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Why do movie theatres serve popcorn?
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Motion-picture projector.
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USA 2006 - 78th Annual Academy Awards. Closeup of giant Oscar statue at the entrance of the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, film movie hollywood
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Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.
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Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire.
Role Call
The Jazz Singer (1927) Actor Al Jolson as Jakie Rabinowitz with Eugenie Besserer, who plays his mother as Sara Rabinowitz in a scene from the musical film directed by Alan Crosland. First feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. The Jazz Singer
Film Buff
Robert Altman (1925-2006) Lobby card of actors Donald Sutherland, left, and Elliott Gould in the comedy film M*A*S*H (1970) directed by Robert Altman. MASH movie Korean War
A Movie Lesson
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Tom Cruise as Maverick in Top Gun(1986) directed by Tony Scott.
Can You Guess the Movie by the Scene?
Bag end on Bagshot row from the movies Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in Hobbiton, New Zealand, Australia
You Ought to Be in Pictures: 8 Filming Locations You Can Actually Visit
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Inventions that Helped Shape How We Interact with Knowledge and Information
Tom Cruise as Maverick in Top Gun(1986) directed by Tony Scott.
Can You Guess the Movie by the Scene?
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Still from the film Deliverance, 1919. The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. View shows Keller in the cockpit/front seat of an airplane.
How Did Helen Keller Fly a Plane?
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Doctor Zhivago
The Godfather
Kinetoscope
Seven Samurai
King Kong
Orson Welles
Lady in the Lake
Stagecoach
scene from Raging Bull
Intolerance
Why do movie theatres serve popcorn?
Study film-making techniques employed in an adaptation of John Millington Synge's The Well of the Saints
How talkies replaced silent films
Follow a director as he films a motion picture adaption of Eugène Ionesco's The New Tenant
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