Documentary Films

History Of French Animation ... Animation was essentially an afterthought, but an initial and short-lived period of co-production with the Walt Disney Company in the making of animated propaganda films helped establish a core of animators who continued production after Disney withdrew...

History Of British Animation ... Émile Cohl (1857–1938) created what is most likely the first real animated cartoon to be drawn on paper, Fantasmagorie in 1908. Other notable French animations Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on Bald Mountain), 1933, directed by Alexandre Alexeieff...

National Film Board Of Canada ... In 2006, Turner Classic Movies began airing cult films as part of its new late-night series, TCM Underground... In the cinema Since at least as far back as the 1930s, exploitation films had sometimes been presented at midnight screenings, usually as part of independent roadshow operations... Wood points to the Palace Theater in San Francisco's North Beach district where, in 1968, San Francisco Art Institute graduates Michael Wiese and Steven Arnold, after a sellout screening of their Dalí-esque thesis film Messages, Messages, were invited to program offbeat films at midnight...

DVD ... History Before the advent of DVD and Blu-ray, Video CD (VCD) became the first format for distributing digitally encoded films on standard 120 mm optical discs...

New Hollywood ... The films they made were part of the studio system, and these individuals were not "independent filmmakers", but they introduced subject matter and styles that set them apart from the studio traditions... The 1950s and early 60s saw a Hollywood dominated by musicals, historical epics, and other films that benefited from the larger screens, wider framing and improved sound...

Nazism And Cinema ... History of animation in the United Kingdom Animation is based on the phenomenon of 'persistence of vision', first identified in a paper by Peter Mark Roget published in 1825 by the Royal Society titled "Explanation of an Optical Deception in the Appearance of the Spokes of a Wheel Seen through Vertical Apertures." In 1872, English-born Eadweard Muybridge, a photographer living in San Francisco, started his series of sequential photographs of animals in motion. Books of his work are still widely used for reference by artists and animators...

History Of Hungarian Animation ... Over 60 films were screened at the festival that year, and panels featured many well-known Hollywood filmmakers...

1970s In Film ... The second type are "Webtoons" produced by corporations or sometimes just individuals. These contents are generally flash animations ranging anywhere from amateurish to high quality, hosted publicly on various websites...

Film Editing ... House of Cinema came under pressure when it challenged the detention of filmmakers accused of selling films to the BBC...

History Of Television ... As a 23-year-old German university student, Paul Nipkow proposed and patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884. Although he never built a working model of the system, variations of Nipkow's spinning-disk "image rasterizer" for television became exceedingly common, and remained in use until 1939...

History Of Anime ... In the 1980s, anime was accepted in the mainstream in Japan, and experienced a boom in production. The rise of Gundam, Macross, Real Robot, Dragon Ball, and Space Opera set a boom as well...

Chinese Animation ... On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent whole. A film editor is a person who practices film editing by assembling the footage...

History Of Canadian Animation ... While not as highly regarded as the Weimar Republic era films, the films of Nazi Germany, mainly made under control of Joseph Goebbels, hold a fascination for many, both as historical documents of one of the most important and disturbing periods of 20th century history, as well as for their own artistic merit... Then censored Agfacolor film with Hans Albers Junge Adler Alfred Weidenmann Young Eagles Kleine Muck, Der Franz Fiedler Kleine Sommermelodie, Eine Volker von Collande A Little Summer Melodie Opfergang Veit Harlan In Agfacolor Orient-Express Viktor Tourjansky Panorama Monthly news human interest series; in color Scharfschütze in der Geländeausbildung Sniper training film Der Schneemann Hans Fischerkoesen The Snowman; Animation in Agfacolor Schrammeln Géza von Bolváry Ein Schöner Tag Philipp Lothar Mayring A Beautiful Day Theresienstadt: Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt Kurt Gerron Pro...

Themes In Nazi Propaganda ... The first Indian animated television series is Ghayab Aaya, aired in 1986 and directed by Suddhasattwa Basu. The First Indian 3D + VFX was done for television series "CAPTAIN VYOM" by MAYA ENTERTAINMENT LTD...

History Of Iranian Animation ... The art of animation as practiced in modern day Iran started in the 1950s. Iran's animation owes largely to the animator Noureddin Zarrinkelk...

History Of Chinese Animation ... Although a few boldly experimental films were made in the early years, it would not be until the 1930s that actual animation studios would be formed (under figures like Gyula Macskássy and János Halász) to produce promotional material in the form of newsreels and advertisements...

Motion Picture Patents Company ... Since 1902, Edison had also been notifying distributors and exhibitors that if they did not use Edison machines and films exclusively, they would be subject to litigation for supporting filmmaking that infringed Edison's patents... Trust Policies The MPPC eliminated the outright sale of films to distributors and exhibitors, replacing it with rentals, which allowed quality control over prints that had formerly been exhibited long past their prime... Likewise, the Trust's control of patents on motion picture cameras ensured that only MPPC studios were able to film, and the projector patents allowed the Trust to make licensing agreements with distributors and theaters – and thus determine who screened their films and where...

B Movies (The Exploitation Boom) ... With the loosening of industry censorship constraints, the 1960s and 1970s saw a major expansion in the production and commercial viability of a variety of B-movie subgenres that have come to be known collectively as exploitation films... The term gained broader application as well: Exploitation-style promotional practices had become standard practice at the lower-budget end of the industry; with the majors having exited traditional B production, exploitation became a way to refer to the entire field of low-budget genre films... Many graphically depicted the wages of sin in the context of promoting prudent lifestyle choices, particularly "sexual hygiene." Audiences might see explicit footage of anything from a live birth to a ritual circumcision in such films...