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scene and is
Going back over this ground and analyzing the composition of forces which have created the present scene is one of the tasks undertaken by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara.
Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.
Today the recreational boating scene is awash with heartening statistics which prove the enormous growth of that sport.
For what I express in my remark is something going on in me at the time, and that of course did not exist until I did come on the scene.
Whosever fault, it is evident that Brumidi intended to fill out the whole frieze with his `` histories '' and come full circle with the scene of the discovery of California gold.
Curiously, this scene is a close parallel to one that Verdi was writing at the same time, the scene between Amonasro and Aida.
We have a brief glimpse of the Tsar's public personality, the `` official Boris '', but our real focus is on the excitement of the crowd -- a significant contrast with its halfhearted acclamation in the opening scene, its bitter resentment and fury in the final act.
One of the outstanding assets of the present production is the restoration of the St. Basil's scene, usually omitted from performances and rarely included in a published score.
The scene before you is indeed theatrical and often appears in movies about Rome.
One of these is the `` dissolve '', which makes possible a visually smooth transition from scene to scene.
Each scene is shot straight through, as had been the universal custom, from a camera fixed in a single position, but in the outdoor scenes, especially in the capture and destruction of the outlaws, Porter's camera position breaks, necessarily, with the camera position standard until then, which had been, roughly, that of a spectator in a center orchestra seat at a play.
The plane of the action in the scene is not parallel with the plane of the film in the camera or on the screen.
`` The world is full of blokes who put their hearts into making the tragic scene.
Even for those who have been observing the political scene a long time, no script from the past is worth very much in gazing into the state's immediate political future.
Aside from a quaint concern with witches and devils which provides the immediate problem in the opening scene, it is a quite normal community.
This scene is a `` white ballet '' in which a lovelorn hero searches for his departed love's spirit among twenty-eight extraordinarily beautiful `` shadows '' who can all dance like nothing human -- which, of course, is altogether fitting.
It is commendable that a regularly scheduled hour is set aside for an introduction to the contemporary musical scene.
Most of what is said about his great men of history has already been said, and what has not is largely irrelevant to the contemporary scene.
But we never know how long a scene is going to take ''.

scene and etched
( In the scene where the restaurant patrons are looking through the glass windows to the fight scene outside, " Taco Bell " can be seen etched into the glass, even in the modified version.

scene and sharp
In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field ( DOF ) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.
In Denmark the Nordisk company increased its production so much in 1915 and 1916 that it could not sell all its films, which led to a very sharp decline in Danish production, and the end of Denmark's importance on the world film scene.
This belief was one of the few articles of faith uniting the political scene in a nation rife with sharp social, ethnic, religious, and ideological divides.
His second most recognizable painting after Nighthawks is another urban painting, Early Sunday Morning ( originally called Seventh Avenue Shops ), which shows an empty street scene in sharp side light, with a fire hydrant and a barber pole as stand-ins for human figures.
The band's debut single " The Drowners " attracted excitement because of its sharp contrast to the dying Madchester scene and the U. S. grunge sound of the time.
Szpilman describes the scene :< p > I played Chopin ’ s Nocturne in C sharp minor.
This scene introduces General Burgoyne, a Shavian realist, who contributes a number of sharp remarks about the conduct of the American Revolution.
According to Hong Kong film critic Perry Lam, writing in Muse magazine, ' unpredictable digressions and swift changes of scene can evoke a dreamer's logic, but his sound and images are always sharp and particular.
Winter can be a beautiful scene as snow covers the sharp terrain of the badlands and locks the park into what Theodore Roosevelt called " an abode of iron desolation.
By the summer of 1966, the mod scene was in sharp decline.
Many critics see a direct tie between cinema and architecture of the time, stating that the sets and scene artwork of expressionist films often reveal buildings of sharp angles, great heights, and crowded environments, such as the frequently shown Tower of Babel in Fritz Lang ’ s Metropolis.
In a dramatic rooftop scene, Clark gives him a sharp lecture about crack and what can happen to Sams if he keeps on using it.
This time in sharp opposition to two other present at the scene, the literary critic, Gabriel Mørk, and the policeman, Harald Gran.
In a review of the DVD release, Scott Tobias, while critical of the screenplay, described the drama's noir style, writing, " Lifted note-for-note from the Hemingway story, the classic opening scene of Siodmak's film sings with the high tension, sharp dialogue, and grim humor that's conspicuously absent from the rest of Anthony Veiller's mediocre screenplay.
A sharp corner gave him the opportunity to display his subjects from a nearly frontal point of view, and also allowed him to display the dimly visible street scene behind the patrons.
The third movement is a vigorous and cheerful rondo, shaded by moves into other keys as is the opening movement ( to C major from E minor and back during the secondary theme in this case, for instance ) and with a central section whose opening in F sharp minor is interrupted by a clarinet tune in D major, an intrusion that reminds us, notes Girdlestone, that instrumental music at the time was informed by opera buffa and its sudden changes of point of view as well as of scene.
In some cases local tone mapping is used even though the dynamic range of the source image could be captured on the target media, either to produce the distinctive appearance of a locally tone mapped image, or to produce an image closer to the photographer's artistic vision of the scene by removing sharp contrasts, which often look unattractive.
In his painting Turin Melancholy ( 1915 ), for example, he illustrated just such a square, using unnaturally sharp contrasts of light and shadow that lend an aura of poignant but vaguely threatening mystery to the scene.
For most students, the social scene in large high schools is tough and unforgiving, with sharp distinctions made between the small group of social haves and the far larger masses of have-nots.
The garden was not so much a garden as a sculpture to walk through, abstract earth shapes independent of place, with sharp arises foreign to the nature of their material .” Just a few years later a new radical form of art called Land Art or Earthworks came on the U. S. art scene, creating impressive, almost archaic geometrical earth sculptures, which are among the most important sources of inspiration for present-day landscape architects.

scene and detail
It is also common to render only parts of the scene at high detail, and to remove objects that are not important to what is currently being developed.
Likewise, the vision, which appeared within a circular vignette or matte, was similarly superimposed over a black area in the backdrop to the scene, rather than over a part of the set with detail in it, so that nothing appeared through the image, which seemed quite solid.
In 1915, cuts within the duration of a scene were still relatively infrequent in his films, and when they do occur they were frequently from Long Shot or Medium Long Shot ( which were the shots he most used ) to a Big Close Up of an insert detail, which only occupied a small part of the frame in the previous shot.
The assistant does the clean-up and the necessary ' inbetweens ', or, in really big studios, only some breakdown which define the movement in more detail, then give the scene to his assistant, the ' inbetweener ' who does the remainder.
( This refers to the striking scene in the Boulak Museum, which will be dealt with in detail.
Moiré is where an interference pattern is produced by fine scene detail beating with the line ( or even pixel ) structure of the device used to analyse or display the scene.
Dramatic visualization is " the representing of an object or character with an abundance of descriptive detail, or the mimetic rendering of gestures and dialogue in such a way as to make a given scene ' visual ' or imaginatively present to an audience ".
Martin Meisel described the panorama perfectly in his book Realizations: “ In its impact, the Panorama was a comprehensive form, the representation not of the segment of a world, but of a world entire seen from a focal height .” Though the artists painstakingly documented every detail of a scene, by doing so they created a world complete in and of itself.
Virgil's listeners would have related this scene to the same Great Altar of Hercules in the Forum Boarium of their own day, one detail among many in the Aeneid that Virgil used to link the heroic past of myth with the Age of Augustus.
This detail scene from the Papyrus of Hunefer ( ca.
The assistant does the clean-up and the necessary inbetweens, or, in large studios, only some breakdowns which define the movement in more detail, then handing down the scene to his assistant, the inbetweener who does the rest.
Using the forums as an opportunity to assess the current art scene, Rothko also discussed in detail his own artwork and philosophy of art.
" Shameful spectacle " says an historian, not daring to detail the scene.
This detail scene, from the Papyrus of Hunefer ( ca.
Performer allowed the scene to describe levels of detail with hysteresis bands and fade capabilities.
This could be used to further weight the level of detail in the scene eliminating detail to maintain a target frame rate.
The viewer sees the size and detail of the scene as if it were close enough to touch, but the camera's perspective is still derived from its actual position a hundred meters away, so background faces and objects appear about the same size as those in the foreground.
American correspondents were summoned to the scene the next day but no neutral parties were allowed to investigate the incident in detail and the international public was skeptical of the German version of the incident.
In one scene, characters may be rendered in detail but in the next, they may be simplified and cartoonish.
* The Botany Bay is now rendered as a CGI effect with more surface detail and smoother integration into the scene with the Enterprise.
The text revision described the cover scene in detail.
A new manufacturer has arrived on the scene ( November 2011 ) with Australia-N Railways using both Australian locally manufactured detail accessories and top end Chinese factories to produce their new locomotives and rolling stock.

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