Sentences with phrase «celluloid given»

«As petroleum came to the relief of the whale,» the pamphlet stated, so «has celluloid given the elephant, the tortoise, and the coral insect a respite in their native haunts; and it will no longer be necessary to ransack the earth in pursuit of substances which are constantly growing scarcer.»

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This film is everything you'd dread seeing in celluloid / digital form - badly written, not well acted, not particularly well shot, and unimaginative - these last two totally unforgivable given the film's supposed to be set in Hawaii.
THE BLU - RAY DISC by Bill Chambers Disregard what I speculated about the BD release of 300: I didn't think it would look better, just more artificial — but what the added resolution actually does is clarify the details beneath the sandstorm of grain, giving the image greater depth and a more persuasive celluloid texture.
Formerly the subject of villainy and the butt of cheap jokes on celluloid, a transwoman is now given a nuanced character study in the form of A Fantastic Woman.
Disney and Marvel spent $ 165 million to give the Sorcerer Supreme the celluloid treatment.
The cream of the celluloid crop are positioning themselves for the Oscars and the myriad other gong - giving ceremonies, including the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild awards, both of which announced nominations this week.
The movie's rich three - strip Technicolor gives the whole thing a picture - book quality, yet what we're seeing here with Flynn at his zenith is actually the forebearer of James Bond, Indiana Jones et al: the sheer essence of the celluloid action hero.
Unless audiences are craving for unoriginal toilet humour, they shouldn't bother giving their time or money to a complete waste of celluloid that doesn't even deserve to be screened on toiler paper.
On hand are such celluloid phantoms as Josef von Sternberg's unfinished Roman epic I, Claudius, in which Charles Laughton reputedly gave the performance of his career; and Sergei Eisenstein's adaptation of An American Tragedy.
In the room outside the chamber, where the soundman sat giving me cues through a headset, a restorer also sat peering at a screen and guiding a cursor with a mouse, diligently erasing celluloid scratches and blots, frame by digital frame, from the bare bodies of hippies cavorting in a mud puddle.
There's no rocket - science upscaling algorithms at work here, but the sheer pixel density of the panel gives images a celluloid sheen.
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