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  2. History of film - Wikipedia

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    Although cinema was increasingly dominated by special-effects films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Jurassic Park (1993) and Titanic (1997), the latter of which became the highest-grossing film of all time at the time up until Avatar (2009), also directed by James Cameron, independent films like Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and ...

  3. 1937 in film - Wikipedia

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    The year 1937 in film involved some significant events, including the Walt Disney production of the first American full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Top-grossing films (U.S.)

  4. History of film technology - Wikipedia

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    New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Merritt, Greg. Celluloid Mavericks: A History of American Independent Film. Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001. Musser, Charles (1990). The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0-684-18413-3. Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey, ed.

  5. The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    The Adventures of a Good Citizen (1937) dir. Stefan Themerson; Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) dir. Roman Polanski; Das Blaue Licht (1932) dir. Leni Riefenstahl; Triumph of the Will (1935) dir. Leni Riefenstahl; Behind the Scenes of the Filming of the Olympic Games (1937) dir. Leni Riefenstahl; Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) dir ...

  6. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    Slumdog Millionaire is the first Academy Award for Best Cinematography winner shot mainly on digital video. Avatar by James Cameron is the first 3-D film to be the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing the 2D ones. [citation needed]. It is also the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Cinematography shot entirely on digital video ...

  7. An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema ...

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    An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896–1937 is a 2005 book by Zhang Zhen published by the University of Chicago Press.Based on her doctoral dissertation, it employs Miriam Hansen's concept of "vernacular modernism" to explore the first four decades of the cinema of China, with particular focus on Shanghai.

  8. List of Universal Pictures films (1930–1939) - Wikipedia

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    November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This is a list of films produced or distributed by Universal Pictures in 1930–1939, founded in 1912 as the Universal Film Manufacturing Company .

  9. History of cinema in the United States - Wikipedia

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    However, the introduction of the low-cost VHS video system for home televisions has decommissioned many porno cinemas as well as many 'second-run' theaters. People can pay to watch movies at home after a few short months following their theatrical release, through cable television or streaming media: pay-per-view (PPV) and video on demand (VOD).