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Clapperboard. A clapperboard, also known as a dumb slate, clapboard, film clapper, film slate, movie slate, or production slate, is a device used in filmmaking, television production and video production to assist in synchronizing of picture and sound, and to designate and mark the various scenes and takes as they are filmed and audio-recorded.
Jamie Babbit; Héctor Babenco; Lloyd Bacon; Clarence G. Badger; John Badham; Bae Yong-Kyun; Cindy Baer; Prince Bagdasarian; King Baggot; Nadeem Baig; Prano Bailey-Bond
Mank is a 2020 American biographical drama film about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his development of the screenplay for the 1941 film Citizen Kane.It was directed by David Fincher based on a screenplay written by his late father Jack Fincher and was produced by Ceán Chaffin, Douglas Urbanski, and Eric Roth.
Befriended by John Schlesinger, who provided the funding, Hoffman's next film was Restless Natives, a humorous look at young Scottish boys who hold up tour buses.His other credits include Some Girls, starring a young Patrick Dempsey, Restoration with Robert Downey, Jr.
Making the film was a crushing experience for De Palma, as Smothers did not like many of De Palma's ideas. [21] Here he made several small, studio and independently released films. Among them were the horror film Sisters (1972), the rock musical Phantom of the Paradise (1974) and Obsession (1976), a variation on theme of Alfred Hitchcock 's ...
Ernst Lubitsch (/ ˈ l uː b ɪ tʃ /; January 29, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor.His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".
Neill Blomkamp (Afrikaans: [ˈnil ˈblɔmkamp]; born 17 September 1979) is a South African and Canadian film director and screenwriter.He is known as the co-writer and director of the science fiction action film District 9 (2009), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the director of the dystopian science fiction action film Elysium (2013), which ...
Vincent was born on September 6, 1940, in Michigan.His father, Charles Dingley (Carmelo Dingli), was an immigrant from Rabat, Malta.. Vincent began his career in the 1960s in regional theater and Off-Broadway, doing work in a wide variety of behind-the-scenes jobs and positions for 12 years, [2] including at theater companies such as the Negro Ensemble Company, where he was a set designer, [3 ...