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The Cannon Group, Inc. was an American group of companies, including Cannon Films, which produced films from 1967 to 1994. [2] The extensive group also owned, amongst others, a large international cinema chain and a video film company that invested heavily in the video market, buying the international video rights to several classic film libraries.
A Movie Machine, Inc. & Athena Film Co. Production: Cannon Group Inc. [47] November 1976: The Ups and Downs of a Handyman: A K.F.R. Production: 1977: Naughty Girls on the Loose (Secrets of a Superstud) A Meadway International Productions / S.R.E. Film Group Production: Cannon Group Inc. [48] June 1977: 2076 Olympiad
Production began with the Hansa Canon on the Leica III format through World War II. Post war, Canon resumed production of pre-war designs in early 1946 with the JII viewfinder and the S1 rangefinder. But in late 1946 they introduced the SII which departed from the Leica design by offering a combined viewfinder/rangefinder system, reducing the ...
Canon introduced its first high-definition camcorder in 2005. [14] In November 2009, Canon made a €730 million (US$1.1 billion) all-cash offer for the Dutch printer maker Océ. [15] Canon had acquired majority ownership of Océ by March 2010, [16] and completed the acquisition of 100% of shares in Océ by the end of 2011. [17]
Camcorders combine a camera and a VCR or other recording device in one unit; these are mobile, and were widely used for television production, home movies, electronic news gathering (ENG) (including citizen journalism), and similar applications. Since the transition to digital video cameras, most cameras have in-built recording media and as ...
DisneyToon Studios was founded in Paris in the late 1980s to produce DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, which is not considered by the studio to be part of the Disney animated "canon". [27] The practice of making non-canon direct-to-video sequels to canon films began in 1994 with The Return of Jafar, a sequel to Aladdin.
In Italy, production was spread over several centers, Turin was the first major film production centre, and Milan and Naples gave birth to the first film magazines. [76] In Turin, Ambrosio was the first company in the field in 1905, and remained the largest in the country through this period.
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.