Films History
Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 12:29 pmMickey Mouse
The Chain Gang is a Mickey Mouse animated film produced in 1930 by Walt Disney for Columbia Pictures. In this film Mickey is shown in a prison as an inmate performing jobs like smashing rocks. During a prison riot, Mickey manages to break out. Pluto makes his debut in this film as one of the watchdogs that Pete uses to track him down (although he was unnamed when the film was made). Just like Mickey Mouse, Clarabelle Cow is among the prisoners.
Silent films
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1921 silent movie produced by Metro Pictures Corporation, directed by Rex Ingram and starring Rudolph Valentino, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Wallace Beery, and Alice Terry. It was based on the novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. In 1995, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant
Buster Keaton
The Cook is a 1918 silent film staring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. The movie is a slapstick comedy and focuses on goings-on at a high-end restaurant with Arbuckle as the Cook and Keaton as the Waiter. The film is notable for a scene spoofing the 1918 Theda Bara film Salomé, with Arbuckle dancing around in drag. The movie was believed to be lost for several decades before being uncovered in Norway.
The American Museum of the Moving Image
Following seven years of work, and at a cost of $15 million, the American Museum of the Moving Image opened on September 10, 1988, in the former East Coast home of Paramount Pictures as the first museum in the United States that was devoted solely to the art, history and technology of film, television and video. This was followed, days later, by the British museum of the same name.The New York theater, ultramodern by the standards of 1988, was equipped to present 70-millimeter, 35-millimeter, 16-millimeter and video formats and was one of only two sites in New York with the ability to present old nitrate prints. It also re-created moments from television and video history and allowed visitors the opportunity to watch television in a TV lounge from the early days of television.
Video conferencing
A fundamental feature of professional VTC systems is acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). AEC is an algorithm which is able to detect when sounds or utterances reenter the audio input of the VTC codec, which came from the audio output of the same system, after some time delay. If unchecked, this can lead to several problems including 1) the remote party hearing their own voice coming back at them (usually significantly delayed) 2) strong reverberation, rendering the voice channel useless as it becomes hard to understand and 3) howling created by feedback. Echo cancellation is a processor-intensive task that usually works over a narrow range of sound delays.
A film director you like, or the director of a film you like
Peter Jackson's involvement in the making of a film version of The Hobbit, along with another possible The Lord of the Rings prequel, has a long and chequered history. On December 18, 2007, it was announced that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema had reached agreement to make two prequels, one based on The Hobbit which will be released in 2011 and 2012. Jackson will serve as executive producer. Guillermo del Toro has been selected to direct
The Chain Gang is a Mickey Mouse animated film produced in 1930 by Walt Disney for Columbia Pictures. In this film Mickey is shown in a prison as an inmate performing jobs like smashing rocks. During a prison riot, Mickey manages to break out. Pluto makes his debut in this film as one of the watchdogs that Pete uses to track him down (although he was unnamed when the film was made). Just like Mickey Mouse, Clarabelle Cow is among the prisoners.
Silent films
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a 1921 silent movie produced by Metro Pictures Corporation, directed by Rex Ingram and starring Rudolph Valentino, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Wallace Beery, and Alice Terry. It was based on the novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. In 1995, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant
Buster Keaton
The Cook is a 1918 silent film staring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. The movie is a slapstick comedy and focuses on goings-on at a high-end restaurant with Arbuckle as the Cook and Keaton as the Waiter. The film is notable for a scene spoofing the 1918 Theda Bara film Salomé, with Arbuckle dancing around in drag. The movie was believed to be lost for several decades before being uncovered in Norway.
The American Museum of the Moving Image
Following seven years of work, and at a cost of $15 million, the American Museum of the Moving Image opened on September 10, 1988, in the former East Coast home of Paramount Pictures as the first museum in the United States that was devoted solely to the art, history and technology of film, television and video. This was followed, days later, by the British museum of the same name.The New York theater, ultramodern by the standards of 1988, was equipped to present 70-millimeter, 35-millimeter, 16-millimeter and video formats and was one of only two sites in New York with the ability to present old nitrate prints. It also re-created moments from television and video history and allowed visitors the opportunity to watch television in a TV lounge from the early days of television.
Video conferencing
A fundamental feature of professional VTC systems is acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). AEC is an algorithm which is able to detect when sounds or utterances reenter the audio input of the VTC codec, which came from the audio output of the same system, after some time delay. If unchecked, this can lead to several problems including 1) the remote party hearing their own voice coming back at them (usually significantly delayed) 2) strong reverberation, rendering the voice channel useless as it becomes hard to understand and 3) howling created by feedback. Echo cancellation is a processor-intensive task that usually works over a narrow range of sound delays.
A film director you like, or the director of a film you like
Peter Jackson's involvement in the making of a film version of The Hobbit, along with another possible The Lord of the Rings prequel, has a long and chequered history. On December 18, 2007, it was announced that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema had reached agreement to make two prequels, one based on The Hobbit which will be released in 2011 and 2012. Jackson will serve as executive producer. Guillermo del Toro has been selected to direct