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Gerald McBoing-Boing is an animated short film about a little boy who speaks through sound effects instead of spoken words. Produced by United Productions of America (UPA), it was given a wide release by Columbia Pictures on November 2, 1950. The story was adapted by Phil Eastman and Bill Scott from a story by Dr. Seuss.
First CGI film created for viewing with 3-D glasses. Spawn: First extensive use of CGI fire in a feature film beyond sweetening. First film to integrate a CGI fabric onto a character's costume. [41] Titanic: First wide-release feature film with CGI elements rendered under the open-source Linux operating system. [42]
An example of cutout animation, produced at the UK's National Media Museum El Apóstol (1917) by Italian-Argentine cartoonist Quirino Cristiani , was also the world's first animated feature film. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) by Lotte Reiniger is a silhouette animation using armatured cutouts with backgrounds that were variously ...
The 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit has honored both the golden age of American animation and classical Hollywood cinema. [150] The film featured cameos of various famous animated cartoon characters from multiple animation studios, such as Disney, Warner Bros., Fleischer Studios, Universal, among others.
A 'turnaround' or 'turnaround deal' is occasionally used to describe an arrangement in the film industry whereby the production costs of a project that one studio has developed are declared a loss on the company's tax return, thereby preventing the studio from exploiting the property any further. The rights can then be sold to another studio in ...
Shot/reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character (a reverse shot or countershot). Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are ...
Marty McFly is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Back to the Future franchise.He is a high school student living in the fictional town of Hill Valley, California, who accidentally becomes a time traveler and alters history after his scientist friend Emmett Brown invents a DeLorean time machine.
The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.