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The 3,552-square-foot (330.0 m 2) photograph was made to mark the end of 165 years of film/chemistry-based photography and the start of the age of digital photography. It was taken using a decommissioned Marine Corps jet hangar (Building #115 at El Toro) transformed into the world's largest camera to make the world's largest picture.
Gavel is a 2008 sculpture by Andrew F. Scott, depicting a gavel, a mallet used by judges to maintain order in a courtroom and to punctuate rulings. The work is located at the Ohio Judicial Center, home to the Supreme Court of Ohio, situated in Downtown Columbus's Civic Center. The work was considered the largest gavel in the world upon its ...
The photograph is an extreme close-up of a woman's upturned face with glass droplets placed on her cheeks to imitate tears. [s 1] [s 4] Sleeping Woman: 1930 Man Ray Paris, France [s 2] See article Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare: 1932 Henri Cartier-Bresson: Paris, France 35 mm [s 1] [s 2] [s 3]
Often, a country has its own film archive to preserve the national audiovisual heritage. The International Federation of Film Archives comprises more than 150 institutions in over 77 countries and the Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques is an affiliation of 49 European national and regional film archives founded in 1991.
The theater was conceived by film producer Herbert Lubin in mid-1925 as the world's largest and finest movie palace. To realize his dream, Lubin brought in the successful and innovative theater operator Samuel L. Rothafel, aka "Roxy" , [ 2 ] enticing him with a large salary, a percentage of the profits and stock options, and even offering to ...
The Super 8 festival is the longest-running festival of its kind in the world and features films made with Super 8, a motion-picture film format released in 1965.
United States of America 40°42′51″N 73°57′35″W / 40.714143888889°N 73.959858888889°W / 40.714143888889; -73.959858888889 New Beverly Cinema
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%.