A short history of the Hollywood motion picture industry
Hollywood: Perhaps no other place on earth evokes the same air of show-business magic and glamour. The legend of Hollywood began in the early 20th …
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How movies can predict future technology:
Science fiction has a habit of turning into science fact. Usually, that’s because a good sci-fi writer has some level of scientific knowledge, or at …
The magic lantern was an early form of slide projector that was an early step on the road to the motion picture technology of today.
The magic lantern was invented in the 1600’s, probably by Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist. It was the earliest form of slide projector and has …
The transition from black and white to color movies.
by Christopher McKittrick Updated January 11, 2018 It’s commonly thought that “older” movies are in black and white and “newer” movies are in color as if …
Coppola’s VR Vision
Scion of a phenomenal family and a regular guest at Cinequest, Christopher Coppola is chairman of the film program at SF Art Institute. A pupil …
Watch the first horror movie ever made:
The World’s First Horror Movie: Le Manoir du Diable (The Devil’s Castle) made in 1896.
Read one interesting viewpoint on symbolism in various well-known movies.
Symbolism is an underlying and often distinct theme that pervades a work of writing. It is usually buried very subtly under the main narrative of …
An interesting article detailing the history of the Academy Awards Oscar statuette.
Emil Jannings, a German actor who would go on to make propaganda films for the Nazis in the 1930s, was the first recipient of the …
An interesting article about the history of music in movies.
In the beginning, there were the Lumière brothers, who made short moving pictures of normal occurrences: crowds, trains, people in lines. The camera they developed …
36 fascinating movie firsts:
In a little over a century, film has evolved from a technological novelty into one of the world’s most popular forms of entertainment. Here are …