Long Beach’s Tiny Film Fest: A big triumph for creators The Art Theater of Long Beach was the site of a large culmination of film fans looking to support up-and-coming directors on early Saturday morning. 05/5/2024 - 1:56 am | View Link
Can the UK retain its allure for Hollywood film and TV production? Last year’s strikes across the Atlantic and financial issues facing UK broadcasters have marred a blooming industry ... 05/4/2024 - 5:00 pm | View Link
Documentary celebrating Baltimore's hip-hop history to debut at Maryland Film Festival BALTIMORE --- The 25th annual Maryland Film Festival is underway. Friday night, a film documentary more than five years in the making will premiere. It celebrates hip hop history - in particular ... 05/3/2024 - 11:16 am | View Link
'Hellblade 2' will be delivered in 2.39:1 aspect ratio, creating cinematic film bars on non-ultrawide displays Hellblade 2 is launching on May 21, 2024, and Ninja Theory just confirmed an interesting titbit about its cinematic delivery. 05/3/2024 - 3:30 am | View Link
Titus Kaphar's Sundance Drama ‘Exhibiting Forgiveness' Boarded by Film Constellation for International Sales (EXCLUSIVE) London- and Paris-based production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation has boarded international sales on Titus Kaphar's drama "Exhibiting Forgiveness." The film received strong reviews after ... 05/2/2024 - 11:59 pm | View Link
Sound film | motion picture | Britannica Other articles where sound film is discussed: history of film: The pre-World War II sound era: The idea of combining film and sound had been around since the invention of the cinema itself: Thomas Edison had commissioned the Kinetograph to provide visual images for his phonograph, and William Dickson had actually synchronized the two machines in… 05/3/2024 - 11:34 pm | View Website
Sound film A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical. 05/3/2024 - 9:18 pm | View Website
Sound Design 101: The Ultimate Guide To Great Film Sound Sound design is the process of recording, acquiring, manipulating, or generating audio elements. It is employed in a variety of disciplines including filmmaking, television production, theatre, sound recording and reproduction, live performance, sound art, post-production, and video game software development. 05/3/2024 - 4:00 am | View Website
A brief history of sound in film The 1940s–50s: The television threat and multi-track sound. Early combinations of sound and projection technology existed in the 1930s, and by the 1940s, the issue of capturing sound synchronised footage onto film had been widely solved. By the late 1940s, this technology was widespread to the point that production could exist around the country. 05/2/2024 - 5:23 pm | View Website
What Was the First Movie With Sound — Film History 101 This innovative approach to filmmaking paved the way for future advancements in the integration of sound into cinema, tantalizing audiences with what was possible. The turning point for the entire film industry in 1927 was The Jazz Singer, a movie that changed the game. It marked the introduction of sound in films, fondly known as "talkies." 05/2/2024 - 6:10 am | View Website
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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