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Following the book's publication, by Macdonald in London and by Prentice-Hall in the USA, the hoax name has appeared in the game Trivial Pursuit (fooled by the hoax, the gamemakers listed Otto Titzling as the "correct answer" to the question of who invented the brassière), on the TV show Hollywood Squares in the late 1980s (John Davidson's ...
In 1820 he patented fastenings for gloves, suspenders, shoes and stockings; in the process of creating these early elastic fabrics, Hancock found himself wasting large amounts of rubber. He invented a machine to shred the waste rubber, his "Pickling machine" (or "masticator" as it is now known).
Suspenders (American English, Canadian English), or braces (British English, New Zealand English, Australian English) are fabric or leather straps worn over the shoulders to hold up skirts or trousers. The straps may be elasticated, either entirely or only at attachment ends, and most straps are of woven cloth forming an X or Y shape at the back.
Trailer for Universal Pictures' science-fiction horror film Frankenstein (1931). A trailer (also known as a preview, coming attraction, or attraction video) is a short advertisement, originally designed for a feature film, which highlights key scenes of upcoming features intended to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater or cinema.
Theodore Willard Case was born in 1888 in Auburn, New York, to Willard Erastus Case (1857–1918) and Eva Fidelia Caldwell Case (1857–1952). [1] He attended a few boarding schools as a youth including The Manlius School near Syracuse, New York and Cloyne House School in Newport, Rhode Island, He also attended the St. Paul School in Concord, New Hampshire, to finish his secondary education. [2]
The technical quality was usually lower than professional movies, but improved with digital video and affordable, high-quality digital cameras. Improving over time, digital production methods became more popular during the 1990s, resulting in increasingly realistic visual effects and popular feature-length computer animations .
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 ...
Mark Lee Romanek (/ r oʊ ˈ m æ n ɪ k /; [1] born September 18, 1959) is an American filmmaker and photographer.. Romanek is known for his music videos, which have earned him three Grammy Awards for Best Short Form Music Video (more than any other director) and 20 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Direction for Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.