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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 ...
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.
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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 ...
1885 – American inventors George Eastman and Hannibal Goodwin each invented a sensitized celluloid base roll photographic film to replace the glass plates then in use. L'homme Machine, was directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey; it is the oldest black and white animated known film.
The development of cinema is characterised by technological breakthroughs, from early experiments in the recording of day-to-day activity, experiments in colour, different formats and sound. From the 1970s, the development of computer-generated imagery became integral to the way that films are produced.
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.)
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, and the final minute. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.