#motion pictures

[citizenscreen]

The Black Maria, Thomas Edison's first motion picture studio in West Orange, NJ.

The first motion pictures made in the Black Maria were deposited for copyright in August 1893. The Maria’s era came to an end in 1901 when Edison inaugurated a new glass-enclosed studio on a rooftop in New York.

[filmsntv]

Star 80 (1983)

[xyberink]

Christopher Plummer 🎥

Any of your favorites, no?

[stastrodome]

Early Hollywood: Delores Del Rio and Boo Berry on the MGM backlot during the filming of 1925's The Gypsy and the Ghost.

[5starcinema]

Happy Birthday Jean Cocteau.

Anyone who has experienced the poetic wonder of Cocteau's motion pictures understands why today should be noted.

His insanely complex preoccupations and aesthetic contradictions were a treasure chest from which he selected assorted gems—or sometimes just the odd bauble. His name, his works, and his very visage (he was obsessed with being photographed) are inextricably linked to almost every art movement of the 20th century, and the self-promoting, ever-evolving artist was never shy about exploiting his experience and ubiquity.

As a writer of films and plays, librettist, painter, sculptor, set and costume designer, film director, actor, essayist, social butterfly, and dandy, Cocteau stubbornly acknowledged only one title throughout his career: poet.

More significantly, he professed only one cinematic goal: that we might, in his words, "all dream the same dream together." It’s all up there on the screen.

[high-theyre-frendough]

The sign said that the bathroom is not for public use. I went in and asked where the bathroom was. The employee told me it was not for public use. I said “I’m here for a ticket” while pointing at my lovely fiancé at the ticket desk behind me. The employees nodded and gave me directions. Luckily she pointed because I stopped fully understanding spoken speech (I have autism). I followed the directions. No this video does not show me peeing, I was just mesmerized by the experience.

Only one of those sinks worked lol.

for some reason i am unable to make more posts but maybe i can edit this one??

[whoisjase]

Paul Danos Birthday yesterday

38 Years old

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C. 1919

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Les Cinémas de France-Film - IMPERIAL - [et] CINEMA de PARIS present....” La Patrie. November 4, 1932. Page 7. ---- Advertisments for showings of “La Fille et la Garçon,” “Ma Femme...Homme D’Affaires,” and “La Fille de l’Espionne.”

[citizenscreen]

Today in 1943 American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies. #OnThisDay

[filmsntv]

Out 1 (1971)

[loudlylovingreview]

Video: The Emperor of Time

The strange and sordid tale of Eadweard Muybridge, the man who accidentally invented motion pictures. The film is told from the point of view of Muybridge’s abandoned son and viewed completely through a nineteenth century early cinema contraption called a mutoscope. Written & Directed by: Drew ChristieNarrated by: Hugh RossStarring: Richard EvansMusic by: Spencer ThunSound by: Eli…

[justagirlllsworld]

the academy museum of motion pictures

[5starcinema]

Hud (1963) Directed by Martin Ritt

Yes, we all enjoy Paul Newman in The Sting, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Long Hot Summer. For a few fans, Slapshot is a number one cult item. Characters Butch Cassidy and Cool Hand Luke are icons now. Yet in order to witness Newman embody a role—to lose himself in a character in the manner of Brando or Olivier—Hud is essential viewing.

Newman plays an ornery cuss named Hud Bannon, the ill-tempered, unredeemable son of rancher Homer Bannon (Melvin Douglas, dominating the screen). He’s a smartass in a Stetson and boots; he likes to drink hard and break hearts, and he can handle himself in a fight. He tears across the desert highway in a giant Cadillac convertible like he owns the state, and one might get the impression he was having a good time were it not for that Texas-size chip on his shoulder.

No one has a clue as to what’s really bothering Hud. His younger nephew (Brandon de Wilde in the wide-eyed-admirer role that he patented in the classic western Shane) is baffled, as are most of the folks foolish enough to get in Hud’s way. The family housekeeper (a mighty sexy Patricia Neal as a plain country girl whose plainness warrants a closer examination) is less baffled. What’s obvious to her is that this fine old family line has finally produced a bonafide S.O.B — an heir abhorrent, as it were — who rejects and despises everything his father represents.

This is Greek tragedy stuff, made even larger than life by a bristling script that plays as well on its 60th birthday (this coming November) as when it first hit screens. It looks as good, too, compliments of cinematographer James Wong Howe’s breathtaking skill with a Panavision camera and black-and-white film stock.

[stra-tek]

"Hey, what's that mark on your forehead?"

"When I was a baby, my parents cast me in Star Trek"

[music-matters20]

we will talk about the economic characteristics of creative content itself, how these strategies might change in the presence of digital markets

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