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Apr 16, 2024 · The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others, however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers ' short films in ...
- Precursors of Film
Precursors of film are concepts and devices that have much...
- History of Film Technology
Cinématographe Lumière at the Institut Lumière, France. The...
- Precursors of Film
3 days ago · Vega Medal (1889) Signature. Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen ( Norwegian: [ˈfrɪ̂tːjɔf ˈnɑ̀nsn̩]; 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and co-founded the Fatherland League .
- Norwegian
- 5, including Odd Nansen
- 10 October 1861, Store Frøen, Christiania, Norway
- Royal Frederick University
1 day ago · Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3] His novels include The Adventures of Tom ...
- Modern
- American Realism
- from 1863
2 days ago · Jomo Kenyatta [a] CGH ( c.1897 – 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti- colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first president and played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the ...
- Kenyan
- Daniel arap Moi
4 days ago · Paul VI with Joseph Ratzinger (future Pope Benedict XVI) who was created cardinal in the 1977 consistory. Pope Paul VI held six consistories between 1965 and 1977 that raised 143 men to the cardinalate in his fifteen years as pope: 22 February 1965, 27 cardinals. 26 June 1967, 27 cardinals. 28 April 1969, 34 cardinals.
- 15 December 1958, by John XXIII
- 6 August 1978
- 21 June 1963
- John Paul I
Apr 12, 2024 · Frank Capra (born May 18, 1897, near Palermo, Sicily, Italy—died September 3, 1991, La Quinta, California, U.S.) was an American motion-picture director who was the most prominent filmmaker of the 1930s, during which he won three Academy Awards as best director. His most-beloved films, many of which were made during the Great Depression, were ...
5 days ago · Nazi Germany and. Kingdom of Italy. (1941–1945) Mohammed Amin al-Husseini ( Arabic: محمد أمين الحسيني; c. 1897 [a] – 4 July 1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. [5] Al-Husseini was the scion of the al-Husayni family of Jerusalemite Arab nobles, [6] who trace their origins to the ...
