Posts Tagged ‘animated film’
Getting in touch with one’s inner auteur…
Harboring creative impulses that struggle for release? Ready for your close-up? French television channel and film production company Canal+ rides to the rescue with flowcharts (well, advertisements made by Gregory Ferembach for Euro RSCG)…
larger version here
One can also find guidance on how to make an animated movie, a horror flick, an action epic, even… well, an “erotic” film.
Roll ’em!
[TotH to Flavorwire]
As we Just Do It, we might that it was on this date in 1914 that the first of the “Dream Palaces,” the Mark Strand Theater– or “The Strand, as it was known– opened in New York. Hitherto, “movies” had been shown in storefront “nickelodeons”; by contrast the Strand was large (3,000 seats) and luxurious. Designed by Thomas Lamb and built at a cost of over $1 million, it became the model for Picture Palaces nationwide. Indeed, by 1916, over 21,000 large movie theaters across the U.S. were showing feature-length films (instead of programs of shorts) in order to justify premium prices. The movie-palace boom (and the corresponding demise of the nickelodeons) laid the foundation for the rise of the studio system, which dominated Hollywood from the 1920s into the 1950s.
I made it out of clay…
Chanukah– the Festival of Lights, a time of celebration of the Maccabees’ victory and of the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple, a commemoration of the miracle of the oil that burned for 8 days– is a time for families to gather, for dreidels to be spun and thanks to be given… and an occasion for some serious creativity.
More marvelous menorahs at URLesque.
As we sit at the Holiday table, we might steer clear of the poison apples: it was on this date in 1937 that Walt Disney released the first full-length animated feature film produced in the U.S. (and the first produced anywhere in full color), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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