Sentences with phrase «celluloid materials»

James Mitchell Crowe writes about the somewhat exciting decay of celluloid materials, mentioning the spontaneous ignition of early film tapes...

«Lenzing Tencel» is highly absorbent, has natural anti-bacterial properties, and is currently the greenest celluloid material currently produced.

Not exact matches

Comedy writers have to be able to keep up on the news of the day, fluently critique every comedy movie since the invention of celluloid, and then write original material under deadline.

As Hyatt noted in one of his early patents, celluloid transcended the deficiencies that plagued many traditional comb materials.

Though it could, with effort, be made to mimic natural materials, it didn't have celluloid's knack for imitation.

«Obviously none of the other materials... would produce a comb possessing the many excellent qualities and inherent superiorities of a comb made of celluloid,» Hyatt wrote in one of his patent applications.

For all its significance, celluloid had a fairly modest place in the material world of the early twentieth century, limited mainly to novelties and small decorative and utilitarian items, like the comb.

Celluloid could be rendered with the rich creamy hues and striations of the finest tusks from Ceylon, a faux material marketed as French Ivory.

But in the late nineteenth century, that panoply of possibilities began to fall away with the arrival of a totally new kind of material — celluloid, the first man - made plastic.

Here's that rare movie that equals its source material: While the mid-point plot twist is easier to spot in the film — and while the pitchfork scene in the novel is far more disturbing than on celluloid — the movie is more ambiguous than the book, and that in turn makes it far more haunting on multiple levels.

Following the huge misfires like the Aaron Paul vehicle Need For Speed, the late - 80s attempt to bring Super Mario Brothers to the big - screen, the recent Tomb Raider and even that early vehicle for Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson, Doom (and countless others) Tinseltown hasn't quite managed to successfully transfer the allure of the source material to celluloid.

The exhibition explores how the material qualities of celluloid, can be turned into tangible, sculptural installations.

Made in a specifically DIY approach, West's hypnotic videos are a product of her idiosyncratic experimentation into what happens when celluloid film surface is subjected directly to a wild array of processes, chemicals, materials, and events.

Barba's work explores the material properties of film, such as the celluloid filmstrip, projection and sound apparatus, while at the same time probing the structure of cinematic narrative and its relationship to memory itself.

In what might prove to be a vain rearguard action, the work of rising star Rosa Barba celebrates the material elements of analogue cinema — its projectors and celluloid filmstrips, its control of tone, and the Heath Robinsonesque noises of its Continue Reading»

(TGA.8717.1.2.5328) That Wells referred specifically to perspex rather than celluloid, which he had used in earlier pieces, suggests that he had access to new sources of materials.

In this unique event, titled Skate the Sky Melon Grab Film, West will build on her previous experiments with everyday materials such as pepper spray or Axe body cologne used to physically manipulate celluloid.

Barba's work investigates the fundamental properties of film, exploring cinema — its forms, histories, and technical apparatuses — and the material properties of celluloid.

Before picking up a camera, Tambellini physically worked on the film strip, treating the emulsion with chemicals, paint, ink and stencils, slicing and scraping the celluloid, and dynamically intercutting material from industrial films, newsreels and broadcast television.