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Lee Pfeiffer. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, German silent horror film, released in 1920, that is widely considered the first great work in the genre. It also was the first film in the German Expressionist movement. The mysterious Dr. Caligari (played by Werner Krauss) arrives in a rural German village with his.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Metropolis, German silent film, released in 1927, featuring director Fritz Lang ’s vision of a grim futuristic society and containing some of the most impressive images in film history. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) Metropolis. Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (1927), directed by Fritz Lang. Metropolis.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Apr 29, 2024 · Such a device was created by French-born inventor Louis Le Prince in the late 1880s. He shot several short films in Leeds, England, in 1888, and the following year he began using the newly invented celluloid film. He was scheduled to show his work in New York City in 1890, but he disappeared while traveling in France.
1 day ago · YouTube, social media platform and website for sharing videos. It was registered on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal. They had the idea that ordinary people would enjoy sharing their “home videos.”. The company is headquartered in San Bruno ...
- William L. Hosch
Cinema verite, French film movement of the 1960s that showed people in everyday situations with authentic dialogue and naturalness of action. Outstanding examples are Jean Rouch’s Chronicle of a Summer (1961) and Chris Marker’s Le Joli Mai (1963). Learn more about cinema verite.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 days ago · IMDb, Web site that provides information about millions of films and television programs as well as their cast and crew. The name is an acronym for Internet Movie Database. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com, IMDb is based in Seattle, but the office of Col Needham, the founder and CEO, remains in Bristol, England, where the Web site was founded.
Revolution Begins. To help him solve France’s problems, Louis XVI called together the Estates-General in May 1789. The Estates-General was a group made up of representatives from the three classes, or estates, of French society: the church, the nobles, and the commoners. In June most of the commoners and some members of the other groups broke ...
