Flicker Alley, in partnership with the Blackhawk Films Collection and Paramount Pictures, presents Children of Divorce. He’s currently a film student at Cal State Northridge, an intern at Flicker Alley, and, not to mention, a film fanatic.Synopsis. Each Flicker Alley publication is the culmination of hundreds of hours of research, digital restoration, graphic design, music composition and scoring.We’re pleased to welcome a guest blog post from Nathaniel Sutton. In addition to silent movies they have restored versions of Cinerama offerings from the 1950s, obscure titles such as SPRING NIGHT, SUMMER NIGHT, and forgotten Film Noir offerings like WOMAN ON THE RUN and THE MAN WHO CHEATED HIMSELF.Flicker Alley : About Flicker Alley, LLC Flicker Alley, LLC was founded in 2002 by Jeff Masino. Flicker Alley has been a purveyor of quality silent film home video since 2002 with their first release GARDEN OF EDEN.
He’s currently a film student at Cal State Northridge, an intern at Flicker Alley, and, not to mention, a film fanatic. We’re pleased to welcome a guest blog post from Nathaniel Sutton. Posted on Septemby Flicker Alley. Then the professor asked me a question that does not normally get asked before a screening, and one that still has me scratching my head: “Why?” Why have I seen this film? Really? We are sitting in a class about the history and art of the documentary film and you ask me why I’ve seen it? The only answer I could think of in a moment’s notice was, “I was interested?”Factual Lies: My Thoughts on Nanook of the North. Not one student had viewed this masterpiece of first achievements.
All the same stories of our lives, just set in the endless tundra of the far north.The 1927 CHICAGO was long believed a lost film, but a perfect print survived in Cecil B. A father builds a house for his family, he provides them with food, he teaches and prepares his young. We see fascinating, foreign images, yet deep inside, Nanook’s family is not so different from my own. This is one of the main reasons the film is so successful. Hints of our more average existence are cleverly woven into the story-line, all thanks to the genius of Robert J. Stripped to its core, this family cares, loves, travels, feasts, entertains, and provides for one another.
Flaherty would do anything, even put his subjects in harm’s way, in order to tell his story. We have all heard the stories, but for those who haven’t, here is a refresher: the original film Flaherty set out to make was destroyed in an accidental fire, forcing the filmmaker to practically start from scratch, but with the intent to persuade and entertain. This Blu-ray edition of CHICAGO was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2006, and is presented here by Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films.Yet this film provides us with as many lies as it does heart.
He was one of the first to realize that so-called factual events could indeed be edited like the popular fiction films of the time. The filmmaker is always at the helm when producing a product, whether it is fact or fiction, and therein lies the brilliance of Flaherty. These staged events and structural lies that the film presents us with, take away from the documentary feel, yet ultimately create the classic text we know today. Many of the scenes and actions were staged including the notably famous igloo scene, which had to be built twice its normal size in order to secure the camera and equipment.
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They’ve even opened up rooms to store and protect historical film relics, such as Harpo Marx’s props, which are currently on display outside the Linwood Dunn Theatre, located in The Pickford Center.The Academy demonstrated some of the latest technologies The Academy is developing, such as LED lights that mimic the warm color temperatures of the much coveted incandescent lights in order to reduce film productions’ energy consumption or a new system to catalog colors for digital video in order to replicate the colors correctly.The tour was wrapped up with the screening of A NEW YORK HAT (directed by D.W. An archive so huge the house enough film to wrap around the world one-and-a-half times (about 250 million tons!).The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is investing $45 million over the next ten years to fund this historic endeavor. I am always engaged by Flaherty’s beautiful lies.Thanks so much, Nate! Nanook of the North (plus The Wedding of Palo & other films of Arctic life) is available in a 2-Disc Blu-ray Deluxe Edition.Last Monday Flicker Alley was lucky enough to be invited for the 10 th anniversary of The Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study. In fact I still am, with every new viewing, whether in front of a classroom of thirty, or sitting on my couch in the dark. But, to pinpoint why I watched it in the first place? I would say my first answer would be just as good as any: I was interested.
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Here’s a brief description of the process from Dave Strohmaier, the director of Cinerama Adventure: HOW SMILEBOX CURVED SCREEN CAME ABOUT By Dave Strohmaier, director of Cinerama AdventureOne of the things we wanted to do in these Cinerama releases was to show people how different/special the Cinerama experience was, as one would have to be about 45+years old to have seen it. You can find more information in the Academy’s pdf booklet here.Thanks to those at The Academy who made this happen, Randy Habercamp, Michael Pogorzelski, Robert Reneau, Joe Lindner, May Haduong, Melissa Levesque, Daniel Brantley, Johnathan Harris, Heather Linville, Brian Drischell, and everyone else at the Academy Film Archive who made this possible.With the upcoming release of THIS IS CINERAMA and WINDJAMMER we’ve been having some interest about the process that mimics Cinerama’s famous curved screen called Smilebox. The museum, which will be located in the iconic Wilshire May Company on the corner of Wilshire Blvd & Fairfax Ave in Los Angeles, will be the largest film museum in the world and dedicated to show the history of this most influential art form. Click here for one of the greatest selections of Douglas Fairbanks films: DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS COLLECTIONOne of the most exciting endeavors, at least according to us at Flicker Alley, is the construction of The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. After seeing this remarkable film fully restored you can see acting, action scenes and humor that separated Douglas Fairbanks from even the best of films of the time.Interested in seeing more by Douglas Fairbanks? We thought so -). The very talented Michael Mortilla played the musical accompaniment, which enhanced this recently preserved film (courtesy of the Academy Film Archive and Film Preservation Associates).
I consider myself a bit of a perfectionist and believe me I have seen Cinerama from every seat in the house (front, side and back row) at all 3 existing Cinerama theaters, Seattle, Bradford Media Museum,UK, and the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood and Smilebox will approximate a Cinerama effect on flat 16 x 9 screens.Producer, Director, Editor, Cinerama AdventureIn preparing these editions for home video, we here at Flicker Alley worked with the Smilebox footage extensively and can tell you that, without such a process, the experience of watching a Cinerama film at home would be lost. I believe that Smilebox will approximate a Cinerama effect on flat 16 x 9 screens.Sure Smilebox may not be for everyone but due to the response we have gotten for the Cinerama Adventure documentary most all people will enjoy it. Yes it has its limitations, but within these limitations we do feel we have succeeded. We needed to take full advantage of the standard HD 16 x 9 frame and fill it edge to edge and yet have a 146 degree effect that would approximate what people saw in Cinerama theaters. After about two months of testing, and trying several things, including projecting the original 3 panel Cinerama focus charts on the Seattle Cinerama 146 degree screen checking for horizontal and vertical distortions, we came up with the SmileBox process.
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