picture World and again in 1922 starring John Bowers, Blanche Sweet, Lon Chaney, and Barbara La Marr. Both films are considered lost. Pidgin's next novel, Blennerhassett (1901), sold over 60,000 copies before even appearing in print.
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The camera travels through a green-lit city during a lightning storm. Papa Emeritus III takes a paper from a hawker. He reads about a Mysterious Spectre who has seized power. He also reads about his role in the first ever moving picture.
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"Stereoscopic Pictures Screened". Moving Picture World, June 26, 1915, p. 2072. However, according to Adolph Zukor in his 1953 autobiography The Public Is Never Wrong: My 50 Years in the Motion Picture Industry, nothing was produced in this process after these tests.
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Lewis Sargent (Huck) and Gordon Griffith (Tom) were child actors who already had a long and successful career and were well known to the public.Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 21, 30-32.
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Both films, currently presumed to be "lost", were produced by the Powers Moving Picture Company of New York. Neither the director nor the performers in this film are identified in 1911 reviews or in plot summaries and advertisements published in trade journals at the time.
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According to reviews in 1911 trade publications, this brief film featured comedic situations that confronted a "stage-struck young lady" who desired to become a professional entertainer."Lost in a Hotel (Sept. 19)", The Moving Picture World, September 16, 1911, p. 824. Internet Archive.
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Interview with John Dykstra, inventor of Dykstraflex, (retrieved 9 August 2012). The first commercial computer-based motion control and CGI system was developed in 1981 in the UK by Moving Picture Company designer Bill Mather.History of Motion Control Photography at RTBot (retrieved 9 August 2012).
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T. L. Barnett, owner of Finn's Theatre in Jewett City, Connecticut, agreed. "I think", Barnett declared, "that Thunder is more of an actor than either Strongheart or Rin-Tin-Tin"."Black Lightning (State Right)", Moving Picture World, April 25, 1925, p. 780. Internet Archive.
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Meanwhile he disposed of his interest in Olympia Theatres, Inc., to the Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. in 1925. According to the Boston Daily Globe, the transaction was reportedly valued at $12 million and included Gordon's holdings in 38 moving picture playhouses in New England.
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Still of the "Great Mob Scene" that shows part of the Mexican-village set and some of the hundreds of extras who earned "a sandwich" and one dollar a day for their work. The Moving Picture World had a mixed reaction to the film as well. The publication found its storyline "not in itself convincing" but predicted that most moviegoers would be satisfied by all the action on screen, by what it termed as the "stir and bustle and thunder in it.""Comments on the Films Exclusively by Our Own Staff / Fox Film Corporation", review, The Moving Picture World, March 18, 1916, p. 1853. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
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In January 1989 Justice started his career at the Moving Picture Company where he moved on to work as a commercials producer, most notably working on the Artiston advert which won the Golden Lion at Cannes and the British Television Advertising Awards (BTAA) - Gold in Post Production.
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She played in at least four silent films between 1910 and 1916. The Immortal Flame, her last, was a five-reel melodrama written and produced by Ivan Abramson and starred Maude Fealy.Edna Luby - Internet Movie Database accessed 5.10.13The Moving Picture World, Volume 27, January-March, 1916, p.
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The Moving Picture Institute's five-day cinematography workshop, Moving Picturecraft, educates filmmakers about lighting, camera, and lens technologies. Led by cinematographer Benjamin Gaskell, MPI's cinematography fellows learn from American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) members, while getting hands-on experience with industry-standard camera and lighting systems.
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There was a complete company town with forty homes for employees, a commissary, a church, a school, a park, and a moving picture theater adjacent to the fernery. The Royal Fernery was the catalyst which made Altamonte Springs a center for fern growing for many years.
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The film was defined like: "In his hand-to-hand struggle in the cabin and the jump from the cabin roof to the back of his horse, Jack Ford qualifies as a rough-riding expert".The Moving Picture World. March 3, 1917Bogdanovich, Peter. p. B6Gallagher, Tag. p.
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"The Moving Picture World," Volume 18, Page 1528, Issues 8-13 Charles and Susan Brabin remained married for seven years. Brabin later wed silent-film "vamp" star Theda Bara July 2, 1921, remaining married to her until her death from abdominal cancer on April 7, 1955.
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In 1906, in conjunction with her husband, she opened the Powell Musical Institute in Brooklyn, teaching voice culture, piano playing, harmony, composition, and languages. Moving Picture News reported that Powell would perform a concert tour of Europe in August 1911 and sing a grand opera in Berlin.
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While the short was identified upon its release as a comedy, it was also characterized in several contemporary reviews as a morality lesson and ideal photoplay for "juvenile" audiences."'An Old-Time Nightmare' (Powers)", The Moving Picture World, September 16, 1911, p. 778. Internet Archive. Retrieved June 14, 2020.
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In February 1911, Barry married actor and film director Jack Conway of the Bison Moving Picture Company in Santa Ana, California. They had one daughter, Rosemary. The couple divorced in 1918. Barry later married screenwriter Frank McGrew Willis, with whom she had four children: Virginia, Gloria, McGrew, and James.
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Imro Fox (May 21, 1862 – March 4, 1910) was German-born American chef who became a headlining stage magician billed as the "comic conjuror". He was active between 1880 and 1910 and was known for the line, "Mahvelous! Everything I do is mahvelous."The Moving Picture World, vol.
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The Diamond Moving Picture Theater, located at 24th and Lake, was flattened by the Easter Sunday tornado of 1913.Easter Day tornado picture. Retrieved 7/13/08. After the tornado rumors circulated that hundreds had died inside the building; that proved to be untrue, as all patrons had escaped.
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His artistic activity is reflected in different forms of arts: he draws, paints, but first of all he creates prints. He employs both traditional techniques using metal plates (mezzotint, etching) but for quite a long time he has been using digital techniques and moving picture with his own music.
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"Film Magazines Merge". The New York Times. December 15, 1930. p. 42. The Media History Digital Library has scans of the archive of Exhibitors Herald (1917 to 1927); Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World (1928); Exhibitors Herald World (1929 to 1930) and Motion Picture Herald (1931–1956) available online.
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MPEG media transport (MMT), specified as ISO/IEC 23008-1 (MPEG-H Part 1), is a digital container standard developed by Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) that supports High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) video. MMT was designed to transfer data using the all-Internet Protocol (All-IP) network.
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Moving Picture World, June 11, 1927. In addition to these three big names there was also Harry Carey, still a major star when he made several films for the studio in 1922–23. The other cowboy stars of FBO included Bob Custer, Bob Steele, and teenager Buzz Barton.
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Internet Archive. Retrieved August 26, 2020. According to news reports trade publications, the uniforms used in the film "were made to order from authentic military authorities in London.""The Charge of the Light Brigade (Oct. 11)", The Moving Picture News, October 5, 1912, p. 27. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
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W. Rice] had been hired to work on and complete The Planter, an ambitious seven-reeler that was being filmed on location in Guatemala by the Nevada Motion Picture Corporation."Los Angeles Film Brevities", Moving Picture World, December 23, 1916, p. 1789, col. 1. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
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1982), with their mother and four sisters continued to expand the business. Offices in Glasgow and London were engaged in the renting of comedies, dramas and serials, with departments selling cinema projectors and printing publicity material including their own Green's Kinema Tatler magazine. An investment in Samson Films and the purchase of a rival's producing facilities gave the Green's the ability to produce their own films such as the Patriotic Porker (1916), for the War Office under the name of Green's Topical Productions. Their activities were developed further with a Scottish newsreel, The Scottish Moving Picture News, with a change of name in 1919 to British Moving Picture News, reverting in 1921 to the original name.
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Retrieved April 23, 2020. The weekly trade journal heavily implies in its report that young Ford had already gained a reputation for being a hard-driving, demanding leader on set: Although The Moving Picture Weekly in the preceding news item does not use the term "director" specifically, the publication's references to "Jack Ford's Company” and to "his players" certainly indicate that the trade journal identified Jack in command of production. A coming-attractions notice in an earlier issue of the same journal promotes the film and does highlight the credit "Directed by Jack Ford" in bold print.Ribbon Advance Notices / 'The Trail of Hate'", The Moving Picture Weekly, April 14, 1917, pp. 46-47.
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Searches of 1917 newspapers and trade publications provide few news items or critical assessments about this short after its release, not uncommon for one- and two- reel productions when compared to the media’s coverage of the increasing number of much longer, more elaborate films being produced by then. The Moving Picture World in its brief assessment of the film on April 28, 1917 summarizes the plot and describes its action as "spirited" and engaging. "The construction is a little jerky in places," it reports, "but certain scenes lift it out of the ordinary, such as the stage holdup, ambush, attack on fort, etc.""THE TRAIL OF HATE (Bison)", The Moving Picture World, April 28, 1917, p. 640.
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The Moving Picture Company (MPC) is a British visual effects and production company, headquartered in Soho, London with facilities located in Los Angeles, New York City, Montreal, Amsterdam, Bengaluru, Paris, and Shanghai.Company Overview of The Moving Picture Company Ltd. It is a subsidiary of Technicolor SA. MPC's creative services include concept design, visualization, shoot supervision, 2D compositing, 3D/CG effects, animation, motion design, software development, mixed reality and virtual production. The studio has received three Academy Awards for its work on the films 1917, The Jungle Book and Life of Pi and three BAFTA Awards for its work on 1917, The Jungle Book and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
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F. Herrick Herrick (March 25, 1902 – August 11, 1987) was an American film director and philatelist. Herrick first began to direct short films in 1925, and within a year The Moving Picture World magazine wrote that he was poised to become "one of the leading film directors on the East Coast"."Herrick Completes His First Feature for Independent Field", The Moving Picture World, January 2, 1926, p. 81. While an independent director and producer, he did most of his work for studios such as Tec-Art, which wrote to the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America in 1927 that "the motion picture industry would be well rid of Mr F. Herrick Herrick".
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In the United States, she was known for her appearance in The Ghost of the White Lady (1914),"A Feature that Charms" Moving Picture World (January 17, 1914): 276. and In the Line of Duty (1914)."Noted Italian Actress in Military Drama" Dayton Herald (April 25, 1914): 9. via Newspapers.
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It is the year 1040 in the town of Coventry, England."Vitagraph Notes", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), July 15, 1911, p. 49. Retrieved June 22, 2020. The local lord, Leofric, has imposed a heavy tax on the residents, many of whom are on the verge of starvation.
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Eclair was a leader in technical and artistic advancements afoot in filmmaking at the time, and its American branch was hailed as a mecca for top talent, which Brulatour helped cultivate.Moving Picture World, October 7, 1911, p. 25; and November 11, 1911, p. 482; Moving Picture News, August 10, 1911, p.
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Ace Magazine "Aviation and the Moving Picture Industry: Airplanes Play Important Part in Up-to-Date Movies", November 1921. (B.H. De Lay featured)Wynne, Hugh. (1987) The Motion Picture Stunt Pilots & Hollywoods Classic Aviation Movies, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing. De Lay Pages: 8, 20, 22, 24, 28, 30, 34) (B.
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Powell's work on longer films like On Her Honor continued to impress some reviewers, such as Mary Kelly of The Moving Picture World. In her assessment of that film, Kelly compliments its tone and pacing, describing Powell's direction as "a dignified and restrained treatment of the experiences of a lady detective".
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Moving picture mechanism from 1914. The sprocket wheels a, b, and c engage and transport the film. a and b move with uniform velocity and c indexes each frame of the film into place for projection. Sprockets are used in the film transport mechanisms of movie projectors and movie cameras.
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Martin Spellman IV was born in 1925 in Des Moines, Iowa. After his family moved to California, at the age of 9 he first entered the MGM studios not as a prospective actor but as a newsboy.Holmstrom, John (1996). The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995.
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The film received a positive review in the Moving Picture World which said, "It is a good story, well told, and the audience seems intensely interested in it." The New York Dramatic Mirror offered a review that neither commended or criticized the production in its summary review of the film.
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Moving Picture World called it "A western number of about average interest". Motion Picture News stated: "An old plot but the novel manner in which it is worked makes it interesting....The picture will appeal more to lovers of westerns than others".Blake, Michael F. (1998). "The Films of Lon Chaney".
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The film appeared at a number of festivals, including SxSW and the Independent Film Festival of Boston, and garnered the Special Jury Award for Artistic Portrait at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival and Best Documentary Feature at the Indie Memphis Film Festival. The film has also been shown on the Sundance Channel.
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Karlheinz Brandenburg, who led the development of the MP3 format. AudioID technology is a part of the international ISO/IEC MPEG-7 audio standard of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). In 2005 German-based company Magix AG acquired patents for the technology. Mufin is a commercial product based on the AudioID.
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When he retired from the Parks position in 1921 he was appointed the first moving picture censor for the Province of Alberta. Douglas was a Charter Member of the Calgary Lodge of Independent Order of Oddfellows, and a member of the Banff Masonic Lodge. Douglas died in Edmonton on January 6, 1929.
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They complimented the work of Mayo, Hill, and Blythe, and particularly highlighted the character work of Rudolph Christians. They felt the cinematography, direction, and settings were average. The Moving Picture World enjoyed the picture. While they did not care for the subject matter of the film, they felt the acting was very good.
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Margaret I. MacDonald gave a positive review in The Moving Picture World at the time, saying that Daly knew how to "manufacture and stage a thrilling melodramatic situation". She also praised the production saying "its situtations are tense, its photography good, and it has all the attributes of a good box office attraction".
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To obtain a flicker-free display, analog TV used a variant of the scheme in moving-picture film projectors, in which each frame of the film is shown twice or three times. To do that, the shutter closes and opens again to increase the flicker rate, but not the data update rate.
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"The trick", he remarked, "of the eagle with its wire wings is too evident to the audience, while the fight between the man and eagle is poor and out of vision.""Editorial/Out Visits", The Moving Picture World (New York), February 1, 1908, p. 71. Internet Archive, San Francisco. Retrieved August 8, 2020.
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Robert Clem's documentary film on March, entitled William March/Company K (2004), includes excerpts from Clem's feature adaptation of Company K and focuses on the effects of March's painful war experience on his later life. The documentary was shown at Birmingham, Alabama's Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival and aired on PBS in 2004.
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For instance, Bill Murray's lifted eyebrow was incorporated into Baloo's facial gestures. The Moving Picture Company (MPC) and Weta Digital created the film's visual effects. MPC developed new software for animating muscular structure in the animals. Around 1,000 remote jungle locations in India were photographed and used as a reference in post-production.
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The musical program for the screenings were decided and played by the individual accompanists. At times, musical accompaniments were shared in trade journals, but for Looking Forward a dispute serves to provide one musical credit provided by Mrs. Buttery of Pennsylvania. In responding to an editorial in The Moving Picture World, Mrs.
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H. Jeanval of The Moving Picture News found the baron to be boorish by shading a lady's hand with a glove on and wondered at how Thanhouser was able to film the prison scenes. Walton, also of The Moving Picture News summed up the film and stated, "Good teaching as to woman's 'class', but as to details[,] sadly lax." The New York Dramatic Mirror panned the film beginning with, "Nothing more improbable or inconsistent has been seen on the screen in some time..." The reviewer concluded the review of the improbable plot as to having been "dreamed up by a ten-year-old girl." The film is presumed lost because the film is not known to be held in any archive or by any collector.
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A film that grips and by skillful presentation must be popular. The lighthouse scenes and the dog won deserved applause." The Moving Picture World was more specific in its praise. The reviewer stated, "There is life and animation enough to suit the most exacting, with good acting and clear photography as features of the picture.
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Filming was scheduled to begin in February 2008 in Lynn, Massachusetts. It was delayed, beginning on April 29, 2008 in Woburn. Filming then took place in the Massachusetts cities of Lynn, Worcester, Milford, Hopedale, Taunton, Lawrence and Wayland. Visual effects were handled by Sandbox FX, Brickyard VFX, Industrial Light and Magic and Moving Picture Company.
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The Assam Garden is a 1985 British drama film directed by Mary McMurray and produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark with Peter Jaques as associate producer. Made by Moving Picture Company and distributed by Contemporary Films Ltd., it was written by Elisabeth Bond. The music score was by Richard Harvey and the cinematography by Bryan Loftus.
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The film was released on February 12, 1915. It was later released in The United Kingdom on July 5, 1915. The film was released nationwide with advertisements appearing in Chicago, Illinois Kansas, and Ohio. A review in The Moving Picture World said the comedy-drama as being pleasing to watch and full of action.
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Falling Leaves was released March 15, 1912. The review in The New York Dramatic Mirror commented on the cast's capability and complimented the production as "developed and played with a compelling naturalness". In a similar vein, Moving Picture News said of the film that the story unfolded "in an atmosphere of delicacy and charming naturalness".
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All three of those early directorial projects were Western shorts and were separately released over a period of three months in 1917: The Tornado on March 3, The Trail of Hate on April 28, and The Scrapper on June 9."Tornado", The Moving Picture World, March 10, 1917, p. 457; Motography, May 12, 1917, p.
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Warner Bros. acquired the movie rights to the play on June 4, 1926, and signed Jessel to a contract. Moving Picture World published a story in February 1927 announcing that production on the film would begin with Jessel on May 1. However, the plans to make the film with Jessel fell through, and Warner Bros.
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Black Box first premiered at the 15th Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in Birmingham, Alabama on August 25, 2013. The film had a limited film festival run, playing at the Cucalorus Film Festival, the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, and the LGBT Reeling Film Festival, where Black Box made its Chicago premiere in November, 2013.
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Tannehill appeared in three silent films: Ethel's Luncheon (1909), When the Mind Sleeps (1915), and The Barnstormers (1915).Hanford C. Judson, "The Barnstormers" Moving Picture World (August 21, 1915): 1322. She also made two late-career appearances on television, in "Murder by Choice", for Colgate Theatre (1949), and in "Follow Me" for Lights Out (1951).
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"Off With Their Heads" is the sixth single by British rapper Devlin, and the second single from Devlin's second studio album A Moving Picture (2013), the song was released in the United Kingdom on 10 October 2012 and features British rapper Wretch 32. The song was written by James Devlin and Jermaine Scott and produced by Drop Lamond.
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Lampe (1914) Zamecnik (1913) The tune appeared as no. 89 in The Remick Folio of Moving Picture Music, vol. I, compiled and edited by the Danish-American composer J. Bodewalt Lampe and published on March 24, 1914 by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York and Detroit.Fuld, James J. (2000) The Book Of World-Famous Music, 5th ed.
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The visual effects are provided by Digital Domain, Moving Picture Company, Cinesite, Method Studios, Prime Focus World, Scanline VFX and The Third Floor, Inc. and Supervised by Jay Barton, Guillaume Rocheron, Simon Stanley-Clamp, Nordin Rahhali, Bruce Woloshyn, Randy Goux, Chad Wiebe, Shawn Hull and Tracy L. Kettler with help from Hydraulx and Rhythm and Hues Studios.
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As described in Moving Picture World: Three school chums, two boys and a girl, go merrily on their way as boys and girls usually do. Jack Sneder, the favorite one, asks the girl's hand in marriage. Her father tells him when he can produce ten thousand dollars he can have her. Five years later we find Jack a detective.
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In 1977, Roche made his first feature film, The Moving Picture Man (El cine soy yo). The film was co-wrote with Fabrice Helion. In this film Roche made his first performance as actor. The film was presented at international festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), the Moscow Film Festival and San Sebastian.
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The Moving Picture Man is one of the most recognised Venezuelan films. Years later Roche released The Secret (El secreto) (1988), a thriller where he made as well his second role as actor. In 1996, directed Out In The Open (Aire Libre), a film co-wrote with Jacques Espagne. In this movie, Roche played the character of Siefert.
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No prints of the first American film adaptation of A Christmas Carol are known to exist, but The Moving Picture World magazine provided a scene-by-scene description before the film's release. Scrooge goes into his office and begins working. His nephew, along with three women who wish for Scrooge to donate enter. However, Scrooge dismisses them.
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The Moving Picture Institute's Rising Filmmaker Program supports filmmakers who are committed to developing and producing marketable projects about human freedom. MPI has supported the careers of over 370 producers, directors, editors, and screenwriters. Participants work closely with mentors, take part in workshops and masterclasses, and have the opportunity to see their work produced by MPI.
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The Moving Picture Institute's four-day editing workshop, the Mindful Editor, features instruction from industry professionals and hands-on experience with advanced editing technology. Produced in partnership with Smock Media, this workshop teaches editing fellows how to use the editing process to make a film connect emotionally with viewers. The workshop also addresses ways to reduce burnout.
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The film was released on August 22, 1913. The Moving Picture World said the film was a memorable offering that contained vivid scenes along a picturesque coast. In an advertisement in Rushville, Indiana the film as billed as the "story of a Hunchback's Love and Renunciation". The film was also advertised, perhaps alternatively or erroneously, as Sea Urchins.
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In mid-July 1924, the cathedral was taken over by the signal corps of the Ensky division. On July 26, the first moving picture presentation for the Red Army was held here. The Assumption church along with the chapel of St Sergius of Radonezh are protected architectural buildings. Currently, it is restored and in active use.
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Sloss Furnaces Birmingham is home to numerous cultural festivals showcasing music, films, and regional heritage. The Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival brings filmmakers from all over the world to Birmingham to have their films viewed and judged. This festival usually is scheduled in late August at eight venues around downtown. Screenings are concentrated at the Alabama Theatre.
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Another musical festival is the Taste of 4th Avenue Jazz Festival, presented at the end of August each year, concurrent with the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. This all-day festival features national and local jazz acts. In 2007, the festival drew an estimated 6,000 people. The Birmingham Folk Festival is an annual event held since 2006.
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This is the Palace theatre, the venue where Anthony Hopkins staged his first professional performance, the oldest theatre in Wales, one of only 2 remaining purpose built music halls left in the United Kingdom and the first place in Wales to screen a moving picture. It was once used as a nightclub but is now mostly derelict.
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Cinématographe Lumière at the Institut Lumière, France A cinematograph is a motion picture film camera, which—in combination with different parts—also serves as a film projector and printer. It was developed in the 1890s in Lyon by Auguste and Louis Lumière.This was not the first 'moving picture' device. Louis Le Prince had built early devices in 1886.
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Based on the novel The Rose Garden Husband, and starring her husband and Mignon Anderson, the film centers on a girl who dreams of owning a garden and ends up marrying a paralyzed man who owns one. Critic Robert C. McElravy of Moving Picture World opined, "... it gets over extremely well and will please the average audience immensely".
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The film was released in August 1918. The premiere was held at Sydney Town Hall and resulted in a near riot as people sought tickets. The film went on to be a success with the box office."Australian Notes", Moving Picture World 6 Jul 1918 - 31 Aug 1918 p 1128 It continued to be seen in cinemas until 1925.
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The film was a co-production between the motion picture studios of Moving Picture Company, DNA Films, UK Film Council, and Ingenious Film Partners. Theatrically, it was commercially distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, while the 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment division released the film in the video rental market. Sunshine explores physics, science and religion.Danny Boyle (Director). (2007).
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A Curious Dream is a 1907 short drama film based on Mark Twain's short story "The Curious Dream". Twain himself provided the following testimonial: "Gentlemen: I authorize the Vitagraph Company of America to make a moving picture from my 'Curious Dream.' I have their picture of John Barter, examining his gravestone, and find it frightfully and deliciously humorous".
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Léon Frapié Léon Eugène Frapié (27 January 1863 in Paris – 29 September 1949 in Paris) was a French novelist. He first contributed to magazines and newspapers, then a few novels. He is most known for the 1904 Prix Goncourt winning novel La Maternelle. It is a moving picture of disillusioned manners of children in poor neighborhood schools.
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The Cambrian 27 (1907), 309. In 1881 in Bordeaux Guille had married Joséphine Azibert (1854-1911) with whom he had three sons. As his career declined, Guille sang in upscale vaudeville shows. Guille died in poverty 19 August 1914 in Los Angeles, where he had been supporting himself in his last years singing in moving picture theaters.
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The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. In 1988 the Propylaeum was used as a set for a few scenes in the moving picture, Eight Men Out (1988), although the home's interiors were significantly altered during filming. The Indiana Historical Bureau erected a state historical marker at the site in 1999.
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September Morn was a two-reel silent comedy film produced by Pathé and released in 1914. Inspired by Paul Chabas' September Morn, it followed a young sailor who had a nude figure tattooed on his chest but was forced to tattoo clothes on the figure. This now-lost film was reviewed positively in The Moving Picture World.
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Moving Picture World wrote: "The scenic effects are good and the situations, while very familiar, have a little more dash and go to them than usual." Motion Picture News wrote: "The plot is conventional but is enacted in a manner that makes it most interesting. There is an excellent fight scene between the two men."Blake, Michael F. (1998).
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The film was shot in the New York harbor. A brief listing of a film bearing this name, listed at 350 feet in length, was featured in The Moving Picture World on October 22, 1910. Both Pathé and Vitagraph released films under this same title. Vitagraph's film was reportedly 415 feet long and Pathé's film was about 200 feet in length.
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Moving Pictures World, a weekly film industry periodical, often published on Wilson and her efforts in the silent film era. The Moving Picture Weekly recorded Wilson as Bluebird's noted woman producer. Her work played upon gender roles. In one of the films directed by Wilson, The Dream Lady (1918), the plot highlights gender visibility and insisting that gender is a performance.
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He also helped form another studio at Fort Lee, Paragon Films, for which he built a large facility specifically for the on-site production of Eastman stock. By 1917 Jules Brulatour was a very rich man, reportedly worth several million dollars, and he was increasingly powerful politically.New York Clipper, June 19, 1918, p. 13; Moving Picture News, April 20, 1918, p.
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Moving Picture World “The Diamond Crown” (Edison), July 12 – The first of a series of detective stories to be known as the Kate Kirby cases, written by J. Searle Dawley. Laura Sawyer appears as Kate. This first release is a very commendable one; the scenes in the home of Mrs. Wetherby carry a nice air of mystery and are well photographed.
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Exhibitors Herald gave the film a mediocre review. While the enjoyed the performance of Viola Dana, and the cinematography, particularly the exterior scenes of the fishig village, the found the story lacking. Moving Picture World also gave the picture a lukewarm review. They enjoyed Dana's performance, and also gave praise for the work of Bruce and Van Buren, with particular accolades for Simpson.
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Plaque commemorating Louis Le Prince In 1875, local inhabitants assembled onto the bridge, Briggate and local streets to watch The Theatre burning down. In 1888 Louis Le Prince made a pioneering moving picture recording of Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge from an upstairs window of No 19 Bridge End, then Hicks the Ironmongers. This was shortly after making his first film Roundhay Garden Scene.
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The doctor and Sunshine are reunited. The novel was a popular subject of plays and vaudeville, but the Thanhouser adaptation appears to be the first film version for it predates the adaptations in The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Released on June 28, 1910, the production received a favorable review in The Moving Picture News. The film is presumed lost.
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The Selig Polyscope Company no doubt took particular notice of that conference. The "Windy City" was not only the home of its studio operations, but having its recent "lengthy" feature included on Judge Cleland's list was certainly not good for the company's public image, at least locally.Untitled news item, The Moving Picture World, April 27, 1907, p. 127. Internet Archive.
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The film is distinctly enjoyable. The photography is okay." The Moving Picture World recognized the humor and stated that the play was not probable, owing to the belief that films were either very fantastical or based on plausibility. The reviewer stated, "Of course, this play might be true to life, but it seems improbable enough to be only a story.
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For Hollywood's film industry, the area has also been a popular place for shooting on location since the silent era. In late November 1915, Universal Studios filmed there for its three-reel production of John o' the Mountains starring Sydney Ayres and Louella Maxam."Ayres Producing 'John o' the Mountains'", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), December 18, 1915, p. 451.
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As with many silent films which have been lost, only two of Countiss' films are known to still be extant according to the American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, The Avalanche and A Modern Magdalen. The location of shooting of this final moving picture would prove pivotal in the life of Countiss, ending her professional career and starting a whole new chapter.
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The mince pie episode was well done, which is the faint praise that we do not like to mete out to anyone." Walton of The Moving Picture News was not amused by the plot and stated, "To me the last scene had no humor. It was only the necessary ending to the beginning. True humor does not emanate from cognac.
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While Daubert was in Brooklyn, he was nominated for city Alderman. He also spent time as a businessman and invested in several business ventures. His holdings included a pool hall, a cigar business, a semi-pro baseball team, a moving picture business, and a coal breaker. His most profitable business was reportedly the coal breaker, which was located in his hometown.
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Her other honors include a Parents' Choice Award for Moving Picture Books, a Genesis Award for Whale Wars, a Delta Delta Delta Community Volunteer Award, a YWCA Tribute to Women Community Service Award, a Junior Achievement Business Award, the New York Festivals World Medal, University of Tennessee Distinguished Alumni Award, Knoxville Chamber of Commerce Leadership Award, and numerous ADDYs and Tellys.
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Announced plans for reconditioning included reducing passenger capacity to 675 and increasing the cargo capacity to . Also on tap were swimming pools, a game room, a gymnasium, a lecture hall, a social hall, and a moving picture theater. The line had originally planned to change the name of the liner to White Palace, but that was never brought about.Drechsel, p. 339.
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Other notable buildings include the U.S. Post Office (1935), York Medical Building (1938), Kress Department Store, Leibowitz Department Store (c. 1910), Ideal Moving Picture Theater (c. 1912), City Hall, Kirby Building (1922), First Baptist Church (1922), Gaston County War Memorial Hall (1928), and the (former) Gaston County Public Library (1930). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
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The Strength of Donald McKenzie is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by and starring William Russell and John Prescott."The Strength of Donald McKenzie." (The Moving Picture World, August 19, 1916, p.1238)STRAND / last day / WILLIAM RUSSELL in / "THE STRENGTH OF DONALD McKENZIE" / A Gripping Drama of the North Woods (The Sacramento Union, September 12, 1916, p.
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Brynildsen sent the film to Wright-Patterson AFB for analysis. He told a reporter in Great Falls that he had "picked up about eight feet of film from Mariana." However, in his message to Wright-Patterson he said that he was sending "approximately fifteen feet of moving picture film" to the base for study.Project Blue Book, August 1950 Great Falls Montana, pgs.
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123, Iss.No.1678, pp.31. Whybray, M.W. Moving Picture Transmission at Low Bitrates for Sign Language Communication , Martlesham, England: British Telecom Laboratories, 1995. The use of sign language via videotelephony was hampered for many years due to the difficulty of its use over slow analogue copper phone lines, coupled with the high cost of better quality ISDN (data) phone lines.
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A Kentucky Cinderella is a 1917 American silent drama directed by Rupert Julian and featured Rupert Julian and Ruth Clifford, and a cast including child actress Zoe Rae.Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960, p. 543 (1997) It was released June 25, 1917 by Bluebird Photoplays, a subsidiary of Universal Studios.Snyopsis, The Moving Picture World (June 30, 1917), p.
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Making of Harry Potter tour in London. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Framestore handled the key visual effects shots for the film, while The Moving Picture Company, Cinesite, and Double Negative crafted additional VFX material. Cuarón originally wanted to move away from CGI toward puppetry. He hired master puppeteer Basil Twist and experimented with underwater puppets to figure out the movements of dementors.
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Brotherhood won Audience Awards at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival, 2010 Dallas International Film Festival, and 2010 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. Brotherhood also won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 New Hampshire Film Festival. At the 2010 Gotham Awards Brotherhood was nominated for the first Festival Genius Audience Award. The New York Times awarded it with a NYT Critics' Pick.
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Moving Picture World wrote: "Warren Kerrigan, as a redeemed bad man in this admirable picture, presents a likable character...The story is well dramatized, the action is spirited and the whole gets over in good shape." Universal Weekly wrote: "Like all of director Allan Dwan's features, it has tons of action throughout."Blake, Michael F. (1998). "The Films of Lon Chaney".
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September Morn was released on February 25, 1914. In the Chillicothe Morning Constitution, it was advertised as a "comedy that is different". A review in The Moving Picture World described the production as far-fetched and clearly exploitative of the titular painting, but original and amusing. The film was the first of two to be directly inspired by Chabas' painting.
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The sudden competition prompted Thanhouser to advertise against Vitagraph's production in The Moving Picture World by declaring the three reel film as being overly drawn out and that audiences could get the full story in a single reel from Thanhouser. Edward Wagenknecht, author of The Movies in the Age of Innocence, refers to Thanhouser advertising against a two reel version with, "You can see the whole thing in one reel - why buy two?" This is actually an erroneous reference to the three reel Vitagraph version by Edwin Thanhouser that was published in The Moving Picture World on March 10, 1917. H. Philip Bolton, author of Women Writers Dramatized: A Calendar of Performances from Narrative Works Published in English to 1900, would identify the Thanhouser and Vitagraph release, but is unable to identify and attribute the directorial and casting credits to the productions.
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A Frenchman who also worked in the United Kingdom and the United States, Le Prince's motion-picture experiments culminated in 1888 in the city of Leeds, England. In October of that year, he filmed moving-picture sequences of Roundhay Garden, Leeds Bridge, and his son playing the accordion, using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper negative film. This work may have been slightly in advance of the inventions of contemporaneous moving-picture pioneers such as the English inventors William Friese-Greene and Wordsworth Donisthorpe, and years in advance of that of Auguste and Louis Lumière, and William Kennedy Dickson (who did the moving image work for Thomas Edison). Le Prince was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the US because he mysteriously vanished; he was last known to be boarding a train on 16 September 1890.
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A moving picture was made of the unusual event and was shown on screens throughout the country. In 1881 a chime of 11 bells was installed in the tower. Three of the bells were cast in Italy and displayed at the Exposition Universelle (1878), where they had been awarded the gold medal of excellence. The remaining eight were cast by the McShane Bell Foundry of Baltimore, Maryland.
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The official synopsis of the film was published in The Moving Picture World. The film follows Elsie Plush, an avid dime novel reader who becomes infatuated with the hero type in Laura Jean Libbey's books. After reading A Great Hero, she rejects the marriage proposal of George Mild. She says that he a fine young man, but he is not the hero she is looking for.
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The success prompted Kalem to send a larger company under the direction of Olcott the next year in 1911, which produced 18 films that summer. The Moving Picture World noted that the film was "quite a success", but complained that the audience was not informed of and thus unable to appreciate "the important characteristics of the picture", referring to the authentic portrayal of Irish rural life.
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George Blaisdell, writing for The Moving Picture World gave the film a positive review, noting that "There is a wealth of incident in 'Neptune's Daughter.' The story of intrigue at court is convincing and well portrayed. The transition of Annette from the dominions of Father Neptune to the world of mortals and vice versa is so skillfully treated that it seems the perfectly natural course of events".
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Vidor, in a partnership with vaudevillian and movie entrepreneur Edward Sedgwick formed the Hotex Motion Picture Company in 1914 ("HO" for Houston, "TEX" for Texas) to produce low- budget one- or two-reelers. The enterprise garnered a national press release in Moving Picture World announcing its formation. Only still photos survive from these comedy-adventures, for which Hotex failed to collect any royalties.Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p.
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Lynde Denig of the Moving Picture World praised the plot for its complexity and twists, stating that "a tale of this description must be followed with close attention, and in either case the reward will be an ingeniously contrived, highly colored romance - a story pleasantly removed from the prosaic facts of everyday life". Denig also praised the scenery, as well as the cast's performance.
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"Magazine Story Provides Buddy Roosevelt With Exceptionally Fast Vehicle – One Of His Best" was the subtitle of the review in The Moving Picture World. They did not find much originality in the plot, they felt the individual plot lines merged well, and the pace was also done at a quick enough pace to sustain suspense. They particularly highlighted the direction of Thorpe and the acting of Roosevelt.
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In all other scenes the action is clear and effective. It would be a stolid audience indeed that failed to respond to the thrilling scene inside the Alamo." The Moving Picture Worlds review stated that "[it] is a very thrilling and altogether satisfactory reproduction of an important historical episode. The company deserves the highest commendation for the picture and the way it is produced.
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Laemmle's story ended with Hiawatha and Minnehaha happily embracing, but Moore's Hiawatha follows Longfellow's poem in which Minnehaha dies and Hiawatha welcomes the arrival of the missionary, who converts the Native Americans to the Christian faith. In 1910, Laemmle followed up his 1909 version of Hiawatha with the sequel, The Death of Minnehaha."The Death of Minehaha", Moving Picture World, March 12, 1910, p. 384.
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The film used the Los Angeles-based company OTOY for its visual effects. Moving Picture Company, Pixomondo, Rodeo FX and Weta Digital also created visual effects for the film. Moving Pictures Company took on the visual effects for The Thing, rendering a fully digital character based on Jamie Bell's on-set performance and the Human Torch's fiery visual effects. Weta Digital handled Reed Richards' stretch effects.
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In 1929, the theater was converted to a movie house, and renamed the Paramount Theater. The first moving picture shown at the theater was in November 1929, Harold Lloyd's Welcome Danger. It was originally a silent film but at its preview it was eclipsed by a one-reel comedy with sound. Through the 1960s and 1970s the Paramount continued showing the latest in motion pictures.
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Thelma, alone in the world, prays at her mother's grave for strength. Sir Phillip searches for Thelma, ultimately finding her, uncovers the tricks which have been played on them and they fall back in love. Released on June 21, 1910, the film was met with praise in The Moving Picture World. An incomplete print of the film survives in the Library of Congress archives.
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They rush to the home and are relieved to find Marie safe and the family departs together with her grandmother. The film was released on January 31, 1911 and was met with generally favorable reviews. Walton of The Moving Picture News was critical, noting the similarities to a film released four days prior by the Gaumont Film Company. The film survives in the Library of Congress.
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A promotional blurb in The Moving Picture World described the film as "a Christmas picture story that combines American sentiment and ideas with the magic art of the French producer", promising it would entertain children and adults alike, and highlighting the modern touch of a Santa Claus traveling by airplane instead of by a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer. The film is currently presumed lost.
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En route Malins gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia and "watched D.W. Griffiths [sic] at work directing scenes in an old Spanish setting". He also shot extensive footage of the trip and gave a series of lectures. Malins published an account of the motorcycle journey in 1931 entitled 'Going Further'. In the 1930s Malins settled in South Africa.
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In December 2001, VCEG and the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG – ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11) formed a Joint Video Team (JVT), with the charter to finalize the video coding standard.Joint Video Team, ITU-T Web site. Formal approval of the specification came in March 2003. The JVT was (is) chaired by Gary Sullivan, Thomas Wiegand, and Ajay Luthra (Motorola, U.S.: later Arris, U.S.).
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"American-Born Eskimo Girl Plays Leading Part in Selig Film", The Moving Picture World, August 5, 1911, p. 291. Internet Archive. Retrieved May 21, 2020. Her mother, Esther, was among a group of Inuit men, women, and children from the Davis Inlet area of Labrador who were brought to Chicago to build and inhabit an Eskimo Village or "human ethnic exhibit" during the exposition's six-month run.
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To achieve the piece's characteristic weathered look, three copies of the film stock (5245 Eastman EXR 50D and 5246 Kodak Vision 250D) were graded separately to emphasize the grain of the film and the earthen tones of the subjects. The three passes were then composited and reworked further in Inferno, an online visual effects system."Stella Artois, Doctor", The Moving Picture Company website. Retrieved 26 October 2008.
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Simon Fields is a native of London and received his education at Stowe School. After graduation, he worked his way through the television commercial production ranks in London to become production manager for the Moving Picture Company. In 1978, Fields became a producer for Jon Roseman Productions and moved to L.A. within a year to join its U.S. division. He, producer Paul Flattery and director Bruce Gowers.
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She chooses the latter. After conducting a solemn "'Ceremony of the Walrus Skull'", calling upon the spirits to guide the teenager on her "journey into darkness", tribal members place her into the canoe and launch her into open water bordered by immense fields of solid ice."'Lost in the Arctic' (Selig)", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), September 16, 1911, p. 822. Internet Archive.
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Scene from 1914 silent film Scene from 1914 silent film The work was adapted to silent film twice, in 1914 and 1922. The 1914 version by Vitagraph Studios starred Maurice Costello as Mr. Barnes and Mary Charleson as Marina.(2 May 1914). Mr. Barnes of New York: This Latest Vitagraph Six-Part Feature is a Fine Production - every player scores, The Moving Picture World, p.
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In 1911, Converse was in the moving picture that illustrated the song showing at the Palace Theater "Won't You Share My Bungalow?" In 1917, Converse appeared in the silent film drama, The Slacker, which was produced and distributed by Metro Pictures. The film caused a spike in recruitment for the U.S. Army just after the U.S. entry into World War I.Barland, Lois. The Rivers Flow on.
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By 1914, it had a reported circulation of approximately 15,000. The publication was founded by James Petrie (J.P.) Chalmers, Jr. (1866–1912), who began publishing in March 1907 as The Moving Picture World and View Photographer. In December 1927, it was announced that the publication was merging with the Exhibitor's Herald, when it was reported the combined circulation of the papers would be 16,881.
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Here she can collect gems, mega gems (which increase scoring potential above ground) and weapon upgrades (to increase the power of her whip). A notable feature in the game was that the movements of the main character were (at least in some versions of the game) captured from the moving picture, thus the making animation more realistic than usual for a computer game of that era.
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Moving Picture World wrote: "A Mexican borderline story.....The chief interest centers about an attack on the pumping station...There is good suspense toward the close of this, and the climax is exciting." Motion Picture News wrote: "The story is not at all original, but Mr. MacQuarrie has a way of putting anything over he tries."Blake, Michael F. (1998). "The Films of Lon Chaney".
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The new Joker line was billed as one of the "best comedies yet" by advertisers wanting to draw crowds to the theaters, but there may have been truth in the claims because it was cited as one of Max Asher's best roles in a 1914 edition of Moving Picture World. The film had a wide release with showings in Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, North Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, and in Chicago, Illinois. The Moving Picture World review of the film noted that it was a low comedy suitable for the burlesque houses with "less particular audiences" than finer establishments because one of the minor characters spat frequently on camera, interrupting the humor and thus making it unfit for the best theaters. Another newspaper review claimed that it was one of the best comedies released in months, but ended up referring to the film as "The Chinese Special".
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Reel, Rob (1917). "The Planter, seven parts, The Season’s Premier Special", Moving Picture World, November 17, 1917, pp. 680-681. Retrieved October 26, 2018. According to Moving Picture World, that studio was largely funded as "a hobby" by F. M. Manson, a "Nevada mining millionaire"; and he hired "Bauman" and Rice to travel to Guatemala as replacements for "Director John Ince and Assistant Director Joseph Boyle", who had "left the company". Later, in 1919, Bowman apparently resumed acting as well, for that year he is credited with performing as Captain Osborne in Paramount's World War I drama The False Faces."The False Faces (1919)", AFI. Retrieved October 12, 2018.The gap in Bowman's known filmography during 1917 and 1918 are not due to any military service on his part during World War I. Later in the United States Census of 1930, he classifies himself as a non-veteran.
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Graham was launched 22 March 1919 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, sponsored by Mrs. Robert F. Smallwood, granddaughter of Secretary Graham; and commissioned at Norfolk Navy Yard, 13 March 1920, Lieutenant Commander Paulus P. Powell in command. Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, after several trial runs on East Coast, Graham was at first given the special duty, together with two other U.S. destroyers, of a moving picture boat carrying the moving picture photographers, in connection with the International Cup Race, under the auspices of the New York Yacht Club, beginning 15 July 1920 and on alternate days thereafter until 27 July when the Race was completed. Graham then joined the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet at Newport, Rhode Island, for exercises and training along the east coast, and for Neutrality Patrol and exercises off Guantanamo Bay and in the Panama Canal Zone.
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The list includes G.W. Abbe, Justus D. Barnes, Frank H. Crane, Irene Crane, Marie Eline, Violet Heming, Martin J. Faust, Thomas Fortune, George Middleton, Grace Moore, John W. Noble, Anna Rosemond, Mrs. George Walters. A surviving film still gives the possibility of identifying one other actor. The actual Morse code being tapped out did not match what was actually being said according to Walton of The Moving Picture News.
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The latter employed him as its main editor for several years on end: Steuerman wrote three simultaneous columns in Opinia, and (Dafin argues) was "the paper's true soul."Dafin, Vol. II, p.61 He was perpetually interested in new social and cultural developments, and enthusiastic about the birth of cinema, writing in Opinia about the coming demise of demise, and probably authoring the advertorials about "moving-picture soirées" in Iași.
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Shot on June 18, 1910, Roosevelt's Return was a production that may not have ever been released by the Thanhouser Company. There are two known announcements for this film, both on June 18. The first is in The Moving Picture World that the film would soon be released as a special release. The New York Clipper announced that the staff had prepared to capture former president Theodore Roosevelt's return to America.
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As usual on the Piccadilly line, the platforms are labelled Westbound and Eastbound. However, the tunnels run more or less north-east to south-west at Southgate, so eastbound is north-eastbound and westbound is south- eastbound.line layout In the early 1980s, moving picture advertising was tested in the tunnels south of the station. The pictures were of a child on a beach turning to face the camera.
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The single reel drama, approximately 1,000 feet long, was released on December 2, 1910. The film likely had a wide national release, advertising theaters are known in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kansas, and Indiana. The film is cited by The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film as the earliest adaptation of John Halifax, Gentleman. The film was received conflicting reviews by both The Moving Picture World and The New York Dramatic Mirror.
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The film is based on the 1899 stage play Sherlock Holmes. Gillette had played the role of Holmes 1,300 times on stage before it was made into a "moving picture". It was he who was responsible for much of the costume still associated with the character, notably the deerstalker hat and the calabash pipe. Sherlock Holmes is believed to be the only filmed record of his iconic portrayal.
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The New York American voiced the fears of the Royal Opera House's traditional upper-class opera-goers: "The movies have invaded that sedate institution and stronghold of classic music, the Covent Garden Theatre. [...] It is true that the fashionable opera season does not begin until May, but the idea obtains among the conservative patrons of the house that the new departure comes shiveringly near being a desecration." Moving Picture News, Vol.
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The film was shot in New York, and Moving Picture World gave it a positive pre-release review. But the film negative was destroyed in a laboratory fire before prints could be made.Beauchamp (1997). pp. 41–47. Marion, having traveled from Los Angeles to New York for The Foundling's premiere, applied for work as a writer at World Films and was hired for an unpaid two-week trial.
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This alternative name for the hero of the story can be found in the 1910 publication of Reader 1st-4th by D. Appleton and Company. A review in The Moving Picture World was neutral because it lacked specific praise or criticism of the production. The film had a wide release, advertisements for the showing in theaters include those in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Indiana, and Missouri. The film is presumed lost.
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The surviving print had only a French language title card "Les Deux Roses" and was devoid of intertitles. New German intertitles were added by Urte Alfs and Anke Mebold of the Deutsches Filminstitut based on the published synopsis from The Moving Picture World. The restored work uses an original music composition composed and performed by Günter A. Buchwald. Ned Thanhouser made available an English language translation of the new German intertitles .
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Such things spoil the illusion to a spectator." Walton of The Moving Picture News, who typically praised Thanhouser films, deviated from the norm by immediately dismissing the film as a whole by stating, "This theme is getting threadbare; a foreign film is almost identical. The son's wife acts brutally to her husband's mother; things are set right by a child. Compare Gaumont's Twilight of a Soldier's Life, etc.
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The interior footage in the film's opening scene, which portrays Nolan and Morris bidding farewell to their wives, was likely shot at Edison's New York studio before Dawley and his company of actors and crew traveled cross country to Wyoming, which formed only one part of an "extensive picture making tour" destined for California."Edison Players Go West", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), July 27, 1912 p. 342.
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In order to store and playback the captured data, enormous sets need to be streamed to the consumer. Currently the most effective way is to build bespoke apps that are delivered. There is no standard yet that generated volumetric video and makes it experienceable at home. Compression of this data is starting to be available with the Moving Picture Experts Group in search for a reasonable way to stream the data.
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In moving picture (TV) the number of frames scanned per second is known as the frame rate. The higher the frame rate, the better the sense of motion. But again, increasing the frame rate introduces technical difficulties. So the frame rate is fixed at 25 (System B/G) or 29.97 (System M). To increase the sense of motion it is customary to scan the very same frame in two consecutive phases.
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ISO/IEC JTC 1 is a joint technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Its purpose is to develop, maintain and promote standards in the fields of information technology (IT) and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). JTC 1 has been responsible for many critical IT standards, ranging from the Moving Picture Experts Group of MPEG video format fame to the C++ programming language.
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In 1876, Wordsworth Donisthorpe proposed a camera to take a series of pictures on glass plates, to be printed on a roll of paper film. In 1889, he would patent a moving picture camera in which the film moved continuously. Another film camera was designed in England by Frenchman Louis Le Prince in 1888. He had built a 16 lens camera in 1887 at his workshop in Leeds.
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Lovely testified at the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia, suggesting a number of measures that might stimulate the struggling local film industry. Soon afterwards, she made a return to the stage. It was at around this time that Lovely's marriage to Wilton Welch disintegrated; Welch was homosexual, and their marriage remained unconsummated for the first four years. Lovely and Welch were divorced in November 1928.
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The film, with its forcible assault upon both eye and ear, is a powerful weapon of propaganda. And it could be used with effect for ‘putting across’ to the public the idea of preventive medicine. Perhaps the Minister of Health, Sir Kingsley Wood, a master of propaganda, might enlist the help of the moving picture in his campaign for the improved health of the people.” Papworth and Propaganda.
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Shooting took place over several days at Music Bank, the rehearsal studios in London. The spot was filmed by the director of photography Daniel Bronks, and edited by Joe Guest at Final Cut, London. Post production was done by the London companies The Moving Picture Company (main body, producer Graham Bird) and Golden Square (end frame, producer Jessica Mankowitz). Sound was designed and arranged by Parv Thind at Wave Studios, London.
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The exact quote from the opening day full-page ad in the Call-Bulletin read: "Universal Weekly claimed a 60-piece orchestra. Moving Picture World reported that "The music from Faust supplied the music [for the picture]." The first cut of the film was previewed in Los Angeles on January 7 and 26, 1925. Audience reaction was extremely negative and summed up by the complaint "There's too much spook melodrama.
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The advert was directed by Czech director Ivan Zacharias with help from the production company Stink and post- production work by The Moving Picture Company. The commercial was a popular, financial, and critical success, boosting sales during the period in which it ran, and receiving more awards than any other campaign in 2002, including a Cannes Gold Lion, an Epica Award and several prizes from the D&AD; Awards.
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In 1912, when she was pregnant with her second child, she built a studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and continued to complete one to three films a week. To focus on writing and directing, Guy-Blaché made her husband the president of Solax in 1913.Moving Picture World, June 14, 1913, p. 1140 Shortly after taking the position, Herbert Blaché started a film company called Blaché Features, Inc.
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A concept is usually just an idea, which needs to be funded to make it a reality. Automated systems are dynamic. A static picture or description of an automated system does not demonstrate the interaction of the components or show how the system functions as a whole. It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words; a corollary is that a moving picture is worth ten thousand words.
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He made his first moving picture, titled Le Bain d'une Mondaine in September–October of that year. On 8 October 1895 Joly filed a patent for another machine, the "Photozootrope", which was essentially a large Kinetoscope with four eyepieces. He sold a few units, but did not achieve major success with this development. Pathé realized the commercial possibility of Joly's camera, and in 1896 he dissolved his agreement with Joly.
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Visual effects took nine months to make, until 9 October 2002, when the film was finished. Industrial Light & Magic, Mill Film, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Cinesite and Framestore CFC handled the approximately 950 visual effect shots in the film. Jim Mitchell and Nick Davis served as visual effects supervisors. They were in charge of creating the CG characters Dobby the House Elf, the Basilisk, and the Cornish pixies, among others.
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The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 51–52. Buck Jones and Georgie Stone already anticipates some of the elements that will contribute to the extraordinary success of Charles Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid (1921). The sheriff in the film, played by Duke R. Lee, keeps saying five times in the film, "The law'll take care o' this!".
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For adult readers, Michelena wrote other pieces such as a history of the moving picture industry. In 1920 when she stopped making films, she returned to her career as a singer. Michelena faded from historiography for many years, but her place in history has recently been re- examined; she was mentioned in 2002 in a presidential proclamation and her 1914 film Salomy Jane enjoyed a limited re-release in 2008.
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On-foot potato races have been likened to the Zuni game of A-we-wō-po-pa-ne, which involved collecting stones rather than potatoes. Writing in 1915, feminist theorist Charlotte Perkins Gilman described seeing a moving picture of a potato race on ice, and remarked on the notable difference between the performance of men and women, which she attributed to the restrictive clothing worn by women at the time.
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Around that time he began directing, eventually directing 11 short films for Reliance-Majestic. Between 1913 and 1919, Browning appeared as an actor in approximately 50 motion pictures. On June 16, 1915, Browning's career almost ended when he crashed his car at full speed into another vehicle described as a "street work car loaded with iron rails"."Elmer Booth Killed", Moving Picture World, July 3, 1915, p.75.
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On June 27, 2012, Manson announced via his Facebook page that a music video for the song was in the making. The status was uploaded via mobile, reading, "Shooting Slo-Mo-tion. --MM". On August 10, 2012, Manson updated his Facebook and Twitter with four new images, one which included the caption, "Just finished the slo-mo-tion moving picture show.", suggesting that the music video was now complete.
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The play had been filmed in the US as Matinee Theatre.A Tonge of Silver at IMDb John Meillon was cast in the lead on the basis of his performance in Thunder of Silence. Stanley Kramer, who directed Meillon in On the Beach, called him "a brilliant young actor, and he could take his place in any moving-picture market of the world." It was the only TV performance of Wynne Nelson.
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Siegmann's career almost ended early, in 1915, when he was seriously injured while riding as a passenger in a car driven by fellow film actor and director Tod Browning. Browning collided at full speed with a "street work car loaded with iron rails", reportedly due to his not seeing that work vehicle's "rear lamp"."Elmer Booth Killed", Moving Picture World, July 3, 1915, p.75. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California.
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On December 3, 1906, just nine days after the film's release, the local newspaper in Hartford, Connecticut, reports on the town's first screening of the unusual crime drama from out "of the West" in Chicago: "Never shown in the south before"; newspaper advertisement, Austin, Texas, June 1907 Nearly two years after the film's initial distribution, media coverage of The Female Highwayman indicates that Selig's "lengthy" production remained in circulation in United States theaters and was still a motion picture of interest to trade publications. The New York-based journal The Moving Picture World continued to update its readers about reactions to the Selig production in a feature titled "Newspaper Comments on Film Subjects". In its August 29, 1908 issue, the journal reports a pithy assessment from another recent viewer, stating only "'The Female Highwayman' is an intensely interesting picture.""Newspaper Comments on Film Subjects", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), August 29, 1908, p. 156.
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"Powerful, well-knit with indubitably true and biting satire," said Photoplay.Hagedorn, 178 As a promotion device, the April 15, 1919, issue of Moving Picture World suggested staging a mock radical demonstration by hanging red flags around town and then have actors in military uniforms storm in to tear them down. The promoter was then to distribute handbills to the confused and curious crowds to reassure them that Bolshevism on Trial takes a stand against Bolshevism and "you will not only clean up but will profit by future business."Hagedorn, 175, 180 When this publicity technique came to the attention of U.S. Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson, he expressed his dismay to the press: "This publication proposes by deceptive methods of advertising to stir every community in the United States into riotous demonstrations for the purpose of making profits for the moving picture business ..." He hoped to ban movies treating Bolshevism and Socialism.
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Friese-Greene's later exploits were in the field of colour in motion pictures. From 1903 he lived in Brighton where there were a number of experimenters developing still and moving pictures in colour. Initially working with William Norman Lascelles Davidson, Friese-Greene patented a two- colour moving picture system using prisms in 1905. He and Davidson gave public demonstrations of this in January and July 1906 and Friese-Greene held screenings at his photographic studio.
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Season two featured the cast in a dystopian future as a traveling show moving from survival community to survival community. The core elements of the show remained with subtle theme changes. Drinks, prizes, videos, music, comedy and hookups became moving picture, funnies, treasures from the past, drinkems, sound playing, and making handsies with strangers. The Intergender Arm Wrestling Champion was now a single man looking for the strongest of the species with which to procreate.
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As part of the Navy's support for the film, the audience included Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett and other officers. The film played at the Central for four weeks before being replaced with Monna Vanna. The Silent Command was generally praised by contemporary reviewers. Laurence Reid and C. S. Sewell, writing for Motion Picture News and Moving Picture World respectively, both offered acclaim for the film, despite what Reid described as a slow start.
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The project brings us into > contact with interesting actors within both film and music. The video was developed as an independent Madonna clip devoid of any footage from the Bond film, but was still Bond-inspired. It portrayed Madonna in a torture chamber as a prisoner and also fight sequences where the singer duels with herself. Post-production and visual effects for the video was done by London's Moving Picture Company (MPC).
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A review of The Light in the Dark in Moving Picture World noted: "In introducing the new process of color photography, Associated First National has made doubly secure an offering that from the standpoint of material and treatment promises to give wide satisfaction ... Lon Chaney has the type of role in which he has proven exceptionally skillful. His is a real sympathetic contribution." Mirsalis, Jon C. "Review: 'The Light in the Dark'." lonchaney.org, 2008.
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Bushman in 1915 Bushman in 1916 Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 – August 23, 1966) was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s. Bushman, like many of his contemporaries, broke into the moving picture business via the stage.
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The single reel drama, approximately 1,000 feet long, was released on November 29, 1910. One advertisement stated that an alternate title for the film was The Castaway Finds the Hidden Treasure, but this may be in error. The film had a wide national release, advertising theaters are known in Kansas, Texas, South Dakota, Vermont, and Missouri. The film was met with positive reviews by both The Moving Picture World and The New York Dramatic Mirror.
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Historians noted Universal Studios for their feminist politics. Elsie Jane Wilson's case exemplifies how genre and gender, up until 1918,worked together to establish the institution's division of labor. Work and genres became gendered because the institution thought of gender in a particular manner. During this time, Universal was more hierarchal than collaborative. Moving Picture World began to identify such films as “woman’s features”, including Wilson's solo-directed films, separating “women” from the word “director”.
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Spooner married Charles E. Blaney, who had written several of the Broadway plays in which she appeared, in 1909. That same year, Spooner made her motion picture debut in the Edison Studios adaptation of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper. Spooner played the roles of the prince, Edward, and the pauper, Tom Canty. She was praised by a reviewer for Moving Picture World for her ability to convey the distinctions between the two characters.
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The film was not a success in 3D and was only screened one time again in this version for exhibitors and press in New York City. The film received a decent review in Moving Picture World. Despite other rave reviews, it was not booked again by other exhibitors in this format. In July 1923, the film was acquired by the new Selznick Distributing Corporation and widely distributed in 2D as Forbidden Lover in 1923–24.
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Trivia books written by Caine include Not Many People Know That!, And Not Many People Know This Either!, Michael Caine's Moving Picture Show, and Not a Lot of People Know This is 1988. Proceeds from the books went to the National Playing Fields Association, a UK charity for which Caine served as Vice President, and which aims to protect and promote open spaces for sports and recreation in British cities and towns.
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Carl Laemmle called the ranch "Universal City" as recorded in issues of The Moving Picture World Volume: 16 (April – June 1913). Universal City existed on the Providencia Land and Water property from 1912 to 1914. In 1914, the Oak Crest studio ranch and Hollywood studio operation would move to the new Universal City located on the Lankershim Land and Water property. The official public opening occurred March 15, 1915, on the Lankershim Property.
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Vessel, a documentary about Gomperts' mission of Women on Waves premiered in 2014 at the Southwest Film Festival. This documentary witnesses the creation of a network of reproductive health activists lead by Gomperts. It shows their work on global reproductive rights, and the conceptual idea of trusting women to handle their own abortions. The story of transforming a widely improbable idea into a global movement is a moving picture that captured Gomperts' legacy entirely.
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The televised play was received on televisions that were octagonally shaped and about high and in depth. The front panel upper part had a three inch square aperture through which the moving picture was viewed. There were knobs on the lower part which controlled how the radio signals for the television part were received. Six televisions were set up around the WGY studios and connected by closed circuit television for newspaper journalists.
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Guy Oliver and Wheeler Oakman in a scene with the Sacred Carpet of Bagdad The Carpet from Bagdad was released on May 3, 1915, to generally positive reviews. Variety described it as a more interesting film than its title might imply, with "perfect direction and faultless acting". Peter Milne of Motion Picture News approved of Campbell's attention to detail and realism. The Moving Picture World's James McQuade praised the film's acting and special effects.
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Wild wanted to > actually see what these phenomena looked like on the Sun, actually get a > moving picture of them. The frequency range that we were interested in was > around about the metre wavelengths. To get the resolution roughly equivalent > to that of the human eye at these long wavelengths required an aperture some > three kilometres in diameter. So I devised a method of synthesising a three > kilometre aperture with 96 antennas in a ring.
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Part of the caption read: "Don't book Back To God's Country unless you want to prove the Nude is NOT Rude."Moving Picture World, July 24, 1920 Back To God's Country was a major Canadian and international silent film hit. Despite the film's success, Curwood did not like the fact that Shipman changed the plot of his short story. She changed the protagonist of the film from Wapi the Great Dane, to Delores.
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One of the makeup designs in the film for Jennifer's mouth while the character is in demonic form. Fox explained that the jaw unhinges sort of like a snake's so that Jennifer can "fully envelop" her victims. Unlike a snake, the character has long, sharp teeth in order to tear the flesh from her victims' bodies as she eats them. Handling the film's special effects were KNB EFX GROUP and the Moving Picture Company (MPC).
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The stars of this era, such as Ethel Barrymore and John Barrymore, were often seen as even more important than the show itself. The advance of motion pictures also led to many changes in theater. The popularity of musicals may have been due in part to the fact the early films had no sound, and could thus not compete, until The Jazz Singer of 1927, which combined both talking and music in a moving picture.
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Marie Eline, played the role of Tony's son, was concealed in masculine make up and black hair for the role of the Italian boy. The Moving Picture World said, "[m]aybe you'd never recognize her if we did not tip you off. Don't pass the tip to others in your place, but see if their little favorite doesn't fool them completely in her masculine makeup." Other members of the cast have not been identified.
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The single-reel drama, approximately 1000 feet long, was released on June 7, 1910. This production was the first Tuesday release in the Thanhouser "two a week" releases. The production was advertised as a "A powerful, pathetic, pretty story of life in Little Italy." The Moving Picture World contained a brief article that used the term "The Thanhouser Kid" to describe Marie Eline; it was the origin of the nickname for Eline.
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Full screen aspect ratios in standard television have been in use since the invention of moving picture cameras. Early computer monitors employed the same aspect ratio. The aspect ratio 4:3 was used for 35 mm films in the silent era. It is also very close to the 1.375:1 Academy ratio, defined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a standard after the advent of optical sound-on-film.
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He returned to Australia in February 1922 to make several outback films, including a serial based on Ned Kelly, and set up a company in Brisbane, but faced censorship problems and could not raise the capital. He went back to Hollywood in May 1923, then returned to Australia in 1925. He gave evidence at the 1928 Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia arguing in favour of a quota for Australian films.
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In 1960, the piece was played in German at the Staatstheater Hannover, directed by Hartmut Goebel and conducted by Walter Born, with Die sieben Todsünden. In 1984, PBS Television broadcast the piece, directed by Frank Cvitanovich and conducted by Carl Davis. It was filmed in England by the Moving Picture Company. In September 1995, it was presented in Kansas City at the Lyric Opera, directed by Francis Cullinan and conducted by Russell Patterson.
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Advertisement for Frank Powell Productions in The Moving Picture World, July 1916In late 1916, Powell established his own production company and later set up filming and post-production facilities in San Antonio, Texas. One of the films he produced that year was Charity?, which was billed as a "sociological photo-drama" that portrayed the appalling conditions in some New York orphanages."Charity (1916)", catalog, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
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He was very concerned with detail and had a very specific style to his paintings. Somber was not his tone though, as he often injected humor into his paintings. As Helm puts it, Ruíz "sees the comedy without losing sight of the tragedy". Unlike the muralists of his time, Ruíz created small canvas paintings, although at one point he did create a mural using egg tempera for the moving-picture operators in Mexico City.
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"Sam Fox, 89, Dies; Music Publisher"; New York Times; Dec. 1, 1971. Fox published the Zamecnik-composed Sam Fox Moving Picture Music volumes, consisting of incidental music and leitmotifs such as "Mysterious Burglar Music", intended for when a burglar is on screen. Jack Shaindlin, music director of Movietone News in New York City, adapted the first theme of Zamecnik's popular circus march World Events (1935) for the Main and End Title theme of Movietone Newsreels.
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This film is one of the many films that claims to have utilized Native American actors, although Mona Darkfeather's heritage is not entirely clear. The description of the story in Moving Picture World said that no white people appeared as characters in the story's contest and didn't clarify whether the cast included only Native Americans. Previously, Lillian St. Cyr, a Winnebago Indian, had appeared in Kalem's The White Squaw and Lubin's The Falling Arrow.
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Max and Emil Skladanowsky in front of a projection screen Max Skladanowsky (30 April 1863 – 30 November 1939) was a German inventor and early filmmaker. Along with his brother Emil, he invented the Bioscop, an early movie projector the Skladanowsky brothers used to display the first moving picture show to a paying audience on 1 November 1895, shortly before the public debut of the Lumière Brothers' Cinématographe in Paris on 28 December 1895.
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In the wake of these scandals, the success of Fallon's first media campaign was critical to the continued partnership with Cadbury, and the centrepiece television advertisement received the brunt of the attention. The central idea was "founded upon the notion that all communications should be as effortlessly enjoyable as eating the bar itself"."Fallon and MPC 'Go Ape' for Cadbury's Dairy Milk", The Moving Picture Company. Retrieved (via Internet Archive) 23 February 2009).
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"Edison Players Go West", The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), July 27, 1912 p. 342. Retrieved July 27, 2020. It was at this time when Dawley tried to convince Thomas Edison, the prolific inventor and head of the entire Edison corporation, to allow him to create longer films, to expand beyond the company's production of only one-reel pictures, which generally had maximum running times of just 15 minutes.Karin, Bruce F. How Movies Work.
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The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or IATSE (full name: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada), is a labor union representing over 140,000 technicians, artisans and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live theatre, motion picture and television production, and trade shows in the United States and Canada. It was awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 1993.
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Tee Ken Ng directed and animated the video, which is presented as a series of circular papers that, when spun on a record player, appear to create a moving picture, similar to a zoetrope. Animations of these videos are shown along with video edited polaroid pictures. On 10 July, Collier released the fourth single, "He Won't Hold You", featuring Rapsody. Daniel Bruson animated and edited the music video for "He Won't Hold You".
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Upon its release in September 1911, the film generally received positive reviews like The Way of the Eskimo, which had been distributed by Selig two months earlier. The correspondent for the trade journal Motion Picture News reviewed Lost in the Arctic among a series of other recent releases and reported that he enjoyed it "immensely"."From Our Western Correspondent", Moving Picture News (New York, N.Y.), September 30, 1911, p. 26. Internet Archive.
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Exhibitors Herald gave the picture a positive review. They felt that the film had a unique twist in its plot, and the only downside they saw to the film was the unrelenting suspense. They felt the cast as a whole did a good job, and highlighted the performances of Lytell, Currier, and Childers. Moving Picture World also gave the film a positive review, calling it a "strong mystery story", and calling Bert Lytell's performance "excellent".
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Spiegel patented several improvements, the last in 1911. Initially the pictures were drawings; later photographs were used. The postcards were marketed under Spiegel's patent as Magic moving pictures by G. Felsenthal & Co and as Magic moving picture card by the Franklin Postcard Company, both from Chicago. The latter produced a card in 1912 which enabled the viewer to choose among the portraits of three presidential candidates during that year's U.S. presidential election.
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David F. Sandberg's two-time collaborator Michel Aller served as the editor for Shazam!. Mike Wassel (Hellboy II: The Golden Army and the Fast & Furious franchise) and Kelvin McIlwain (Aquaman) were the overall visual effects supervisors for the film. Technicolor's VFX studios Mr. X (known for The Shape of Water and Tron: Legacy) and Moving Picture Company (MPC) provided visual effects. Rodeo FX, DNEG, Digital Domain, and Rise FX also worked on the VFX.
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Elnora's mother, Kate Comstock, eventually learns of the faithlessness of her husband and tries to make up to her daughter for her neglect and harshness. Philip then becomes sick and Elnora, who had been away, returns to take care of him. Deciding that he is truly in love with Elnora, Phillip asks her to marry him.Smith, Summer. “Girl of the Limberlost.” Moving Picture World, May 10, 1924, archive.org/stream/movpicwor67movi#page/n273/mode/2up.
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In October 1913, Stover told his staff and coworkers that he was going out for lunch then he disappeared. In mid-November he was erroneously thought to have died in Delaware when a body resembling him was found. A week later, he was seen in Washington, D.C., by a former city official. In late November, a nationwide search began, which included sending a short film clip to 10,000 moving- picture places across the United States.
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The official synopsis for both films was published in The Moving Picture World on January 14, 1911. The first film, Everybody Saves Father is focused on Jennie Gear, a young woman whose affections are sought by many men. Jennie's father thinks his daughter is too young to be married and drives off four of her suitors. One of the men, John, concocts a plan to save his life to win the man's approval.
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The only known credit in the cast is Julia M. Taylor as Violet Gray. Film historian Q. David Bowers does not cite any scenario or directorial credits. At this time the Thanhouser company operated out of their studio in New Rochelle, New York. In October 1910, an article in The Moving Picture World described the improvements to the studio as having permanently installed a lighting arrangement that was previously experimental in nature.
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In 1914 and 1915, The Capt. Besley Motion Picture Company had a total of $1,097 () in attachments placed on its Manhattan, New York office for outstanding debts. In 1915, The Capt. Besley Motion Picture Company sold the "sole and exclusive right to produce for the entire world the moving picture films and still pictures taken by the Captain Besley Motion Picture Expedition in 1913 and 1914" to the Scenograph Feature Film Company, Inc.
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The villain would not have returned to discover the fate of the hero; he would lose no time in getting miles away from the scene of his crime. Dots and Dashes is well mounted." Aside from these "improbabilities" Walton of The Moving Picture News praised the film and the story after being critical of Morse code tapping being not accurate. Walton wrote, "The general public - excluding such cranks as I am - will enjoy your honest work.
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Tom decides to dress up in a suit of armor and ends up breaking a vase when trying to announce himself. The suit of armor is thrown out and Bessie and the other suitor chase down the junk dealer to free Tom from the suit of armor. Both films were released on December 9, 1910 and were met with positive reviews by The Moving Picture World and The New York Dramatic Mirror. Both films are presumed lost.
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The 1935 fantasy film She, colorized. Film colorization (American English; or colourisation (British English), or colourization (Canadian English and Oxford English)) is any process that adds color to black-and-white, sepia, or other monochrome moving-picture images. It may be done as a special effect, to "modernize" black-and-white films, or to restore color films. The first examples date from the early 20th century, but colorization has become common with the advent of digital image processing.
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The film was a passion project for producer Sydney Box who in 1945 had a huge success with The Seventh Veil. In September 1946 Box announced he would make the film from Sabatini's novel for the United Kingdom Moving Picture Company. Finance would come from the Rank Organisation. The film was part of a deliberate attempt by Rank to break into the American market, following the path blazed with films like Henry V (1944) and Caesar and Cleopatra (1945).
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist won the Audience Favorite—World Cinema award at 2012 Mill Valley Film Festival, while Nair was honored with the Mill Valley Film Festival Award that year. The Reluctant Fundamentalist won the 1st Centenary Award at 43rd International Film Festival of India. The Reluctant Fundamentalist won Truly Moving Picture Award at the 2013 Heartland Film Festival. The Reluctant Fundamentalist won Best Film of the Bernhard Wicki Film Award at the 2013 Munich Film Festival.
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In 1942–43, VMP began filming BC sequences for the National Film Board of Canada, which used the material in films for its propaganda series Canada Carries On and World In Action. In spring 1943, a film industry trade journal reported that the company "working full blast these days in commercial and government work."Canadian Moving Picture Digest, March 20, 1943, p. 8. By 1946, Shelly had made half a dozen complete documentaries for the NFB.
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Moving Picture News, May 4, 1912, p. 26. After the success of Saved From the Titanic, Dorothy Gibson retired from Eclair, choosing to study opera which Brulatour encouraged and financed. In 1913 her new career was interrupted when she was involved in a car accident in which a pedestrian was killed. The resulting lawsuit revealed that the car driven by Dorothy was owned by Jules Brulatour and that she was his lover.New York Times, May 22, 1913.
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The film's expected run-time was fifteen minutes and was billed by the Thanhouser Company as having many novelties and being of a comedic nature. It was released on March 7, 1911 and listed as a drama by the Moving Picture World. It was distributed by the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company. The production came during a time of renewed interest in Egyptology in which Pathé and Urban Films would release their own films titled The Mummy.
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Under the title Die Seele des Lichtspiels - Ein Bekenntnis zum Film (The Soul of the Moving Picture - an Avowal of Film), he produced a work in 1922 which is still recognized today by film theorists. In order to distance himself from his famous father, he wrote under the pseudonym Kilian Koll. In addition, he discovered the love of soaring. In 1933, Bloem welcomed the seizure of power (Machtergreifung) by Adolf Hitler and saw him as the savior of Germany.
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The film was released on August 16, 1913 and had viewings in Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Illinois. A contemporary review of the film in Moving Picture World described it as "simply horse play without any special appeal, though it is harmless and lacks vulgarity." The film was presumed lost, but a fragment of the film was discovered in England in May 2006. It has since been restored by the Haghefilm Laboratory of Amsterdam and Lobster Films, Paris.
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The > timing of the chorus with the pictorial representation is capable of > amendment. Full justice is done by the orchestra to Prof. Humperdinck's > music. Stephen W. Bush, reviewing "Reinhardt's Miracle" in The Moving Picture World after its US première, had some observant criticisms among the plaudits: > When the Nun danced before the Robber Baron the voices behind the screen > sounded more like an animated quarrel in an East Side saloon than the > rumblings of a licentious mob.
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After several years at the Moving Picture Compsny in London he and a group of colleagues founded the visual effects company Double Negative in 1998 with financing from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. He headed the 3D effects for Double Negative's first film Pitch Black (2000). Franklin was an undergraduate external examiner at Bournemouth University for 4 or 5 years and also gave visiting practitioner lectures at BU's Media School. In 2012, Franklin received an honorary degree from Bournemouth.
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In January 1921, Robertson-Cole absorbed Hallmark Pictures, which had acquired the Exhibitors Mutual interests the previous year.Lyons (1974), p. 90 n. 123. The first official Robertson-Cole production shot at the new studio was a February 1921 release, The Mistress of Shenstone, directed by Henry King and starring beautiful Pauline Frederick, a former Paramount and Goldwyn star.For descriptions of the film, see the reviews in Moving Picture World (March 5, 1921) and Variety (March 18, 1921).
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The group decided that the technology that would be the starting point in standardization process, would be a combination of the submissions from two proponents - Fraunhofer IIS / Agere Systems and Coding Technologies / Philips. The MPEG Surround standard was developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11) and published as ISO/IEC 23003 in 2007. It was the first standard of MPEG-D standards group, formally known as ISO/IEC 23003 - MPEG audio technologies.
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Also, the light projectors were set up so that the shadows of the viewers were also cast on the wall, making them characters and encouraging them to really assess the work's tough themes. In 2005, she created the exhibit 8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture, which introduced moving images and sound. This helped immerse the viewers even deeper into her dark worlds. In this exhibit, the silhouettes are used as shadow puppets.
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Later the little girl accompanies her father, the governor, on a tour of the prison and the father pardons the hero-convict. The film included scenes of a real train wreck and the scenario was written around the filming of the disaster. The film received praise for the before and after scenes which were described as shocking to The Moving Picture Worlds reviewer. The film was released on June 24, 1910, and was shown as far away as Australia.
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The plot description in the 24 February 1917 issue of Moving Picture World reads: Daniel Mylrea is the son of the Bishop of Man, the baron of the Isle of Man, whose temporal power is higher even than that of the Deemster, or governor. The Bishop desires Dan to become a minister, but he prefers to be a fisherman. The Deemster of Man has a son and a daughter, Mona and Ewan. Dan and Mona are in love.
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The single reel drama, approximately 1,020 feet long, was released on June 28, 1910. The Moving Picture News reviewed the film positively for its settings, photography and its acting. The reviewer added that the film is likely to please the audiences because of its happy ending with a wedding. The novel was a popular subject of stage productions; a production with Tom Lennon and his company was advertised to have broken many records in the 1909 season.
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The single reel drama film, approximately 1,000 feet long, was released on February 10, 1911. The Moving Picture World gave a positive review of the film's photography, good acting and had no complaints about the clarity of the story. The New York Dramatic Mirror praised the film, but did note a few loose ends in the plot. After the announcement the necklace had been stolen, a man gives it to the woman and evades suspicion by the police.
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The two comedy productions were released on a single reel, approximately 1000 feet in total, on July 5, 1910. A Thanhouser Filmography Analysis, provided by Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, lists each film as comprising half a reel without further detail. The films were shown together in theaters, with known advertisements in Indiana, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. Reviews for the Gone to Coney Island were positive with two positive, but altogether undetailed reviews in The Moving Picture World.
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As described in the film magazine Moving Picture World, George Welston (Walsh), the son of a wealthy rubber manufacturer, is staying in Palm Beach as is another rubber man, Judson Pendleton (Hallam), and his daughter Eve (Mann). The two fathers are concerned about a $100,000 rubber shipment, and are competing for it. George has been arrest twice for speeding. One night he sees a man going by the window into Eve's room, so he climbs the roof and enters.
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Films featuring Alaskan wolves usually employ domesticated wolf-dog hybrids to stand in for wild wolves. Alaska's first independent picture entirely made in Alaska was The Chechahcos, produced by Alaskan businessman Austin E. Lathrop and filmed in and around Anchorage. Released in 1924 by the Alaska Moving Picture Corporation, it was the only film the company made. One of the most prominent movies filmed in Alaska is MGM's Eskimo/Mala The Magnificent, starring Alaska Native Ray Mala.
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Bowman's known filmography becomes rather sparse after his work on From Broadway to a Throne. In its film-industry directory published in October 1916, Motion Picture News identifies him as "now [an] independent producer" in his biographical entry in that reference. The trade magazine also provides Bowman's contact information, citing it as the "Elks' Club, Santa Monica, Cal." Another trade publication, Moving Picture World, announced in December 1916 that "Director William J. Bauman and Director Rice" [A.
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The Vicious Kind was nominated for two 2010 Independent Spirit Awards, Scott for Best Male Lead, and Krieger for Best Screenplay. In 2009, The Vicious Kind won several awards at film festivals around the world including Adam Scott for Best Actor at the Strasbourg International Film Festival, Scott for Best Performance at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Lee Toland Krieger for Emerging Filmmaker at the Denver Film Festival, and Best Feature at the New Orleans Film Festival.
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MPEG logo container format (TS and PS) used. The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a working group of authorities that was formed by ISO and IEC to set standards for audio and video compression and transmission.John Watkinson, The MPEG Handbook, p.1 MPEG is officially a collection of ISO Working Groups and Advisory Groups under ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 – Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information (ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 29).
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The films' advertisements that appear in The Moving Picture World magazine note the use of comic special effects with stop action and film speed experimentation. After the company ended its contract with Paramount Pictures in 1917, USMPC released six additional one-reel comic films as Unique Comedies, which were distributed by the Arrow Film Company of New York. These include "His Neglected Wife," which also stars Leatrice Joy and other actors who appeared in Black Diamond Comedies.
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The plot is based on a scientific investigation made by the author of the serial, Guy McConnell, investigation for several research institutions and for the Chemical Division of the United States Department of the Interior." The film was also lauded for its special effects. According to a report in The Moving Picture World, "Mighty buildings, rocks and forests are set afire and exploded. The expert application of clever photographic devices makes the picture appear strikingly realistic.
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The optical illusion seen in a diorama/false perspective also exploits assumptions based on monocular cues of depth perception. The M.C. Escher painting Waterfall exploits rules of depth and proximity and our understanding of the physical world to create an illusion. Like depth perception, motion perception is responsible for a number of sensory illusions. Film animation is based on the illusion that the brain perceives a series of slightly varied images produced in rapid succession as a moving picture.
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Despite the party's dominance in state politics, he was the only Labor MP in Queensland to be re-elected at the 1925 federal election. He remained the only Queenslander in the ALP caucus until August 1928, when John MacDonald was appointed to a casual vacancy in the Senate. In 1927, Forde was appointed as his Labor Party's representative to the Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry. He and the other commissioners travelled around Australia interviewing 250 witnesses.
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Following Dally's departure for New York, Merle heads back east, though ‘only as far as he [has] to’. Arriving in Audacity, Iowa, Merle briefly works at DREAMTIME MOVY, the town's ‘moving-picture house’; he reflects on the relationship of light and time. Merle arrives in Candlebrow, whose university is hosting a conference on Time, at which Vectorists and Quaternionists dispute time's linearity. The university is frequented by ‘undisputably always the same tornado’ named Thorvald, who is apparently sentient.
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Untitled, Colonist (New Zealand) ("Leon Trotsky, now so prominent in Russian politics, was at one time, it is said, a moving picture actor in America. He appeared in a film entitled "My Official Wife," and his salary is stated to have been just five dollars a day.")Segrave, Kerry. Extras of Early Hollywood: A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945, p. 116 (2013) (citing 1932 Washington Post account of alleged "Trotzky" appearance for $7 per day)(22 February 1937).
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Baggot descended into alcoholism and died in 1948. The film used a slow dissolve effect to show the transformation, as opposed to a quick matching cut, and the critics were impressed, George Blaisdell of Moving Picture World commenting "It is through the means of the dissolving process that the transformation is made peculiarly effective...You see the change of the man of good to the man of evil right before your eyes".Haberman, Steve (2003). "Silent Screams".
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Leonardo Chiariglione in 2011 Leonardo Chiariglione () (born 30 January 1943 (age ) in Almese, Turin province, Piedmont, Italy) is an Italian engineer. He has been at the forefront of a number of initiatives that have helped shape media technology and business as we know them today, in particular he was the chairman of, and co-founded the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)Scientific American: SDMI Needs to Secure New Chief, March 22, 2004 together with Hiroshi Yasuda.
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The reviewer did state that the acting was good. The Billboard review agreed that the story was implausible, but agreed that the skill of the actors made it more plausible than it otherwise would have been. The Morning Telegraph and Walton of The Moving Picture News would praise the film for its pathos and heart. The film is presumed lost because the film is not known to be held in any archive or by any collector.
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Scientists at the institute work together with national and international research and industry partners. For example, institute researchers were and are involved in the development of the H.264 AVC video compression standard and its successor H.265 HEVC as part of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and the Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). Work on the various video compression standards received the Technology and Engineering Emmy award multiple times.Emmy for MPEG-2 Transport Stream Standard – hhi.fraunhofer.
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The Village Twin Cinemas were listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 March 2000 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. The complex is significant for its continuous use as a cinema and its association with moving picture exhibition in New Farm since the early 1920s. The cinema is significant as the first twin cinema complex in Queensland (1970), and one of the earliest multi-screen cinemas in Australia.
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Dover Publications. p. 385Program notes, From Nineteenth-Century Stage Drama to Twenty-First-Century Film Scoring: Musicodramatic Practice and Knowledge Organization (2012) Society for American Music and the California State University, Long Beach, College of the ArtsMagee (2012), p.321n31. It is unclear whether Lampe himself was the composer or transcriber of the piece. It also bears a resemblance to part of John Stepan Zamecnik's 1913 composition Mysterious - Burglar Music 1, which appeared in Sam Fox Moving Picture Music volume 1,, Vol.
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One of the last advertisements would be for a showing in Indiana, Pennsylvania on December 31, 1912. An article and a review in The Moving Picture World said the film serves as a cautionary tale for women who seek dime novel heroes. The Morning Telegraph provided a positive review, but pointed out a specific continuity error in the production. In the scene where Elsie and the athlete come out of water, both of their clothes are completely dry instead of being wet.
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In July 2002, the Moving Picture Experts Group issued a call for proposals of lossless audio coding procedures to be sent in before December. Seven companies submitted their proposals which were examined taking into consideration compression efficiency, complexity and flexibility. By July 2003, Lossless Predictive Audio Compression (LPAC) was selected as the first draft for the future standard. The reference model was further developed under participation of the Technical University of Berlin (TUB), RealNetworks, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT).
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Retrieved June 13, 2020. Both films were produced by the Powers Moving Picture Company of New York. This short's performers are not credited in 1911 reviews, in plot summaries, or in advertisements published in trade journals at the time. The faces of most of the cast were not visible on screen, for many of the actors wore costumes with full head coverings sculpted to resemble various species of birds, including a sparrow, eagle, dove, owl, wren, stork, bluebird, robin, linnet, and crow.
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The Moving Picture Company, the lead vendor on The Jungle Book, provided the visual effects, which were supervised by Robert Legato, Elliot Newman, and Adam Valdez. The film uses "virtual-reality tools," according to Visual Effects Supervisor Rob Legato. Virtual Production Supervisor Girish Balakrishnan said on his professional website that the filmmakers used motion capture and VR/AR technologies. According to Favreau, MPC worked together with tech firms Magnopus and Unity Technologies to build the film's technology platform using the Unity game engine.
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It received positive reviews in a 1908 issue of The Moving Picture World, a film journal, that reported the film was successful and "truly funny." it is unclear whether a print of the film has survived. The identities of the film's cast and production crew are not known. Film historians have noted similarities between the plot of How Brown Saw the Baseball Game and the Edwin S. Porter-directed comedy film How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game released the previous year.
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Who Makes Movies? was a propaganda campaign run jointly by several international associations looking to crack down on copyright infringement of motion pictures, most notably the MPAA, as part of the larger "Respect Copyrights" campaign. The campaign was endorsed by several motion picture workers' guilds, including the Directors Guild of America, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts, the Motion Picture Editors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America.
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In 1999, Anderson supervised the production of a computer-animated test film, Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons, to explore the possibility of updating some of his 1960s Supermarionation series for a 21st-century audience.Bentley 2001, p. 123. The working title was Captain Scarlet – The New Millennium. Produced by Moving Picture Company using a combination of Maya software and motion-capture technology, the film features Francis Matthews and Ed Bishop reprising their voice roles of Captains Scarlet and Blue.
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McCay sketches Gertie for his colleagues in a live-action sequence made for the film's theatrical release, at the American Museum of Natural History. In November 1914, film producer William Fox offered to market Gertie the Dinosaur to moving-picture theaters for "spot cash and highest prices". McCay accepted, and extended the film to include a live-action prologue and intertitles to replace his stage patter. The film successfully traveled the country and had reached the west coast by December.
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The role of Eliza was played by Anna Rosemond, one of two leading ladies of the Thanhouser company in this era. Frank H. Crane, cast in the role of Tom, was a leading male actor of the company. Crane was also involved in the very beginnings of the Thanhouser Company and would later become a director at Thanhouser. Surviving film stills, from advertisements in Moving Picture World, show Crane in blackface in order to portray the part of Uncle Tom.
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Stuart Browning is a political commentator, writer, film director, film producer and entrepreneur. Browning produced The Free Market Cure series, a collection of short films arguing against collectivized medicine and for the benefits of free markets in health care. He is a fellow of the Moving Picture Institute, and a producer of Indoctrinate U, and its predecessor Brainwashing 101. Browning was President and co-founder of Embarcadero Technologies from 1995 until February 2000, a leading database software vendor in San Francisco.
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In 1999, Anderson supervised the production of a computer-animated test film, Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons, to explore the possibility of updating some of his 1960s Supermarionation series for a 21st- century audience.Bentley 2001, p. 123. The working title was Captain Scarlet – The New Millennium. Produced by Moving Picture Company using a combination of Maya software and motion-capture technology, the film features Francis Matthews and Ed Bishop reprising their voice roles of Captains Scarlet and Blue.
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The T-Flag signified that more than 90 percent of the employees invested at least 10 percent of their earnings in War Bonds. D. E. Frederick's dreams for expansion of the original store at Pine Street and Fifth Avenue finally were realized when the grand re- opening was celebrated August 4, 1952. There were ten floors above ground and two below. The building housed a beauty salon, post office, moving picture auditorium, a fully equipped medical facility, and a nursery.
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Again, once the non-linear editor has this information, editing can be performed entirely in terms of 24 frame/s timecode, and the Keykode information preserved for either film cutting or digital intermediate post- production of scanned film images. Because sound is recorded separately from moving pictures in 24p projects, there are no problems regarding synchronization or audio pitch: the audio material is simply ingested separately from the moving picture material at its natural rate, and synchronized within the non-linear editor.
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Seeking a change of image and sound from that of a college-style band to a more internationally suited one, Rock Machine changed their name to Indus Creed in 1993. They began to experiment a bit with Indian instruments, such as tabla and sarangi. When their video of "Pretty Child," directed by Subir Chatterjee and Namita Roy Ghose of Whitelight Moving Picture Co., was released in 1993, the response was unprecedented. MTV instantly put the artistic video on massive rotation.
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The MPEG-4 Visual format was developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) committee. The specification was authored by Swiss-Iranian engineer Touradj Ebrahimi (later the president of JPEG) and Dutch engineer Caspar Horne. The standard was developed using patents from over a dozen organizations, listed by MPEG LA in a patent pool. The majority of patents used for the MPEG-4 Visual format were from three Japanese companies: Mitsubishi Electric (255 patents), Hitachi (206 patents), and Panasonic (200 patents).
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A number of scholars or companies have created and/or marketed assessments. Graves himself, however, never built a test for his theory and doubted that a simple, valid instrument could be constructed to measure levels of psychological development accurately. His objective was to understand how people think and not just to categorize the things they think about or value. Assessments, as momentary snapshots, do not match the nature of the theory which is based on a wave-like moving picture with many uncertainties.
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An animated GIF of a photographic sequence shot by Eadweard Muybridge in 1887. His chronophotographic works can be regarded as movies recorded before there was a proper way to replay the material in motion. Film, also called movie, motion picture or moving picture, is a visual art-form used to simulate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound, and more rarely, other sensory stimulations.
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Seeking to develop a movie projector system, they hired former Edison employee Eugene Lauste, probably at Dickson's suggestion. In April 1895, Dickson left Edison's employ and provided some assistance to the Latham outfit. Alongside Lauste, he may have devised what would become known as the Latham loop, allowing the photography and exhibition of much longer filmstrips than had previously been possible. This idea had first been made public in 1890 in descriptions of the moving picture camera of William Friese-Greene.
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The film would later be billed as part of the "Violet Gray, Detective" series, consisting of this film, The Vote That Counted, The Norwood Necklace, and The Court's Decree. The film likely had a wide national release, advertising theaters are known in Indiana and Pennsylvania. The Lubin Manufacturing Company would make a film with a reference to the series with Violet Dare, Detective in June 1913. The film received mixed reviews by The Moving Picture World and The New York Dramatic Mirror.
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The publication was created through the 1913 merger of the Moving Picture News founded in 1908 and The Exhibitors' Times, founded earlier in 1913.Grau, Robert (1914). The Theatre of Science, p. 247 Director Perry N. Vekroff and actors Frankie Mann and Stuart Holmes during the production of Trailed by Three (1920), shown reading the Motion Picture News After being acquired by Martin Quigley in 1930, the publication was merged with Exhibitors' Herald World to form the Motion Picture Herald.
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Production of Skyfall had previously faced similar problems while attempting to secure permits to shoot the film's pre-title sequence in India before moving to Istanbul. Five companies did the visual effects—Industrial Light & Magic, Double Negative, Moving Picture Company, Cinesite and Peerless—under the supervision of Steve Begg. The computer-generated effects included set extensions, digital touches on the vehicles, and crumbling buildings. A sixth one, Framestore, handled the title sequence, the seventh in the series designed by Daniel Kleinman.
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The Moving Picture World stated, in a brief review, that the acting and photography was good. In 2007, the film was released by Thanhouser Company Film Preservation on a three-disc DVD set along with eleven other surviving Thanhouser films. The surviving print was obtained from the British Film Institute and featured a new original score composed and performed by Raymond A. Brubacher. According to Silent Era, the archive holds the 35mm nitrate positive, the more stable 35mm safety negative and a 35mm reference positive.
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The family emigrated to New Zealand where he, his brothers, their wives and other family (known as "The Brescian Family") made their living in the theatre, which included the novelty of a moving picture show or bioscope as it was called. He died in Adelaide, Australia. His most well-known song (he wrote the lyrics and the music) is called "Come back to me" which was sung by his sister Florence Hayward. and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1884.
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Though the films are presumed lost, the synopsis of both film survive in The Moving Picture World from December 10, 1910. The plot of The Girls He Left Behind Him follows Jack Redfern, a young bachelor, who is soon to be married. Jack receives a letter in feminine handwriting from an "old sweetheart" of his, stating how glad she is to hear of his approaching marriage. Jack goes through visions, remembering the various girls of his life and his interactions with each of them.
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Jane Eyre helped secure the future of the Thanhouser Company and reviewers were largely positive with only minor criticism about the acting or photography. The Morning Telegraph said the production was excellent save for the lack of emotion displayed over the death of Uncle Reed. There were two reviews of the film in The Moving Picture World, both of which were positive. The first review was positive for its acting and clear adaption, but cautioned itself against further flattery of Edwin Thanhouser's new company.
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The single reel drama, approximately 1,000 feet long, was released on November 4, 1910. The film was released outside of the planned order due to a scheduling conflict. Originally The American and the Queen was planned to be released on this date, but it was instead pushed back to November 11. The film received mixed reviews from critics, H. Jeanval of The Moving Picture News stated that the costuming and lace curtains on the windows of the home betrayed the supposed poverty of the Morgan family.
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Advertisement in The Moving Picture World, 1916 Helen Holmes was born on June 19, 1892, in Illinois.While some references state Holmes was born on July 7, 1892, and indicate she was born in either South Bend, Indiana or Louisville, Kentucky (e.g. Buck Rainey, Those Fabulous Serial Heroines: Their Lives and Films (Scarecrow Press, 1990):97.), her death certificate indicates her date of birth was June 19, 1892, and that she was born in Cook County, Illinois. See Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line].
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249 "Babyface" is about a man practicing his obsessive love for a celebrity by manipulating her image on a TV recording. "Lemon", inspired by an old video of Bono's late mother in a lemon-coloured dress, describes man's attempts to preserve time through technology. This is reflected in lines such as, "A man makes a picture / A moving picture / Through the light projected he can see himself up close". The lyrics to "Numb" are a series of "don't" commands, amidst a noisy backdrop of sounds.
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The studio sent out corrections to certain publications like The Moving Picture World and the Los Angeles Herald and asked them to credit Marshall when they wrote about the film. In 1917, Marshall entered into contract with Fox Film in Edendale, California for character work in motion pictures. Marshall's daughter, Ottilie Vivian, appeared in the film Training for Husbands in 1920 at seven months old. Marshall's son, Sherwood Marshall Fries, was born in 1920 and went on to play in the National Football League in 1943.
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Riders of Vengeance was released as a Universal Special feature in June 1919, a 60-minute silent film on six reels. It was part of the long-running "Cheyenne Harry" series of film featurettes. The story was an uncommon collaboration between the star Harry Carey and the director John Ford (with help from scenarist Eugene Lewis). Though it has an unusually high level of violence ("lots of killings", as Moving Picture World noted), critical reviews of the time lavishly praised both the story and film.
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A film was made in 1984 and 1985 which combined Gerald Scarfe's animations and Nicolas Roeg's live-action footage with Slit-scan photography created by Peter Truckel at The Moving Picture Company. Also directed by Nicolas Roeg the film was projected on a backdrop behind the stage as the band played. Three promotional videos were also directed by Roeg. "The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking" features snippets of the live action material from the screen films interspersed with footage of "Shane" and other cowboy films.
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Arizona toured European waters in the spring of 1919, visiting Smyrna, Asia Minor, and Constantinople (the first visit of the United States battleship to that city). On that cruise, Anderson was present when the Greeks took Smyrna. Anderson served as Officer in Charge of the Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York, New York, from November 1919 until November 1920. The function of this large printing establishment, moving picture, and photographic exchange was to publicize the Navy and inspire large numbers of needed enlistments following World War I's demobilization.
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In 2019, Blaauw played for the premiere of Richter's "Moving Picture 946-3" at the Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto, Japan. The film was created in collaboration with Corinna Belz (filmmaker) with score for solo trumpet and electronics by Rebecca Saunders and has since also been a featured event at Musikfest Berlin 2020. Recently, Blaauw has been working on the Global Breath project working to record and archive iconographic sounds, as well as connect pioneering trumpet players worldwide. The project will host a conference in March 2021.
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The Moving Picture Institute's four-day Directing Workshop is designed for filmmakers with the top scripts from MPI's Short Film Creative Development and Production Lab. Led by award-winning directors, the course teaches the skills needed to effectively manage a crew, communicate with a cast, and prepare for pre- production, production, and post-production. Participants rehearse scenes from their scripts and also run mock casting sessions. At the end of the workshop, each filmmaker’s final product receives critical feedback from the instructors and the other participants.
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"Watchtower" is the fifth single by British rapper Devlin, and the lead single from his second studio album, A Moving Picture (2013). The song features British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and was produced by Labrinth. "Watchtower" was released on 16 August 2012 and entered the UK Singles Chart on 26 August 2012 at number 7, becoming Devlin's highest-charting single and first top 10 hit and Sheeran's fifth top 10 hit. The song samples the main chorus line from Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower".
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Gaston Bell Joins Lubin - The Moving Picture World; Vol. 18; Issues 8-13; 1913; Pg. 1545 accessed August 23, 20112 Gaston Bell; Internet Movie Database accessed August 23, 2012 By late 1918 Bell was back on the road touring in The Naughty Wife by Fred Jackson and the next year with the Max Marcin comedy, Cheating Cheaters.Advertisement (The Naughty Wife ) - Middletown Times Press (Middletown, New York); Monday, December 23, 1918; pg. 6jNew York Drama Coming to Spencer - Spencer Reporter (Spencer, Iowa); Wednesday, November 19, 1919; pg.
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High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a container format for individual images and image sequences. It was developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and is defined as Part 12 within the MPEG-H media suite (ISO/IEC 23008-12). Apple has said that an HEIF image using HEVC requires only about half the storage space as the equivalent quality JPEG. HEIF also supports animation, and is capable of storing more information than an animated GIF or APNG at a small fraction of the size.
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Edison sold it to exhibitors for , as a 740-foot reel. The first known showing of The Great Train Robbery was at a New York City dime museum, Huber's Museum. By the following week it was appearing at eleven venues in the city area, including the Eden Musée, a major amusement center. Edison advertising touted the film as "absolutely the superior of any moving picture ever made" and a "faithful imitation of the genuine 'Hold Ups' made famous by various outlaw bands in the far West".
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The ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) started a similar project in 2007, tentatively named High-performance Video Coding. An agreement of getting a bit rate reduction of 50% had been decided as the goal of the project by July 2007. Early evaluations were performed with modifications of the KTA reference software encoder developed by VCEG. By July 2009, experimental results showed average bit reduction of around 20% compared with AVC High Profile; these results prompted MPEG to initiate its standardization effort in collaboration with VCEG.
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Although he was identified in the early Hollywood trade paper Moving Picture World as of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, his ancestry is of the Nanticoke people of Delaware. He became an early film actor, director, writer, and producer. He is believed to be the first Native American filmmaker/producer in Hollywood. Together with his wife and partner Lillian St. Cyr, Winnebago, the couple were labeled an "influential force" in the production of one-reel Westerns during the first part of the silent film era.
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The cast for the production is also unknown, but the cast may have included the leading players of the Thanhouser productions, Anna Rosemond and Frank H. Crane. Rosemond was one of two leading ladies for the first year of the company. Crane was also involved in the very beginnings of the Thanhouser Company and acted in numerous productions before becoming a director at Thanhouser. An article in The Moving Picture World over a botched scene identifies Barry O'Neil as the director who stunned the studio workers.
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In 1909, Selig-Polyscope was followed into Edendale by the New York Motion Picture Company, making mostly one-reel westerns under the brand name Bison Pictures. The original studio was located at 1719 Allesandro Street, a "tract of land graced only by a four-room bungalow and a barn."G.P. von Harleman, from article in The Moving Picture World, March 10, 1917. Originally under the management of Fred J. Balshofer, the directorial reins were taken over a couple years later by motion picture innovator Thomas H. Ince.
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A 1917 article in The Moving Picture World described the Keystone Edendale studio thus: > When Keystone got going its rise was rapid. Today [1917] the open air stages > of the Keystone Film Company cover . In addition to this are buildings of > wood, brick and concrete, housing all the industries to be found in the > average city of several thousand population, including a five-story planing > mill and restaurant. Another feature of the Mack Sennett Keystone studios is > the big open air plunge, which is electrically heated.
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We wish some of the pictures were not quite so vividly black and white. Mayhap the tenseness of the situation hit the cameraman. Be that as it may, one thing is certain - there is no melodrama, but scenes out of real life." While the reviewer in this case refers to the scenario being drawn from real life, the happy ending is termed as a fantasy by reviewer in The Moving Picture World who states, "[It is one] of those pictures which thrill one despite their improbability.
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In November 1903, McClellan defeated the sitting mayor, Seth Low (independent Fusion), for a two-year term. He was re- elected in 1905, after the restoration of four-year mayoral terms, but not considered for a third term in 1909. He is notable in the history of movie censorship for canceling all moving-picture exhibition licenses on Christmas Eve 1908, claiming that the new medium degraded the morals of the community and that celluloid film was an unacceptable fire hazard.Picture Shows All Out of Business.
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Advertisement in Moving Picture World, August 1917 In 1914 Eltinge starred in silent picture versions of The Crinoline Girl followed by Cousin Lucy the next year. According to Anthony Slide's The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville, he also had a cameo role in a film entitled How Molly Malone Made Good in 1915. Eltinge's first real screen success came in 1917 in The Countess Charming. His role in the film was again a double role with him playing both a male and said male in female garb.
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Blair Smith was the first cameraman of the Thanhouser company, but he was soon joined by Carl Louis Gregory who had years of experience as a still and motion picture photographer. The role of the cameraman was uncredited in 1910 productions. The Moving Picture World announced that the film would feature Heming and Crane, but Bowers also credits the "Thanhouser Kid" Marie Eline in an unknown role. It is unknown, but possible, that Eline may have played the role of the young boy usher.
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Louis Le Prince In October 1888 Louis Le Prince filmed moving picture sequences Roundhay Garden Scene and a Leeds Bridge street scene using his single-lens camera and Eastman's paper film. These were several years before the work of competing inventors such as Auguste and Louis Lumière and Thomas Edison. Today, Leeds International Film Festival's International Short Film Competition is named after Louis Le Prince. The 2015 documentary film The First Film, which first aired at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, documents Le Prince's pioneering status.
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The magazine was established by Vitagraph Studios co-founder J. Stuart Blackton and partner Eugene V. Brewster under the title The Motion Picture Story Magazine. In contrast to earlier film magazines such as The Moving Picture World, which were aimed at film exhibitors, The Motion Picture Story Magazine was aimed at regular film goers. It has been regarded as the first fan magazine. The magazine was very successful from its inception, with an initial run of 50,000 copies and a circulation of 200,000 by 1914.
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Its most notable plot change is the introduction of the character Binns and his role in bringing the Porters to Africa; the novel brought them there through the improbable coincidence of a second mutiny. The role of Tarzan was given to Gordon Griffith, one of the best child actors of the time,Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995, Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, pp. 30–32. and to Elmo Lincoln, an actor who specialized in "strong man" roles.
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" The Moving Picture Worlds review was more neutral and stated the film was rather engaging and it will keep the audiences interest. The reviewer did not find either specific praise or fault in the actual production itself. The New York Dramatic Mirror was the most detailed in its review. The reviewer states, "There are very strong situations in this picture story, based on the efforts of a young man and his sweetheart to prevent the young man's mother from knowing that he has been sent to prison.
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As in many other series books of the time, Marjorie Dean books often featured post-text advertisements. Some include: The Girl Comrade's Series, The Girl Chum's Series, The Camp Fire Girls Series, The Blue Grass Seminary Girls Series, and the Mildred Series. Other contemporary series published for school girls include: Betty Gordon, Grace Harlowe, The Outdoor Girls, The Moving Picture Girls, Jane Allen, Betty Wales, Ruth Fielding, The Girls of Central High, Friendly Terrace, Fairmount Girls, Helen Grant, Hadley Hall, Nancy Lee, Isabel Carleton, Molly Brown.
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Crofts was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire and became an architect.British Census 1881 RG11 4534/53 With his cousin, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, he was one of the founders of the Liberty and Property Defence League in 1882.Who's Who of the Victorian Cinema - Wordsworth Donisthorpe In 1890 he and Donisthorpe were able to produce a moving picture of London's Trafalgar Square.The History of the Discovery of Cinematography 1885-1889 In 1891 with Donisthorpe he was awarded a patent for a camera capable of producing instantaneous photographs.
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Uránia Scientific Theatre The first consciously made Hungarian film was 'A tánc' (The Dance) directed by Béla Zsitkovszky, which came to life as an illustration to one of the shows of the Uránia Scientific Theatre. Gyula Pekár asked for a moving picture from Béla Zsitovszky, the projectionist of the Uránia. Zsitovszky, originally an optician, shot the picture on the roof terrace of the theatre with renowned actors and ballerinas of the Operaház theatre. The 24 cinematographic short-films were premiered on 30 April 1901.
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The genre inspired many prominent writers of the time, including Ferenc Molnár and Frigyes Karinthy. Comedians also used this form often to perform various jokes and scenes utilizing its hybrid nature, one well-known performer being Gyula Gózon. Mór Undergleider also started a professional journal on the subject of cinema, called Mozgófénykép Híradó (News of Moving Picture). The journal published articles of numerous renowned writers, theatrical directors, aestheticans, and scientists about the motion picture, including the pioneering film-theory articles of the 18-year-old Alexander Korda.
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Lusitania was registered for copyright on July 19, 1918, and was released by Jewel Productions who were reported to have acquired it for the highest price paid for a one-reel film up to that time. It was included as part of a Universal Studios Weekly newsreel and featured on the cover of an issue of Universal's in-house publication The Moving Picture Weekly. Its première in England followed in May 1919. Advertisements called it "he world's only record of the crime that shocked humanity".
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The psychological study of crowd phenomena was documented decades prior to 1900, as European culture was imbued with thoughts of the fin de siècle. This "modern" urban culture perceived that they were living in a new and different age. They witnessed marvelous new inventions and experienced life in new ways. The population, now living in densely packed, industrialized cities, such as Milan and Paris, witnessed the development of the light bulb, radio, photography, moving-picture shows, the telegraph, the bicycle, the telephone, and the railroad system.
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The Shepherd King was scheduled for a November 25, 1923 release; modern sources, including the American Film Institute, report that the film was released on that date. Its New York premiere, on December 10 at the Central Theatre, was met with initially positive reviews in the local newspapers; the New York Evening Journal labelled it the best of Edwards's films. Moving Picture World C. S. Sewell also reviewed the film favorably, praising the battle scenes and Bernardi's role as David. Many reviewers held more mixed opinions.
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1909) It was adapted into a novel based on the play's success,(12 June 1909). Books for Summer Reading, The New York Times and the play traveled widely after closing on Broadway, where actor Burr McIntosh returned from the stage after a long break to take over for Wise.(22 November 1913). Burr McIntosh before the camera, The Moving Picture World The play was also made into a silent film in 1914, where Wise reprised his role, and a young Evelyn Brent was also in the cast.
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"Hearts and Flowers" has an association in popular culture as melodramatic photoplay music. The practice of using the selection as a dramatic cue is documented as early as 1911,Sinn, Clarence E., "Music for the Picture." Moving Picture World, 14 January 1911, P. 76. Sinn recommends "Hearts and Flowers" in his musical suggestions for the Imp drama, "The Wise Druggist." although complaints that the tune was becoming overplayed crop up as early as 1913 "Just a Moment Please." Motiography, 20 September 1913, P. 210.
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Most of his novels were published by E.P. Dutton. McNeil also wrote short stories and magazine articles, and occasional humorous poetry. He had a short career in the early cinema in New York from 1912-1917, as a scriptwriter, including as writer on major features such as The Martyrdom of Philip Strong (1916) and The Making Over of Geoffrey Manning (1915). His July 1911 article in Moving Picture World titled "How To Write A Photoplay" suggests he was also writing for the movies prior to 1912.
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As a Mercatus Scholar, Davies regularly lectures on economic policy topics for staff at the U.S. House of Representatives. Starting in 2012, he produced a series of videos on economics and statistics for the Institute for Humane Studies, the Foundation for Economic Education, and Certell. In 2015, he worked as Associate Producer for the Moving Picture Institute on their video series, FI$H: How An Economy Grows. Davies is a long-time faculty member at the Institute for Humane Studies and the Foundation for Economic Education.
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1 (1987). Accessed 28 November 2009. The ideas about what cinema should be that he developed in the journal Kinema Record, which he helped found with Yukiyoshi Shigeno, were accumulated in his 1917 book, The Production and Photography of Moving Picture Drama (Katsudō shashingeki no sōsaku to satsueihō), an influential work that continued to be reprinted into the 1920s. Although an engineer by training, Kaeriyama entered the film industry, first at Nihon Kinetophone in 1914, and then at Tennenshoku Katsudō Shashin (Tenkatsu) in 1917.
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The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003 and was nominated for two awards, the Truer Than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2004 and the Grand Jury Prize. The title refers to a traditional saying "you cannot step into the same river twice", which dates to Ancient Greek philosophy – see Panta rhei (Heraclitus). The Same River Twice won Best Documentary at the Birmingham Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in 2003 and Best Documentary Feature at the Nashville Film Festival in 2003.
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Then, in 1854, the southern part of Hollis petitioned the state legislature to become a separate town. Permission was granted, and the community was named Dayton after Thomas Day, who submitted the petition.George J. Varney "History of Dayton, Maine" (1886) In 1860, Dayton voted to build at Union Falls a covered bridge, long and wide, connecting to Buxton. The span was blown up in 1921 by the Clark Power Company, an event filmed as part of a melodrama by the Pine Tree Moving Picture Corporation of Portland.
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The film received a positive review in The Film Daily, stating that it as a whole was a "Virile western subject that has some very pleasing bits; will sure to please Bill Hart fans". Burns Mantle, writing for Photoplay Magazine, gave it a mixed review, stating that "A better Western than 'Human Stuff' is William S. Hart's 'Sand,' but this, too, is below the Hart standard - the standard, at least, established by 'The Toll-Gate.'" Moving Picture World reported that president Woodrow Wilson had seen the film had enjoyed it.
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The review also stated that the acting was excellent, but not expressive enough and concluded that the film was "a notable one among the Independent releases". The Moving Picture World provided another positive review, praising the adaptation that simplified the plot and found no fault with the production. The Morning Telegraph found no fault with the story, but found fault with the excessive use of inter-titles. The reviewer also noted that the only strong scene in the film is the duel scene, but Edna's wanderings made her appear to be insane.
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It was during the Legislative Council election, which saw a mob that attempted to interfere with the voting at West Adelaide. Later that same day a much larger riot developed in the same place after the election was closed. At that time the British colony of South Australia was ruled by a governor appointed by the British government. Looking towards North Terrace along Bank Street from Hindley Street, 1937 On 19 October 1896 the first public moving picture demonstration in South Australia was hosted by Wybert Reeve at the Theatre Royal on Hindley Street.
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The Animation Guild, IATSE Local 839 is a professional guild and union of animation artists, writers and technicians. It was formed in 1952. In 2002, the organization changed its name from Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists. The full name of the organization is The Animation Guild and Affiliated Optical Electronic and Graphic Arts, Local 839 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations/Canadian Labour Congress.
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The details, the settings, the staging and the acting, not neglecting the photography, put this picture way above par." Walton, also of The Moving Picture News affirmed that the quality of the film, but acknowledged some minor historical accuracy points in the production itself. Walton concluded, "Such films as these lift moving picturedom into the higher plane, where its most enduring successes will be won. The presentation, in such a worthy form as this, of the timber from whence our nation has been hewn, cannot but meet with commendation.
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I feel sure England will welcome this stately production with as hearty a welcome as it has received, and merited, in New York." The Moving Picture World also confirmed the quality of the production as one which further elevates the reputation of the Thanhouser Company. Standing in contrast, The New York Dramatic Mirror review criticized the production for being "too crowded for pictorial beauty and too stiffly acted for dramatic effect. The picture, therefore, falls short of the mark aimed at, although it is not unworthy of some praise.
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In Florence's quest to control all over the motion picture business in the Salt Lake area he became acquainted with Thomas Edison so all the films from Edison would go to his distribution company, The Florence Film Exchange, and not any possible competitors. Now even if he did not own the theatre he would make money off of them. Because of his prominence in the moving picture business DeMille approached him to provide capital for the studio he wanted to open up. Florence having just recently met him declined and DeMille moved on to Hollywood.
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The world's first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by British inventor William Friese Greene, who patented the process in 1890. Charlie Chaplin, c. 1918 The first people to build and run a working 35 mm camera in Britain were Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres. They made the first British film Incident at Clovelly Cottage in February 1895, shortly before falling out over the camera's patent.
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The main purpose of illustrated songs was to encourage sheet music sales, and they were highly successful with sales reaching into the millions for a single song. Later, with the birth of film, illustrated songs were used as filler material preceding films and during reel changes. The 1914 film, The Photo-Drama of Creation was a non- commercial attempt to combine the motion picture with a combination of slides and synchronize the resulting moving picture with audio. The film included hand-painted slides as well as other previously used techniques.
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Not uproariously funny, but it tells a story, and leaves one in good humor." The New York Dramatic Mirror praised the film as having been well-produced and having consistently good acting. Another review in The Moving Picture World was favorable and found the production to be original and pleasing. The New York Clipper found the comedy to be a relief from the "pie-smashing, dough-throwing, acrobatic affairs that a long suffering public has come to regard at the only sort of film comedy to be seen.
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Variety commended both the direction and the acting for lifting the script out of maudlin melodrama. Describing the plot elements as "tenderness, heart-throb, comedy and good, old-fashioned, gulping tears", the review notes: "Half a dozen times the yarn approaches the saccharine, only to be turned back into sound, human comedy-drama". A Time review also lauded Stevens' direction, stating: "Grant and Dunne cannot overcome the ten-little-fingers-and-ten-little-toes plot ... it is too often a moving picture which does not move. Skillful direction saves it from turning maudlin".
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Walthall in The Moving Picture World, 1916 In New York in 1901, Walthall won a role in Under Southern Skies by Charlotte Blair Parker. He performed in the play for three years, in New York and on tour. With the company of Henry Miller he gained recognition on Broadway in plays, including Pippa Passes, The Only Way and William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide (1906–08). His fellow cast member James Kirkwood introduced Walthall to D.W. Griffith, and at the conclusion of that engagement, Walthall joined the Biograph Company.
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596 accessed July 4, 2012 Lester Wallack's Rosedale; another Boucicault play, The Streets of New York,The Moving Picture World; July-September, 1913; pg. 438 accessed July 4, 2012 with Grismer and Davies playing the principal roles, Tom Badger and Alida Bloodgood; Enoch Arden, from the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson;Adams, William Davenport; A Dictionary of the Drama; 1904; pg. 463 accessed July 4, 2012 The Wages of Sin, a morality story by Frank Harvey Sr.;Klapka, Jerome Jerome, & Pain, Barry - To-Day, Volume 3; 1894; pg.
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Pickett said that her overall goal in the industry was to not only write and direct her own pictures but also to make an analogy between cinematography and film. Redskin was the first film that provided Pickett with the opportunity to achieve her goals and successfully write a feature film. She was described as having some of the highest ambitions to direct/write in film according to the Moving Picture World. With these goals in mind, many of Picket's films combined elements of both documentary and narrative fiction.
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The yellow brick Lombard-Gothic church with Gothic Revival and Gothic Revival details was built for $25,000 in 1910 to designs by theatre architect Harry G. Wiseman of 104 West 42nd Street; the rector during construction was listed as Rev. Joseph L. Shestokas of 7 Vandam Street. Wiseman was listed that year as the architect of two venues for Penn Amusements, including a modest brick theatre at 223 West 42nd Street, and an "open-air moving picture show" on the southeast corner of 111th Street and Eighth Avenue.
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A review in Moving Picture World praised the film and said: In April 1913, both the American Museum of Natural History and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society jointly presented Hiawatha at the museum with a simultaneous reading of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem during the film's projection. The museum had lent Moore its expertise for the film and believed that Hiawatha had ethnographically redeeming features and educational appeal. One of the movie's highlights was a healing ritual of the sacred Iroquois False Face Society. Hiawatha was originally four reels, or 40 minutes.
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The following is one of the only reviews of the 1911 short film from The Moving Picture World: > The duties of the sheriff as performed by "Uncle Billy" were not a matter of > pleasure. His son-in-law is a member of the posse; lie and "Uncle Billy" > leave the house hurriedly to join their comrades in pursuit of the outlaws. > Two hours later the son in-law is carried back to his home, the victim of > the gang. A little daughter is born to the widow and left an orphan.
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According to a report, Gnome purchased a Motiograph Moving Picture Machine and Hallberg's Standard Automatic Electric Economizers for their productions. The company's lead actress was Mildred Hutchinson and employed its staff to produce stories about fictional gnomes, specifically for child audiences. Hutchinson was a seasoned child actress at the time of the productions who had credits working with Edison, Vitagraph and Melies the age of six. Records surrounding the release suggest that Alice in Funnyland, The Birth of the Gnomes and Alice's New Year's Party were never released.
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"Australian Notes" The Moving Picture World 1916 accessed 23 June 2015 Its release was delayed due to the lack of film stock in the country. A contemporary critic said that "Miss Gwen Lewis, the clever monologuist of the Royal Strollers, has been entrusted with the leading role, and has proved her versatility by giving an excellent portrayal of the character entrusted to her. Everything points to Miss Lewis making as big a success on the screen as on the speaking stage." The movie screened as a supporting item to the main feature.
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The Moving Picture World, 1916 Susie Snowflake at the Broadway. > Ann Pennington, the celebrated little Ziegfeld Follies star, made her motion > picture debut in the Famous Players production, Susie Snowflake, at the > Broadway theater. There is something irresistibly appealing about "Susie," > and Miss Pennington has caught the charm of the little dancer who > scandalizes her maiden aunts and sets a whole town agog when she brings her > Broadway ideals into the community. But there is a lot of real character and > unswerving loyality in "Susie," as she proves when she is put to the test.
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Film avertisement in The Moving Picture World, 1916 Because she grew up in Los Angeles, the shift of movie production to her hometown was a big advantage for her. Gonzalez worked for such studios as Vitagraph and Universal. She appeared in five movies opposite William Desmond Taylor at Vitagraph, the comedy/drama Her Husband's Friend (1913), the drama Tainted Money (1914), the comedy Millions for Defence (1914), the drama The Kiss (1914), and the drama Captain Alvarez (1914). In many of her roles, Gonzalez typified a vigorous out-of-doors type of heroine.
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John Bunny as Samuel Pickwick The Pickwick Papers is a 1913 three-reel silent film based on the 1837 novel of the same name by Charles Dickens. The film was produced by Vitagraph Studios and features John Bunny in the title role of Samuel Pickwick. Bunny and the Vitagraph Company desired to make an authentic recreation of Dickens's novel, and filming took place in England rather than at Vitagraph's New York studio. Bunny regarded the finished film highly, and The Moving Picture World praised its fidelity to Dickens's work.
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Vitagraph was committed to producing an accurate and authentic adaptation of Dickens's novel. Bunny recounted to The Moving Picture World how the Vitagraph party attempted to borrow an original two- wheeled cab from the British Museum to use in the film, but were refused by the museum curators. The group apparently made an exact replica of this vehicle, and used it frequently in the film. According to Bunny, the four- wheeled coach used for the ride to Rochester in "The Honorable Event" was an original from the times of Pickwick.
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Small rectangular apertures are spaced evenly around the rim of the disc. The user would spin the disc and look through the moving slits at the images reflected in a mirror. The scanning of the slits across the reflected images keeps them from simply blurring together so that the user can see a rapid succession of images that appear to be a single moving picture. When there is the same number of images as slots, the images will animate in a fixed position, but will not drift across the disc.
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Advertisement for Wildflower in Moving Picture World (1918) Silks and Satins (1916) At age 31, it was relatively late in life for a film actress to begin a career with starring roles, but the diminutive Clark had a little-girl look, like Mary Pickford, that belied her years. Also, film was not developed or mature enough to showcase Clark at her youthful best at the turn of the century. These were some of the reasons established Broadway stars refused early film offers. Feature films were unheard of when Clark was in her early 20s.
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As part of the restructuring, Swisscom redesigned its logo and transformed it into a moving picture element, an innovation for Switzerland and the industry. In 2008, Swisscom acquired its five millionth NATEL customer, which means that the two-thirds of the Swiss population used the Swisscom mobile network and in 2013 Swisscom TV counted a million customers. On 23 July 2013, the CEO of Swisscom, Carsten Schloter was found dead from an apparent suicide and Urs Schaeppi was appointed interim CEO. Since November 2013, Schaeppi has been the CEO of Swisscom.
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April Showers, reproduced in The Moving Picture World magazine. Grosz began working in film advertising as early as 1920, when an industry newspaper described him as an employee of producer Lewis J. Selznick's Selznick Pictures, working on art titling at the company's studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In 1921, he was listed as a member of the New York-based professional organization Associated Motion Picture Advertisers and an employee of Associated Producers. By 1923, he managed the advertising art departments of both Preferred Pictures and producer Al Lichtman's company.
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The Morning Telegraph gave a positive review to the film, stating that it was a "pretty good story". The Moving Picture World mirrored this assessment with a bit more detail and referred to the story as being within the realm of reality which makes it funnier. The New York Dramatic Mirror provided the most detailed review of the film and praised the ingenuity of the plot and the acting with the exception of the Jenks' wife. The reviewer also pointing out that Jenks wrote out the telegram too quickly.
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During a trip abroad, Reinheart "made moving picture shorts in English, German, and French." A brief item in a 1932 issue of the trade publication Film Daily reported that she "appeared in several shorts and feature productions for Ufa while in Berlin." Her first appearance in an American film was in The Sky Hawk, produced at the Brooklyn Vitaphone studio (not to be confused with The Sky Hawk, produced in 1929 by Fox Film Corporation). Feature films in which she appeared included The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, Bachelor Flat, and The Iron Sheriff.
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Fifty-Fifty is an American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan whose story was adapted for the screen by Robert Shirley. The Fine Arts Film Company production was made under the aegis of Triangle Film Corporation which released it on October 22, 1916. The leading roles are played by Norma Talmadge, J. W. Johnston, and Marie Chambers.Reviews of Fifty-Fifty in Variety, New York Dramatic Mirror and Moving Picture World at the Norma Talmadge website A print of the film is in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.
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After completion of the film, Daly said in the November 1915 issue of The Moving Picture World that the picture made him think of the advertising slogan used in connection with a certain product - "more than a little better". He also stated that his film "is a distinct advance on my first, An Affair of Three Nations, and if I can continue to improve that way with each picture I shall be well pleased". Daly's next film in the Ashton-Kirk series, The House of Fear was released in 1915 as well.
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The single reel drama, approximately 1000 feet long, was released on August 5, 1910. Curiously, The Moving Picture World makes a reference to aphasia instead of amnesia in advertising the film, "The Friday release (August 5) is a gripping heart-drama, by name The Restoration. It is a curious, a novel thing; in a sense a study in aphasia - one of those weird plots you expect a Thanhouser picture to unfold." The film likely had a wide national release as evidenced by numerous advertisements, including theaters in Maryland, Indiana, and Kansas.
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These shows "were utilized for a variety of amusements including medicine shows, moving picture shows, vaudeville shows, circuses, musicals, concert companies, and any number of one-night stand dramatic troupes."Theatre in a Tent, the Development of a Provincial Entertainment Tent theatre played a critical role in the American entertainment industry. It first grew out of opera houses, which were in almost every major city until the end of the nineteenth century. The opera houses were very poorly ventilated at the time, which did not appeal to the audiences.
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William Joseph Lincoln (1870 – August 18, 1917) was an Australian playwright, theatre manager, film director and screenwriter in the silent era. He produced, directed and/or wrote 23 films between 1911 and 1916. One obituary called him "undoubtedly the pioneer of the Australian picture-producing industry." Another one called him as a pioneer, adding that: > His faith in the possibilities of Australia as a centre of' activity in > moving picture production was unbounded, and for many years past ho had > devoted his energies chiefly to the realisation of this conviction.
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A pilot film had previously been made with Shane Rimmer, but it took almost ten years to get the concept to the screen. In the meantime, Anderson and Burr produced the cult stop-motion animated series Dick Spanner, which enjoyed many showings on the British Channel 4 in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was the final project completed by Anderson Burr. Anderson then joined the Moving Picture Company as a commercials director, and provided special effects direction for the musical comedy Return to the Forbidden Planet.
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The writer of the scenario is unknown, but it was most likely Lloyd Lonergan. He was an experienced newspaperman employed by The New York Evening World while writing scripts for the Thanhouser productions. The plot was likened by Walton of The Moving Picture News to Enoch Arden, but the story differs in several ways. Published by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in 1864, the poem tells of the eponymous character who becomes shipwrecked on a desert island and returns home a decade later to find his wife has remarried and they have a new child.
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Advertisement for The Fisherman's Granddaughter, 1910. The Moving Picture World said that The Fisherman's Granddaughter had a "strongly dramatic quality" and that the film was "clearly photographed and admirably acted". The New York Dramatic Mirror described the film: "A simple story, but well told, with good expression and heart interest, is presented in this picture." A reviewer for Variety stated that the film's story, about a romance between a woman of an unnamed island and a sailor, was "an old and familiar one without any action or especial merit".
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The film consists of a series of cartoon images on fifty frames of a celluloid strip and lasts three seconds at sixteen frames per second. It depicts a young boy in a sailor suit who writes the kanji characters "" (katsudō shashin, or "moving picture"), then turns towards the viewer, removes his hat, and offers a salute. Evidence suggests it was mass-produced to be sold to wealthy owners of home projectors. To Matsumoto, the relatively poor quality and low-tech printing technique indicate it was likely from a smaller film company.
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This is one reason for the use of interlacing – since only every other line is drawn in a single field of broadcast video, the bright newly-drawn lines interlaced with the somewhat dimmed older drawn lines create relatively more even illumination. Second, by persistence of vision, the viewed image persists for a moment on the retina, and is perceived as relatively steady. By the related flicker fusion threshold, these pulsating pixels appear steady. These perceptually steady still images are then pieced together to produce a moving picture, similar to a movie projector.
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In 1904 he left to attend the New York School of Art (now The New School) to study pen and ink. Lindsay remained interested in art for the rest of his life, drawing illustrations for some of his poetry. His art studies also probably led him to appreciate the new art form of silent film. His 1915 book The Art of the Moving Picture is generally considered the first book of film criticism, according to critic Stanley Kauffmann, discussing Lindsay in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.
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MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Visual (formally ISO/IEC 14496-2) is a video compression format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). It belongs to the MPEG-4 ISO/IEC standards. It is a discrete cosine transform (DCT) compression standard, similar to previous standards such as MPEG-1 Part 2 and H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2. Several popular codecs including DivX, Xvid and Nero Digital implement this standard. Note that MPEG-4 Part 10 defines a different format from MPEG-4 Part 2 and should not be confused with it.
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Poster for Secreto de confesión, the first Philippine film made in the Spanish language Salón de Pertierra was the first introduced moving picture on January 1, 1897 in the Philippines. All films were all in Spanish since Philippine cinema was first introduced during the final years of the Spanish era of the country. Antonio Ramos was the first known movie producer. He used the Lumiere Cinematograph when he filmed Panorama de Manila (Manila landscape), Fiesta de Quiapo (Quiapo Fiesta), Puente de España (Bridge of Spain), and Escenas Callejeras (Street scenes).
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In 1900, Redfern travelled to Africa with stops in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and created travelogues from his journeys. He decided to delve into the animated or moving picture business with his headliner, marqueed as 'World Renowned Animated Pictures and Refined Vaudeville Entertainments'. This routine performance was successful enough for him to own and operate a seaside summer show at Westcliffe, with the inviting name of 'Jasper Redfern's Palace by the Sea'. Redfern pursued the local film business until 1910, when he chose to focus his efforts on the optical and medical trades.
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The Actor's Children was released with enthusiasm and positive reviews in trade publications. The Moving Picture World reviews would be favorable and without much criticism, even calling the acting convincing. A more honest review in The New York Dramatic Mirror was written by a reviewer who was pleased with the production, but offered criticism about the production's weaker aspects. The reviewer found there to be too much emphasis on the unimportant parts and a lack of emotion from the actors, and the child actors performance was faulted by repeatedly looking at the camera.
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4:3 (1.:1) (generally read as Four-Three, Four-by-Three, or Four-to-Three) for standard television has been in use since the invention of moving picture cameras and many computer monitors used to employ the same aspect ratio. 4:3 was the aspect ratio used for 35 mm films in the silent era. It is also very close to the 1.375:1 Academy ratio, defined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a standard after the advent of optical sound-on-film.
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A week later, in its August 5 issue, The Moving Picture World highlights the film again with a photograph of Columbia posing with her siblings and her mother, noting that audiences should find the film of "peculiar interest" since "the leading part has been taken by a young Eskimo girl of American birth". Cincinnati-based trade magazine The Billboard judged the "Eskimo love story" to be an "oddity" but "a very well acted little play"."The Way of the Eskimo (Selig)", The Billboard (Cincinnati, Ohio), July 29, 1911, p. 16. Internet Archive.
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Adair was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in about 1892. She worked as a stenographer in that city until, during a party in 1910 to celebrate her eighteenth birthday, she reportedly accepted a dare to perform her character songs on stage. She was quickly engaged by St. Louis theatre manager Dan Fishell, and performed at moving picture theatres and in vaudeville shows in Missouri and nearby states, including Kentucky, Texas, Michigan, and Arkansas. She performed with accompanists Hazel Hickey (until 1914) and Emily or Emma Adelphi (later Mrs Jack Norworth) (from 1916).
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Goldowski first found work in the US as a researcher for the Sciaky Brothers in Chicago, but soon after became a metallurgist and corrosion expert for the Manhattan Project. She joined the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory ("Met Lab") in 1943, where she engineered a non-corroding aluminum coating that could be used in jackets surrounding the uranium fuel in Hanford plutonium production reactors. This coating was critical to the success of plutonium production. Goldowski created a moving picture about the corrosion of metals, for which she received a medal.
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Internet Archive. Retrieved July 29, 2020. The brief outdoor footage showing the woodsmen chopping down a tree was taken at an undetermined site, although the location was likely a short distance north of the Bronx. Although very primitive by modern film-production standards, the simulations presented on screen of a stuffed, articulated eagle flapping its wings while appearing to hold a real child in flight no doubt thrilled some filmgoers in 1908; however, the reviewer at the time for The Moving Picture World found the overall effect unconvincing.
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Alan Hunter at a 2015 Sidewalk Film Festival party held at Sloss Furnaces. From left to right: Erik Jambor, Kelli McCall Franklin, Alan Hunter, Wayne Franklin. Sidewalk incorporated in 1999 as Alabama Moving Image Association with founders Kelli McCall Franklin, Wayne Franklin, and Erik Jambor; the festival debuted as Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in the Theatre District of Birmingham, Alabama. Taking place during the first weekend in May, the first festival venues included the Alabama Theatre, a repurposed bank building, an outdoor screen, and outdoor tents; about 4,000 people attended the weekend.
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The years of studio training made Bernard Durning a master of technique, acquainted with every angle of filmmaking. Even in his directorial debut at Edison Studios he "invented and carried into execution an entirely new idea in the lighting of night scenes in 'Aliens'. Some very fine silhouette effects were the result..." The Moving Picture World, March 9, 1918. Aliens was written by Durning and starred his wife, Shirley Mason, as Kiku San, a Japanese girl. It was released as The Unwritten Code in 1919 and was the last film ever made by Edison Studios.
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The Herald Leader reported: > New school is planned after those used in the larger cities. Henry Clay was supposed to have all of the latest advances. > Perforated ceiling in the music room, good acoustics in the auditorium, > built-in lockers with combination locks, a fire gong on each floor, > ventilating shutters in the doors, double lighting system, double faced > clocks, and a moving picture machine and booth in the auditorium, reported another source. Henry Clay had been said to be one of the finest schools in the South.
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Joly was born in Viomenil, Vosges in 1866. By 1889 he was a gymnastics instructor at the school of Joinville, and was introduced to the nascent moving-picture technology when pioneers Étienne-Jules Marey and Georges Demenÿ (who was also a gymnast) came there to make motion-picture studies. Joly became acquainted with the Edison Kinetoscope when it was publicly introduced in Paris in 1894. In 1895 Joly met Charles Pathé, a Vincennes merchant who sold phonographs, who began importing pirated Kinetoscopes (made by Robert W. Paul in England) in May 1895.
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The First Degree is a silent film from 1923 directed by Edward Sedgwick. The film is a rural melodrama starring Frank Mayo, Sylvia Breamer, and Philo McCullough. A Universal Pictures production, it is one of the Carl Laemmle- endorsed “The Laemmle Nine,” nine films released from Christmas 1922 to February 19, 1923.“Will Push Work on the Laemmle Nine,” Moving Picture World, December 2, 1922: 422. The screenplay by George Randolph Chester is based on the short story “The Summons” by George Pattullo (published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1914).
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Animated portrait photographs with line sheets were marketed for a while, mostly in the 1910s and 1920s. In the US "Magic Moving Picture" postcards with simple 3 phase animation or changing pictures were marketed after 1906. Maurice Bonnett improved barrier grid autostereography in the 1930s with his relièphographie technique and scanning cameras. On April 11, 1898 John Jacobson filed an application for US patent No. 624,043 (granted May 2, 1899) for a Stereograph of an interlaced stereoscopic picture and "a transparent mount for said picture having a corrugated or channeled surface".
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Henri de Toulouse Lautrec's cover of the new edition of "The Motograph Moving Picture Book" (1898) Using screens for photographic printing was suggested by William Fox Talbot as "photographic screens or veils" in an 1852 patent. This resulted in several halftone processes in the next decades. For color photography the use of colored line sheets had been suggested by Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron in 1869. Several halftone printing and color photography processes, including the 1895 Joly colour screen with >0.1 mm RGB lines, inspired the use of line screens for autostereoscopic images.
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In Chicago, film reviewer Charles A. Young, predicted that The Battle of Trafalgar would have strong appeal in foreign markets, especially in Canada. "The sentiment of the Canadian public", he observed, "is that too much Yankee heroism at present is being exhibited in the animated picture theaters in Canada", noting that "Edison's 'The Battle of Trafalgar,' etc., will be of great interest and value to the Dominion of Canada and England."Young, Charles A. (1911). "Among the Chicago Shows", The Moving Picture World, November 11, 1911, p. 461.
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In 1910, Olsen began work for the Moving Picture Agency in London, working variously as a developer, cinematographer, distributor and company representative. After 3 years, he opened his own distribution company in London for the sale of films to Scandinavia. In 1915 he returned to Denmark and renamed the business Overseas Film Trading Company. While spending much of the year traveling to Hollywood, Olsen secured the distribution rights for the films of Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith as well as the received the films at First National and Warner Bros.
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The name "film" originates from the fact that photographic film (also called film stock) has historically been the medium for recording and displaying motion pictures. Many other terms exist for an individual motion-picture, including picture, picture show, moving picture, photoplay, and flick. The most common term in the United States is movie, while in Europe film is preferred. Common terms for the field in general include the big screen, the silver screen, the movies, and cinema; the last of these is commonly used, as an overarching term, in scholarly texts and critical essays.
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Tateh is a talented artist and earns a living cutting out novelty paper silhouettes on the street. He tries working in a factory, where he experiences a successful workers' strike, but becomes disillusioned when he sees it change little about the workers' lives, although in the final chapter he still describes himself as a socialist. He starts making and selling moving picture books to a novelty toy company, becoming a pioneer of animation in the motion picture industry. Tateh becomes wealthy and styles himself "the Baron" in order to move more easily through high society.
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Cardiovascular care is one of the hospital's areas of concentration. Beginning in 1951, the first pediatric cardiac catheterization laboratory in Indiana opened at Riley. After opening the laboratory, the hospital was the first in the nation to carry out percutaneous cardiac catheterization in children. In 1966, the hospital became the first in Indiana to use echocardiography, a test that uses sound waves to create a moving picture of the heart which is more detailed than an x-ray image and involves no exposure to radiation, to detect congenital heart defects.
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The Selwyns owned several theatres in the United States including the Park Square Theatre in Boston; the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio; the Selwyn in Chicago; and the Selwyn, Apollo, and Times Square theatres in New York City.The Julius Cahn-Gus Hill theatrical guide and moving picture directory, 1921 Selwyn also worked in Hollywood, producing and directing eight films between 1929 and 1942. Among these was The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), which Selwyn directed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film starred Helen Hayes, who won an Academy Award for her performance.
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The 2006 festival was held on September 23, the same weekend as the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival. It began with a New Orleans style parade at 1:00 PM and continued with the New Orleans All-Stars, Tommy Stewart, Ray Reach and Friends, Foxxy Fatts & Co, Cleveland Eaton, Rolando Matias & the Afro Rican Ensemble featuring Bobby Matos, Johnny O'Neal, Eric Essix, Dee Lucas, the Birmingham Heritage Band, and Donald Witherspoon as "Billy Ocean." Other activities included a swing-dancing tent, a children's area, and food and gift vendors.
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The single reel drama, approximately 927 feet long, was released on April 23, 1910. Vitagraph announced it as "a sparkling gem in a surrounding of the most brilliant settings." A review in the Moving Picture World called it an "adequate representation of the main theme of Augusta Evans Wilson's novel of the same name". The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film does not list the film in its adaptations of the novel, but it does include the more prominently known Thanhouser version of St. Elmo that was released on March 22, 1910.
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Stanley Crick, who was Pathe Freres manager in Australia, and Herbert Finlay had enjoyed success producing a series of Australian films directed by John Gavin. They decided to establish the Australian Photo-Play Company in June 1911 under the management of Crick with capital of £20,000. (Gavin later claimed it was his idea to form the company."Australian Notes", The Moving Picture World 18 November 1916 p 996 accessed 20 November 2014) It was stated in the initial prospectus the aim of the company was to purchase Crick and Finlay's film manufacturing business.
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The studio had amassed a collection of props for the productions and dressing rooms had been constructed for the actors. The studio had installed new equipment in the laboratories to improve the quality of the films. By 1911, the Thanhouser company was recognized as one of leading Independent film makers, but Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Picture Company (IMP) captured most of the publicity. Two production companies were maintained by the company, the first under Barry O'Neil and the second under Lucius J. Henderson and John Noble, an assistant director to Henderson.
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"At the Moving Picture Ball" is a popular song composed by Joseph H. Santly (né Joseph Harry Santly; 1886–1962) and recorded by many artists during the silent film era. Today the song is best remembered for its unusually topical lyrics, which mention many celebrities of the time. In fact, by 1920, the lyrics of the song had already been changed, since several celebrities mentioned had lost popularity. Judy Garland and Donald O'Connor performed the song on the 1963 TV series, The Judy Garland Show, during a "tribute to vaudeville" medley.
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26, 1914 as part of its regular programme of pictures. Upon viewing the original 6-reel version, Moving Picture World had written in their review, "A six-reel production of the celebrated Cardinal Richelieu, following the lines of the famous play by that name.... The plot is a highly interesting one toward the close, but the action in the first three reels is rather slow and confusing. This would have been much stronger as either a three or four reel production." The film is now considered to be lost.
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Katsudō Shashin Katsudō Shashin consists of a series of cartoon images on fifty frames of a celluloid strip and lasts three seconds at sixteen frames per second. It depicts a young boy in a sailor suit who writes the kanji characters "" (katsudō shashin, "moving picture") from right to left, then turns to the viewer, removes his hat, and bows. Katsudō Shashin is a provisional title for the film, whose actual title is unknown. Unlike in traditional animation, the frames were not produced by photographing the images, but rather were impressed onto film using a stencil.
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28, New York and Chichester, West Sussex, Columbia University Press, Friese-Greene worked on a series of moving picture cameras until early 1891, but although many individuals recount seeing his projected images privately, he did not ever give a successful public projection of moving pictures. In 1890 he developed a camera with Frederick Varley to shoot stereoscopic moving images. The camera ran at a slower frame rate, and although the 3-D arrangement images worked, there are no records of projection. Friese-Greene's experiments with motion pictures were to the detriment of his other business interests and in 1891 he was declared bankrupt.
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39, (in Italian). The scene where Nero is beset by bad conscience, having a vision of the Christians he had sent to martyrdom (shown by a red-toned double exposure shot), had a strong impact on the audience. The reviewer for the Moving Picture World wrote on 6 November 1909 that the film possessed "such a marvellous realism of affect that as we sat and watched this colored part of the film, we seemed, as it were, to hear the cries of the victims".Maria Wyke, Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History, Routledge, New-York, 1997, p. 119.
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An advertisement in the Moberly Monitor-Index The single reel film, approximately long, was released on May 6, 1910. Publicity for the release of this film was handled by Bert Adler and was successful in generating trade interest and promised a better work then Thanhouser's St. Elmo from the previous month. The high expectations for the film were picked up and included in subsequent articles in The Moving Picture World and The New York Dramatic Mirror in advance of its release. Also, the players in the production were credited for their work, something which was rare and unusual at the time.
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Bowers would list this film as being of "patriotic" character instead of listing it simply as a drama or a comedy production. The patriotic element of the film was heavily promoted in advertising and was likely true given the reaction of viewers to the film. One article in The Moving Picture News referred to the film as an example of a problematic use of the United States flag appearing suddenly with the marines at the climax of the plot, all while on foreign soil. The film director is unknown, but it may have been Barry O'Neil or Lucius J. Henderson.
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A reviewer for Photoplay Magazine said that Bennett "plays the wife with much speed and prettiness, though her method of handling a gun would hardly do in France", and noted that Holt "is a handsome hero for a change, and takes kindly to the work. It is a lively production, slightly tinged with suggestiveness at the outset". Edward Weitzel praised Bennett's performance in The Moving Picture World, saying her "part was much stronger than any she has yet played" and also singled out cameraman Edwin Willat's work, saying "scenically the production has many moments of beauty".
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Michelena and Whitney in a alt=Two women, costumed as a Native American and a farmer's wife Contemporary reviews were mixed. Moving Picture World film critic W. Stephen Bush called the film "first-class" despite problems with the plot, cinematography, and the "unbelievably poor" music accompaniment at the Academy of Music. He also remarked on the censorship of the novel's plot, stating that "not even the sternest of moralists can find anything objectionable" in the film. Fox's response was published the following week, in which he praised Bush's review and committed to avoiding "the salacious or the sex drama".
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However, while they support Fitzpatrick against Gompers and the Socialist Party, they were critical of Fitzpatricks continued adherence to the non-partisan labor policy of supporting labor friendly candidates on major party tickets. They also strongly disagreed with his support of a national eight-hours bill, believing that a general strike was the proper avenue of working class power, rather than legislation.Foster pp.83-84 The ITUEL developed a split on the issue of supporting Fitzpatrick, and Labor News, controlled by Dezettel, began to side with the Building Trades, Flat Janitors and Moving Picture Operators faction which was allied to organized crime.
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The Moving Picture World was negative finding that it was not a strong offering because of the plot and the camerawork having resulted in a cloudy image quality in parts of the production. The New York Dramatic Mirror found the concept of the plot to be interesting, but the execution to have been poorly executed. The review found that the production was crude, cheap and unconvincing because the set was bare and lacked the presence of onlookers on the city scenes. Advertisers like the Majestic theater of Wellington, Kansas, would prompt it as a "well told story".
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The plot was reconstructed from the Reel Life synopsis that is included Q. David Bowers Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History Volume 2: Filmography and the synopsis published in Moving Picture World. Two aspects of the plot have been reported in reviews that are not reflected in the article's plot section because neither is in the published synopsizes. The review by The Morning Telegraph states that has both the blind girl and mother wander onto the hospital grounds. The review in The New York Dramatic Mirror states that the father was unconscious in a restaurant and not a hospital.
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Other studio chiefs called the place "Laemmle's Folly", mocking that the property was so far out of town and that Laemmle could film scenery for free anywhere he wanted. Laemmle worried that he had made a huge mistake, though Universal was a success because the public could observe movies being made. In the meantime, Laemmle added a zoo to the Oak Crest Ranch (Moving Picture World ad 1913) - which was open to visitors to generate free advertising by word of mouth. The Rotarians of Los Angeles were one of the groups permitted to visit the Oak Crest - Universal City.
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The other large area of Douglass’ technical innovations was motion pictures. Inspired by an Ives Kromskop that he bought in 1898, he began experimenting with color in 1912, and in 1916 patented a process for filming in “natural color” (as opposed to hand-tinting), one of the forerunners of Technicolor. He wrote in his autobiography: : My first moving picture camera made twin negatives, one of red value and the other of green. These two negatives were printed on a double coated positive, on one side of which the tone image was green and on the other side red.
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The Moving Picture World reviewed the film as being a low comedy that featured "somewhat disgusting" dental humor with the extraction of teeth with pincers and ice tongs. A more direct review in response to the film's comedic antics came from a letter to the editor of The Motion Picture Story Magazine which appealed the vulgar antics in the film as going to alienate members the audience and risk their continued patronage. The film had a wide national release that was shown in theaters throughout the United States. Locations included Chicago, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia, Oklahoma, Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Kansas.
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In 1926 it was announced Longford would serve on the board of the film company Phillips Film Productions Ltd, but little seems to have come of this. He gave evidence at the 1928 Royal Commission on the Moving Picture Industry in Australia where he urged the introduction of a quota for local movies and complained about the influence of the Combine of Australasian Films and Union Theatres on local production. Longford appeared in bankruptcy court in 1929 but managed to tour Europe the following year, spending 18 months touring various filmmaking facilities. "Naturally the talkies have revolutionised everything", he said.
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Pierre Ernest Jules Brulatour (April 7, 1870 – October 26, 1946) was a pioneering executive figure in American silent cinema. Beginning as American distribution representative for Lumiere Brothers raw film stock in 1907, he joined producer Carl Laemmle in forming the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company in 1909, effectively weakening the stronghold of the Motion Picture Patents Company, headed by Thomas Edison, a large trust company that was then monopolizing the American film industry through contracts with hand- picked, established studios. By 1911 Brulatour was president of the Sales Company.New York Times, October 27, 1946; Moving Picture World, September 25, 1909, p.
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The books were expensive to make: they were printed on letterpress, then hand-coloured in "pochoir" stencil method, and most likely printed in limited editions.University of Virginia Retrieved January 24, 2013. Nevertheless, the firm was the first to bring to the mass market moving picture books, having up to 50 titles of moveable books in print by the latter half of the 19th century, making them leading publisher of these books. Children found the moveable books entertaining and were induced to play with the clever mechanisms, Various innovative types of mechanisms were designed in Dean's workshops.
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Each episode in the first series had a male protagonist, so Brooker deliberately wrote female protagonists for series 2 episodes "Be Right Back" and "White Bear". A trailer for the second series was made by Moving Picture Company and featured three interspersed storylines: "a dream sequence, the repetitive factory setting and the huge dust cloud that sweeps through the street at the ad's climactic end." Aired from 22 January 2013, the advertisement was shown on Channel 4 and in cinemas. "Be Right Back" stars Hayley Atwell as Martha and Domhnall Gleeson as Ash, both in human and robot form.
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Dulull began his career as a CGI artist working on video games. In 2003 he started working for the Moving Picture Company, working his way up from compositor to VFX Supervisor on films such as 10,000 BC, Prince of Persia, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Dark Knight. Over the years he worked on numerous high-profile feature films, commercials, music promos and broadcast series such as Poldark and The Aliens on Channel 4. He has been nominated for several Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards for shows such as Planet Dinosaur (BBC) and America: The Story of Us (Discovery).
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Jon C. Mirsalis's website cites a review in Moving Picture World which states, "There is considerable strength in the offering, but it has some bad faults. One of these is melodramatic and insincere acting. The photography is good and in spite of numerous absurdities the picture has strong moments." Descriptive ads for the film were often informative; an ad by the Crystal Theater indicates that August wrote and acted in the film, but also did not shy away from film's depiction of charity organizations and instead promoted the film's defining message as "Charity Organizations Pay Dearly for Incompetency".
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Advertisements would state the films artistry or that it was one of the best three-reel films released. Lombardi cites a single review from The Moving Picture World in his text and suggests that other reviews may have been more tepid, but the result was that Dwan would not produce any more films of "such experimental nature" at Universal. The film is now considered to be lost. It is unknown when the film was lost, but if it was in Universal's vaults it would have been deliberately destroyed along with the remaining copies of Universal's silent era films in 1948.
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Beginning in the late 1980s, a standardization body, the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), developed standards for coding of both audio and video. Subband coding resides at the heart of the popular MP3 format (more properly known as MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), for example. Sub-band coding is used in the G.722 codec which uses sub-band adaptive differential pulse code modulation (SB-ADPCM) within a bit rate of 64 kbit/s. In the SB-ADPCM technique, the frequency band is split into two sub-bands (higher and lower) and the signals in each sub-band are encoded using ADPCM.
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Patricia Cook, "Albany Ward and the development of cinema exhibition in England", Film History, 2008 He then joined the Velograph Company, managed by Adolphe Langfier, as a projectionist, and began touring the country with films of such events as Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Denis Gifford, "Albany Ward, British exhibitor", Who's Who of Victorian Cinema. Retrieved 10 November 2013 In 1898 he formed his own company and toured Wales and the south-west of England, becoming the first moving picture exhibitor in parts of the country. He introduced offstage sound effects, such as imitations of train and battle noises, to accompany the film showings.
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In 1937, Chris Madsen, Tilghman's fellow marshal, commented on the yarn as follows: "I like Bill Tilghman ... but Bill, when he got into the moving picture business, had to make a record whether it was right or not ... Bill was a little inclined to be romantic." Slowly but surely, the Doolin gang was all but exterminated. Chris Madsen's posse killed "Tulsa Jack" Blake on April 4, 1895; George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb and Charley Pierce were killed on May 2. Then on September 6, 1895, Tilghman and two other deputy marshals tracked down William F. "Little Bill" Raidler.
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Returning to the U.S. in the mid-1920s, he began appearing with several orchestras. Some time after these experiences, he returned once more to Berlin, working as a composer in the German film industry, and as an arranger with a German record label. While touring Europe with his band some years before the war, he was appointed musical director of the two largest moving picture firms in Europe, Tobis and UFA. In 1936, René came back to the U.S. and became musical director and chief arranger for RCA Victor in Germany, forming his own orchestra in 1941.
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The film was rejected by most major film festivals, but played at other festivals with mixed results. It screened at Cinequest, South by Southwest, San Diego Film Festival, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Worldfest Houston and the Temecula Valley Film Festival, where it won Best Feature. A firestorm of internet debate soon erupted over the film's lowbrow treatment of independent film classics and, as a result, the movie suffered a backlash from die-hard independent film fans, many of which considered the film to be blasphemous toward the genre. Chris Parry, entertainment journalist and film critic for efilmcritic.
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White in an advertisement for The Iron Claw in The Moving Picture World, 1916 She began performing with the Diemer Theater Company while in her second year of high school. Against the wishes of her father, White dropped out of school, and in 1907, she went on the road with the Trousedale Stock Company, working evening shows while keeping her day job to help support her family. She was soon able to join the company full-time, touring through the American Midwest. White played minor roles for several years, when she was spotted by the Powers Film Company in New York.
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Medium(s) used: Video, color, sound; Runtime: approximately 22 minutes One of Villanueva's initial public works, Cuadro móvil or "Moving Picture", was a collaboration with her mother, Mary Brandt, and performed in Villanueva's hometown of Caracas at the Sala Mendoza. A painting ominously moves through various parts of an art gallery, crawling through various display rooms and caressing paintings while a foreboding melody discordantly plays in the background. This work contains horror elements, such as the disturbing, humanoid painting and unsettling background music. Many of Brandt's paintings spread through the gallery rooms are abstract collages of color.
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The one reel drama, approximately 935 feet, was released on June 3, 1910. The film was originally set to be the first release distributed through the Motion Picture Distribution and Sales Company, but a dispute with Carl Laemmle pushed the date back more than a month. The film was reviewed positively in The Moving Picture World for the real snow and weather and for being a high-class drama. A shorter modern synopsis from the incomplete surviving print from the Library of Congress indicates that the film is lost after the halfbreed falls from the precipice.
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The documentary also screened at major film festivals across the world including the AFI Fest and Sheffield Doc/Fest. A screening at the Tower Theater in Salt Lake City included appearances from much of the cast. The film won Best Feature Documentary (as voted by the official jury), as well as the Audience Choice for Best Documentary Feature at the 11th annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in September 2009. It was released in spring 2010 and distributed by Area 23 A. ABC's Nightline ran a segment on Troll 2 and Best Worst Movie in May 2010, including interviews with Hardy and Stephenson.
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Separate buildings are > maintained for the general offices, scenario and publicity departments and > for other activities allied with the manufacture of motion pictures. The > studios comprise a city within a city, giving employment to more than 1,000 > people.from an article written by G. P. von Harleman, originally appeared in > the March 10, 1917, issue of The Moving Picture World online text Another feature of the Keystone Studios was the "cyclorama", where a background scene was painted onto a huge rotating cylinder that rotated while actors ran in place, creating the illusion of moving across the landscape.
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The Moving Picture News review was positive and stated, "Love knows neither creed nor class, and when the unsuccessful playwright falls in love with the daughter of a woman whom he had taken a charitable interest in at the time of her death, the fact is not to be wondered at. He plays a noble part and is rewarded as the film reaches it[s] final scene. The story is rich in feeling and sympathy, the settings are touching and appropriate and the photography is pretty good." Another review in the publication agreed that the film was another high-quality Thanhouser release.
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The single reel drama, approximately 1,000 feet long, was released on July 1, 1910. An article in The Moving Picture World gave a positive review, but recognized that the tensions amongst the Union and Confederate states of the Civil War could pose a concern for viewers and stated that no offense will come from the showing of this patriotic picture. The reviewer said that it would please American audiences and foreign ones as well. This possibility of an audience taking offense over the content of the picture was a reasonable one because the film was within living memory.
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The film received mainly positive reviews from critics. The Morning Telegraph found the story to have a novel way of advertising a hotel, but noted the error in the photographer's attempt and result to photograph the mermaid. The Moving Picture World found the film to be an effective production, but spared few details and a short summary of the film. The most critical review came from The New York Dramatic Mirror which was neutral in its assessment of the production, but it provided a list of faults with the production that focused on continuity issues with action.
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Next, Méliès made the féeries Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants, based on the novel by Jonathan Swift, and Robinson Crusoe, based on the novel by Daniel Defoe. In 1903 Méliès made The Kingdom of the Fairies, which film critic Jean Mitry has called "undoubtedly Méliès's best film, and in any case the most intensely poetic". The Los Angeles Times called the film "an interesting exhibit of the limits to which moving picture making can be carried in the hands of experts equipped with time and money to carry out their devices".Musser, p. 299.
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Court Martial (1928) is a silent film directed by George B. Seitz, starring Jack Holt, Betty Compson as Belle Starr, and Frank Austin as Abraham Lincoln, and released by Columbia Pictures. A foreign release print of the film survives and is preserved in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was shown at the annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival in 2014.Cinecon 50 Film Schedule Publicity for the film stated that several sequences were shot in early Technicolor,Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World, July 14, 1928, p14 but these do not appear to have survived.
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Blasco, who cast her in the theatrical comedy Excuse Me, gave Unsell two years of on stage experience that would later help in her better understanding of acting and screen writing. It was not until 1913 that Unsell's hard work in screen writing paid off. That year Moving Picture World announced that she would sell several film scenarios to the Pathe Freres, and the Kalem Company, who decided to produce Unsell's scenario, The Pawnbroker’s Daughter. Later that year Unsell signed a contract with Cecil DeMille and Jesse Lasky for what was then the Famous Players Film Company.
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A Night in New Arabia is a lost 1917 four-reel silent film, directed by Thomas Mills. It is based on the short story "A Night in New Arabia" from Strictly Business, a collection of 23 short stories by O. Henry published in 1910. The movie critic for the Moving Picture World, Margaret I. MacDonald, says that it "...is one of the best of the O. Henry four-part features". The picture was part of the O. Henry Stories series of films produced by Vitagraph Studios/Broadway Star Features and distributed by the General Film Company.
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MPEG-3 is the designation for a group of audio and video coding standards agreed upon by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) designed to handle HDTV signals at 1080p in the range of 20 to 40 megabits per second. MPEG-3 was launched as an effort to address the need of an HDTV standard while work on MPEG-2 was underway, but it was soon discovered that MPEG-2, at high data rates, would accommodate HDTV. Thus, in 1992 HDTV was included as a separate profile in the MPEG-2 standard and MPEG-3 was rolled into MPEG-2.
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The Tornado is a 1917 American short film directed and co-written by John Ford, who at that time was credited as "Jack Ford". Filmed in California, the two-reel Western starred Ford as well, with a supporting cast that included Jean Hathaway, John Duffy, Peter Gerald, Elsie Thornton, and Duke Worne. This short is generally cited by film historians to be Ford's debut film as a director, although he had served as an assistant director in some earlier productions directed by his elder brother Francis Ford."'THE TRAIL OF HATE'", The Moving Picture Weekly, April 21, 1917, p. 29.
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A review in Moving Picture World from January 1922, said that Ingraham "has given the screen an entertaining production". The review gave positive reviews for the acting, noting that it "goes a long way toward lending plausibility to a number of events which are somewhat amazing, but which, nevertheless, are not too far fetched to seem possible". A review in The Film Daily from 1922, said the story was "built up with much detail and some amusing comedy...but lacks plot and drama". The review was positive about the direction of Ingraham, stating that he "keeps things moving and handles players well".
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W. Symons received British Patent No. 5,759 on March 14, 1896 for a technique that was used about two years later for the oldest known publication that used a line-sheet to create the illusion of motion in pictures. The Motograph Moving Picture Book was published in London at the start of 1898 by Bliss, Sands & Co. It came with a "transparency" with black stripes to add the illusion of motion to the pictures in the book (13 in the original black and white edition and 23 in the later color edition). The illustrations were credited to "F.J. Vernay, Yorick, &c.;".
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Victor started his career in television and film working for the Soho post production company The Moving Picture Company. He worked on several high-profile films such as Harry Potter, Narnia, G.I. Joe, James Bond's Skyfall as well as Ridley Scott's Prometheus. He worked both in MPC's UK and Canadian branches supporting their vast visual effects team. In late 2011 he, along with acclaimed writer Baby Isako, created the hit online web drama Venus Vs Mars, which went on to get over a million views online and receive several awards, including the Screen Nation Digital award for Best Web Series.
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The dog rehearses his parts and goes through them just like a regular actor and never grumbles or tries to sass back." In a feature on Shep, The Chicago News of 23 December 1914 said: Shep died after a short illness in November 1914. The New York Star reported the death, and said, "There was much sorrow expressed last week at the death of Shep, the Thanhouser dog, who had created a unique part for himself in moving picture work. For Shep was a dramatic actor and could register sorrow or joy with the ease of a great artist.
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A movie poster for The Glory of Yolanda (1917) crediting Maibelle Heikes Justice under title Justice was credited as a writer on over 40 silent films between 1913 and 1925, most of them shorts. Among her notable films was The Post-Impressionists (1913; Hardee Kirkland, dir.), a comedy based on her visit to the Armory Show that year.Eileen Bowser, The Transformation of Cinema, 1907-1915, Volume 2, Part 2 (University of California Press 1994): 268. The Song in the Dark (1914) was about a blind canary and her blind owner."Miss Justice in Wider Field" The Moving Picture World (June 24, 1916): 2226.
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MPEG-H 3D Audio, specified as ISO/IEC 23008-3 (MPEG-H Part 3), is an audio coding standard developed by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) to support coding audio as audio channels, audio objects, or higher order ambisonics (HOA). MPEG-H 3D Audio can support up to 64 loudspeaker channels and 128 codec core channels. Objects may be used alone or in combination with channels or HOA components. The use of audio objects allows for interactivity or personalization of a program by adjusting the gain or position of the objects during rendering in the MPEG-H decoder.
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As an independent filmmaker, Kirkland has written, directed, and produced award-winning short films which have been shown at film festivals around the world and screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. During a 5-year period, Kirkland participated in 25 festivals screening his films: "A Letter from Home," "The Moving Picture Co. 1914," "The Audition," and "Bud's Odyssey." Kirkland is an accomplished still photographer whose images have been published in the US and People magazines. He created photo essays on the behind-the-scenes making of The Simpsons, and A Visit with Ollie about legendary Disney animator Ollie Johnston.
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Arabian Love was made to profit on the success of The Sheik (1921), a film which romanticizes sheiks and Latin lovers.McLaren, A., Sexual Blackmail: a Modern History. p. 161 Most films John Gilbert made at Fox Film Corporation flopped, but Arabian Love became a great success. Gilbert was praised for his portrayal of a sheik, but the actor himself loathed it and made sure he later would not appear again in that sort of character. Barbara La Marr was praised by the critics too, with the film magazine Moving Picture World stating that "the forlorn lovesickness of the sheik’s daughter [is] unusually effective".
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H.262 or MPEG-2 Part 2 (formally known as ITU-T Recommendation H.262 and ISO/IEC 13818-2, also known as MPEG-2 Video) is a video coding format standardised and jointly maintained by ITU-T Study Group 16 Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and developed with the involvement of many companies. It is the second part of the ISO/IEC MPEG-2 standard. The ITU-T Recommendation H.262 and ISO/IEC 13818-2 documents are identical. The standard is available for a fee from the ITU-T and ISO.
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Following its premiere at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in 2016, Rick Harmon of Montgomery Advertiser wrote "It's a fascinating documentary...it leaves viewers hungering for more..." According to Eric Ginsburg of Triad City Beat First Lady of the Revolution "offers a unique perspective on a conflict that’s often overlooked." First Lady of the Revolution was the winner of the Audience Choice Award at Fairhope Film Festival and the Hoka Award for Best Documentary Feature at Oxford International Film Festival. The film also won three TIVA-DC awards, an IndieFEST Award of Excellence and a Spotlight Award.
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Built in the southwest corner of the downtown square, she was the flagship of a chain of vaudeville and moving picture theaters constructed to tap into the wealth generated by agriculture and mining in Southern Illinois. The Orpheum Theatre sat over 900, and was ornately decorated in a mix of Renaissance and Neoclassical styles, complete with gold leaf, elaborate plasterwork, and a multicolored terra-cotta facade. The Orpheum was quite successful until the advent of television. Decreasing profits forced the Orpheum to exclusively be a motion picture theater in the mid-1950s and to close in 1971.
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To research her third novel, Her Elephant Man: A Story of the Sawdust Ring, Bell traveled for six weeks with Ringling Brothers Circus. She sold the film rights to the novel to the Fox Film Corporation. In December 1919, the Exhibitors Herald announced that the film would be made starring new Fox star Shirley Mason. Her Elephant Man was released in 1920, followed in the same year by Love's Harvest, adapted from Bell's 1915 novel His Harvest, and also starring Shirley Mason. In December, 1920, Moving Picture World announced that Mason was beginning production on her third Bell adaptation, Wing Toy.
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First National Pictures had announced in a July 1925 advertisement in The Moving Picture World that they would adapt the novel, as well as a Bell short story titled "The Man She Bought" set to star Constance Talmadge. The latter film was set to go into production on February 13, 1925, directed by Sidney Franklin, and be released on November 29, 1925. Subsequent information about these projects is lacking. Variety reported that Bell had instructed her lawyers to sue Famous Players-Lasky in October 1925, asserting that their film The Pony Express used her story without the rights.
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The only credit in the production is that of Marie Eline in an unknown role. A review of the film in The Moving Picture World would state the representation of the standard theatrical company was extremely good. This was not by chance, for many key persons at the Thanhouser company, including Edwin Thanhouser himself, had experience on the stage. Edwin Thanhouser knew the stage represented a great pool of acting talent, but many actors were regular citizenry, yet anonymity was the rule until towards 1912 and so on until the "star system" would come to force around 1914.
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The film's visual effects were provided by the Moving Picture Company (MPC), Framestore, Image Engine, Rodeo FX, and Instinctual VFX. Much of the visual effects were provided by the same team behind The Jungle Book, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and The Lion King. Letterman compared the visual effects to the character of Rocket Raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy: "They're technically, some of the most high-end visual effects in the world... It's completely photo-realistic, like they are alive and in the movie." Additional audio recording of a fight between Detective Pikachu and Charizard was recorded during the 2018 Pokémon World Championships.
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Advertisement in Moving Picture World, August 21, 1915 In August 1914—a full year before the film's release—Lubin was already promoting the completed photoplay in trade publications. That prolonged delay in its release was due to several reasons, one being scheduling adjustments linked to Lubin's new distribution partnership with three other film studios: Vitagraph, Selig, and Essanay."V-L-S-E Aims At World-Wide Distribution", Motion Picture News, April 24, 1915, pp. 37-38. Internet Archive. Retrieved April 15, 2020 Under the incorporated title "V-L-S-E", the companies by early 1915 were coordinating the marketing and release dates of their films.
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The Thanhouser Company released Adrift on February 3, 1911. The film was advertised as being of a moral picture and targeted towards the American churchgoer as an example of a film that would change the views of the demographic towards film productions in general. The Thanhouser advertisement in the Moving Picture News said "[Adrift] is a useful film with a big, simple moral that would do much to reconcile the Church to the Motion Picture — if the former knew that this sort of film was so much in evidence." It saw a wide release across the United States, with showings in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and New Hampshire.
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MPEG-4 Part 3 or MPEG-4 Audio (formally ISO/IEC 14496-3) is the third part of the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 international standard developed by Moving Picture Experts Group. It specifies audio coding methods. The first version of ISO/IEC 14496-3 was published in 1999. The MPEG-4 Part 3 consists of a variety of audio coding technologies – from lossy speech coding (HVXC, CELP), general audio coding (AAC, TwinVQ, BSAC), lossless audio compression (MPEG-4 SLS, Audio Lossless Coding, MPEG-4 DST), a Text-To-Speech Interface (TTSI), Structured Audio (using SAOL, SASL, MIDI) and many additional audio synthesis and coding techniques.
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In an interview with Forbes, Moner stated that she learned Quechua language for the character. She said that the film would "take audiences to Machu Picchu" to "explore the Incan culture," and commented that "Dora is very cultured and she knows everything about everything," and that she "doesn't have a defined ethnicity." Filming began on August 6, 2018, on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, and concluded on December 7, 2018. The visual effects are provided by Mill Film, Moving Picture Company and Cheap Shot VFX, supervised by Lindy De Quattro, Andy Brown and Richard Little with visualization services provided by Proof and 2D animation provided by Blink Industries.
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When the film was projected it gave the natural colors on the screen....The first showing of any pictures taken with this camera was on May 15, 1917. The April 15, 1918 issue of The Talking Machine World described “Mr. Douglas' device” as “an inexpensive attachment that may be affixed to any motion picture camera and which permits of the production of a film containing a series of images so colored as to give, when projected, a moving picture in natural colors, without the use of the rotary colored shutter usually required.” In 1918 Douglass produced Cupid Angling, which may be the first American feature- length color film.
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From the January 1917 issue of The Moving Picture World: > Sheriff Crane's wife and child are preparing for a little journey with their > wagon and team. On arriving at the store, the wife, on attempting to get > out, stumbles and startles the horses, which causes them to run away, the > child hanging on to the wagon. This is seen by Harry, who gives chase, > captures the runaway horses, and returns the child, unhurt, to the mother, > she returns home to tell her husband of the bravery of the stranger. Harry > stops at the saloon kept by Vesta, which is patronized by rough Bill and his > gang.
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Thunderbolt is a 1910 film in the genre of "outlaw" films at the time that tended to glorify the life of the outlaw "Bushrangers" that roamed the Australian outback in pre-commonwealth days. Shortly after this movie was made, the government of New South Wales banned the manufacture of this type of film on the basis that they were promoting crime. It was the directorial debut of John Gavin who later claimed it was the first "four-reel movie" made in Australia."Australian Notes", The Moving Picture World 18 November 1916 p 996 accessed 20 November 2014 It has also been called the first film made in New South Wales.
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Scott and her husband moved to Washington, D.C, where she illustrated books such as The Santa Claus Book and Happy Birthday. She also continued working with Disney through freelance jobs such as illustrating the Big Golden Book edition of Disney's Cinderella. Her work caught the attention of past and current Disney employees, including Jonas Rivera, producer of Up, who commented, “I’ve always loved the Retta Scott Cinderella because it doesn’t look like the movie, but somehow it feels like the movie.” Retta and her husband divorced in 1978, and she remained an active illustrator until she was again hired as an animator in 1982 for the Luckey- Zamora Moving Picture Company.
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Visual effects on the film were supervised by visual effects supervisor Jim Rygiel, best known for his work on The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. Rygiel has stated that the effects are in the spirit of the original series, with the blessing of Toho, although the monster would be "more dynamic than a guy in a big rubber suit." Visual and special effects companies working on the picture include the Moving Picture Company (MPC), Double Negative, Weta Digital, Amalgamated Dynamics, ComputerCafe/CafeFX, Lidar VFX, Scanline VFX, Stereo D and The Third Floor. Production of the movie was completed in the last week of March 2014.
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The War Bonnet (1914) After replying in 1909 to a Bison Motion Pictures newspaper ad, which called for "exotic-looking girls" to play "Indian maidens", she soon became famous as "Princess Mona Darkfeather", noted for leaping onto her pinto pony, "Comanche", and galloping away bareback. Darkfeather was a noted moving picture artist who regularly starred in roles of Indian and Western dramas. Although she was mostly of European and Chilean descent, Darkfeather's early publicity claimed she was a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian. She said she was an Indian Princess and had been made a blood member of the Blackfoot Nation and given the title of princess by a "Chief Big Thunder".
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Momand spent his childhood in New York City, where he attended the Trinity School.Arthur R. Momand, at Lambiek; published November 20, 2016; retrieved March 26, 2019 In 1905'Keeping Up With Joneses' Keeps Pop Momand Busy, in the Hamilton Daily News; published October 7, 1921; at archived at Stripper's Guide; retrieved March 26, 2019 or 1907, Harry Grant Dart hired Momand as a staff artist for the New York World, where he produced a variety of comic strips including Mr. I. N. Dutch. He also worked at the Evening Telegram, where he created the comic strip Pazaza.Arthur Momand's Cartoons, in The Moving Picture World, September 11, 1915, p.
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The film has received positive reviews from The Hollywood Reporter calling it 'a haunting study of depravity',Rechtshaffen, Michael "'Dead Hands Dig Deep': Slamdance Review" The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved 2017-07-08 Indiewire,Jagernauth, Kevin "Slamdance Review: Documentary ‘Dead Hands Dig Deep’ Tells The Haunting Tale Of A Heavy Metal Frontman" Retrieved 2017-07-08 and Roger Ebert. Tallerico, Brian "BEYOND THE HORIZON: SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2016 HIGHLIGHTS" Roger Ebert Retrieved 2017-07-11 The film has also screened at several film festivals including Slamdance Film Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival and Sydney Underground FIlm Festival.
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The venture ultimately failed and the City of New York sued Frederick Kalmbach, the company treasurer, for unpaid taxes on an assessment of $3,000. Kalmbach said that the Gnome Motion Picture Company was no longer conducting business when the assessment was made and the case was dismissed by the judge in 1918. The last record of the Gnome Motion Picture Company in trade publications, in both announcements and advertisements, comes from a January 14 issue of Moving Picture World which announces all three of the films would be delayed for a "few days". The American Film Institute still identifies all three films as having been released in January 1911 by Gnome.
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The album was released on compact disc in 1984 by Mercury Records. Initial pressings were missing the first beat of "Tom Sawyer" by mistake but were corrected in subsequent releases. In 1997, Mercury Records released a digitally remastered version. The disc tray has a logo of three fingerprints with "The Rush Remasters" printed, a feature of all remastered albums from Moving Pictures through A Show of Hands, originally found on the cover of Retrospective II. The remaster restores all of the original artwork and lyrics found on the vinyl release and includes the moving picture of Peart which was missing on the original CD issue.
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There is the usual heart interest twist and the happy ending." Moving Picture World said, "So far as the plot interest is concerned it is considerably drawn out and moves forward rather slowly. More emphasis has been placed on the comedy but it is principally on the characterization of George Sidney that the audience appeal depends, and he certainly gives an excellent performance... This simple little story is rich in human interest and emotional appeal and George Sidney gives a performance that alternately plays upon the emotions and keeps the spectator in smiles." Variety wrote, "The Auctioneer has enough in its favor to make it a worthwhile major house booking.
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In November 2016, Mach1 partnered with Secret Location, and Moving Picture Company to power The New York Times VR app for Google Daydream. Mach1 provided audio for Ridley Scott and David Karlak's Alien: Covenant In Utero VR experience for Oculus Rift and Samsung VR, which served as a teaser for the 2017 film Alien: Covenant. As of May 2017, Mach1 technology is also supported by and integrated in the Samsung VR platform v1.70.6. In 2017, Dražen and Jacqueline Bošnjak were included in Advertising Age's Creativity 50 list of the year's most influential creative figures for Mach1's contributions to the field of spatial audio.
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She performed in the feature-length production The Seven Sisters (1915), directed by Sidney Olcott, and she reprised a Broadway role, starring in the first feature-length film version of Snow White (1916). Clark was directed in this by J. Searle Dawley, as well as in a number of films, notably when she played the characters of both "Little Eva St. Clair" and "Topsy" in the feature Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918). Promotion in Moving Picture World, 1919 Clark starred in Come Out of the Kitchen (1919), which was filmed in Pass Christian, Mississippi, at Ossian Hall. The same year, she enrolled as a yeowoman in the naval reserves.
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The story line was said to revolve around a shah who is dethroned by his jealous subordinate, who in turn uses his new power to torture young women who do not amuse him. Towards the end, the sadistic ruler runs into the most beautiful one of all, and the exiled shah returns just in time to save the young woman from his nemesis. According to the Moving Picture World, the costuming was ornate and elaborately done, the staging was complicated, and the mise-en-scène evoked an "atmosphere of experience in the Far East". Owen had done extensive traveling, and visited countries such as India, Burma, Sri Lanka, China and Japan.
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In 1910, Powers left Buffalo for New York City, where he founded the Powers Moving Picture Company, also frequently billed in advertisements and credited in his films as "Powers Picture Plays". Early examples of his studio's releases include The Woman Hater (1910) with Violet Heming, Pearl White, and Stuart Holmes; the comedy Lost in a Hotel (1911); the children's fantasy film An Old-Time Nightmare (1911); and the Western Red Star's Honor (1911). In 1912, Powers' company merged with Carl Laemmle's Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP) film company and others to create what eventually would become Universal Pictures. He served as treasurer of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company.
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During 1992 the nuclear power station Forsmark experienced cracks in their cooling part of the reactor and Rhodin was hired to develop tools based on mathlab databases to track fluid flows through the reactors in order to determinate the source of the cracks. By the beginning of 1993, he was running the first Animation studio and developing custom tools for 3D software. During 1994 and 1995 Rhodin was teaching computer graphics as a certified trainer by Alias Wavefront in Toronto, Canada. In early 1997 Rhodin worked for a short period of time for The Moving Picture company in London writing custom shaders and animation tools for CGI projects.
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The single reel drama, approximately 1000 feet long, was released on July 12, 1910. The film minor praise from The Morning Telegraph for an interesting story and plot and another review in The Moving Picture World liked the novelty of the film's premise. Though The New York Dramatic Mirror gives the most detailed review because it recognizes that the film is not as appealing as other Thanhouser films and recognizes that an obvious error in the production when Marie Eline picks up a seemingly weightless bag of gold. The film had a wide release in the United States with known advertisements appearing in Pennsylvania, Kansas, and Indiana.
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The Bovill Opera House in Bovill, Latah County, Idaho is an opera house believed to have been built in the first decade of the 20th century. It is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (26 pages, including 6 photos from 2009) According to the National Park Service: > Believed to have been built in the first decade of the 20th century, the > Bovill Opera House served for five decades as the entertainment and social > center for the town of Bovill and its surrounding communities. Although used > primarily as a “moving picture hall,” the Bovill Opera House hosted dances, > performances, as well as public hearings and gatherings.
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The music video for "Lemon", directed by Mark Neale, was filmed in black and white with a grid-like background as a tribute to Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge was a photographer who was the first person to successfully capture fast motion on film, using his device, coincidentally named the Zoopraxiscope, a reference to the lyrics ("A man makes a picture – a moving picture/Through light projected he can see himself up close"). The video primarily features a sequence of clips of the band members playing their instruments and performing a series of distinct actions, with captions for each one (e.g. "man walking up incline", "man running", "man playing pool").
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He also said he attempted using experimental celluloid, made with the help of Alexander Parkes. In 1889, Friese-Greene took out a patent for a moving picture camera that was capable of taking up to ten photographs per second. Another model, built-in 1890, used rolls of the new Eastman celluloid film, which he had perforated. A full report on the patented camera was published in the British Photographic News on February 28, 1890.Braun, Marta, (1992) Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), p. 190, Chicago: University of Chicago Press ; Robinson, David, (1997) From Peepshow to Palace: The Birth of American Film, p.
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Top40 charts - Oklahoma City Bands, Wondernaut And Less Love, Collaborate To Deliver Rock Music's Next Big Failure Retrieved - 03 December 2016 In 2016, Less Love recorded the single Horse Race with Grammy Award winning music producer Michael Trepagnier (Coldplay) and engineer Kevin Lively (Rage Against the Machine). The single won a Global Music Awards and was nominated at Independent Music Awards. The music video was also voted Best Music Video by The Hollywood International Moving Picture Film Festival and won two awards at the KSCR Music Video Awards.The 2016 Radio KSCR Music Video Awards Retrieved - 3 December 2016 Horse Race was originally written and recorded by the band Colourmusic.
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MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data. It was introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11) under the formal standard ISO/IEC 14496 – Coding of audio-visual objects. Uses of MPEG-4 include compression of AV data for web (streaming media) and CD distribution, voice (telephone, videophone) and broadcast television applications. The MPEG-4 standard was developed by a group led by Touradj Ebrahimi (later the JPEG president) and Fernando Pereira.
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Limbus, a short film in which she participated as a producer and casting associate, was nominated for Best Supernatural Film at the Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival. The same year, her short film Mia was awarded Best Thriller in the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. In 2017, the short film Tito, Peace of Heaven, produced that same year and co-directed with Joel Seidl, was awarded the best drama short film at the Hollywood International Moving Picture Film Festival. At the same time, When Will I Love received an award for Best Experimental Short Drama Recorded with iPhone at the Los Angeles International Film Festival.
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Gallo did not try to turn the opera into a "moving picture", rather this was a filmed stage production, with stage sets, framed by the proscenium arch. During the war years of 1943 and 1944, Gallo produced a full season of opera in Chicago, which had lacked a resident opera company for some years, under the name Chicago Opera Company, using both his San Carlo company and visiting artists. Upon Peroni's death in 1944, Nicola Rescigno assumed the role of music director. He was succeeded in 1947 by Carlo Moresco who served as the company's music director until its demise roughly ten years later.
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In 1992, the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), released The MPEG-1 file standard, designed to produce reasonable sound from a digital file using minimal storage. The lossy compression scheme MPEG-1 Layer-3, popularly known as MP3, later revolutionized the digital music domain. In 1998, Final Scratch debuted at the BE Developer Conference, marking the first digital DJ system to give DJs control of MP3 files through special time-coded vinyl records or CDs. While it would take some time for this novel concept to catch on with the "die hard" vinyl-oriented DJs, it was the first step in the new digital DJ revolution.
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Review of She - The Moving Picture World (Oct-Dec 1911) After journeying for "twice twelve moons" they land with their infant son on the East coast of Africa at a point called the Negro's Head. Here lives "She Who Must Be Obeyed" (Marguerite Snow), the white witch of Africa, who has learned the secret of eternal youth. With her mystic power "She" sees Kallikrates approach and realises he is the perfect man who must join her by bathing in the fires of eternal youth and with her rule the world. "She" takes Amenartas and Kallikrates to the mystic flame but when Kallikrates spurns her love "She" strikes him down dead.
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He then starred in his second big-screen Bad Boy 2 (Angel of Bad Boys), where he played the main role with Zay Ye Htet, Paing Takhon, Aung Lay and Patricia. In 2018, he portrayed his role as a school teacher Hla Win Aung in drama film Yoma Paw Kya Tae Myat Yay (Tear Drops Down The Yoma), is based on a ture story about a teacher who has to go and teach to a village in the countryside. It's a moving picture about the hardships of education staff in Myanmar. The film was screened in Myanmar cinemas on 7 November 2019 and also screened in Singapore on 9 January 2020.
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Altemus published series books with pages of advertising for other series. Some that can be found in Grace Harlowe books include: The Automobile Girls, Madge Morton, The Meadow-Brook Girls, and boys' series like: Dave Darrin, Submarine Boys, and The High School Boys. Altemus even occasionally cross- referenced series, as when Madge Morton makes a cameo appearance in Grace Harlowe's Problem. Other contemporary series published for school girls include: Betty Gordon, Marjorie Dean, The Outdoor Girls, The Moving Picture Girls, Jane Allen, Betty Wales, Ruth Fielding, The Girls of Central High, Friendly Terrace, Fairmount Girls, Helen Grant, Hadley Hall, Nancy Lee, Isabel Carleton, Molly Brown.
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First Lady of the Revolution debuted in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival on August 27, 2016, where it won the Audience Award for Best Alabama Film and a Jury Award Honorable Mention. Henrietta Boggs also received the inaugural Spirit of Sidewalk Award. The film had its Costa Rican premiere on September 13, 2016, at the Cine Magaly in San José, followed by a limited theatrical run in Costa Rica, New York City and Mexico. The United States premier was held at The Capri Theatre in Montgomery, Alabama, with Henrietta Boggs MacGuire and director Andrea Kalin in attendance and answering audience questions.
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The film, having been a relatively big-budget production exploiting the wildly popular Bara at the height of her "vamping" career, proved quite popular – yet this also contributed to some of the controversy surrounding it. Many churches in the US at the time of its release protested against what they saw as blatant immorality -with an often scantily clad Bara showcasing her sexual appeal to audiences- appearing in a film about religious subject matterProtests Against Showing of Salomé "Protest Against Showing of Salomé: Church Federations of St. Louis Raise Objection to Theda Bara's Dearth of Attire". Moving Picture World (New York City: Chalmers Publishing Company) 39 (4): 476.
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The format was supposedly presented to the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) in its 84th meeting in Archamps, France, in April 2008, and voted as a candidate for a new international standard for digital audio, being scheduled to be further discussed by the MPEG during its 85th meeting in Hanover, Germany, in July 2008. However, the press releases of both meetings make no mention of this.Highlights of the 84th Meeting (pdf version) / Highlights of the 85th Meeting (pdf version) Samsung and LG both showed interest in equipping their mobile phones with an MT9 player and their first commercial products are likely to debut early 2009, according to Audizen's CEO Ham Seung-chul.
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Cunard with Ray Hanford in Hell's Crater (1918) Cunard's work as an actor, writer, and director did not cease after her collaboration with Ford ended. She starred in Hell's Crater, an elaborate five-reel Western written and directed by W. B. Pearson and filmed on location in Death Valley National Park."Hell’s Crater (1918)", catalog, American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved April 28, 2020. Released by Universal in early 1918, Hell's Crater was heavily promoted in trade publications. The next year she returned to acting in a serial format, "supporting" Elmo Lincoln in 18 episodes of Elmo the MightyAdvertisement for "Elmo the Mighty", The Moving Picture World, May 31, 1919, pp. 1262-1263.
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In Australia and New Zealand (as in Britain) The Miracle was generally advertised not simply as an ordinary film in its own right, but as a 'Lyricscope play', having been designed as part of a unique evening's entertainment complete with film, sets, actors and dancers, chorus & orchestra."Rehearsals of the choir and of the actors in the various processions in The Miracle are now taking place in order that "The Miracle" moving picture may be produced at an early date. The Reinhardt film is 5,500 feet long and with the special choruses, Humperdinck's grand Opera music and the different processions, the dream picture will take up the whole evening." The New Zealand Observer, 8 November 1913, p.
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Visual effects for the film were provided by DNEG, Method Studios, and Moving Picture Company, with Olivier Dumont serving as VFX supervisor. After the film was completed, Boone reunited the cast for the first official screening in New York City, after which Williams stated, "The movie is exactly the movie we set out to make." Disney removed The New Mutants from its release schedule, along with several other films, on March 12, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was looking to reschedule the film's release to a later 2020 date. On May 4, the film was automatically listed for home media pre-order on Amazon based on the film's previous April 2020 release date.
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The Secretary of the NAACP, Walter White, wrote to Sturges: > I want to congratulate and thank you for the church sequence in Sullivan's > Travels. This is one of the most moving scenes I have seen in a moving > picture for a long time. But I am particularly grateful to you, as are a > number of my friends, both white and colored, for the dignified and decent > treatment of Negroes in this scene. I was in Hollywood recently and am to > return there soon for conferences with production heads, writers, directors, > and actors and actresses in an effort to induce broader and more decent > picturization of the Negro instead of limiting him to menial or comic roles.
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Also making their first films in this venture were Gertrude Selby, a comedian who became the main female foil in L-KO comedies, and Fatty Voss, L-KO's answer to Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Louise Orth, who had appeared in some Biograph comedies and would go on to appear in many L-KO's, was also aboard for the first release. Before long this group of performers was joined by Hank Mann"Hank Mann Joins L-KO," Moving Picture World, March 20, 1915, pg. 1752 and other disaffected talent from Mack Sennett's "fun factory," such as Alice Howell, Harry Gribbon and ultimately Mack Swain, whose "Ambrose" character continued at L-KO for a time.
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A person who is unfamiliar with the hidden or alternative meaning of a sentence may fail to detect its innuendos, aside from observing that others find it humorous for no apparent reason. Innuendo is often used in sitcoms and other comedy where some in the audience may enjoy the humour while being oblivious to its secondary meaning. A triple entendre is a phrase that can be understood in any of three ways, such as in the back cover of the 1981 Rush album Moving Pictures which shows a moving company carrying paintings out of a building while people are shown being emotionally moved and a film crew makes a "moving picture" of the whole scene.
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This was different from Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, which simply ran a loop of film with successive images of a moving scene through the camera shutter, which gave a jumbled blur of motion. The Phantoscope, by pausing on each frame long enough for the brain to register a clear single picture, but replacing each frame in sequence fast enough (less than a tenth of a second), produced a smooth and true moving picture. It is from this concept that the entire motion-picture industry has grown.Tube - The Invention of Television, David E. Fisher and Marshal Jon Fisher, 1996 On September 25th, 1985, the two inventors began presenting their completed Phantoscopes at the Cotton States Exposition.
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Gérard Bourgeois (born August 18, 1874 in Geneva, Switzerland (from French parents), and died December 15, 1944 in Paris, France) was a leading French film director during the silent era. After ten years in the theater, Gérard Bourgeois became artistic director of Lux-films. In 1911, he joined the company Pathé. He first filmed historical films (Cadoudal), then realistic films including the landmark 1911 film "Victimes de l'alcoolisme" (US: In The Grip of Alcohol), proclaimed by Moving Picture World as "The greatest moral dilemma ever made by any film manufacturer" In the Grip of Alcohol ), before founding his own production company with René Mathey, Les Films MB (Bourgeois- Mathey). Bourgeois made 142 films between 1908 and 1925.
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Born on 26 July 1865 in Brighton, England, he appeared on the stage in England prior to moving to the United States. In 1905 he appeared in a production of The Babes and the Baron, which ran at the Theatre Royal in Birmingham. The following year, the play was produced by Lee and J.J. Shubert at the Lyric Theatre in New York City, where Walton reprised his role as The Toy Soldier. He remained in the United States, and in 1910 and 1911 he starred in several film shorts, for the Selig Polyscope Company in Chicago and for the Powers Moving Picture Company, a New York studio that in 1912 merged with Independent Moving Pictures.
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Using their control over several film patents, the General Film Company and MPPC tried to force independent distribution companies to sell out or lose their patent licenses.page 312 of The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890–1927, Gerben Bakker, The Economic History Review, Volume 58, Number 2, May 2005 , pp. 310-351(42), Blackwell Publishing Competing organizations, such as the Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company, the National Independent Moving Picture Alliance and the Film Service Association, emerged to challenge the trust.The Motion Picture Distributing and Sales Company, Max Joseph Alvarez, Film History: An International Journal, Volume 19, Number 3, 2007, pp.
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Edison releases, September 1911 No copy of this production is listed in the film collection of the Library of Congress, the UCLA Film Archives, in the collection of moving images at the Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman Museum, the Library and Archives Canada (LAC), or in other major film repositories in the United States, Canada, or Europe. The film is therefore presumed to be lost. A major fire at Edison's Bronx facilities on March 28, 1914 devastated much of the studio, destroying sets, large collections of costumes, production equipment, and "many moving picture feature films"."MOVIE FILMS BURN WITH EDISON STUDIO...", The New York Times, March 29, 1914, p. 13. ProQuest.
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After Breuil quit the Vitagraph Company, she worked as a freelance worker, writing scenarios “to order.” In 1914, she took the position of “artistic advisor” to the North American Film Corporation. Epes Winthrop Sargent described this position in Moving Picture World by writing, “Her undeniable talent is not limited to any particular line.... Here her genius for devising effects and working out ideas will have an absolutely unlimited scope, for she will have no one between herself and the company”. Between 1915 and 1916, Breuil worked on (and also may have directed, though this remains unclear) four films with the Eastern Film Company, titled Daisies, Wisteria, Violets, and My Lady of the Lilacs.
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He concluded that it is "a stunningly detailed moving picture of one part of China, inextricably linked both to the Ming's imperial center and its broadly flowing cultural streams as the developments we seek to understand occurred." Timothy Brook of the University of Toronto wrote that the book is "local history at its best" and "a careful reconstruction of the first two centuries of the Ming period". Chu wrote that the book was "splendid account of changes in the social fabric of Tai-ho County from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, as well as shifts in human preoccupations during this period"Chu, p. 402. that "The research in this book is remarkable".
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The visual effects were provided by Moving Picture Company, Framestore and Rise FX, with the help of Rising Sun Pictures and Rodeo FX. At Rodeo, to achieve the effects for the opening sequence of the train travelling through the country, augmented aerial footage was merged with matte paintings and computer-generated imagery. They would also do the effects of Holt's amputated arm by digitally recreating the character's costumes and the backgrounds obstructed by the sleeve. The Third Floor, Inc., tasked primarily with creating the animals of the film, achieved the effects of humans flying on Dumbo using a 3D mold of the character and an animatronic mounted on a 6-axis gimbal.
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NaturalMotion's technology is in use at many film and games companies, including Sony, The Mill, Electronic Arts, Moving Picture Company, Konami, Capcom, Sega and many more. Movies and games featuring Endorphin animation include Troy, Poseidon, The Getaway, Tekken 5 and Metal Gear Solid. In 2006, LucasArts announced that it would use the Euphoria animation engine in Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed games. In 2007, Rockstar Games announced it had licensed this engine for many of their new and upcoming games, with the first announced title being Grand Theft Auto IV. Subsequent Rockstar Games titles that use the engine include Red Dead Redemption, Max Payne 3 and Grand Theft Auto V.
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37 to Columbia Hall at 5th Street, called Paresis Hall. One investigator in 1899 found six saloons and dance halls, the resorts of "degenerates" and "fairies", on the Bowery alone.Chauncey 1994:33. Gay subculture was more highly visible there and more integrated into working-class male culture than it was to become in the following generations, according to historian George Chauncey. The Bowery Lodge is one of the last remaining flophouses on the Bowery From 1878 to 1955 the Third Avenue El ran above the Bowery, further darkening its streets, populated largely by men. "It is filled with employment agencies, cheap clothing and knickknack stores, cheap moving-picture shows, cheap lodging-houses, cheap eating-houses, cheap saloons", writers in The Century Magazine found it in 1919.
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The Moving Picture World stated, "The dramatic qualities of this film are high, but the subject is somewhat depressing... Maybe the picture will teach the lesson that it is better to listen to explanations at first and save all those intervening years of sorrow and suffering. It ought to, at any rate, because that story is plainly wrought out and is apparent as it is possible to make it." A review in The Nickelodeon offered little more than a summary of the film, but the reviewer found the subject to be enhanced by the attention to detail in the production. The reviewer was also pleased that the child was not brought in to serve as in deus ex machina role.
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Ambassador Cinema old sign Ambassador Cinema The Ambassador Cinema was Dublin's longest-running cinema and was operational on and off until 1999. It operated as a music venue between 2001 and 2008. The Ambassador's current use is as an exhibition hall & event centre. The building was constructed as part of the Rotunda Hospital in 1764 as an assembly hall and social rooms on what is now called Parnell Street. From 1897 onwards, the venue was given the name Rotund Room and hosted a number of "moving picture" screenings which were a great novelty at the time. From about 1908 onwards, it was used more regularly to show film presentations and in 1910 it became a full-time cinema, with 736 seats, a basic layout at the time.
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In filmmaking, internal rhythm is created by whatever appears or occurs within the shot of a moving picture. It can change within a scene (film) and from scene to scene. For example, in Citizen Kane the internal rhythm of the scene in which Kane, Leland, Bernstein, and the movers take over the offices of the Inquirer differs from the rhythm of the scene in which Kane demolishes Susan's bedroom or from the scene in which Kane and Susan spend an evening at home at Xanadu.Beaver: Dictionary of Film Terms: The Aesthetic Companion to Film Art, 2006 The scene in the newspaper office starts out slowly and quietly, but the pace is increased until the rhythm of the action is frantic.
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Crowned "Best young foreign choreographer" by the German magazine Ballet Tanz Aktuell International in 1999, he appeared the following year among the "100 people who move Quebec" in the French magazine L'Express. José Navas is the recipient of several awards. Among others, he shares a Bessie AwardMichael Crabb, José Navas, biography, The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2009 with choreographer William DouglasWilliam Douglas , The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2009 for the solo While Waiting and won the award for "Best Choreography for the Camera" at the Moving Picture Festival in Toronto for the celebrated art film Lodela,(The movie), National Film Board of Canada directed by Philippe Baylaucq. In 2009, he had already created over thirty works for the stage and screen and his company had toured in over 20 countries.
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Stroud: Tempus Publishing Limited. In addition to supplying drinking water, the location of Barker's Pool at the highest point in the town allowed water released from the reservoir to be guided through channels that ran along the centre of the town's streets: The Albert Hall which stood where the John Lewis building is today, was a theatre only in the broadest sense; a big rectangular hall built in 1867 by a group of Wesleyan businessmen and opened in 1873 for music recitals and a variety of light entertainments. As might be expected, the hall was principally noted for evangelistic meetings, orchestral, choral and vocal concerts, operas and brass band competitions. There were also minstrel and variety shows, magic lantern and from 1896 moving picture shows.
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Unified Speech and Audio Coding (USAC) is an audio compression format and codec for both music and speech or any mix of speech and audio using very low bit rates between 12 and 64 kbit/s. It was developed by Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and was published as an international standard ISO/IEC 23003-3 (a.k.a. MPEG-D Part 3) and also as an MPEG-4 Audio Object Type in ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009/Amd 3 in 2012. It uses time-domain linear prediction and residual coding tools (ACELP-like techniques) for speech signal segments and transform coding tools (MDCT-based techniques) for music signal segments and it is able to switch between the tool sets dynamically in a signal-responsive manner.
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During the silent era, it was common practice for production companies to load two short films onto a single reel, creating what was referred to then as a "split reel". Combining films onto one reel not only reduced the number of reels shipped to theaters by distributors, it also reduced the number of reel changes on the projectors at those locations. In September 1911, when Powers Moving Picture Company distributed its split-reel copies of Lost in a Hotel and An Old-Time Nightmare, this comedy-fantasy comprised the latter half of all the shared reels released. The Billboard, September 16, 1911 The film in 1911 was generally well-received by reviewers, who judged it to be an amusing oddity as well as a "worthwhile" screen presentation.
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Hiroshi Yasuda (born 1944) is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Tokyo and works as a Consultant for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. In the sphere of international standardization, together with Leonardo Chiariglione he founded the Moving Picture Experts Group which standardized MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, better known as MP3. Prof. Hiroshi Yasuda received his B.E., M.E. and Dr.E. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1967, 1969, and 1972 respectively. Thereafter, he joined the Electrical Communication Laboratories of NTT in 1972 where he has been involved in works on Video Coding, Facsimile Network, Image Processing, Telepresence, B-ISDN Network and Services, Internet and Computer Communication Applications. He worked four years (1988–1992) as the Executive Manager of Visual Media Lab.
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Some exterior scenes were shot on Staten Island, the Kensico reservoir was used as a location for the dam and one elaborate exterior crowd scene was shot in front of the Comedy Theatre on 41st Street. On August 7, 1920, the trade journal, The Moving Picture World breaks the news that "Permission has been obtained from the city police and the fire departments by Fred H. (sic) Sittenham, director of Metro's all-star picturization of Eugene Walter's stage play, "Fine Feathers," to take some exterior scenes before one of New York's leading theatres during the "wee sma'" hours of the morning." The scene was to feature 1,500 extras representing a typical New York theatre crowd on a Saturday night during a thunder shower.
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How Brown Saw the Baseball Game was released into theaters by Lubin Manufacturing Company on November 16, 1907, and was still being shown as late as August 1908. During this time, the film sometimes was presented as part of a double feature with the 1907 film Neighbors Who Borrow, a short comedy film about a man who lends nearly everything he owns to his neighbors until his wife returns home and berates him for doing so. Advertisements for the film touted it as "such fun", and Lubin himself promoted the film as a "screamingly funny farce". It received a positive review in the June 1908 issue of The Moving Picture World which described the film as "truly funny" and that it proved to be "a veritable success".
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By 1894 a steam ship began operation between Worthing Pier and the Chain Pier in Brighton, twelve miles to the east. Over the Easter weekend that year 4 year old Archie Miles, separated from his promenading family, managed to unwittingly stow away on board setting off a police hunt and was only reunited with his frantic parents after a night in the workhouse at Brighton and a telegram to his grandparents in Mayfield. The first moving picture show in Worthing was seen on the pier on 31 August 1896 and is commemorated today by a blue plaque. In March 1913, on Easter Monday, the pier was damaged in a storm, with only the southern end remaining, completely cut off from land.
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Andrew has a background in film and photography. His professional experience includes a five-year stint at PDI/DreamWorks, where he worked on films such as Shrek 2, Minority Report and Artificial Intelligence: AI. More recently, he's been working as a Computer Graphics Supervisor at animation studios such as Sony Picture Imageworks, Method Studios, The Moving Picture Company, Toonbox Entertainment and LAIKA, working on a number of films including The Maze Runner, Hotel Transylvania 2 and The Great Gatsby. His short film Blood Will Tell was invited to World Première at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. The short film had a lot of success in the festival circuit, eventually winning the coveted, Grand Jury Award at Slamdance Film Festival.
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More recently, light-in-flight holography has been performed in a scattering medium rather than using a reflective screen.Häusler, G., Herrmann, J. M., Kummer, R. & Lindner, M. W. Observation of light propagation in volume scatterers with 1011-fold slow motion. Opt. Lett. 21, 1087–1089 (1996).Kubota, T., Komai, K., Yamagiwa, M. & Awatsuji, Y. Moving picture recording and observation of three-dimensional image of femtosecond light pulse propagation. Opt. Express 15, 14348–14354 (2007). Light can also be captured in motion in a scattering medium using a streak camera that has picosecond temporal resolution, thus removing the need for interferometry and coherent illumination but requires additional hardware to raster scan the two- dimensional (2D) scene, which increases the acquisition time to hours.
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Larson married Margaret Taylor, the freshman victim of the College Hall case and the first person he ever interrogated on the lie detector. Over the next fifteen years, he collected hundreds of files on successful criminal cases where his polygraph solved murders, robberies, thefts and sex crimes. His instrument was nicknamed 'Sphyggy' by the press who covered Larson’s crime solving escapades in the 1920s and 30's; Sphyggy because they couldn’t pronounce 'Sphygmomanometer.' John Larson’s California The polygraph is included in the Encyclopædia Britannica Almanac 2003's list of 325 greatest inventions. This first polygraph instrument of Larson is now at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.. It first appeared in action in a moving picture in 1926 in the silent police serial ‘’Officer 444’’.
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A specific decoder decodes at least one, but not necessarily all profiles. The standard describes the format of the encoded data and how the data is decoded, but it does not specify algorithms for encoding video that is left open as a matter for encoder designers to select for themselves, and a wide variety of encoding schemes has been developed. H.264 is typically used for lossy compression, although it is also possible to create truly lossless-coded regions within lossy-coded pictures or to support rare use cases for which the entire encoding is lossless. H.264 was standardized by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) of Study Group 16 together with the ISO/IEC JTC1 Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).
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The name "Nickelodeon" was first used in 1888 by Colonel William Austin for his Austin's Nickelodeon, a dime museum located in Boston, Massachusetts. The term was popularized by Harry Davis and John P. Harris, who opened a small storefront theater with the name on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1905. Although it was not the first theater to show films, in 1919 a news article stated that it was the first theater in the world "devoted exclusively to exhibition of moving picture spectacles". Davis and Harris found such great success with their operation that their concept of a five-cent theater showing movies continuously was soon imitated by hundreds of ambitious entrepreneurs, as was the name of the theater itself.
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The New York Dramatic Mirror praised the film for its well- execution, but it didn't miss a chance to balance it by criticizing the actor who played the milkman, "The Laura Jean Libbey style of romance is here presented with more than the usual success. ... The purchase of the milk delivery job was not convincing and the milkman talked too much at the camera; otherwise the picture is not seriously defective in detail." The Moving Picture World gave a positive review, concluding that "The life and action which characterize the Thanhouser productions are all present, while the photography is satisfactory and helps to make a good picture." An unrelated comedy film with the same title was released by Pathé Frères on December 25, 1912.
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In September, Omar Sy and Karen Gillan were added, while Bradley Whitford came aboard in October, and Cara Gee joined in November. Principal photography on the film began in late September 2018 in Los Angeles. The film was not shot on location, as extensive use was made of CGI, with some scenes also being filmed on sets in Los Angeles and exteriors in Santa Clarita, California. All in all, the production spent $109 million filming in California, with the final budget reaching $125–150 million by the time post-production wrapped. The visual effects were provided by Moving Picture Company (MPC), led by MPC’s studio in Montreal, with Erik Nash serving as vfx supervisor, and also by Soho VFX and Technoprops.
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The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 871–873 in its catalogues. In America, the 24 November 1906 issue of The New York Clipper mentioned A Seaside Flirtation and The Merry Frolics of Satan as the latest imports from Méliès's studio. A 1907 item in The Moving Picture World, reporting on a Chicago judge who claimed nickelodeons were connected with juvenile delinquency, included A Seaside Flirtation in a list of risqué films shown that weekend in Chicago. Noting the suggestive titles, the anonymous reporter commented: "One is willing to admit that the effect may be somewhat different from that of the Sunday school … Surely [such films are] not just the kind of selection the average parent would make".
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The rest of Vitagraph's intertitles are laced with additional wording from Tennyson, such as "She told him of their tears, And pray'd him", "from a heart as rough as Esau's hand", and "'Ride you naked thro' the town, And I repeal [the tax]'". As early as mid-July 1911—three months before the film's actual release, the New York-based trade journal The Moving Picture World reported Vitagraph's plans to produce Lady Godiva and predicted it would be a success: Promotion in 1911 of "the most famous bareback ride in history" relied on the most sensational aspect of the Godiva story: nudity."Lady Godiva Heroine of Parker's Play", The New York Times, November 22, 1911, p. 13. ProQuest Historical Newspaper, Ann Arbor, Michigan; subscription access through The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.
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Nigel Stafford-Clark (born 12 June 1948) is a British film and television producer, and the brother of the theatre director Max Stafford-Clark. He was educated at Felsted and Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked in advertising and in sponsored documentaries before becoming a commercials producer at Moving Picture Company (MPC). In the buildup to the launch of Channel 4 in November 1982, he formed MPC's programme department, executive producing a number of documentary series for the new channel, including one of its earliest hits Tom Keating on Painters. He also produced several television films for the Film on Four strand, including Last Day of Summer, written by Ian McEwan from his own short story, and The House, the debut drama from writer-director and People Show alumnus Mike Figgis.
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No copy of this Powers short is listed among the motion-picture holdings of the Library of Congress, the UCLA Film Archives, in the collection of moving images at the Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman Museum, the Library and Archives Canada, or in other major film repositories in the United States, Canada, or Europe.Online and hard-copy searches for this comedy/fantasy in the cited collections were conducted in June 2020, as well as in the Library and Archives Canada, BFI National Archive, and in EU film repositories through the European Film Gateway. The film is therefore presumed to be a lost production. Powers Moving Picture Company continued producing films as a single, independent studio for only seven months after the release of Lost in a Hotel.
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No copy of this Powers short is listed among the motion-picture holdings of the Library of Congress, the UCLA Film Archives, in the collection of moving images at the Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman Museum, the Library and Archives Canada, or in other major film repositories in the United States, Canada, or Europe.Online and hard-copy searches for this comedy/fantasy in the cited collections were conducted in June 2020, as well as in the Library and Archives Canada, BFI National Archive, and in EU film repositories through the European Film Gateway. The film is therefore presumed to be a lost production. Powers Moving Picture Company continued producing films as a single, independent studio for only seven months after the release of An Old-Time Nightmare.
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Reaction to her performance in Curtains was mixed, with Cinema Canada's Andrew Dowler stating in his review of the film in 1984 that she, as well as several other actresses in the film, was not "on-screen long enough for me to be certain [she is] in the final print, let alone long enough to develop character." In an interview with producer and director Peter Simpson, he stated that "You know, it's a very obvious omission but we should have had more bits of stuff... even short scenes with Anne to pay off her death. She's not in it enough." She later worked as a choreographer and a performer in short films like Leonard Cohen's I Am a Hotel and several shorts by Jurgen Lutz, most famously A Moving Picture.
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Principal photography ended at the beginning of October with exterior shots for Brand's home filmed at Billie Burke's "summer place", Burkeley Crest, now demolished and that was part of the Ziegfeld estate at Hastings-on-Hudson. The Visalia Times, a year after the Moving Picture World's article and 3 months after the release of the movie, reports on September 20, 1921, in a fairly detailed article that the Metro had built the facade of the Belasco in Yonkers for the theater scene. This is implausible for two reasons. One this was a movie made on a tight budget and building the facade of an entire building would have been prohibitively expensive but more importantly, there is at least one contemporaneous account of the overnight shoot in front of the Comedy Theatre.
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O'Brien's plays include The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, The Cherry Sisters Revisited, The Voyage of the Carcass, The Dear Boy, The House in Hydesville, Moving Picture, Key West, Am Lit, Lamarck, The Last Supper Restoration, The Angel in the Trees, "Will You Please Shut Up?", and The Disappearance of Daniel Hand. His work has been produced by Second Stage Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geva Theatre Center, Page 73 Productions, The Production Company, SoHo Playhouse, and elsewhere. He has served as a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, the Djerassi Fellow in Playwriting at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and as the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting at The University of the South (Sewanee).
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The Moving Picture World, March 25, 1916 > The Habit of Happiness, a Fine Arts production featuring Douglas Fairbanks, > is a story with a vital purpose and characterized by some delightful > psychology and bright subtitles, but it is thrust upon the audience that the > presentation is really a vehicle especially created for the talented star, a > common enough fault, but one to be avoided where there Is so much good > material as in this release. Interesting revelation of thought and emotion > results from the efforts of "Sunny Wiggins," impersonated by Fairbanks, to > brighten dull lives. The motive is pretty, and it is adequately handled, the > accompanying subtitles fairly sparkling at times. We are following the > fortunes of "Sunny Wiggins" In his amusing efforts with a serious purpose, > when he starts to tell funny story.
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In 1928, after spending two years in England, the Treatts set out again for Sudan to make a moving picture of Sudan's wildlife. Their trip began at Port Sudan and continued the length of the railway to El Obeid, taking the Treatts through places like Abu Gabra that they had visited during their earlier Cape-to-Cairo expedition. Two motion pictures were produced, Stampede (1930) and Stark Nature (1930). Stampede is a romance scripted by Stella that concerns a man named Boru and how he found love with Loweno and ended up a "Sheikh", after first being orphaned, when his mother was killed by a lion, and adopted by a Habbaniya sheikh, who subsequently loses his life along with his son during a drought, thus opening up the position of sheikh for Boru.
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Mix played hard-to-get, threatening to move to Argentina to make films or joining the circus, but eventually, he signed with FBO but eventually left for Universal due to salary disputes with the studio. He said of Kennedy that he was a "tight-assed, money-crazed son-of-a-bitch". FBO's second-biggest long-running Western star was Tom Tyler. According to a June 1927 report in Moving Picture World: > With Tom Tyler rapidly taking the place recently vacated by Fred Thomson, > F.B.O.'s program of western pictures is taking a place second to none in the > industry.... Tyler has made rapid strides during his two years with F.B.O. > and with his horse 'Flash' and dog 'Beans' has become one of the leading > favorites on the screen.
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It was created as a result of a joint venture between India and Singapore in January 1994. It is a large facility, comprising 10 buildings — Discoverer, Innovator, Creator, Explorer, Inventor, Navigator, Voyager, Aviator, Pioneer Maadar and Victor. This park provides campus facilities for multi national giants like IPsoft, General Motors, Société Générale, Mu Sigma, Xerox, Conduent, AT&T;, Soais, Sharp, Scientific Games, Medtronic, iGATE, IBM, GE, Airtel, Vodafone, Moving Picture Company, TCS, Startek, Gyansys Infotech, Technicolor, Atos, Unisys, Delphi, Huawei, Oracle, Perot Systems , Applied Materials, GalaxE Solutions, First American Corporation and other medium and small sized companies. Outside ITPB, numerous companies have come up like Dell, Tesco, Shell, Aviva, GM, Schneider Electric, Sapient, Goodrich / UTC aerospace and DaimlerChrysler, Symphony Teleca Corp and Tangoe are also located in Whitefield.
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When the moving picture is displayed, each frame is flashed on a screen for a short time (nowadays, usually 1/24, 1/25 or 1/30 of a second) and then immediately replaced by the next one. Persistence of vision blends the frames together, producing the illusion of a moving image. The frame is also sometimes used as a unit of time, so that a momentary event might be said to last six frames, the actual duration of which depends on the frame rate of the system, which varies according to the video or film standard in use. In North America and Japan, 30 frames per second (fps) is the broadcast standard, with 24 frames/s now common in production for high-definition video shot to look like film.
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Cine film literally means "moving" film; deriving from the Greek "kine" for motion; it also has roots in the Anglo-French word cinematograph, meaning moving picture. Although there had been earlier attempts, typically employing larger formats, the introduction of the 9.5 mm and 16 mm formats in the early 1920s finally succeeded in introducing the practice of showing rented "play-at-home" copies of professionally made films, which, in the case of feature-length films, were usually much shortened from the originals. More significantly, these new cine film gauges were the first truly practical formats for making casual amateur "home movies" of vacation trips, family gatherings, and important events such as weddings. Amateur dramas and comedies were sometimes filmed, usually just for fun and without any aspiration to artistic merit.
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In the following months, theaters across the country continued to show the film and viewers gave it positive reviews, albeit less so in later months. Multiple editions of The Moving Picture World showed that Something Different was still being shown as late as March 1921, and The Exhibitor’s Herald still listed the film under the “Guide to Current Pictures” in June. At the same time, however, critical reviews became more negative over time as they commented on what they perceived as a weak plot held up only by impressive imagery and the presence of Constance Binney, a popular actress as the lead role. In The Exhibitor’s Herald from April 1921, critic J. H. Vaugham wrote “It’s a shame to waste good direction, photography, and cast on such a frail theme.
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Regina Grand Theatre opened in 1912 as a stage and moving picture theatre. Unprecedented growth in the city's economy led to the development of several entertainment centres. Well underway but drastically interrupted by the First World War from 1914–1918, the city had considerable prosperity though nothing like the enormous growth in population which was initially predicted. As with other cities, Regina had numerous entertainment centres, including cinemas housing both stage productions and moving pictures — six downtown cinemas at the peak of such period, the Regina Theatre at 12th Avenue and Hamilton Street opening in 1910 and the Regina Grand Theatre in 1912 on 11th Avenue between Lorne and Cornwall Streets — which survived until television developed in the 1950s and such businesses gradually closed until only one remained in the central business district in 2012.
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The T-3000 as depicted in the film Visual-effects supervisor Janek Sirrs oversaw approximately 1,200 visual-effects shots generated at Double Negative, Moving Picture Company (MPC), Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), Lola VFX, One of Us and Method Studios. Double Negative was the lead company, with 900 shots which included the T-1000, T-5000, and T-3000 Terminators, the helicopter and bus-chase scenes and the Cyberdyne explosion. The complexity of the T-3000, which had to be shown as a living mass of nanomites with the ability to transform in successive layers, required as much as 20 hours to render a single frame. The mechanical cells aimed to resemble the material on stealth aircraft, with a result described as "more matte than metal" and resembling a slightly-iridescent ceramic carbon.
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The Sidewalk Film Festival is an annual film festival taking place during the last weekend in August in the Theatre District of Birmingham, Alabama, since 1999. The festival typically screens at seven venues located within downtown Birmingham, featuring the restored Alabama Theatre, a 2,200 seat movie palace built by Paramount in 1927, and multiple screening rooms in the Alabama School of Fine Arts.bwcitypaper.com In 2006, the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival recognized writer/director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi for their more than two decades of collaboration in independent film, which includes such acclaimed indie classics as The Brother From Another Planet, Passion Fish, Lone Star, and the Sidewalk 2004 Opening Night Film, Silver City. In 2005, Sidewalk honored actor John C. Reilly with the inaugural Spirit of Sidewalk award.
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Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses is a 1889 British short silent actuality film, shot by inventor and film pioneer William Friese-Greene on celluloid film using his 'machine' camera. The 20 feet of film, which was shot in autumn 1889 at Apsley Gate, Hyde Park, London, was claimed to be the first motion picture, although Louis Le Prince successfully shot on glass plate before 18 August 1887,Letter dated 18 August 1887 in Louis Le Prince Collection at Leeds University Library and on paper negative in October 1888. It may nonetheless be the first moving picture film on celluloid and the first shot in London. It was never publicly screened, although several photographic journalists saw it during his lifetime — including Thomas Bedding, J. Hay Taylor and Theodore Brown.
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The film's success in France inspired other companies to make similar films, thus inaugurating a genre which eventually became known as films d'art, taking the name of the leading production company; a genre characterized by elaborate theatricality in sets, costumes, and acting, and associated with historical dramas concerned with noble characters. The Assassination of the Duke of Guise was released in the United States by Pathé Frères on February 17, 1909. There is no trace of a special premiere for the program. In Moving Picture World, Pathé simply announced the film as one of its current "dramatic" releases, at a length of 853 feet, considerably shorter than the version for which Saint-Saëns had composed his score; and the company dropped the film from its listings five weeks later.
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The remaining audio information is then recorded in a space-efficient manner, using MDCT and FFT algorithms. Compared to CD-quality digital audio, MP3 compression can commonly achieve a 75 to 95% reduction in size. For example, an MP3 encoded at a constant bitrate of 128 kbit/s would result in a file approximately 9% of the size of the original CD audio. In the early 2000s, compact disc players increasingly adopted support for playback of MP3 files on data CDs. The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) designed MP3 as part of its MPEG-1, and later MPEG-2, standards. MPEG-1 Audio (MPEG-1 Part 3), which included MPEG-1 Audio Layer I, II and III, was approved as a committee draft for an ISO/IEC standard in 1991, finalised in 1992, and published in 1993 as ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993.
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Continuous-tone images are derived from conventional motion picture cameras, whilst images built up in the form of line structures are derived from telerecordings. To synthesise a moving picture these films are projected at the rate of 25 frames per second—the television picture frequency in Great Britain instead of 24 frames per second as in the motion picture industry. In America the television picture frequency is 30 frames per second and this raises considerable problems when conventional motion pictures which have been shot for the cinema at 24 frames per second are to be televised. Although films originally made for television in Great Britain (whether by telerecording or by conventional cinematography) will be photographed at 25 frames per second, films exposed for cinema exhibition at 24 frames per second are also transmitted for television at 25 frames per second.
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Later an open-air cinema was established beside the Hibernian Hall, on the south side, which was the venue for the first moving picture show exhibited at Roma. This first hall was enlarged in the mid-1920s, to plans prepared by popular Perth and Brisbane architects Cavanagh & Cavanagh, who had designed a number of churches, convents, schools and presbyteries for the Catholic Church in Queensland. The extensions had been completed by May 1926, at which time the hall was described as a two- storeyed timber building with a gallery; it could seat 750, and could be used for a variety of public entertainments. This building was destroyed by fire on 22 July 1931, but almost immediately the HACBS commissioned Cavanagh & Cavanagh to prepare plans for a replacement hall-cum-picture theatre (the present building) by GP Williams.
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After her marriage in 1910, she moved from the music hall to the film studio, first as an actress in silent films, and by 1913 as a co-director of the Brightonia Film Company, based in Brighton, England. Nell Emerald appeared in Brightonia films as well as working behind the camera as producer."Foreign Trade Notes" The Moving Picture World 17(July 12, 1913): 192. Nell Emerald acted in silent films through the 1910s and 1920s, including a 1921 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge; Hardy himself visited the set of this production, though he never saw the finished work.Paul J. Niemeyer, Seeing Hardy: Film and Television Adaptation of the Fiction of Thomas Hardy (McFarland 2003): 250-252. Among her other silent films were The Grip of Iron (1914), A Bold Adventuress (1915),R.
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The Kingdom of the Fairies, like Méliès's similarly spectacular films A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Impossible Voyage (1904), was one of the most popular films of the first few years of the twentieth century. When Thomas L. Tally debuted the film at his Lyric Theater in Los Angeles in 1903 (billing it as "Better than A Trip to the Moon"), the Los Angeles Times called the film "an interesting exhibit of the limits to which moving picture making can be carried in the hands of experts equipped with time and money to carry out their devices." The film theorist Jean Mitry called it "undoubtedly Méliès's best film, and in any case the most intensely poetic." Prints of the film survive in the film archives of the British Film Institute and the Library of Congress.
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The film premiered at the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in 2017 and has won numerous awards on the festival circuit. The documentary also had a limited theatrical release in Costa Rica and New York City and was broadcast on the American Public Television WORLD channel documentary series, Reel South. Kalin's most recent film, Scattering CJ, the story of CJ Twomey, a seemingly happy Air Force recruit who violently ended his own life at age 20, whose passing plunged his family into unrelenting grief and guilt. Years later, in a moment of desperate inspiration, his mother put out an open call on Facebook, looking only for a handful of world travelers who might help fulfill her son's wish to see the world by scattering some of his ashes in a place of beauty or special meaning to them - a call that 21,000 would answer.
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MPEG Surround (ISO/IEC 23003-1 or MPEG-D Part 1), also known as Spatial Audio Coding (SAC) is a glossy compression format for surround sound that provides a method for extending mono or stereo audio services to multi-channel audio in a backwards compatible fashion. The total bit rates used for the (mono or stereo) core and the MPEG Surround data are typically only slightly higher than the bit rates used for coding of the (mono or stereo) core. MPEG Surround adds a side-information stream to the (mono or stereo) core bit stream, containing spatial image data. Legacy stereo playback systems will ignore this side-information while players supporting MPEG Surround decoding will output the reconstructed multi-channel audio. Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) issued a call for proposals on MPEG Spatial Audio Coding in March 2004.
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Originally built in 1888 as a traditional music hall, the building was initially known as The Pavilion from 1883-1982, The Empire from 1892-1900, and then as The Palace in 1900 after a takeover by William Coutt, who also operated the city's Shaftesbury Hall, which was known as Swansea's "home of dancing" at the time. From 1912 it was known as the People's Bioscope Palace, bioscope being an early term for moving picture technology. In the early years of the 20th century stars like Charlie Chaplin, Lilly Langtry, Marie Lloyd and Dan Leno filled the venue. Chaplin only performed at the palace when he was 10 years old in 1896. The building is one of just two purpose-built music halls left standing in the whole of the UK. In the 1920s-30s the venue moved into holding live theatre events.
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Louis Aimé Augustin Leprince (consistently written as "Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince" by himself on official papers, commonly known as "Augustin Le Prince" by contemporaries, "Gus" for Anglo-Saxon relations, historically known as "Louis Le Prince" ()); (28 August 1841 – vanished 16 September 1890) was a French artist and the inventor of an early motion picture camera, the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film., BBC, archived on 1999-11-28 Although some have credited him as the "Father of Cinematography",THE "FATHER" OF KINEMATOGRAPHY: LEEDS MEMORIAL PIONEER WORK IN ENGLAND Our Special Correspondent. The Manchester Guardian (1901–1959), Manchester, England 13 Dec 1930: 19. his work did not influence the commercial development of cinema—owing at least in part to the great secrecy surrounding it.
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In filmmaking, video production, animation, and related fields, a frame is one of the many still images which compose the complete moving picture. The term is derived from the fact that, from the beginning of modern filmmaking toward the end of the 20th century, and in many places still up to the present, the single images have been recorded on a strip of photographic film that quickly increased in length, historically; each image on such a strip looks rather like a framed picture when examined individually. The term may also be used more generally as a noun or verb to refer to the edges of the image as seen in a camera viewfinder or projected on a screen. Thus, the camera operator can be said to keep a car in frame by panning with it as it speeds past.
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The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) is a non-profit industry consortium for the development of open, royalty-free technology for multimedia delivery headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts. It adopts the principles of the development of open web standards for the creation of video standards that can serve as royalty-free alternatives to the hitherto dominant standards of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and the related business model that exploits intellectual property through patent royalties and became associated with financial uncertainties, especially for internet companies and innovators. Its first project was to develop AV1, a new open video codec and format as a successor to VP9 and a royalty-free alternative to HEVC, which uses elements from Daala, Thor, and VP10. The governing members are Amazon, Apple, ARM, Cisco, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung Electronics and Tencent.
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Front row, left to right: D. W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks with two lawyers (rear) The lyrics talk about the 1910s film actress Mary Pickford and other founders of United Artists. Mentioned in the song are Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, United Artists and Pickfair.Mary Pickford Lyrics The song can be seen as a pastiche of the classic silent era Joseph H. Santly song At the Moving Picture Ball since they have a similar rhythm, similar subject matter and indeed they list the same silent-era movie stars. However, the song may also be seen as a simple literary archetype having nothing whatsoever to do with the Santly tune, and instead being a reflection upon things in life that, for whatever reason and with whatever lofty components assembled, never seem to work.
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Amidst his entrepreneurial endeavors, in 2005-06 Hunter continued his work as a TV host working with Encore and Starz for their first original series Looking for Stars. He was part of a Verizon Wireless national radio campaign for three years and since 2004 has been on SiriusXM Radio's The 80s on 8 (4:00 pm – 7:00 pm) music channel along with the other surviving original MTV VJs. Hunter co-founded Birmingham's Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, named by Time Magazine as one of the top ten Festivals for the Rest of Us and serves as its board president. He launched the civic activist group Catalyst4Birmingham and has been an integral part of promoting the film business in the state of Alabama lobbying for legislation to create film incentives as well as the creation of the Birmingham-Jefferson Film Office.
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A moving picture house manager in Moline, Illinois, George Dehl, promised to donate $500 to a local hospital if he could not produce films that have the best sermons beat. Dehl proposed "that they bring the Reverend Billy Sunday to Moline and have him preach the best sermon in the list, and they bring a great temperance lecturer here and instruct him to make his best effort". Dehl said once they had left, he would put on two reels of film at his theater, and if the public does not vote one of them a greater temperance sermon than what the speaker had delivered, and the other a greater religious appeal than the sermon by Sunday, he would donate the money to a local hospital. The films he had referred for showing were The Drunkard's Reformation and The Resurrection.
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The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada was founded in 1893 when representatives of stagehands working in eleven cities met in New York and pledged to support each other's efforts to establish fair wages and working conditions for their members. The IATSE has evolved since then to embrace the development of new entertainment mediums, craft expansion, technological innovation and geographic growth. Today, IATSE members work in all forms of live theater, motion picture and television production, trade shows and exhibitions, television broadcasting, and concerts as well as the equipment and construction shops that support all these areas of the entertainment industry. The IA represents virtually all the behind the scenes workers in crafts ranging from motion picture animator to theater usher.
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Film stock consists of transparent celluloid, acetate, or polyester base coated with an emulsion containing light-sensitive chemicals. Cellulose nitrate was the first type of film base used to record motion pictures, but due to its flammability was eventually replaced by safer materials. Stock widths and the film format for images on the reel have had a rich history, though most large commercial films are still shot on (and distributed to theaters) as 35 mm prints. Originally moving picture film was shot and projected at various speeds using hand-cranked cameras and projectors; though 1000 frames per minute (16 frame/s) is generally cited as a standard silent speed, research indicates most films were shot between 16 frame/s and 23 frame/s and projected from 18 frame/s on up (often reels included instructions on how fast each scene should be shown).
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8500 Melrose, Los Angeles, CA North Beach Park, Santa Monica, CA Hollywood Hills House, Los Angeles, CA 2300 Beverly, Los Angeles, CA 2510 Temple, Los Angeles, CA Douglas Elliman California Headquarters, Beverly Hills, CA Rick Owens, Selfridges Department Store, London, UK Montee Karp Residence, Pacific Palisades, CA La Brea Affordable Housing, West Hollywood, CA Sierra Bonita Housing, West Hollywood, CA Moving Picture Company, Santa Monica, CA Tigertail, Los Angeles, CA Patrick Tighe, FAIA, FAAR is an American architect and interior designer based in Los Angeles, California. He is the founder and principal of Tighe Architecture. Tighe was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He received a Master of Architecture with Distinction from UCLA. Tighe worked for Frank O. Gehry & Associates, and was an associate of Thom Mayne’s Morphosis Architects for 7 years before leaving to found Tighe Architecture.
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The abolition of Dampier led him to contest the seat of Swan at the 1922 election, while party colleague and member for Swan John Prowse contested the new seat of Forrest. In federal parliament, he was a long-serving member of the Public Works Committee (1914-26 and 1929-31) and its chairman from 1917 to 1926. He was also a member of the 1913 Royal Commission on the pearling industry, 1914 Royal Commission into powellized timber and the 1927-28 Royal Commission into the Australian moving picture industry. He frequently clashed with his conservative colleagues over tariff issues to protect Western Australian interests, and in 1932, he advocated a referendum to amend the Constitution to allow Western Australia to set its own customs and excise duties for 25 years; when this did not meet with support, he became a supporter of the 1933 Western Australian secession referendum.
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The Moving Picture World, 1916 > After her very successful debut in Susie Snowflake it was decided to star > Miss Pennington in a circus story to be called The Rainbow Princess which is > being staged under the direction of J. Searle Dawley. In this picture Miss > Pennington plays a little waif who has been adopted by the wife of the > proprietor of a circus and is forced to do a great deal of the mean work > around the place in addition to learning to do tricks with the animals. Of > course there is a lover among the men in the troupe but The Princess, > realizing that he is not quite sincere in his attentions, has the good sense > to refuse to accept his attentions. She later proves to be not at all the > waif that she was thought to be and—but the story is one to be seen on the > screen.
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Maescher published five books on building industry and was founder, and for seventeen years president, of the De Luxe Building Company, a home building and architecture design firm. She was among United States' most successful women contractors during the early 1920s. At the beginning of the 20th century, the De Luxe Building Co. used trade catalogs to propose different option to potential buyers like: "Kozy-homes", a selection of artistic little houses designed to meet the demands of those seeking plans for economical homes with the maximum convenience, and "Plan- kraft", homes for progressive people who wish to build homes that were different, Swiss chalets and Japanese architectures. Ada Bell Maescher, Moving Picture World Jun 1922 In 1922, Maescher organized the De Luxe Film Company to produce a propaganda picture, Night Life in Hollywood, which would show the "real" living conditions in the film capital.
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United States Senate Bill S.3804, known as the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) was a bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on September 20, 2010. It proposed amendments to Chapter 113 of Title 18 of the United States Code that would authorize the Attorney General to bring an in rem action against any domain name found "dedicated to infringing activities", as defined within the text of the bill. Upon bringing such an action, and obtaining an order for relief, the registrar of, or registry affiliated with, the infringing domain would be compelled to "suspend operation of and lock the domain name." The bill was supported by the Motion Picture Association of America, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Screen Actors Guild, Viacom, and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States.
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47 Ronin is a 2013 American fantasy action film directed by Carl Rinsch in his directorial debut. Written by Chris Morgan and Hossein Amini from a story conceived by Morgan and Walter Hamada, the film is a work of Chūshingura ("The Treasury of Loyal Retainers"), serving as a fictionalized account of the forty-seven rōnin, a real-life group of masterless samurai under daimyō Asano Naganori in 18th-century Japan who avenged Naganori's death by confronting his rival Kira Yoshinaka. Starring Keanu Reeves and Hiroyuki Sanada, the film has almost nothing in common with the original historical epic, instead being set "in a world of witches and giants." Produced by H2F Entertainment, Mid Atlantic Films, Moving Picture Company, Stuber Productions and Relativity Media, 47 Ronin premiered in Japan on December 6, 2013 before being released by Universal Pictures on December 25, 2013 in the United States in both 3D and 2D.
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Six companies dealt with the 1,700 visual effects shots, under the supervision of Pete Travers. The main studios were Sony Pictures Imageworks, with 300 shots that included the climactic Times Square sequence and all the proton beams, Moving Picture Company (MPC), with 250 shots that centered around the final battle which included Rowan's monster form, and Australian company Iloura, with 500 shots encompassing various ghosts. While the majority of the work involved computer-generated imagery, there was an attempt to use various practical effects akin to the original movies, with Travers explaining it was done "not to pay homage, but because it was the best way to achieve the effect." Stand-ins for the ghosts were created on the set for the actors to interact with, including actresses suspended by wires, drones as references for flying ghosts, a Slimer puppet and giant balloons for a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man parade balloon.
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In a scene where Cillian Murphy's character dreams of falling into the Sun, the actor was placed in a gantry around which 20 assistants rotated an assembly of bright lights. In another scene in which a character dies from solar exposure among the ashes from cremated bodies, massive wind turbines propelled biodegradable dust at the actor in the director's attempt to have the computer-generated effects follow the actor instead of vice versa. Boyle commented on his approach to using effects, "There is part of our brain where we admire the effect, but we put it in a side compartment of our experience because you know there's no way an actor can live through that, or be there in that moment." During the post-production process, Boyle hired one visual effects company, London's Moving Picture Company, to work on the film's 750 visual effects.
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Advertisement in trade journal Moving Picture World for Fox production Luck and Pluck (1919)Walsh proved himself at Reliance/Majestic on the west coast and moved to the newly established Fox Film Corporation on the east coast, becoming a serious rival to Douglas Fairbanks there, as well as a national and international star. His output for the studio was characterized by daring stunts, fights, dramatic pursuits, and happy endings with his female co-stars. He also perfected his comedy timing and learned how to get laughs, though it was far from amusing when he quarreled with William Fox about his salary and departed towards the end of 1920. Two years of ups and downs followed which included Serenade (1921), alongside his sister-in-law, Miriam Cooper; varied personal appearances; vaudeville; an unpleasant divorce trial; and an 18-episode historical serial, entitled With Stanley in Africa (1922).
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Albany, 1912. Johnny Edge (Mark Harmon) offers his final nickel to watch a moving picture in the nickelodeon theater run by 47-year-old Peter Kessler (Vincent Gardenia). Peter is contractually obligated to show pictures made by The Combine, currently the leading film production company in New York state. Peter believes in the potential of moving pictures but agrees that the productions by The Combine are a cheap novelty, and continuously breaks contract to show the pictures he prefers. Johnny shares Peter’s passion for the film industry and lands a job at his theatre selling candy. Soon, Peter’s profit doubles and he agrees to Johnny’s plan to make their own pictures. They visit New York City and meet with The Combine’s studio boss Charles Slade (Howard Duff). Here, they learn that making pictures requires an expensive license, which prompts them to sell the nickelodeon theater to associate George Pappas (José Ferrer).
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News Corp was one of the five commercial groups that won the national broadcasting license in Serbia at a public tender organized by Serbian Broadcasting Agency in April 2006.News Corp.’s "Fox Televizija" Awarded National Television License in the Republic of Serbia, NewsCorp Press Release, 20 April 2006 In doing so, they beat out stiff competition from German RTL Group that also wanted to start a Serbian operation. News Corp named Dan Bates, an experienced television executive to be the CEO of its upstart Serbian operation. Some three months later on 6 September 2006, an entity named Fox televizija started broadcasting a test signal consisting only of the superimposed Fox logo. Three days later on 9 September 2006 at precisely 8 pm, they played their first actual moving picture programme – a nature documentary that lasted some 45 minutes – before reverting to the Fox logo test signal.
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The legislation has broad support from organizations that rely on copyright, including the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Entertainment Software Association, Macmillan US, Viacom, and various other companies and unions in the cable, movie, and music industries. Supporters also include trademark-dependent companies such as Nike, L'Oréal, and Acushnet Company. Both the AFL–CIO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce support H.R. 3261, and many trade unions and industry groups large and small, have also publicly praised the legislation. In a joint statement, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), Directors Guild of America (DGA), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada (IATSE), International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) all showed support for SOPA.
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With its situation on the Hudson River, midway between New York City and Albany, it became a transportation hub and an industrial center. Its industries included the manufacturing of cottons, woolens, silks, paper, felt hats, baking powder, soap, paper boxes, brick, plush goods, steam boilers, tools, automobiles, coin silver, bleach, candles, waterway gates, ice machines, pumps, moving-picture screens, overalls, perfumes, furniture, carpets, carburetors, spiral springs, spiral pipe, shirt waists, shirts, felt goods, lawn mowers; shipyards; foundries and machine shops; tanneries; leatherette works; and plaster works. J. J. Nutt made this comment about Newburgh: Newburgh was home to the second Edison power plant which installed and powered 126 lamps at the Orange Woolen Mill, and was the second American city (after New York's Pearl Street) to have a street lit using electricity. Broadway, which at in width is one of the widest streets in the state of New York, runs through the city culminating with views of the Hudson River.
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The production of this photoplay at this particular time has caused > many unexpected difficulties to be placed in the path of Director Dawley, > because of the strict quarantines which have been placed upon itinerant > citizens because of the paralysis plague. As a result of these numerous > obstacles, Mr. Dawley was forced to arrange with one of the circuses which > was on Long Island to have it apparently disband and travel back to New York > in small units, with the Famous Players studio as their rendezvous. Then the > tent was set up in a large vacant lot on the west side and the scenes were > taken. Miss Pennington, who is a remarkably clever athlete and is a trained > acrobat, has already done some very startling feats in the "show" and she > predicts that she will accomplish even more before the end of the pictureThe > Moving Picture World, Volume 29; July–September 1916; pg.
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No copy of this Edison production is listed in Library of Congress, the UCLA Film Archives, in the collection of moving images at the Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman Museum, the Library and Archives Canada, or in other major film repositories in the United States, Canada, or Europe.In June 2020, online and hard-copy searches for this film were made in the collections of the Library of Congress, the UCLA Film Archives, the Department of Film of the Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman Museum, the Library and Archives Canada, BFI National Archive, and the holdings of EU film repositories through the European Film Gateway. The film is therefore presumed to be a lost production. A major fire at Edison's Bronx facilities on March 28, 1914 devastated much of the studio, destroying sets, large collections of costumes, production equipment, and, as reported in The New York Times, "many moving picture feature films".
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Acres invented the first British 35 mm moving picture camera, the first daylight loading home movie camera and projector, Birtac, was the first travelling newsreel reporter in international film history and the first European film maker who had his films shown in the United States in public performances. He contributed much to the introduction and development of cinematography in all its aspects, from the construction of cameras, projectors, film viewers, coating- and slitting machines and the manufacture of highly sensitized 35 mm raw film stock, to mobile newsreel reporting and the public projections of moving pictures. With his partner Robert W. Paul, he was the first person to build and run a working 35 mm camera in Britain. Incident at Clovelly Cottage was made in March 1895 and featured Acres' wife with their infant son in a pram outside Acres' then home of Clovelly Cottage, Park Road, Chipping Barnet, which still exists.
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Keogh 1955, p. 62 Suez Canal to El Arish During one of the patrols, on 19 August, a group of 68 Ottoman soldiers was found half dead from thirst by the 5th Light Horse Regiment (2nd Light Horse Brigade) who, rather than attacking them, gave them water and their rides. The commanding officer and his men led the Ottoman Army soldiers on their horses for through deep sand until met by transport. "This was a very queer sight and worthy of a moving picture [of these] poor sacrifices of the Huns."20 August 1916 Letter, Capt. H. Wetherell, Personal Records AWM quoted in Hill 1978, p. 84 British infantry was brought forward to fortify and provide garrisons along the length of the railway. They formed a firm base for mobile operations and defence in depth for the huge administrative organisation advancing with the railway, in support of the Anzac Mounted Division and the 52nd (Lowland) Division.
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In New York in 1909, Powell expanded his career into the rapidly expanding motion picture industry, working initially as an actor and scriptwriter at Biograph Studios. There he also co-directed his first film with D.W. Griffith and demonstrated an adeptness at directing comedies. After directing 63 short films for Biograph, Powell in 1914 journeyed again to Europe, where he joined Pathé Frères as a producer of historical and romantic dramas. Ill health required him to curtail his work for a while, but he used the opportunity to travel around Europe and increase his knowledge of acting types and of costumes and landscapes in various countries. On his return to the United States, Powell in April 1912 was engaged by Powers Motion Pictures, and after being with that company for less than a year, he worked briefly again for Biograph before rejoining Pathé as a director of special features."Frank Powell Joins Powers", Moving Picture World, April 27, 1912, p. 305.
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Retrieved September 22, 2009. and quickly came up with the idea of a piece composed of a single tracking shot. The team proposed the idea to several production companies, eventually settling on London-based production house Stinkdigital. After consultation with Stinkdigital about the possibility of having the tracking shot move through a frozen moment in time,White, Ed; "Stink’s Adam Berg takes us behind Philips “Carousel” ", Boards, April 21, 2009. Retrieved September 22, 2009. the team brought on director Adam Berg, who had produced a similar advertisement for JC Jeans in 2006."Cannes On Location: Adam Berg and Mark Pytlik ", Boards, July 14, 2009. Retrieved September 22, 2009.Stasukevich, Iain; "Carousel Showcases Philips' New Widescreen TV", American Cinematographer, August 12, 2009. Retrieved September 22, 2009 via Moving Picture Company website. Working together with Stinkdigital executive producer Mark Pytlik, Berg began brainstorming ideas for the piece in February, including car chases and bank robberies."Philips “Carousel: The Making Of” ", Tribal DDB. Retrieved September 22, 2009, via Boards website."Blaze of Glory ", Shots, April 16, 2009. Retrieved September 22, 2009.
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Brundage wrote to a German correspondent regretting that Leni Riefenstahl's film about the Berlin Olympics, Olympia, could not be commercially shown in the United States, as "unfortunately the theaters and moving picture companies are almost all owned by Jews". The Berlin Games had increased Brundage's admiration for Germany, and he spoke out at a speech before the German-American Bund at Madison Square Garden in October 1936, stating that "five years ago they [Germans] were discouraged and demoralized—today they are united—sixty million people believing in themselves and in their country ..." In 1938, his construction company received the contract to build a new German embassy in Washington (this was not fulfilled as World War II intervened). Brundage joined the Keep America Out of War Committee and became a member of America First (he resigned from both the day after Pearl Harbor). Although the 1940 Olympic Games were canceled due to World War II, Brundage sought to organize Western Hemisphere games that might be able to proceed despite the troubled international climate.
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Miss Prim with airplane at the flight school Aero Material in left Both men and women after World War I were able to purchase "surplus and decommissioned planes." Wanting to fly, but with little demand after the war, pilots purchased the planes and went from town to town offering rides. Creating attractions to bring in crowds, these daredevils performed stunts, loops and began wing walking to attract more customers. The aerialists and pilots formed flying circuses sending promoters ahead of them to hang posters promoting their dangerous feats. In 1920, Phoebe Fairgrave, later Omlie, at the age of eighteen determined to make her aviation career as a stuntwoman. By 1921, she had set a world women's parachute drop record of 15,200 feet and worked as a wing walker for the Fox Moving Picture Company's The Perils of Pauline series. By 1927, Omlie earned the first transport pilots license and airplane mechanics license issued to a woman. Another stuntwoman, Ethel Dare had perfected walking from one plane to another by 1920, the first woman to perform the feat.
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During the early 1990s, the rave scene built on the acid house scene. The rave scene changed dance music, the image of DJs, and the nature of promoting. The innovative marketing surrounding the rave scene created the first superstar DJs who established marketable "brands" around their names and sound. Some of these celebrity DJs toured around the world and were able to branch out into other music-related activities. During the early 1990s, the Compact Disc surpassed the gramophone record in popularity, but gramophone records continued to be made (although in very limited quantities) into the 21st century—particularly for club DJs and for local acts recording on small regional labels. In 1991, Mobile Beat magazine, geared specifically toward mobile DJs, began publishing and in their premier edition featured award-winning club & Mobile DJ Chris Pangalos from Rolling Thunder Productions. Pangalos was also featured in the April 1993 edition of DJ Times magazine as well. In 1992, the Moving Picture Experts Group released the MPEG-1 standard, designed to produce reasonable sound at low bit rates.
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Some of the films with the largest ever box office returns have been made in the United Kingdom, including the third and fourth highest-grossing film series (Harry Potter and James Bond). The first moving picture was shot in Leeds by Louis Le Prince in 1888 and the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by British inventor William Friese Greene, who patented the process in 1890. Two of the top eight highest-grossing films worldwide of all time have some British historical, cultural or creative dimensions: Titanic (1997), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), made in New Zealand, and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2005). Adding four more Harry Potter films and one more Lord of the Rings movie, plus the Tim Burton version of Alice in Wonderland (2010), and more than half of the top twenty most financially successful films, had a substantial British dimension.
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The film featured 2,750 visual effects shots, which make up approximately 90% of the film. The visual effects were created by: Moving Picture Company (MPC), who worked on creating Groot, as well as Morag, Xandar, the Dark Aster and the final battle on Xandar; Framestore, who worked on creating Rocket, extending the Kyln prison set and constructing Knowhere; Luma Pictures, who worked on Thanos; Method Studios, who worked on creating the Orb opening and revealing its powers, as well as the holographic displays at the Nova Corps command center; Lola VFX; Cantina Creative; Sony Pictures Imageworks, who worked on Howard the Duck and creating the Dark Aster shots with MPC; CoSA VFX; Secret Lab; Rise Visual Effects Studios; and Technicolor VFX. Pre- and post-visualizations were done by Proof and The Third Floor, with Proof also contributing to the creation of Rocket and Groot. Producer Nik Korda noted how helpful it was to have Sean Gunn and Krystian Godlewski portray Rocket and Groot on set, as it provided references for lighting and on-set performances to the animators.
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Market Blandings is a fictional town, being the closest town to Blandings Castle. It is the site of the Emsworth Arms and a host of other hostelries (such as the Beetle and Wedge, the Blue Boar, the Blue Cow, the Blue Dragon, the Cow and Grasshopper, the Goat and Feathers, the Goose and Gander, the Jolly Cricketers, the Stitch in Time, the Wheatsheaf, and the Waggoner's Rest), as well as a useful railway station, from where a fast train can get you to Paddington in under four hours. A sleepy old place, Market Blandings is one of England's most picturesque towns, and has an air of having been the same for centuries; the lichened church has a four-square tower, the shops red roofs, and the upper floors of the inns bulge comfortably outward. The most modern thing there is the moving-picture house, which calls itself an "Electric Theatre", is covered in ivy and features stone gables; the only other up-to-date location is the shop of Jno.
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London 4 February 1914, announcement of the Woman's Aerial League silver trophy and $5,000 prize. Curtiss factory with the second prototype designed under Porte's supervision;The Admiralty Contracts Case. Flight. 22 November 1917 appearing in The Sun 18 June 1914, "The latest photographs of the Wanamaker seaplane. Lieut. Porte standing by the machine." A cutting from Moving Picture World 25 July 1914: Glen Curtiss, actress Norma Phillips (Our Mutual Girl) and Porte with his characteristic straw hat in front of the Trans-Atlantic Flyer. About 1911 Porte met American aircraft designer Glenn Curtiss and proposed a partnership to produce an aircraft to compete in the Daily Mail prize for the first transatlantic crossing. In 1912 Curtiss produced the two-seat Flying Fish that was classified as a flying boat because the hull sat in the water; it featured an innovative notch or "step" in the hull that Porte recommended for breaking clear of the water on takeoff. Pursuing his interest in flying boats, over October 1913 Porte met Curtiss with Eric Gordon England at George Volk's Seaplane Base on Brighton sea front, where the Curtiss flying boat was demonstrated.
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348 accessed July 4, 2012 Lights and Shadows by Henry Leslie; the Frank Harvey, Sr. play, The World Against Her;The Theater: a Monthly Review and Magazine; September 1, 1887; pg. 166 accessed July 4, 2012The Athenaeum; April 4, 1903; pg. 444; col. 2 accessed July 4, 2012 The Tigress by Ramsey Morris;The Theater: a Monthly Review and Magazine; July 1, 1889; pg. 54 accessed July 4, 2012 The Long Strike by Dion Boucicault;The New international Encyclopaedia, Volume 3 edited by Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams; pg. 596 accessed July 4, 2012 Lester Wallack's Rosedale; another Boucicault play, The Streets of New York,The Moving Picture World; July-September, 1913; pg. 438 accessed July 4, 2012 with Grismer and Davies playing the principal roles, Tom Badger and Alida Bloodgood; Enoch Arden, from the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson;Adams, William Davenport; A Dictionary of the Drama; 1904; pg. 463 accessed July 4, 2012 The Wages of Sin, a morality story by Frank Harvey, Sr.;Klapka, Jerome Jerome, & Pain, Barry - To-Day, Volume 3; 1894; pg. 180 accessed July 4, 2012 and The Calthorpe Case, a melodrama by Arthur Goodrich.
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In 2012, Linda Atiyeh purchased the 16,400-square-foot building located at 26-28 York Street with plans to relocate and expand Gallery 30. This historic building began life as Walter's Theater; at the turn of the 20th Century entrepreneur John F. Walters, who had had great success with a small “moving picture business” on Baltimore Street in Gettysburg, decided “to erect a larger theater, complete with stage on York Street.” Walter's Theater regularly hosted picture shows, community theater events, singers and traveling vaudeville acts. The theater created a stir in 1910 when it featured a “real burlesque show” called “Monte Carlo Girls” live on its stage. The graduation ceremony for Gettysburg High School's class of 1917 was also held at Walter's Theater, with those in attendance taking special notice of the patriotic decorations hung throughout the auditorium in support of the American troops in World War I. In 1917, Richard H. Humphries of Philadelphia became the manager of Walter's Theater, changing the theater's name to the Lincoln Way Theater. In 1927, E.L. Weikert acquired the Lincoln Way Theater, remodeled the building into an auto garage and opened a Hudson-Essex dealership called E.L. Weikert Motor Car Company.
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His 1996 speech at the joint ICSU/UNESCO Electronic Publishing in Science conference in Paris on "Tools and standards for protection, control and archiving" and his book later that year on "Intellectual Property in Electronic Environments" both helped frame the legal, scientific and technical debate in the emerging field of Digital Rights Management. Armati was also part of the digital copyright experts group that worked closely with the World Intellectual Property Organization in the period leading up to the ratification of the WIPO Copyright Treaty in December 1996. In 1996 Armati joined InterTrust Technologies, the leading company in the then nascent field of Digital Rights Management, where he was a member of the leadership group through the company's 1999 IPO until its sale to Sony and Philips in early 2003. During his time with InterTrust, Armati was also active in international standards groups, having been a vice-chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America's international Secure Digital Music Initiative, a board member of the Open eBook Forum (now the International Digital Publishing Forum) and a significant contributor to the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), particularly in the development of a standard for the management and protection of intellectual property in MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21.
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Under the tutelage of her husband/director Frank E Montgomery, Darkfeather played Indian and several Spanish leads in many Bison Company Productions. Darkfeather made movies for Bison starting in 1909, the Selig Polyscope Company between 1909 and 1913, Nestor Studios in 1912 and for Kalem Studios beginning in 1913. Montgomery directed her in the 101-Bison two-reeler The Massacre of the Fourth Cavalry (1912).Moving Picture World, 23 November 1912, pp.729,782; The Universal Weekly, 23 November 1912, p. 28. Other films he directed her in include A Forest Romance, For the Peace of Bear Valley and Justice of the Wild, all released in 1913, in which she played opposite Harry von Meter. Darkfeather was Cecil B. DeMille's first choice to portray the Indian wife, Nat-u-ritch, in his famous western The Squaw Man (1914), but she was too busy, as she and Montgomery were producing their own movies independently for release through the Kalem Company, and she was unavailable to play the role. The San Francisco Dramatic Review, 10 January 1914, p. 11. Princess Darkfeather, Liberty Theater, Tacoma, Washington, 1918 She and Montgomery joined the Universal Film Company in 1914 and continued to collaborate on scores of westerns.
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