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picture and American
The picture is the more treacherous when it misrepresents the facts of American life.
Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.
It was the last major American motion picture to be filmed in Technicolor.
The most successful motion picture company in the United States, with the largest production until 1900, was the American Mutoscope company.
Agfa began to produce motion picture film in 1913, but remained a largely local supplier until World War I boycotts of popular French, American and Italian film stocks allowed the UFA film studio to flourish, boosting Agfa's orders.
The American version moved the credits to the end of the picture.
While bound to the stretcher his picture was taken by American military personnel.
In that same year, he made his first motion picture appearance as an Adonis, wearing only a fig leaf, in a movie entitled Glorifying the American Girl.
Since the 1890s, Thomas Edison owned most of the major American patents relating to motion picture cameras.
His rise to national attention in the 1950s had a profound effect on the motion picture industry and influenced the broader scope of American culture.
* 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
* 1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
Following his commercial breakthrough with Alien ( 1979 ), his best-known works are sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), Thelma & Louise ( 1991 ), best picture Oscar-winner Gladiator ( 2000 ), Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ), Matchstick Men ( 2003 ), Kingdom of Heaven ( 2005 ), American Gangster ( 2007 ), Robin Hood ( 2010 ), and Prometheus ( 2012 ).
Toho Studios originally cut fifty minutes off the film when screening it for American distributors for fear that no American audience would be willing to sit through the entire picture.
Tod Browning ( born Charles Albert Browning, Jr., July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962 ) was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.
* July 17 – William Pierson, American television, motion picture and stage actor ( d. 2004 )
** Frank J. Marion, American motion picture pioneer ( b. 1869 )
* February 23 – Victor Fleming, American motion picture director, ( d. 1949 )
* July 12 – Tod Browning, American motion picture director, horror film pioneer ( d. 1962 )
* March 27 – James Cruze, American motion picture director ( d. 1942 )
These included the policiers Coogan's Bluff and Dirty Harry, the Budd Boetticher-scripted Western Two Mules for Sister Sara, the cynical American Civil War melodrama The Beguiled and the prison-break picture Escape from Alcatraz.
That evening Mayer presented to those guests what he called the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and it was open to those who had contributed to the motion picture industry.

picture and is
The resulting picture might appear a maze of restless confusions and contradictions, but it is more true to life than a portrait of an artificially contrived order.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
It is not my intention in this narrative to picture myself as a helpless victim moored to the rock of experience and left to the buffetings of chance.
His delightful picture of society and institutions is filled with warm detail that brings the period vividly to life.
If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.
One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.
All I want is a picture -- with a few lines.
`` The reason you are in the ring today is to show your ability to present to any judge the most attractive picture of your dog that the skillful use of your aids can produce.
`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.
The result is a color picture of the specimen where the primary colors correspond to the three different ultraviolet wavelengths.
The total picture is only seen by the camera which integrates the many sector scans over the entire 90-degree rotation period.
Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.
On the other hand, looking at the larger picture, is it true that pupil assignment has effectively cut off, blocked, or reduced school desegregation to a `` trickle ''??
Literal flatness now tends to assert itself as the main event of the picture, and the device boomerangs: the illusion of depth is rendered even more precarious than before.
In the upper center of Braque's first collage, Fruit Dish ( in Douglas Cooper's collection ), a bunch of grapes is rendered with such conventionally vivid sculptural effect as to lift it practically off the picture plane.
and it is as if the only stable relation left among the different parts of the picture is the ambivalent and ambiguous one that each has with the surface.
In the first picture ( 9a ) the knife is just beginning to advance into the inclined surface which was left from the previous chip formation.
Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.
The time of the motion picture is fixed absolutely.
Time is built into the motion picture, which cannot exist without time.
The `` moving '' picture of the train or the wave coming at the audience is, to be sure, more intense than a still picture of the same subject, but the difference is really one of degree ; ;

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