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U2 3D was the first live-action film to be shot, posted, and exhibited entirely in 3D, [128] the first live-action digital 3D film, [129] and the first 3D concert film. [130] Regarding its production, it was the first 3D film shot using a zoom lens , [ 131 ] an aerial camera , [ 132 ] and a multiple-camera setup . [ 129 ]
This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926 and 1929. [1] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone , as well as sound on disc formats like ...
The Linguists is an independent 2008 American documentary film produced by Ironbound Films about language extinction and language documentation.It follows two linguists, Greg Anderson of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages [2] and David Harrison of Swarthmore College, [3] as they travel around the world to collect recordings of some of the last speakers of several moribund ...
Death March (Filipino: Martsang kamatayan) is a 2013 Philippine war drama directed by Adolfo Alix, Jr. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival . [ 1 ]
Native American languages are spoken in smaller pockets of the country, but these populations are decreasing, and the languages are seldom widely used outside of reservations. Besides English, Spanish, French, German, Navajo and other Native American languages, all other languages are usually learned from immigrant ancestors that came after the ...
It was a German-language paper, Der Pennsylvanische Staatsbote that on July 5, 1776, was the first paper to report the American Declaration of Independence, and it did so in German translation. English readers would have to wait a day later to read the English text in The Pennsylvania Evening Post.
For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the terminal speaker is identifiable. In other cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history of the sprachraum .
The Birth of a Nation was the first movie shown in the White House, in the East Room, on February 18, 1915. [59] (An earlier movie, the Italian Cabiria (1914), was shown on the lawn.) It was attended by President Woodrow Wilson, members of his family, and members of his Cabinet. [60] Both Dixon and Griffith were present.