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  1. Coppola and American Zoetrope acquired the screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, a coming-of-age account of Abbott growing up with her single father — widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott — amid the AIDS epidemic in 1970s and 1980s San Francisco.

  2. Website. zoetrope .com. American Zoetrope (also known as Omni Zoetrope from 1977 to 1980 and Zoetrope Studios from 1980 until 1990) is a privately run American film production company, centered in San Francisco, California and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas . Opened on December 12, 1969, [1] the studio has produced not only ...

    • December 12, 1969; 53 years ago
  3. Nov 17, 2011 · That's American Zoetrope all over: excess, hubris, majestic ideals and brilliant innovation, all mired in recurrent financial chaos, and overseen by a magical, mercurial, charismatic figure ...

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  5. A documentary on the early years of Francis Ford Coppola's production company "American Zoetrope" made in 2004 - and is included as a special feature on the ...

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  6. Oct 26, 2022 · American Zoetrope officially came to fruition with a party held on December 12, 1969, but not before enlisting the help of Warner Bros. and completing principal photography on George Lucas' THX-1138.

  7. A Brief History of American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola decided he would name his future studio "Zoetrope" after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogen Scott-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture making equipment. While touring Europe, Coppola was introduced to alternative ...

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