Sentences with phrase «film era thanks»

Diana Serra Cary — born on Oct. 29, 1918, and best known by her stage name Baby Peggy — was one of the most well - to - do child stars of the silent film era thanks to a seven - figure contract signed at age 4.

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The cinematography throughout the film is beautiful — thanks, in large part, to the innate beauty of Paris itself — and the recreation of 1920s Paris will inspire in the audience the type of nostalgia that Gil himself feels for the era.

And although the CGI clearly was made in a different era, it was still a very entertaining film that not only had moments of tension, but also an emotional charge thanks to Robin Williams and his character.

Even more effectively than in Frankenstein, Whale adapts the shadowy darkness of the silent German Expressionist classics to the early sound era, a time when most Hollywood directors had seemingly forgotten everything that had been learned about the creation of mood, atmosphere and meaning through image over the prior 20 years in the struggle to capture the novelty of actors actually talking (By 1932, this phase of film was thankfully on it's way out, thanks to Whale, Howard Hawks (Scarface) and Busby Berkeley).

Thanks Tenney, on the era of film cameras this trick would have been, I guess, harder to do.