ZOMBIEMANIA! A Cinematic History of the Undead
This 2007 documentary (originally aired on the Starz! Network) features interviews and commentary from some of the genres most popular and respected practitioners including. Romero himself,...
View ArticleThe History and Science of Color Film: From Isaac Newton to the Coen Brothers
Color is a subtle tool that can transport us from our ordinary lives to extraordinary worlds of cinema. Peel back the layers of history and look at how color was first understood and implemented in the...
View ArticleHollywood’s History of Faking It | The Evolution of Modern Greenscreen...
Go inside the history of the travelling mattes (now called chromakey) and learn the history of visual trickery used by filmmakers from the earliest filmmakers through to the modern day. This is part of...
View ArticleBruce Lee, Before and After the Dragon
In just a three year span, Bruce Lee starred in a handful of films that catapulted the martial arts genre into a global phenomenon. His sudden death, 40 years ago, left an enormous vacuum, with...
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Martin Scorsese on The Persisting Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema
Martin Scorsese writes this essay about his relationship to film for the New York Review of Books. In the film The Magic Box, which was made in England in 1950, the great English actor Robert Donat...
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Fred Pfost “First Public Video Tape Recorder Demonstrations”
Fred Pfost of Ampex tells the story of demonstrating the first professional video tape recorder at NAB convention in 1956. For a comprehensive history of Video Tape, check out our course on the History...
View ArticleVintage 1905 Film of the New York Subway From 14th to 42nd Street
Starting at Union Square, we are taken for an underground excursion, following the path of a subway train as it makes its way through New York City subway tunnels on its journey to the old Grand...
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The Harryhausen Chronicles
Leonard Nimoy narrates an hour long documentary on the life of Ray Harryhausen, one of the giants of stop motion animation. via Cinephelia and Beyond
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The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE
Virginia Hughes uncovers the history of three fingered salute. In the spring of 1981, David Bradley was part of a select team working from a nondescript office building in Boca Raton, Fla. His task: to...
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James Cameron Hosts Orson Welles’“War of the Worlds”
From FlyingBearFilmSchool: Not only large scale sci-fiers (FALLING SKIES, V, INDPENDENCE DAY), but the small “lost footage” thriller like THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and CHRONICLE all...
View ArticleHow Do You Solve a Problem Like Lolita?
Documentary following writer and broadcaster Stephen Smith on the trail of Vladimir Nabokov, the elusive man behind the controversial novel and 1962 film, Lolita. The journey takes him from the shores...
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Isaac Asimov’s 1964 Predictions About What the World Will Look 50 Years Later...
How far off was he? “Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting it to coffee; toasting bread;...
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Martin Scorsese on The Persisting Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema
Martin Scorsese writes this essay about his relationship to film for the New York Review of Books. In the film The Magic Box, which was made in England in 1950, the great English actor Robert Donat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fred Pfost “First Public Video Tape Recorder Demonstrations”
Fred Pfost of Ampex tells the story of demonstrating the first professional video tape recorder at NAB convention in 1956. For a comprehensive history of Video Tape, check out our course on the History...
View ArticleVintage 1905 Film of the New York Subway From 14th to 42nd Street
Starting at Union Square, we are taken for an underground excursion, following the path of a subway train as it makes its way through New York City subway tunnels on its journey to the old Grand...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Harryhausen Chronicles
Leonard Nimoy narrates an hour long documentary on the life of Ray Harryhausen, one of the giants of stop motion animation. via Cinephelia and Beyond
View ArticleClik here to view.
The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE
Virginia Hughes uncovers the history of three fingered salute. In the spring of 1981, David Bradley was part of a select team working from a nondescript office building in Boca Raton, Fla. His task: to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
James Cameron Hosts Orson Welles’“War of the Worlds”
From FlyingBearFilmSchool: Not only large scale sci-fiers (FALLING SKIES, V, INDPENDENCE DAY), but the small “lost footage” thriller like THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and CHRONICLE all...
View ArticleZOMBIEMANIA! A Cinematic History of the Undead
This 2007 documentary (originally aired on the Starz! Network) features interviews and commentary from some of the genres most popular and respected practitioners including. Romero himself,...
View ArticleThe History and Science of Color Film: From Isaac Newton to the Coen Brothers
Color is a subtle tool that can transport us from our ordinary lives to extraordinary worlds of cinema. Peel back the layers of history and look at how color was first understood and implemented in the...
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