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	Computer-generated imagery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		CGI is used in films, television programs and commercials, and in printed media.
		CGI is used for visual effects because the quality is often higher and effects are more controllable than other more physically based processes, such as constructing miniatures for effects shots or hiring extras for crowd scenes, and because it allows the creation of images that would not be feasible using any other technology.
		The film was not a box-office success, however, and after creating one more film using a similar visual style (Final Flight of the Osiris, a short film which served as a prologue to The Matrix Reloaded), Square Pictures closed down.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Computer-generated_imagery (1435 words)

	Timeline of CGI in film and television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		CGI was used to create thousands of monoliths for the end sequence.
		First CGI film to be nominated for an Academy award.
		First television series to use CGI as the primary method for its visual effects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_CGI_in_film_and_television (688 words)

	Timeline of Influential Milestones and Turning Points in Film History
		Herein is a detailed timeline of the key film milestones, important turning points, and significant historical dates or events (organized by decade) that have had a significant influence on the world body of cinema and shaped its development.
		These films were low cost to produce; didn't require much originality, big-name (and salary) actors or extensive marketing (because of brand-name recognition); and they had ready-made legions of faithful horror-film devotees.
		Horror films became one of the most lucrative genre franchises, due to the fact that they could be cheaply made, and were capable of attracting large audiences.
	www.filmsite.org /milestones2000s.html (2969 words)

	Timeline of Influential Milestones and Turning Points in Film History
		The dark and moving independent film was a heartbreaking, authentic, coming-of-age family drama about an abused 15 year old working-class Yorkshire boy who found meaning in his life by raising a baby kestrel (falcon).
		Twenty-five percent of the film was financed by a tax shelter syndicate which received about 10 percent of the profits in return -- this avenue of film financing has since been closed by order of federal regulation.
		Known for directing Rosemary's Baby (1968) (his debut Hollywood film) and the highly-acclaimed Chinatown (1974) which revitalized the film noir genre, and for being the widower of the brutally-murdered Manson victim Sharon Tate in 1969, Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful intercourse with the minor but fled to France in 1978 before his sentencing.
	www.filmsite.org /milestones1970s.html (3572 words)

	Film Music
		Television and film use certain common conventions often referred to as the 'grammar' of these audiovisual media.
		It is a unique and comprehensive cyber-center for film and television music, offering up-to-date news and event information, multiple resources for research in the history of film and TV music, an extensive composer photo gallery, and an excellent "resources and links" section (especially links to composers).
		Among the films nominated for best original score this year are two movies of fantasy and fright: The Village, with music composed by James Newton Howard and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with a score from John Williams.
	www.esu.edu /~pdorian/filmmusic.htm (5769 words)

	helium3: History of CGI in Film and Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Now you may be tempted to think that Labyrinth is a 80s fantasy film of the cheesiest order.
		Isn’t it funny how really naff early CGI was often much scarier than billion-dollar King Kong etc? Of course I’m older now, but I’m sure these things had more bite when we weren’t used to seeing them in every other advert.
		In fact, the stop-motion Sinbad films and the Harpies in Perseus (?) were the scariest things ever on the telly when I were a lad n that.
	helium3.blogdns.com /2006/05/16/history-of-cgi-in-film-and-television (388 words)

	6/11/04: Film Score Friday
		The film, which is the penultimate movie in the Laemmle's recent series on the films of cinematographer James Wong Howe, will be playing at the Fallbrook in West Hills on June 12-13 at 11 a.m., and at the Monica in Santa Monica on June 19-20 at 11 a.m.
		This 1980 film written and directed by Menahem Golan (co-founder of Cannon Films) is an indescribable futuristic religious sci-fi disco musical set in the far off year of 1994, about an innocent young couple caught in the snare of an evil music publishing empire/tyrannical dictatorship called BIM.
		I enjoyed the film itself, but the lukewarm reaction and so-so box office suggests it wasn't really the score that was a problem but that was the only thing they could fix so late in the day.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2004/12_Jun---Film_Score_Friday.asp (1619 words)

	Timeline
		No film in recent memory has cried out this much to be mocked.
		The only bright light in Timeline is that when the movie flops as hard as it must, perhaps it will be Walker's empty-headed career which takes the fall.
		Timeline may not be the dumbest movie to be released this year.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/timeline (974 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Film - Great X-pectations
		In those films, both set in the not-too-distant future, she was one of several uberheroes battling injustice at Xavier’s behest.
		At the Cannes Film Festival, where the movie made its world premiere, Ratner declared that he directed it as if there would be no new chapter to follow.
		No offence to the film’s caterers, but most moviegoers will have exited the cinema long before their names roll past.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/film/xmen.html (2005 words)

	Psyche's Links: 15000++ Links to Esoteric Subjects on the Web: Timelines on every subject: Esoteric, Heretical ...
		Timeline of Wars and Conflict for the past 5000 years
		Timeline of Symmetry in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics
		Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire - 1906
	www.psyche.com /psyche/links/timelines.html (341 words)

	Computer-generated imagery
		CGI is used because it is often cheaper than physical methods, such as constructing elaborate miniatures for effects shots or hiring a great deal of extras for crowd scenes, and because it allows the creation of images that would not be feasible using any other method.
		Industrial Light and Magic produced photorealistic CGI visual effects, most notably a seawater creature dubbed the pseudopod, for the film.
		The film was not a box-office success, however, and after creating one more film using a similar visual style (Final Flight of the Osiris, a short subject which served as a prologue to The Matrix Reloaded), Square Pictures closed down.
	www.gamelow.com /TVandFilm-C/Computer-generated_imagery.php (1081 words)

	African Films Movies and Video on the Internet
		Film school "on film and television acting and technical skills." "ASA is focused on not only improving the quality of Ghanaian films, but on infusing them with information about social issues..." Has volunteer opportunities.
		The film itself has scenes from the commemoration of the death of President Samora Machel in a plane crash with appearances by President Joaquim Chissano, Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel [Mandela].
		Cheick Oumar Sissoko's Guimba and Genesis and Souleymane Cisse's Baara, Yeelen, and Finye, Hyenas and Touki Bouki, by Djibril Diop Mambety, Wend Kuuni, by Gaston Kabore, and Quartier Mozart, by Jean-Pierre Bekolo.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/film.html (8456 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, THE SWARM (1978)
		Jerry Goldsmith gives the film a decent sounding and appropriate enough score, but it is far removed from his best/classic award winning work.
		Try to figure the internal (or is it eternal?) timeline of the film's narrative as scenes go from day to night back to day as characters magically teleport from one scene setting to another.
		Also unfortunate is that both are pan and scanned, so people are constantly talking to the side of the television screen or, in some instances, the camera is needlessly focused on the person they are talking to.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews2/swarm.html (884 words)

	Die Another Day (2002): Reviews
		The many shots of characters operating devices with remote controls will do little to quiet the complaints that the films have started to resemble video games, and the same can be said of the proliferating digital effects.
		This is a train wreck of an action film -– a stupefying attempt by the filmmakers to force-feed James Bond into the mindless "XXX" mold and throw 40 years of cinematic history down the toilet in favor of bright flashes and loud bangs.
		Another Bond film that turns out to be an unspectacular spectacle, at times winking and fun but too often plodding and hackneyed.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/dieanotherday (1571 words)

	The History of Animation
		He had already projected quite useful films onto a wall in his factory, but rather than producing a viewing system for the general public he came up with a machine in which reels of celluloid were not unrolled but stretched over a set of wheels that passed in front of a viewing window.
		The film's motif was based on the lightning or quick sketch routine from vaudeville where a drawing is done in front of an audience.
		In this film the animation was created by stop motion and effects animation of 3D objects - wine poured into a glass, bread cut, and a table set without a human present.
	animation.filmtv.ucla.edu /program/anihist.html (9081 words)

	FresHDV \| Fresh news & views for videographers, editors, filmmakers, directors, producers & creatives. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Motionographer points to the Timeline of CGI in Film and Television.
		But in my opinion, Nic Cage has a tendency to over-act in films like this one, to be slightly heavy-handed with his acting...he seems much too aware of moments when he needs to look especially studly.
		The 48 Hour Film Project is back for 2006, and coming to a city near you.
	www.freshdv.com /archive/2006_05_01_index.html (5280 words)

	Blender on U.S. Television? at BlenderNation
		While watching “What About Brian” he noticed that the two characters in the show (that run a game company) were using a very particular 3D package.
		Television, among other media avenues, is often just plain annoying, and full of people seemingly out of touch, or aggressive, self-obsessed, manipulative, power-crazy, ugly (and I don’t necessarily mean in terms of appearance), or at least appearing hardly like anyone I would want to meet, much less get to know.
		Display your Blender work on your own site, oh unknown artist, maybe because you did it out of a kind of quiet, sincere, soulful, purity and passion, and you may have my attention or even desire to meet you before the same can be said of many on tv or in film, etc..
	www.blendernation.com /2006/05/04/blender-on-us-television (1099 words)

	archived news 2005
		The film was originally released on DVD in October 1999 as a single disc.
		The film moves in three distinct acts, and each one plays a crucial role that builds to the climax of the overall story-arch.
		And as dark as the film gets in its final act, all of the elements that fans of the original trilogy have come to love are here, namely genuine humor and a sense of fun and adventure.
	www.timelineuniverse.net /archivednews05.htm (7739 words)

	Zoned.dk - My corner of the web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		CGI has really changed movies, and the "defining" moment for me was the alien water effect in The Abyss.
		With Terminator 2: Judgment Day CGI really had it's breakthrough, and with lower cost for CGI it have since moved it's way into TV series, like Buffy, Charmed, Smallville etc.
		To celebrate Attenborough's 80th birthday, the public were asked to vote on their favourite of his television moments.
	www.zoned.dk (820 words)

	Cgi And Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		First use of 2D computer digitized images as part of a feature film...
		Very basic introduction to what CGI is. Designed for programmers.
		...But the makers of CGI films do not draw attention to the technology as the visual-effects.....More and more films are using CGI technology to such lengths as to have whole characters...
	www.tcltk.com /cgi-and-films.html (275 words)

	Airbag -
		A timeline of CGI in film and television.
		I wonder how long it took to render Tron back in 1981.
		If you really have something to say, use the contact form.
	www.airbagindustries.com /archives/009238.php (61 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		There is no timeline or timetable that is set for the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
		It was included that there should be a request for a timetable, but this was pending or linked to the capabilities of the buildup of the Iraqi forces and to the stability on the ground.
		She had famously refused Letterman's many invitations, reportedly because she was upset about the many jokes he has made about her over the years.
	www-cgi.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0512/04/le.01.html (12111 words)

	Timeline Of CGI In Film And Television at BlenderNation
		Timeline Of CGI In Film And Television at BlenderNation
		It’s a nice look at the past 33 years and seeing how far we’ve come.
		3 Responses to “Timeline Of CGI In Film And Television”
	www.blendernation.com /2006/05/17/timeline-of-cgi-in-film-and-television (193 words)

	Cgi Animation Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The first CGI animation with motion blur effects.
		Software to manage CGI animation helps Europe achieve feature film first...
		While CGI animation provides popular and profitable entertainment...
	www.tcltk.com /cgi-animation-software.html (231 words)

	Timeline 1939 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The 1976 film "Voyage of the Damned" was based on this.
		1939 Aug 26, The first televised major league baseball games were shown on experimental station W2XBS, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
		1939 Sep 30, The first college football game to be televised was shown on experimental station W2XBS in New York as Fordham University defeated Waynesburg College, 34-7 in Triboro Stadium on Randalls Island.
	www.timelines.ws /20thcent/1939.HTML (10109 words)

	CPSC 324 Syllabus
		The three slides about polygon scan conversion are included if you are curious about what the general polygon-fill algorithm looks like.
		CGI Historical Timeline (a broad view - includes other significant events in areas vaguely related to computing or graphics)
		A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation (provides more discussion than a bare timeline; the
	math.hws.edu /~bridgeman/courses/324/s06/syllabus.html (937 words)

	An Historical Timeline of Computer Graphics and Animation
		The Great Mouse Detective was the first animated film to be aided by CG.
		CGI group starts at Industrial Light and Magic (Doug Kay and George Joblove)
		Academy Technical Achievement Awards go to Mike Boudry of the Computer Film Company for pioneering work in film input scanning; and David and Lloyd Addleman for their inventions in digital image compositing.
	accad.osu.edu /~waynec/history/timeline.html (4372 words)

	Look At This...: Movie Links 3
		Top five 'that's not a mullet, this is a mullet' films.
		Separate Cinema has, for over two decades, been the only source dedicated to the art and fascinating history of the African-Americans in film.
		The archive of over 25,000 posters, lobby cards, stills and assorted ephemera spans the past century of important and historic fl cinema.
	seehere.blogspot.com /2005/08/movie-links-3.html (412 words)

	Timeline 1990B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Subsequently Serbia abolished the parliament and government of Kosova, closed down the only Albanian daily, and took over the state-owned television and radio.
		The Albanians of Kosovo voted for sovereignty and elected a shadow government that was banned by Milosevic.
		1990 Aug 23, Iraqi state television showed President Saddam Hussein meeting with a group of about 20 Western detainees, telling the group—whom he described as "guests"—that they were being held "to prevent the scourge of war."
	www.timelines.ws /20thcent/1990B.HTML (9325 words)

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