Sentences with phrase «in celluloid»

The artists in Celluloid all explore the remarkable qualities of analogue film and the so - called cinematic apparatus.

It seems probable that these uncanny objects, suffused in celluloid fiction while also hinting at its

Coexisting in the celluloid, the trio are compellingly portrayed just being — or perhaps acting — themselves.

And Tacita Dean was joining photography and painting in a celluloid elm with a life of its own.

It was in a fairly technical essay where Ebert explained why he prefers seeing films in celluloid prints (vs. newer digital projection systems), titled Why I'm So Conservative.

In The Celluloid Closet, Vidal states in no uncertain terms that he scripted the film as a confrontation between ex-lovers Ben - Hur (Charlton Heston) and Messala (Stephen Boyd).

It's that organic quality — something living and breathing in that celluloid and the way it captures the light and images on that silver.

Beginning with the good, here's Edward G. Robinson tapping his mortality (he succumbed to cancer less than two weeks after production wrapped), finding in his celluloid swan song a depth of despair he rarely touched in his career proper.

*** The first time Marlowe appeared in celluloid form was in 1944's «Murder, My Sweet,» starring Dick Powell.

One of the high watermarks of our experience with ZombieSmash has been the «Finish Him» cam (a throwback to Mortal Kombat fatalities) where time freezes and you can bestow immeasurable pain on the last zombie of each level — all recorded in celluloid for you to seamlessly email to your friends, send to facebook or save them to your phone without leaving the game.

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.

Threads # 6 Christina Newland's regular column considers the dog collar and its place in celluloid history.

And as if perfectly timed to chime with those canvases in celluloid terms is Mr Turner, the ravishing film that stands as a testimonial to what one might call Late Leigh.

Six Striped Square Tiles, crafted in Celluloid Galalith, each tile, set with a CZ, measures approx. 1.25» x 1.25», suspending from a gilt metal link bracelet.

For every perfect moment in motion captured in celluloid, there are about 104,000 of these.

With the rise of mass - production plastics, the fanciful decorative combs and faux ivory dresser sets so popular in the celluloid era gradually disappeared.

Since the 1950s, the antiwar sentiment in Hollywood has had a dominant presence in celluloid culture.

Few films in celluloid history have been as eagerly anticipated as the first installment in the «Star Wars» prequel trilogy, 1999's «The Phantom Menace.»

Not exact matches

A cel, or celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted, used in the production of animated cartoons.

Only in the past few years have a large percentage of films been shot digitally, and shooting on celluloid is still alive and well.

The representation of women on screen actually declined in 2017, according to San Diego State University's (SDSU) It's A Man's (Celluloid) World report.

Recognizing that Pittsburgh was not a likely breeding ground for aspiring celluloid celebs, in June 1990 Cortese packed his car after graduating from college and headed off to Hollywood with $ 8,000 in his pocket («It lasted a week,» he says).

Similarly, phenolic resins are used in the artificial amber beads while celluloid, glass, and casein (which happen to be plastic made from milk) are also sold as amber.

But its build - up is cresting in some high - octane action cinema sans the celluloid, with no less than three riveting plots rolled into one.

Nowhere did those shorn locks fall harder than in Leominster, Massachusetts, which had been the country's comb capital since before the Revolutionary War and which was now the cradle of the celluloid industry, much of it devoted to combs.

DuPont, which bought one of the original celluloid companies in Leominster, released photos in the mid-1930s showing the daily output of a father - and - son pair of comb makers.

Like other plastics that would follow, celluloid offered a means for Americans to buy their way into new stations in life.

Here, too, celluloid had a powerful leveling effect in several ways.

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

«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.»

«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.

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.

In the photos, the father is standing next to a tidy stack of three hundred and fifty celluloid combs, while ten thousand injection - molded combs surround the son.

And although a single celluloid comb cost one dollar in 1930, by the end of the decade one could buy a machine - molded comb of cellulose acetate for anywhere from a dime to fifty cents.

1 The first celluloid roll film was developed in 1887 by Hannibal Goodwin, an Episcopalian minister from Newark, New Jersey.

Lifeless frames of celluloid passed in front of a bright bulb 24 times a second yield moving images convincing enough to make us believe there are living people up there on a screen, moving about with purpose.

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Even if an hour of film that is pure character development is added back in, that doesn't change the fact we're still starting with two - and - a-half hours of celluloid that has none to start with.

Filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki offers a celluloid portrait of a cinematic mastermind at work in this documentary shot over an eight month period and following director James Toback through each phase of production of his 2004 thriller When Will I be Loved.

The best argument for shooting on celluloid in the digital age gets made in the Romanian film When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism.

Since talking heads are arguably the chief reason that documentaries are generally shunned by movie audiences, less time could have been spent listening to the array of interviews, and more celluloid on the damage done in Oklahoma City.

Cheap special effects and nonexistent horror in a «horror» flick make for one boring waste of celluloid.

He is the Michelangelo of Murder, a man who crafts decadent, deviant works of art using viscera and celluloid in lieu of paint.

When originally released, Wings included a sequence lensed in the wide - screen «Magnascope» process; even when seen «flat», however, the film contains some of the best flying sequences ever captured on celluloid.

A mix of H.P. Lovecraft madness, David Cronenberg biological mutation and David Lynch small - town weirdness, it teasingly dangles explanations never delivered and escapes never sought, while diving into one of the most gonzo horrors to twist onto celluloid in years.

Production: (New Zealand) A Transmission Films (in New Zealand / Australia), Seville Intl. release of a Four Knights Film production, presented in association with the New Zealand Film Commission, Celluloid Dreams, Arama Pictures, Southern Lights Films, Park Road Post Prod., NZ on Air.

Really, for fans of Barry Lyndon, the only thing that matters in the entire history of home video is that Criterion's presentation of the most visually stunning film ever committed to celluloid is also among the most jaw - dropping transfers ever encoded onto Blu - ray.

A living, breathing celluloid invasion flick led by a breathless ensemble of off - the - grid, in - over-their-head rockers who sell the shit hitting the fan with every quaking splinter of their being, Jeremy Saulnier's grimy, nasty, punk exploitation film is a 12 - gauge blast of ultraviolence that doesn't stop to ask about your feelings as its slashing you up the middle.