Thomas Edison & His Trusty Kinetoscope Create the First Movie Filmed In The...
Watch the first motion picture recorded in the US by Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison is undoubtedly America’s best-known inventor. Nicknamed “The Wizard of Menlo Park” for his prolific creativity, Edison...
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The Daily Routines of Great Artists and Thinkers
Using the book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey, RJ Andrews at Info We Trust designed some enlightening visualizations of how history’s most creative and influential figures structured...
View ArticleNo Fighting in the War Room or: Dr. Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat
A documentary about the historical context of ‘Dr. Strangelove’.
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Every Star Trek film, charted
Get ready to geek out on Star Trek… err… at least in terms of box office numbers. The Switch charts the course of Star Trek History through three casts and billions in box office. The first Star Trek...
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Scientists Discovered the Egyptian Secret to Moving Huge Pyramid Stones
The question has baffled archaeologists for a century – but now we have a better guess of how the Ancient Egyptians were able to drag huge blocks of stone across the desert – an important piece of...
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The Greatest Ever Infographic Ever Made
Infographics are not new.. in 1862 Charles Joseph Minard created a much-praised infographic depicting Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812.
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The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
A fantastic BBC documentary on the life and times of Eadweard Muybridge, a key figure in the history of early motion pictures. Via NoFilmSchool
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The Forgotten History Of CGI
CGI may have popped up in only the past 30 years as a powerful tool for graphic design and film, but the rules stretch farther back into history. The roots of CGI lie in the first mechanical aids to...
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20 Great Hollywood Costume Designers You Should Know About
Taste of Cinema puts together a list of 20 Hollywood Costume designers who’s work has dressed the way we remember the movies. Edith Head Contribution: The Sting, Rear Window, Vertigo, Butch Cassidy and...
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Watch Hardware Wars – The First Star Wars Spoof from 1978
Just one year after the release of Star Wars, fan made farce was already being made. This short 13-minute film made it’s way through film festival circuits, ultimately making $1,000,000 and becoming...
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Lost Kubrick-The unfinished films of Stanley Kubrick
Narrated by Malcolm McDowell, this short documentary examines the films Stanley Kubrick developed but didn’t live long enough to make. Features interviews given by Kubrick’s longtime producer Jan...
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History of the Pixel as Fast As Possible
The history of the Pixel. What are they? How did they come to be??
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The History of Hollywood in under 10 Minutes
How did a $25,000 bet give rise to the modern film industry? How did Hollywood come to be, well, Hollywood? And where do we go from here? We’ll cover 2000 years of moving images in under 10 minutes.
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The many meanings of Michelangelo’s Statue of David – James Earle
We typically experience classic works of art in a museum, stripped of their original contexts, but that serene setting can belie a tumultuous history. Take Michelangelo’s statue of David: devised as a...
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The History of Comic-Con
What started as a small sci-fi convention for a group of fans has grown into the pop culture event of the year, influencing every form of entertainment and drawing in over 130,000 attendees. So where...
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Lee Gambin on the Decade that Redefined Movie Musicals
This interview with film historian Lee Gambin sheds some light on the changes that occurred in the 1970s with the movie musical. For many years, I’ve seen film critics claim that movie musicals started...
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How Did Soviet Psych Experiments Lead To Rocky? – Film School’d
Intercut! Montage! The illusion of continuity! All hallmarks of the edit – the point in a film’s production where a film comes together and becomes greater than the sum of its shots.
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Can the Story of Hollywood Be Told in Just 10 Films?
Max O’Connell asks if you can distill the history of Hollywood into just 10 representative films. Almost every film fanatic has a list of favorite films, but is it possible to sum up the history of the...
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The History of Sound at the Movies – A Sneak Peak at our New Audio Course Series
FilmmakerIQ.com and RØDE Microphones are proud to give you a sneak peak at the first lesson in our six part course which will cover science/microphones, recording, editing, foley, and ADR. We are also...
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A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace it
It’s ubiquitous – the everyday USB connector, here’s the history of this common data port came to be. Like all technology, USB has evolved over time. Despite being a “Universal” Serial Bus, in its...
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