Celluloid

lives of the horse owner and his daughter. The film’s interior lighting scheme—including dimmer boards and dozens of fixed small lights—directly recalls elements of stage-lighting practice. Because of its black-and-white photography, its intensely celluloid textures and (mostly) minimized dialogue, it’s easy to cite The Turin Horse as a direct descendent of silent film. However, a…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a modern fairy tale novel written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1900. It’s the best-selling children’s story of the 1900 Christmas season. The book had an impact on American culture through the adaptations, popular culture, and readers’ reactions to the book. Ultimately, the book changed the country because of its powerful influence on American popular culture. In fact, the book was adapted into two films and a play. The first film…

My grandparents, John Bernard “Jack” Timmons and Ellen Amanda “Ella” were married 20 April 1918 in a Catholic Church in Chicago, Illinois. Their daughter, Jean was born almost four years later in 1922. I believe I recall my mother saying that her mother had a difficult time carrying a child and miscarried two or three babies prior to Jean being born but, I don’t remember any specific details. After Jean there was no more children born to Jack and Ella. Jean Timmons was the only child of Jack…

Thereby onto the scene comes one of the most dark characters, who has been embedded on celluloid. Reeds film could be Orson Welles’s best role, always hiding in the shadows, with a cynical grin. He shows himself for not more than a few minutes at a time, yet his disturbing presence is signified throughout the whole film. Right next to him is…

understand what special effects are, how they have changed over time, and what people have been involved in order to truly appreciate this art. Special effects are illusions created for movies and television by props, camerawork, or computer graphics. Celluloid animation, scale modeling, claymation, digital compositing, animatronics, use of prosthetic makeup, morphing, and modern computer-generated or computer graphics imagery are just some techniques that are widely used for creating…

visions and aspirations of Olive. However, in Act 3 when Roo takes down the seventeenth doll from the piano and smashes it “again and again… then tearing at its fabric until it is nothing but a litter of split cane, shredded material and broken celluloid” (act 3, scene 3, pg.97) their layoff tradition has been destroyed. The smashing of the final kewpie doll is symbolic of the ever-present reality of change that everyone faces in life. Similarly, Nothing Gold Can Stay employ’s this notion of…

In a short essay by Freud called "A Note Upon the 'Mystic Writing-Pad'., he proposes the unconscious as a writing apparatus. He imagined it as a wax tablet covered by a transparent sheet of celluloid. As we live our everyday life, things get written on the plastic surface based on external sense impressions. These perceptions can get erased once the plastic sheet is removed, but what remains are the leftover and superimposed traces on the wax…

Once ago, I talk with my friend about stuff—if not mistaken, we gossiping a hot Math teacher from Italy, and from where it began, we start talking about gay and LGBT. The pinnacle from it was when my friend proudly declare the gay people is abnormal. I just sit still, silent and stunned. I should start somewhere. Here it is, for myself, to be abnormal is to be true to oneself. And it is kind of freedom that I longingly seek and understand, that is to be true to yourself, to who you are. It is a…

Music: a cinematic aspect of illustrative themes. Media production has largely been affected by various pieces of the film such as characters, focus, camera, lighting, symbols, speial effects and music among others both positively and negatively. There is overwhelming evidence that music affects media production and audience through presenting the ideas and inspiration, evoking human emotions. The music of the film Valerie and her week of wonders (1970) creatively intertwines with other aspects…

PESTLE ANALYSIS Pestle analysis which sometimes is also referred to as PEST analysis is used as a tool by companies to track the environment they are operating in. It gives a bird eye view of the whole environment from the many different angles one wants to check and keep a track of while contemplating on a certain idea or a plan POLITICAL: Guwhati tea factory had to be shut down due to threat and extortion it faced ECONOMIC: There has been a hike in oil rates yet HUL maintains its profits and…