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  Film studio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In general parlance, the term is synonymous with "major film production company," due largely to the fact that the leading production companies of Hollywood's "Golden Age"—stretching from the late 1920s to the late 1940s—owned their own studio facilities, as do a few today.
In 1893, Thomas Edison built the first movie studio in the United States when he constructed the Black Maria, a tarpaper-covered structure near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, and asked circus, vaudeville, and dramatic actors to perform for the camera.
The first movie studio in the Hollywood area was Nestor Studios, opened in 1911 by Al Christie for David Horsley.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_studio   (594 words)

  
 Film Library
Established in 1949, Beijing Film Studio is one of the largest film studios in China.
Xi'an Film Studio was founded in 1958, and in its first 10 years, produced 19 films and received strong audience support.
Shanghai Film Studio was founded in 1949 and has grown into one of the three largest film studios in China.
www.prcmovie.com /library.html   (634 words)

  
 filmmaking.net forums - Film Shots Studio Press Release
These teams are also calling on the talents of pre-visual artists for creative sparks to launch and bring to life their titles, relying heavily on storyboards, illustration and character development for fuel.
Formed in 2005, it is the home base studio for artist Craig Gilmore, a 17 year veteran of the film, TV, animation, advertising, video game and comic book illustration industries, quickly carving an impressive creative name with clients such as NBC/Universal, Warner Brothers television, Marvel Comics, Cartoon Network, Sony, and Turner Entertainment.
When asked about Film Shots' location of Hillsborough, NC, based away from the entertainment epi-centers of Hollywood and New York, Gilmore replied “With today’s technology, FTP and high speed secure internet, I can upload artwork and get it to a company or director almost instantaneously for approvals.
www.filmmaking.net /fnetforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3790   (394 words)

  
 Film School - Film school in a film studio
If you love films and are keen to make one - write, shoot, edit or direct, the Asian Academy of Film and Television (AAFT), an international-level film school located at Noida in India, is the right place to unleash the creativity within you.
So we are proud to say that our academy is perhaps the only film school in the world that allows seeding and nurturing of fresh talents in the field of art and entertainment in the precincts of a film studio bubbling with activity all the 365 days.
During the last 10 years' of its existence, our film school has not only trained over 2500 students, but an equal number of feature, documentary and television films have been shot at the studio that hosts the AAFT.
www.aaft.com /film-school.html   (385 words)

  
 Film Comment
While the film obviously works as a parable about Germany's invasion of the Soviet Motherland, it takes great pains to achieve a sense of cultural autonomy which conflicts with both Ganiyev's sense of loyalty to the Party and its doctrines on the one hand, and his apparent feeling of cultural inferiority on the other.
In 1984 the VGIK put together a class of Kazakh film students for a course led by youth film auteur Sergey Solovyov and the theater director Anatoly Wassilyev with the aim of invigorating Kazakh film culture, which was in a dire state.
The film's scenario of drugs and Mafia is very new yet at the same time ancient and archaic, and there's a surreal sense of landscape - far removed from the conquerable space of the Sov-Easterns - indifferent in its magisteral presence to its inhabitant's struggles and failings, twisted madness, and spiritual running-on-empty.
www.filmlinc.com /fcm/online/centralasiaom2.htm   (1706 words)

  
 Film History Before 1920
The film's story was based on the Apocrypha and told about an attractive widow/martyr of ancient Bethulia who undertook to save her city under battle siege by seducing and killing the Assyrian general/conqueror.
Although the film had moments of lyricism and poignancy, it also told an electrifying, potent story that climaxed with members of the Klan riding to the rescue of besieged farmers threatened by Piedmont's fl militia.
The film premiered in Los Angeles, with a ticket price of $2 (higher admission prices could be charged for feature-length movies), and on Broadway in New York, it played to packed houses for almost a year.
www.filmsite.org /pre20sintro4.html   (2573 words)

  
 HaleStorm Entertainment to Build Major Film Studio in Utah
Salt Lake City, UT — Stone Five Studios, owner of HaleStorm Entertainment, has released its decision to build a state-of-the-art film studio in Utah to meet the demand for both HaleStorm’s movies and other local filmmakers, as well as to encourage filmmakers outside of Utah to film, produce and edit their movies in Utah.
According to the Utah Film Commission over 600 films and TV movies have been filmed in Utah since the 1920’s, due to its diversity of rugged Northern mountain tops, red rock vistas, modern cities, suburban neighborhoods, lovely rural communities, and of course, its unique shimmering salt flats.
Film director and HaleStorm Studios COO Kurt Hale, says the decision to create a new film studio has proven to be a win-win situation for all involved.
www.filmmakers.com /news/film/printer_424.shtml   (469 words)

  
 Film Actors' Studio --- FAST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Film acting subtext, its history, evolution, and application to the individual is explained and discussed.
Through information, instruction, exercises, and scene work, students are given a comprehensive, individual, and organic acting technique for approaching roles in film, television, and the theatre in a graduate-school style class.
This invitation only studio focuses on independent scene selection and rehearsal and continued use of performance techniques learned in earlier classes.
www.filmactorsstudio.net /class.htm   (348 words)

  
 The Brighton Film School and Studio UK - Studio
The Film School has been expanding considerably since it was started in 1999 and now attracts students from all over the world - Australia, Spain, Egypt, Denmark, Latvia, Turkey, Estonia and even the USA - in addition to running courses for local people.
In fact, the film school has received many phone calls from such companies who ask for everything from locations and film stock to students who, of course, are very keen to go out and help.
The move has been welcomed by the educational bodies within the film industry who see this unique opportunity for students, and major film rental companies who see this development as an opportunity to have local representation at the new Brighton Film Studios.
www.brightonfilmschool.org.uk /studio.htm   (348 words)

  
 Louisiana Film & Television
The studio and school are scheduled to open in late 2007 or in early 2008.
The studio is intended to take advantage of the state's film tax-incentive program and growing film-industry workforce as a lure for television and film projects.
The studio is a way to keep all of that business here and to entice film companies with lower costs, said Malcolm Petal, chief executive of The Film Factory and the Louisiana Institute of Film Technology Productions, the Louisiana company that will own and operate the facility.
www.lafilm.org /media/index.cfm?id=941   (680 words)

  
 Pannonia Filmstudio: History of Hungarian Pannonia Filmstudio
Animators had just begun to establish new, postwar studios when the entire Hungarian film industry was nationalized in l948, bringing all animators together in Budapest.
Magyarországon már a 30-as években történtek kísérletek rajzfilmek készítésére, de jelentõsebb filmes szervezet híján ezek az elsõ lépések elszigeteltek maradtak.
In the seventies, Pannonia Film Studio opened branches in Kecskemét and Pécs, widening diversity in the field of animation in Hungary.
www.mediaguide.hu /pannoniafilm/story.html   (1894 words)

  
 Film Studio Faux, Alternative Learning Website for Self taught Filmmakers
In APRIL 2005 this Studio once again opened the archives of reviews in the Special Effects Department, which is presently cob webbed and decaying, to Review Movie FX Magazine.
In contrast, it's regrettable that woman who even have that much financial success before their a first film, are rarely in the position to risk all they own on an independent film.
Film Studio Faux is a Parody, in the Hollywood Tradition it aims to insult everyone "equally".
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/2869   (3375 words)

  
 The Studio@620 : Film Noir - Film Festival
Muller is founder and president of The Film Noir Foundation, a non-profit corporation dedicated to the rescue and preservation of the genre's "lost" and damaged films, and each January he programs and hosts NOIR CITY: The San Francisco Film Noir Festival, the largest event of its kind in the United States.
Film Noir achieved its greatest popularity during the forties and fifties, the heyday of American radio.
She has been a panel moderator for The Education Channels film festival, and was a documentary juror for the 2005 Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
www.thestudioat620.com /p_fnr.htm   (1292 words)

  
 Film History Before 1920
In the early years of cinema, film producers were worried that the American public could not last through a film that was an hour long, thereby delaying the advent of feature films (60-90 minutes in length) in the US.
As film production increased, cinema owner William Fox was one of the first (in 1904) to form a distribution company (a regional rental exchange), that bought shorts and then rented them to exhibitors at lower rates.
Their main goal, to stifle up-and-coming independent film makers, was accomplished by raising admission prices, limiting censorship by cooperating with regulatory bodies, and preventing film stock from getting into the hands of non-members.
www.filmsite.org /pre20sintro2.html   (3331 words)

  
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 Columns: Picture a film studio arsenal
She is encouraged by the Legislature's decision this spring to quadruple to $10-million the state economic incentives available to moviemakers filming in Florida.
Tampa Digital Studios' bread-and-butter work ranges from making clever ads for such clients as Medical Hair Restoration in Maitland to producing the hip video that recently helped convince the NFL to bring the Super Bowl back to the bay area in 2009.
Tampa was used extensively in 1992 in the filming of Burt Reynolds' Cop and a Half.
www.sptimes.com /2005/07/15/Columns/Picture_a_film_studio.shtml   (1234 words)

  
 Norsk Filmstudio, kostyme – lys – grip – kamera – lyd - dekor – studio
From 2002 the official structure of film politics in Norway changed in a way that led to this company being a supplier of services, while all governmental financing became united in Norwegian Film Fund.
The only professional studios in Norway, with sizes from 330m2 to 450m2, in conjunction with the studios are carpenters and painters workshops, wardrobes, dressing room etc.
The company control the 133 feature films that was produced by Norsk Film AS in the years 1937 - 2001.
www.norskfilmstudio.no /bruker/english/contact.htm   (462 words)

  
 Live from Trinidad: the StudioFilmClub blog
This short film is told as a detective story in which the main character, Jade, seeks her father's murderer.
The film portrays a single mother and her struggles to raise a bright and ambitious, but ungrateful, daughter who is ashamed of her mother's humble status.
This film is not action packed or tension filled, but a long, slow wide-eyed observation of what effect an invading force can have on those that have emigrated away from their native lands and then decide to return.
studiofilmclub.blogspot.com   (11831 words)

  
 Dream Jobs | Film Studio Executive
For film studio executives, watching movies on the job is just the beginning.
Their meals are paid for, because they dine out morning noon and night with agents, managers, other executives, writers, directors, and producers, all in the pursuit of finding material and establishing relationships.
They might spend the afternoon in a plush screening room watching a hot young director's latest film, and their evening at premieres, schmoozing with celebs and other industry fabulosos.
www.salary.com /careers/layouthtmls/crel_display_Cat10_Ser190_Par289.html   (503 words)

  
 POLYGRAM'S FILM STUDIO IS BEING SHOPPED AROUND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Unfortunately for Seagram, the studio's price has headed south in recent weeks and is now valued at closer to $750 million.
The film company says it had operating losses last year of $54 million, but estimates are hat it will increase cash flow to $100 million next year and $310 million by 2002, according to those who have seen the books.
It plans to increase production to 14 to 18 films a year within the next 18 months and to cut overhead by around $20 million.
www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/july1998/nf80723b.htm   (234 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Work starts on £5.7m film studio
Work is beginning on the first purpose-built film studio to be built in the UK since 1923.
British Film Commission head Steve Norris said: "We aim to ensure that any film that can be made in the UK is made in the UK, and that the necessary infrastructure is in place to support it.
Work on the new film studio complex is expected to last 14 months.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/2137739.stm   (300 words)

  
 Film studio "GILDE"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The predominant occupation of the studio is making documentaries for the most part carrying out its own creative projects.
The studio deals with different kinds of photo activities such as photographing, digital processing the photos, restoration of old archive photos.
Since 1997 the studio has been working on creating, enlargement and improving the website www.latfilma.lv, which is the biggest webpage which reflects the filmmaking of Latvia both contemporary and its history.
www.latfilma.lv /gilde/2gil02.html   (431 words)

  
 R450m film studio for Cape Town - SouthAfrica.info
Dreamworld Film City has been confirmed by the Western Cape provincial government and the City of Cape Town as the successful bidder to develop the multi-million rand film studio to be built on the Vergenoegd Farm in Faure off the N2 just outside Cape Town.
The studio site, in Faure about 10km outside Somerset West, was chosen on the advice of an international and local consulting team, including international studio experts from the US.
Dreamworld intends to begin construction in early 2005 and to have the studio operational by 2006.
www.southafrica.info /doing_business/investment/capefilmstudio-260903.htm   (740 words)

  
 UCCA Film Production   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Recognizing the need to support both the arts and media development in Ukraine, in 1994 the UCCA began cooperating with noted Ukrainian director Oles Yanchuk to produce feature films about Ukraine's historical past.
The films illuminate chapters of Ukrainian history buried by Soviet historians.
Filmed on location in the exotic and mysterious Carpathian Mountains, the tarnished but still opulent cites of Odesa and Kyiv, and the architecturally stunning city of Lviv,
ucca.org /aid/film.shtml   (258 words)

  
 Wilmington Regional Film Commission, Inc.
This office provides information regarding local film procedures, permits, and guidelines, serves as liaison with governmental departments and arranges for filming on public property.
The Film Commission is aware of schedule conflicts or other potential difficulties which are not known to the production company.
All information regarding guidelines for filming on public property, hiring off-duty personnel, fee schedules and other City/County involvement is coordinated directly through local permit offices or municipal agencies.
www.wilmington-film.com /home.asp   (278 words)

  
 film studio - Photography and Photo Developing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
OSCAR buzz gets rampant from November, when studios push their prize babies out the gate, until February when awards shows are littering the airwaves.
The home video divisions of Fox, Universal Studios and Paramount are all entertaining the possibility of releasing films for PlayStation Portable using Sony's proprietary Universal Media Disc format, according to a trade report.
Lucille Ball is best known for her television shows and as a TV comedienne and pioneer, but she also appeared in dozens of films, was a Ziegfeld Girl and was a successful businesswoman -- the first woman to own a film studio.
www.nightdeveloping.com /film-studio.html   (289 words)

  
 Film School by Film Connection: Film Schools in your area. Our film schools are located all over the world.
Film School by Film Connection: Film Schools in your area.
Our film schools are located all over the world.
Film Schools are in actual film or video studios in your town!
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