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A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward
https://www.movingimagearchive.com/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832768
#HackerNews #publicdomain #filmarchive #vintagefilms #filmclips #moviehistory #digitalarchive
On September 22, 1994, The Shawshank Redemption premiered in Beverly Hills, California. Here's a drawing of Morgan Freeman!
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#TheShawshankRedemption #MorganFreeman #Art #FanArt #Movies #MovieHistory #OnThisDate
Early Special Effects Innovation: Mechanized Gorilla Headgear from 1945
📰 Original title: Mechanized Gorilla Headgear Worn by Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan in “White Pongo” (1945)
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️
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A 1918 poster advertising 'The She-Devil', a film starring the original 'vamp', Theda Bara.
#movies #film #moviehistory #posterart
A 1918 poster advertising 'The She-Devil', a film starring the original 'vamp', Theda Bara.
#movies #film #moviehistory #posterart
This ‘miracle’ lens adapter brought the big screen to the home screen, but history had forgotten it – until now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOMCzMHFhto -> https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/camera-accessories/this-miracle-lens-adapter-brought-the-big-screen-to-the-home-screen-but-history-had-forgotten-it-until-now on the #Delrama #Anamorphic Adapter. #MovieHistory
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915709
#HackerNews #JurassicPark #Computers #TechAnalysis #MovieHistory #ComputerGraphics
Mad about Science: Dilophosaurus » Sandpoint Reader
By Brenden…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #america #archaeology #ark:survivalevolved #biology #Dennisnedry #Dilophosaurus #dilophosaurushistory #dilophosaurusscience #dinosaurs #historyofdilophosaurus #jurassicpark #madaboutscience #madaboutscience:dilophosaurus #Michaelcrichton #moviehistory #Paleontology #science #scienceofdilophosaurus #StevenSpielberg #technology #unitedstatesofamerica #Utahraptor #velociraptor
https://www.europesays.com/3117806/
https://www.europesays.com/3117806/ Mad about Science: Dilophosaurus » Sandpoint Reader #america #archaeology #Ark:SurvivalEvolved #biology #DennisNedry #Dilophosaurus #DilophosaurusHistory #DilophosaurusScience #dinosaurs #HistoryOfDilophosaurus #JurassicPark #MadAboutScience #MadAboutScience:Dilophosaurus #MichaelCrichton #MovieHistory #Paleontology #science #ScienceOfDilophosaurus #StevenSpielberg #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #Utahraptor #velociraptor
Mad about Science: Dilophosaurus » Sandpoint Reader https://www.byteseu.com/2178694/ #Archaeology #Ark:SurvivalEvolved #biology #DennisNedry #Dilophosaurus #DilophosaurusHistory #DilophosaurusScience #dinosaurs #HistoryOfDilophosaurus #JurassicPark #MadAboutScience #MadAboutScience:Dilophosaurus #MichaelCrichton #MovieHistory #Paleontology #Science #ScienceOfDilophosaurus #StevenSpielberg #Utahraptor #velociraptor
The Naughty Nineties | Who’s on First? — Abbott and Costello #TheThreeStooges #classic xD #satire #yt
The classic Abbott and Costello routine "Who's on First?" — a wordplay/identity-confusion sketch where players' names are Who, What, I Don't Know, etc.; it's widely parodied (including a gag in Rush Hour 3 that references the same "Who/What" confusion). #cineaste #MovieHistory :awesome:
Ignore the video's clickbait title. It's a nice story about the resolution of film before and after the advent of "Digital Intermediate" (I didn't know that editing in Avid was originally in something like 320x200 pixels or that Oh Brother Where Art Thou" was the first production to scan a whole movie at high resolution for digital color grading).
BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020
BLAZING A TRAIL
Hattie McDaniel wasn’t allowed to attend the Gone With the Wind premiere in Atlanta because of her race. Shortly afterward, she won an Oscar for her performance and earned an indelible place in movie history
Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020 John Florio, Ouisie Shapiro
Eighty years ago, in 1940, the Academy Awards were held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Hattie McDaniel, radiant in a rhinestone-studded blue evening gown, was relegated to a small table along a side wall, apart from Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, and the rest of her Gone With the Wind castmates. The reason was as simple as it was outrageous: The hotel had a no-blacks policy. Months earlier, McDaniel had been excluded from the movie’s premiere in Atlanta for the same reason. If not for the film’s producer, David O. Selznick, having called in a favor, she wouldn’t have been permitted inside the Ambassador, either.
Upon receiving the Oscar for her role as the sassy maid, Mammy, McDaniel told the audience—which was all white, save for her escort, F.P. Yober— ” I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry.”
Seventy years later, when Mo’Nique won an Oscar for her role in the movie Precious, she wore white gardenias in her hair, just as McDaniel had done. ” I want to thank Ms. Hattie McDaniel for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to,” she said when accepting the award.
Mo’Nique has kept a framed 8-by-10 photo of McDaniel in her closet ever since she started in the industry, and she remembers the evening as a shared victory: “I felt that that night my sister’s voice, my sister’s name, would be heard all over the world. I [hoped] that people would look her up and see her brilliance and her beauty and understand that she never got her just due.”
McDaniel couldn’t change Hollywood’s culture, but she did succeed in fighting racism in other ways. In the 1940s, she marshalled a group of black neighbors in a battle against segregated housing. The case, which she and her neighbors won, served as a precedent for the Supreme Court, which later struck down racially restrictive covenants, thus ending such discriminatory practices in Los Angeles.
As for her acting career, McDaniel continued to portray characters similar to Mammy. To black critics who condemned the roles she accepted, she said, “I’d rather play a maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.”
Continue/Read Original Article Here: BLAZING A TRAIL | Vanity Fair | Awards Extra Oscars Edition 1 2020
#1940s #2020 #AcademyAwards #Atlanta #AwardsExtraOscarsEdition #BlazingATrail #California #EightyYearsAgo #Georgia #GoneWithTheWind #HattieMcDaniel #LosAngeles #MoNique #MovieHistory #NoBlacksPolicyAtVenue #Precious #RaceInAmerica #SegregatedHousing #VanityFair #WonOscar
Remember when the film Forrest Gump came out? People were blown away by the story combined with the CGI editing. There's a behind-the-scenes book coming out soon! Review->
#BookThreads #BookSky #BookReview #NetGalley #OntheSetWithForrestGump #UniversityPressofKentucky #NetGalley #MovieHistory
Some movie sequels elevate a franchise… and others make you wonder how they ever got approved.
We put together a roundup of Hollywood’s worst sequels from Jaws 3-D to
Caddyshack II and more.
#movies #film #cinema #Hollywood #movietalk #filmdiscussion #moviehistory #cinephile #filmcommunity
https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/2025/11/28/from-hits-to-misses-hollywoods-worst-movie-sequels/
Discover Why Nolan Missing Out on Troy Saved the Dark Knight Legacy
Why Nolan Missing Troy Matters
Fans of Batman feel relief when they learn that Christopher Nolan never directed Troy. The news explains why the Dark Knight trilogy stayed true to its vision. It also shows how a single studio decision can shape movie history.
First, Warner Bros. cancelled a planned Superman film in the early 2000s....
#ChristopherNolan #DarkKnighttrilogy #Moviehistory #Troy #WarnerBros
Discover Why Nolan Missing Out on Troy Saved the Dark Knight Legacy
Why Nolan Missing Troy Matters
Fans of Batman feel relief when they learn that Christopher Nolan never directed Troy. The news explains why the Dark Knight trilogy stayed true to its vision. It also shows how a single studio decision can shape movie history.
First, Warner Bros. cancelled a planned Superman film in the early 2000s....
#ChristopherNolan #DarkKnighttrilogy #Moviehistory #Troy #WarnerBros
Toy Story turns 30 this year, and we’re revisiting the Pixar classic that reshaped modern animation. We also highlight a rare moment from Tom Hanks, who shares how Pixar first pitched him on voicing Woody and why the early recording process demanded pure imagination.
#TomHanks #ToyStory #ToyStory30 #Pixar #WaltDisneyStudios #MovieHistory #90s #90sMovies #1990s #1990sMovies #90sNostalgia #Movies
Discover Why Nolan Missing Out on Troy Saved the Dark Knight Legacy
Why Nolan Missing Troy Matters
Fans of Batman feel relief when they learn that Christopher Nolan never directed Troy. The news explains why the Dark Knight trilogy stayed true to its vision. It also shows how a single studio decision can shape movie history.
First, Warner Bros. cancelled a planned Superman film in the early 2000s....
#ChristopherNolan #DarkKnighttrilogy #Moviehistory #Troy #WarnerBros
🎬 “Sean’s the man you look over your shoulder at...” — In a rare 1995 interview, Pierce Brosnan opened up about stepping into Bond’s shoes and earning Sean Connery’s respect.
💥 As GoldenEye turns 30, we look back at the Bond film that reignited the franchise—featuring Brosnan, Dench, a game-changing villain, and a cultural-shifting video game.
#JamesBond #PierceBrosnan #Bond30Years #MovieHistory #RetroFilm #GoldenEye #007 #Cinema
“The Letter” (1940, dir. William Wyler), starring Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, and Frieda Inescort.
Belgian bilingual film poster (Flemish and French).
TAGS: #TheLetter #WilliamWyler #BetteDavis #WarnerBros #WarnerBrothers #FilmTalk #FilmHistory #MovieHistory #Hollywood #Film #Movies #Cinema
The fascinating reason why retro cartoon characters all wore this single clothing item
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/why-retro-cartoon-chracters-wore-same-clothing
I absolutely love this old Cinema Projector being on display in my local cinema. It was a cinema when I was a kid then closed down then reopened as another company, there's a very good chance this very unit projected films I watched as a kid #cinema #projector #moviehistory
‘Time Warp’ dance still winning hearts as ‘Rocky Horror’ turns 50 – USA Today
Let’s do the ‘Time Warp’ again! The story behind ‘Rocky Horror’s signature song
By Brian Truitt, USA TODAY
Barry Bostwick has a witty response at the ready anytime someone asks him if he can do the Time Warp.
“I go, ‘Well, is it a step to the left or is it a step to the right?’ They have to say it’s to the left. I say, ‘Because I only remember the pelvic thrust.’ That to me was the most important part of that dance,” says “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” star about one of the soundtrack’s signature songs.
The music of “Rocky Horror” for decades has entertained generations of fans, from the original 1973 stage show in England to the 1975 cult classic movie to so many revivals and midnight showings since. (The film’s 50th anniversary is being celebrated with a newly restored version on tour through November and a 4K Blu-ray/DVD out Oct. 7.) Everybody’s got their favorite showtune, but what was supposed to just be a twist on the Twist, the buoyant and catchy “Time Warp,” found a life of its own.Join our Watch Party!
Fran-N-Furter (Tim Curry, center) with his minions Columbia (Nell Campbell), Magenta (Patricia Quinn) and Riff Raff (Richard O’Brien) in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”“The genius thing was the ‘Time Warp’ told you how to do it,” says Patricia Quinn, who played the servant Magenta on both stage and screen. “The only other song to do that was the ‘Hokey Pokey.’
‘Time Warp’ came from needing a ‘Rocky Horror’ dance
Rehearsing for the original “The Rocky Horror Show” stage show in 1973, director Jim Sharman wanted a song-and-dance number for the three servants. Riff Raff (O’Brien), Magenta and Columbia (Nell Campbell) are minions of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a lingerie-clad mad scientist from the planet Transsexual who creates a “Frankenstein”-esque muscle man named Rocky.
Campbell recalls Sharman asking for something like the scene in Jean-Luc Godard’s French film “Bande à Part” “where two gangsters and their moll put some money in a jukebox, and the three of them in unison dance the Madison.” (A popular 1950s line dance, the Madison is also mentioned in passing in the “Rocky Horror” movie.)
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Editor’s Note: There is also a good page at Google News covering the film’s 50th. See here…
Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘Time Warp’ dance still winning hearts as ‘Rocky Horror’ turns 50
#2025 #50thAnniversary #America #BarryBostwick #Dance #Education #Film #Films #History #Libraries #Library #Movie #MovieHistory #Movies #Music #ScienceFiction #Television #TheRockyHorrorPictureShow #TimeWarp #UnitedStates #USAToday #YouTube
Naomi Watts has literally done it all—screamed in The Ring, scaled the Empire State with King Kong.
Looking back at her 30+ years of work, which Naomi Watts movie do you rewatch the most? 👀🍿
#NaomiWatts #Film #Cinema #MovieHistory #PopCulture #Actress #Hollywood #Bamlytics
