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Home School: Film Adaptations of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol via Gresham College on YouTube
How do the different film versions of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol reflect the politics and culture of their own particular times?
A lecture by Dr Christine L. Corton, Wolfson College Cambridge
10 December 2019 6PM GMT
A Christmas Carol (1843) is the most filmed and televised of Dickens’ works. Many will warmly remember the 1951 Alastair Sim version, but how many are aware of A Carol for Another Christmas (1964), a propaganda film produced in support of the UN, or The Passions of Carol (1975), which attempted to highlight the evil of the pornographic industry? How do the different versions reflect the politics and culture of their own particular times? What makes a good Carol movie? Is it truth to the original or is it something else?
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Voleflix, a public domain movie site via MetaFilter
MeFite malevolent trawled some lists of public domain movies (lots of great film noir) and put together a new, improved, or at least free version of Netflix. Behold: Voleflix! Includes films featuring Ed Wood, Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Vincent Price, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, Stanley Kubrick, Boris Karloff, Frank Sinatra and more… It also has daft Voleflix Originals and rates your taste in movies from your watchlist. [via mefi projects]
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Happy Public Domain Day 2020! via Boing Boing
Jennifer Jenkins from the Duke Center for the Public Domain writes, “January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day! Works published in 1924 are entering the US public domain. They include George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ and ‘Fascinating Rhythm,’ silent films by Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and Thomas Mann’s ‘The Magic Mountain,’ E. M. Forster’s ‘A Passage to India,’ and A. A. Milne’s ‘When We Were Very Young.’ These works were supposed to go into the public domain in 2000, after being copyrighted for 75 years. But before this could happen, Congress hit a 20-year pause button and extended their copyright term to 95 years. See what will (finally) be open to all!”
Christmas Past – 25 and end of a series – Santa Claus (1898) – G.A. Smith | BFI National Archive
Christmas Past – 25 and end of a series – Santa Claus (1898) – G.A. Smith | BFI National Archive
Made in 1898, G.A. Smith’s ‘Santa Claus’ is a film of considerable technical ambition and accomplishment for its period. It uses pioneering visual effects in its depiction of a visit from St. Nicholas.
A former magic lanternist and hypnotist, Smith was one of the first British film-makers to make extensive use of special effects to create fantastical scenes. It comes as little surprise that Smith corresponded with the French pioneer Georges Méliès at about this time, as the two men shared a common goal in terms of creating an authentic cinema of illusion. (Michael Brooke)
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Doing my husbandly duty recording @drrosannewelch Presenting her Talk – The Sisterhood of Science Fiction via Instagram
Doing my husbandly duty recording @drrosannewelch Presenting her Talk – The Sisterhood of Science Fiction: A Walk Through Some Writers and Characters You (Should) Know and Love
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A morning at @lakotacoffee to start our @citizenjanefilmfestival day! Fun today, work tomorrow! via Instagram
A morning at @lakotacoffee to start our @citizenjanefilmfestival day!
Fun today, work tomorrow!
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Drone-capable, dual Red Camera, 3D filming rig from Wild Rabbit Aerial via Instagram
Drone-capable, dual Red Camera, 3D filming rig from Wild Rabbit Aerial
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Steadicam Demo via My Instagram
Tiffen Open House & Stabilizer Gear Expo
Checking out a ton of cool, state-of-the-art moviemaking equipment.
Join me on Douglas E. Welch Photography on Facebook
Learn more about Steadicam
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