This director of "Short Cuts" learned his trade making industrial films in Kansas City
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Peter Bradshaw on the late Robert Altman | Film | The Guardian  Nov 23, 2006 ... It's a style that has influenced a new generation of film directors - and ... it occupied by Short Cuts: people such as Steven Bochco, the creator of Hill Street Blues, ... Altman himself was once a TV director who learned his trade working for .... period gangster pic Kansas City (1996), set in Altman's home town.
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The ASC -- American Cinematographer Magazine: January 2010 ...  Through his production company, Troma, Kaufman has distributed films by ... of valuable tricks of the trade taken from The Grip Book, making this a great ... The first several chapters of the book focus on Altman's upbringing in Kansas City, Mo., ... at the evolution of a master director, as Altman learned his trade cranking out...
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Hollywood Bitchslap - Why We Miss Robert Altman: A Kansas Citian ...  Nov 21, 2006 ... If you were a movie geek living here in Kansas City, Robert Altman, who ... and later returned to make industrial films at the Calvin Company. ... that he learned just about every technical aspect of filming and used his ... The Player, Short Cuts, Gosford Park, Thieves Like Us and A Prairie ..... writer/director/cast.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Dec 4, 2012 ... Repost ....______ FILM DIRECTORS ______ ... $1000 ~ This director of "Short Cuts" learned his trade making industrial films in Kansas City.
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The great American Director gets an unfitting tribute. - Mature Times  Apr 9, 2015 ... Despite being born in Kansas City, graduating from a Military ... for the Calvin Company where he learned all aspects of making a film, ... for including overlapping dialogue (an Altman innovation and trade mark) in a series called Countdown. ... Perhaps his failure to win a Best film or Best Director Academy...
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A Short History of Film.pdf - Scribd  A Short History of Film.pdf - Ebook download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read book online.
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Steven *Spielberg - Encyclopedia.com  SPIELBERG, STEVEN (1946 ), film director, writer, producer. ... attending California State College, he directed five films and made his professional debut with a 24-minute short, Amblin, which was shown at the 1969 Atlanta Film Festival.
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Film History Before 1920  1861 - the invention of the Kinematoscope, patented by Philadelphian Coleman Sellers, ... Two short fragments survive of his early motion picture film (one of which was titled Traffic ... parlors, amusement arcades, and sideshows for a number of years. ... Thomas Edison displayed 'his' Kinetoscope projector at the World's...
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Sundance: Evolution of a Festival - Focus Features  As park of Movie City: Park City, FilmInFocus' Nick Dawson looks at ten years that have shaped the Sundance Film Festival.
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Ken Burns Taps Waterbury And Its Store of Memories - The New ...  Sep 2, 2001 ... Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker, is seeking a few good cities on ... Ms. Novick, is based; and, once known as ''the brass center of the world,'' it had a large industrial base that switched over to war production during the war. Indeed, Waterbury-based manufacturers such as Anaconda American Brass...
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Akira Kurosawa - Wikipedia  Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese filmmaker. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint ... After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and...
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Thomas Edison's Black Maria - Wikipedia  The Black Maria was Thomas Edison's movie production studio in West Orange, New ... The exhibited film showed three people pretending to be blacksmiths. ... (aka Fred Ott's Sneeze) was one of the first series of short films made by ... Edison's Black Maria studio with fellow assistant Fred Ott. The short film...
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New York: A Documentary Film - Wikipedia  New York: A Documentary Film is an eight-part, 17 hour, American documentary ... It was directed by Ric Burns and originally aired in the U.S. on PBS. ... inspired to produce an eighth episode of the film, focusing on the World Trade Center and ... As the city starts building the skyscrapers that would make its skyline iconic,...
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Short Cuts (1993) - Full Cast & Crew - IMDb  Short Cuts (1993) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. ... Fred Ward ... Stuart Kane ... Alex Trebek ... Himself ... Film Editing by. Suzy Elmiger ... film editor ... Kevin Fahey ... grip (as Kevin J. Fahey).
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THE FILMS OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN  Jim has great admiration for not only Harryhausen's work but also the films in which .... and make his own amateur films and actually got to meet Willis O'Brien, the great ... In his first appearance, he breaks into the camp of the theatrical producer ... The two scenes that stuck in my memory were the underwater scene with the...
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Time and Money: How a Good Line Producer Can Help You Save ...  I hire department heads, oversee those departments and track each one's budget. ..... MT. RUSHMORE (North By Northwest). Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1959 .... made for broad international audiences and designed to maximize the sheer sonic ... indie features of modest length and technical ambition borne of their makers'...
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A Storied Life - Directors Guild of America  Since coming to America after the Czech Spring in 1968, Milos Forman has been ... In films like Amadeus, Hair and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, ... I found him an affable and plainspoken man who, unlike almost every other director I've met, .... head around and then forgets about him the moment he leaves the room.
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Blog - William Inge Center for the Arts  Mar 26, 2013 ... Inge Center Artistic Director Peter Ellenstein said, We know our audience ... The 32nd annual Inge Festival takes place May 1-4, 2013, and honors William Inge on ... Independence, Kansas, is located 160 miles south of Kansas City, Mo., .... They have appeared in numerous regional productions and at the...
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Avant-garde film books reviewed by Chuck Kleinhans - Jump Cut  And since so few can see avant-garde films, it in understandable (though surely ... he takes full advantage of being at the center of a growing film movement. ... No consciousness that Dostoyevsky said something about the underground man. .... of Sitney's books his complete refusal to ever evaluate anything he describes.
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Life Lessons from Movies and Literature: Field of Dreams  Aug 27, 2011 ... If you love moving pictures and the written word as much as I do, come join me and ... Field of Dreams has so many wonderful things going for it. It was filmed in Iowa (on a farm near Dyersville), it is based on an excellent ... a voice whisper, "If you build it, he will come" and sees a vision of a baseball field.
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Fantasia: A Film Industry First - Frontierland Station  This film features 8 individual segments of animation synchronized with ... Walt Disney just wanted to create the animated short The Sorcerer's Apprentice. ... so Walt wanted to create a fabulous short allowing Mickey to make a ... The limited release, along with large production costs, caused Fantasia to be .... Dining Plan.