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	Motion Picture - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Motion pictures are recorded using specially designed cameras that capture the images on rolls of film.
		Motion pictures are filmed in hundreds of brief shots, which must be arranged into a final product that fulfills the vision of the director and producer.
		Until the early 1950s, motion pictures were generally projected onto a screen with an aspect ratio (the ratio of width to height) of 4 to 3, which is about the ratio of a standard television screen.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761569450___0/Motion_Picture.html (6846 words)

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		Your average director has a very earnest and serious outlook on life and he gets puckers around the eyes and tell-tale lines on his forehead and there are times when he has to go away for a short time and rest, for it is the only time he can get the necessary recreation.
		Unless the director is picturizing a story of his own authorship, it is incumbent on him to determine the ideas of the author and to interpret them on the screen.
		These are the things the director of the present is developing in accordance with the dictates of the great unseen power that is surely speeding the motion picture on to its niche as an Art.
	www.public.asu.edu /~ialong/Taylor52.txt (11397 words)

	Stuntmen’s Association — Stunt Coordinators and 2nd Unit Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thus was born the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures with a charter membership of 50 recognized Hollywood stuntmen.
		Membership in the Association is by invitation only and is only offered to those professionals who have proven themselves within the industry by maintaining a standard of excellence throughout their careers.
		The Stuntmens Association of Motion Pictures is proud of its history and continues to be an essential part of the adventure of film making.
	www.stuntmen.com /about/history.shtml (629 words)

	NEWS \| MAGAZINE \| VOLUME 26-4: NOVEMBER 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dawley wrote that the association's rules were "formulated somewhat" on those of the Masons, and the rising sun was taken as its logo.
		The MPDA held an annual ball that was the social event of the year to raise funds for disabled veterans and provide hospital aid for motion picture people.
		The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was chartered on May 4, 1927; a Directors' Branch was formed on June 7, and most MPDA members joined it.
	www.dga.org /news/v26_4/feat_mpda.php3 (3220 words)

	Allan Dwan
		However, he had a strong interest in the fledgling motion picture industry and when Essanay Studios offered him the opportunity to become a scriptwriter, he took the job.
		In 1917, Alan Dwan became President of the Motion Picture Directors Association.
		Allan Dwan is one of the directors that spanned the silent to sound era.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Allan_Dwan.html (446 words)

	Allan Dwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.
		Dwan is one of the directors who spanned the silent to sound era.
		He died in Los Angeles at the age of ninety-six, and is interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery, Mission Hills, California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allan_Dwan (401 words)

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		The new suspect is said to be a motion picture actor of some standing and to have been the confidante of several clever criminals, two of whom were arrested several months ago by Federal agents.
		There is no place for a censor of motion picture publication in a country whose constitution guarantees its citizens free publication by speech, by picture and by the press.
		As a matter of fact the picture was one taken at the time the trio were leaving on their famous Liberty Loan jaunt, upon which momentous trip Doug and Mary are supposed to have "fallen" for each other good and hard.
	www.public.asu.edu /~bruce/Taylor88.txt (11164 words)

	Shelley Stamp wins award
		Associate professor of film and digital media Shelley Stamp has been named one of two 2003 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—the same folks who bring us the Academy Awards.
		Associate professor of film and digital media Shelley Stamp has been awarded $25,000 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to complete a book about silent film director Lois Weber.
		Stamp’s project focuses on Lois Weber, a female director of the silent-film era who became the first and only woman granted membership in the Motion Picture Directors Association, a precursor to the Directors Guild of America.
	currents.ucsc.edu /03-04/12-08/academy.html (696 words)

	Biography for J. Searle Dawley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to Dawley, eight Hollywood directors "met secretly one night in a mountain resort" to discuss the creation of an organization for directors to promote their interests in an industry dominated by producers and to do something about the "decadence" that already was rampant.
		The MPDA was prepared to fight "legislative menaces of censorship and so-called Blue Laws." Film distributor W.W. Hodkinson, one of the founders of Paramount Pictures Corp., was invited by Taylor to address the MPDA.
		John Ford served as MPDA Director in 1927, the year that Louis B. Mayer had the idea of creating the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to serve as a company union in order to forestall unionization in the industry.
	imdb.com /name/nm0205986/bio (2213 words)

	Filmmakers Resource Links: Unions / Guilds / Associations
		The Directors Guild of Great Britain - It is a trade union, offering help with contracts, a campaigning voice, policy to influence the future of the industry, and advice for members to meet and share their skills.
		The WGAw is the union representing writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media industries.
		The WGAe is the union representing writers in the motion picture, broadcast, cable and new media industries.
	www.filmmakers.com /links/member/unions.htm (538 words)

	Board of Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Fraternity of Friends, a major sponsor of the annual Sundance Film Festival and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
		He is a founding member and serves on the board of the next generation council of The Motion Picture and Television Fund, as well as the Board of Governors of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
		He also serves on the special projects committee of the Directors Guild of America and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
	www.reprise.org /board_of_directors.html (1167 words)

	CU Alumni Network: Directors Club Web site
		She is the Director of Outreach and Events for the Alumni Association.
		It was moved and seconded the Directors Club support the Glenn Miller event and advertise it, but not hold the summer meeting as a part of it.
		The breakdown of Directors Club membership dues is: $900 is considered the total cost of Lifetime Alumni Association membership which equals $40 per year for life (estimate ~20 years) for basic staff support.
	www.cualum.org /clubs/directors/minutes.html (12359 words)

	Wikinfo \| Sidney Olcott
		In 1907, Frank Marion, Samuel Long, and George Klein, formed a new motion picture company called the Kalem Company and were able to lure the increasingly successful Sidney Olcott away from Biograph.
		He was offered the sum of ten dollars per picture and under the terms of his contract, Olcott was required to direct a minimum of one, one-reel picture of about a thousand feet every week.
		The motion picture industry acclaimed him as it greatest director and the film influenced the direction many great filmmakers would take such as D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Sidney_Olcott (641 words)

	Motion Picture Directors Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Motion Picture Directors Association (MPDA) was an American non-profit fraternal organization formed by twenty-six film directors on June 18, 1915 in Los Angeles, California.
		The following year MPDA members helped their fellow directors working in New York City to form their own branch association.
		Lois Weber (1881-1939) was the first and only woman granted membership in the Motion Picture Directors Association.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Motion_Picture_Directors_Association (241 words)

	Joe De Grasse Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1910, he acted in his first motion picture and although he would appear as an actor in 13 films, and write 2 screenplays, his real interest was in directing.
		While working in Hollywood for Universal Pictures, Joe De Grasse met and married one of the few female directors working at the time, Ida May Park (1879-1954).
		In 1915 he became a founder the Motion Picture Directors' Association of America.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/De_Grasse_Joe.html (162 words)

	Motion Picture Association of America
		Amicus the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. ("MPAA") is a trade association that serves as the voice of the American motion picture studios.
		Amicus the Directors Guild of America, Inc. ("DGA") is a non-profit corporation that serves as the labor organization and exclusive representative for collective bargaining purposes of, inter alia, directors, assistant directors, and unit production managers of theatrical and television motion pictures.
		SGA is an unincorporated voluntary association of approximately 5,000 songwriters throughout the United States and the estates of deceased SGA members.
	www.mpaa.org /Final_Napster_Amicus_Brief.asp (5987 words)

	Directors
		More of a producer than a director, James Hill was also a screenwriter and a short story author.
		Director and screenwriter, he directed 153 films from 1917 to 1949...almost all of them westerns.
		Served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1985 to 1988.
	www.whenmoviesweremovies.com /hoosierdirectors.html (1763 words)

	Biography for William Desmond Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Taylor continued to be actor, director or both until he was hired as an actor in 'The Tale of Two Cities'.
		Like many directors who turned out a large number of films, some of his films like 'Ben Blair (1916)' were poorly received; some like 'The Last Chapter (1915)' were average at best; and others such as 'American Beauty (1916)' were very well received.
		Mabel Normand's career would be tarnished by her association and questionable motivation with the death of Taylor.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0853336/bio (977 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		James Searle Dawley (1878-1949) was born in Del Norte, Colorado, and educated in Denver.
		He was hired by Edwin S. Porter in May 1907 as a director for the Edison Company.
		His first film was The Nine Lives of a Cat (1907), and he went on to direct more than 200 films for Edison, including Frankenstein (1910) and The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912).
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/dawley_32.html (421 words)

	Baring the Heart of Hollywood
		he fight against foreign motion picture films, which means the fight against the free importation of motion pictures made in foreign countries, was begun by the Hollywood Post of the American Legion and has been taken up by that organization throughout the country at large.
		The Hollywood Post of the American Legion is known as the "Motion Picture Post," being composed mainly of men connected with various branches of the film industry who served in the World War.
		To prevent such pictures from injuring the established name of Paramount they are placed on the market and sold through some of the various subsidiary distributing organizations maintained for that purpose.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/26_bar_6.htm (1820 words)

	Indian Motion Pictures.com - Official portal of Film Industry in INDIA
		The AFM is a global marketplace where more than $500 million in motion picture and television production and distribution deals are closed annually.
		Participants come from more than 70 countries, and include leaders in motion picture and television production and distribution, directors, agents, writers, lawyers, bankers, festival directors, film commissioners and trade groups.
		The AFM is produced by the Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA), the trade association representing the world's producers and distributors of independent motion pictures and television programs.
	www.indianmotionpictures.com /afm2005/afm_aboutafm.htm (230 words)

	Cecil B. DeMille's Legacy
		He often narrated his motion pictures, appeared in their trailers and portrayed himself in other directors’ films – most notably in Billy Wilder’s SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950).
		He was an early and prominent member of the Motion Picture Directors Association -- the first organization to give directors a united voice -- and regularly wrote articles in trade publications on behalf of directors’ artistic rights.
		When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded in 1927, he became highly active in its Directors Branch.
	www.cecilbdemille.com /legacy.html (2932 words)

	NEWS \| MAGAZINE \| VOLUME 26-4 - NOVEMBER 2001
		At its meeting on September 29, your National Board voted to authorize the DGA leadership to hold exploratory meetings with the AMPTP to determine whether early contract negotiations are desirable.
		As we enter negotiations, and deal with a variety of economic issues, it is important to remember that directors have always been active in working to find solutions.
		While it was not a direct forerunner of the DGA, upon reading this story I think you’ll find, as I have, that directors have always been champions of better working conditions, leading the way for filmmakers to perform at their peak.
	www.dga.org /news/v26_4/dept_presreport.php3 (529 words)

	Minx, The Magazine - Volume Two, IssueTwo
		In 1909, despite her entire lack of dramatic experience, she succeeded in getting a job at the fledgling Biograph motion picture studio in New York City.
		In fact, it is generally recognized that the quality of her work often depended on the care of her directors.
		As a result, Minter filed an invasion of privacy suit, alleging that the program intimated the murder had been done by one of three women, and she was presumed to be among the three.
	www.theminx.com /iss2vol2/crime2.htm (918 words)

	Biography - Rear Admiral John Ford, USNR
		In April 1944 he served as Technical Observer with the Branch Office, Office of Strategic Services, London, England, in connection with the accomplishment of various reconnaissance flights in combat areas in preparation of strategic motion picture sequences from air.
		In the Invasion of Normandy, June 1944, he organized the seaborne Allied photographic effort in the Invasion and was the Commanding Officer of the United States Navy and Coast Guard, and the Polish, French, and Dutch camera Crews.
		He was a Member of the Motion Picture Directors Association and the Screen Directors Guild, and held various awards from foreign countries.
	www.history.navy.mil /bios/ford_john.htm (989 words)

	The Unsolved Murder of William Desmond Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Desmond Taylor was a former actor turned director in early Hollywood.
		Coming as it did on the heels of the Fatty Arbuckle scandal and the drug-related death of actor Wallace Reid, Taylor's murder spurred Hollywood to clean up its act.
		Will Hays became president of the newly formed Motion Picture Producers and Directors Association, and a new age of censorship and studio control was born in Hollywood.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/scandals/taylor.html (519 words)

	Amazon.com: Crash (2-Disc Director's Cut Edition): DVD: Paul Haggis,Karina Arroyave,Dato Bakhtadze,Sandra Bullock,Don ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The skewed perception of people with different ethnicity could also stem from appearance, gender, and the socioeconomic status of the observer and the observed.
		He is a successful television director who doesn't at first realize what he is dealing with when he and his wife have an encounter with two cops.
		The role of the TV director (taken by Oscar nominee Terrence Howard) was originally offered to Forest Whitaker who turned it down to finish First Daughter...
	www.amazon.com /Crash-2-Disc-Directors-Paul-Haggis/dp/B000EHQUOE (3720 words)

	The Diversity Awards \| Home
		As in previous year’s with the amalgam of activities and kudosfests going on during the week leading up to the Oscars, the MMPA’s annual luncheon was again among the hot tickets in town, known for its casual atmosphere and intermingling of current Academy Award nominees, studio execs, and burgeoning filmmakers.
		The prestigious organization of actors, cinematographers, editors, writers, and directors has in the past played host to an array of celebrities and nominees from Samantha Morton, Kate Winslet and Djimon Hounsou to Richard Gere, Morgan Freeman and Renee Zelwegger.
		The luncheon is always anticipated and remembered for its spontaneous surprises of high-profile guests and the goodwill shared among colleagues, coming out in support of the talented crop of up-and-coming filmmakers.
	www.thediversityawards.org (431 words)

	I M P A: Iowa Motion Picture Association
		At the July 12 Board of Director's meeting, a new slate of officers was unanimously elected.
		Serving as President is Kent Newman,Terry Daily as Vice-President, Anne Fredrickson as Secretary, and Jon Van Allen as Treasurer.
		A complete listing of the new Board of Directors is available in our Directory.
	www.impa.tv (101 words)

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