Ideas For Making Short Films

British Propaganda During World War II ... Kenneth Clark, as head of the Films Division of the MOI, argued in 1940 that the public must be convinced of German brutality, stating "we should emphasise wherever possible the wickedness and evil perpetrated in the occupied countries"... By 1942, the fear of invasion (as depicted in films such as Went the Day Well?) had receded, and film makers began to turn to the brutal reality of life in occupied countries...

History Of French 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films, the films of Nazi Germany, mainly made under control of Joseph Goebbels, hold a fascination for many, both as historical documents of one of the most important and disturbing periods of 20th century history, as well as for their own artistic merit...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...

Surrealist Cinema ... Surrealism draws upon irrational imagery and the subconscious mind. Surrealists should not, however, be mistaken as whimsical or incapable of logical thought; rather, most Surrealist promote themselves as revolutionaries...

Actor ... The gender-neutral term "player" was common in film in the early days of the Motion Picture Production Code with regards to the cinema of the United States, but is now generally deemed archaic. However, it remains in use in the theatre, often incorporated into the name of a theatre group or company (such as the East West Players)...

Indian Animation Industry ... 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...

Motion Picture Patents Company ... The Sundance Institute's founding staff, assembled in spring of 1980, included Executive Director Sterling Van Wagenen, Director of Film Development Programs Jenny Walz Selby, and Director of Development Jon Lear. Frank Daniel was secured as Artistic Director...

Open Source Film ... This definition can be applied to films where: The license of the movie is approved for free cultural works... Films or film projects which do not meet these criteria are either not open source or partially open source... List of open source films Name Type Released CC License Sources Comment Dancing to Architecture – a motion picture about TINA Documentary 2002 by 2.5 AU link Collaborative production...

Themes In Nazi Propaganda ... A system of "award" was used to encourage self-censorship; awarded for such things as "cultural value" or "value to the people", they remitted part of the heavy taxes on films...

History Of British 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 Computer Animation ... 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 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...

United Artists ... The current United Artists formed in November 2006 under a partnership between producer/actor Tom Cruise and his production partner, Paula Wagner, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an MGM company. Paula Wagner left the studio on August 14, 2008...

Nazism And Cinema ... 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...

Film ... Films are cultural artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them... Some films have become popular worldwide attractions by using dubbing or subtitles that translate the dialogue into the language of the viewer...

History Of Russian Animation ... Similarly, music was expected to be tonal and free of jazz influence; films and plays were censored. Nazi art bears a close similarity to the Soviet propaganda art style of Socialist Realism, and the term heroic realism has sometimes been used to describe both artistic styles...