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Movies can refer to motion pictures, the art form of making a film or the motion picture industry. Films are made by recording images of actors and scenery using cameras, animation techniques and special effects. In the late 1900s, computers became a key resource for making a movie. Films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. Silent, black-and-white movies were made as far back at the late 1800s. In the 1920s, films in the United States flourished with the rise of Hollywood, in southern California. Sound was added to movies at that time, and color eventually was used as an alternative to black-and-white. Customers buy a movie ticket at a movie theater and can choose fro...
Movies can refer to motion pictures, the art form of making a film or the motion picture industry. Films are made by recording images of actors and scenery using cameras, animation techniques and special effects. In the late 1900s, computers became a key resource for making a movie. Films are made up of a series of individual images called frames. Silent, black-and-white movies were made as far back at the late 1800s. In the 1920s, films in the United States flourished with the rise of Hollywood, in southern California. Sound was added to movies at that time, and color eventually was used as an alternative to black-and-white. Customers buy a movie ticket at a movie theater and can choose from a number of showtimes. Films, featuring "movie stars," are distributed by movie studios, which are large production companies. Movie reviews, written by film critics, appear regularly via numerous media outlets and can have a major effect on the success of a film and how much money is made.
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: Concentrating on becoming, not on being
Our daughters, Sabine and Simone, were riveted to the television. As each starlet walked the red carpet on Oscar Night we were breathless, watching the beautiful gowns worn by the gorgeous women of Hollywood. We sat waiting to learn the origins of...Tags: Health, Giorgio Armani S.P.A., Entertainment, Entertainment Events, William James
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The Valley Line: Dominigo stars in a night at the opera
It's hard to believe, but the first day of spring, March 20, is nearly here. We have already sprung an hour ahead and we are now thankfully into daylight saving time. I love having the sun shine later into the evening.
An afternoon performance of...Tags: Art Johnson, Social Issues, Entertainment, Opera (genre), Placido Domingo
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Around Town: Educational Foundation to screen 'The Hunger Games'
The La Caņada Flintridge Educational Foundation consistently comes through for our public schools. This month, the LCUSD accepted a $2-million check from the foundation. “Foundation President Paul Murray noted it was a record amount for the...Tags: Fiction, Services and Shopping, Entertainment, Television Industry, Human Interest
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Around Town: The LCF movie connection
When Brianne Crowley married La Caņadan Geoff Chandler, they had more in common than their love for one another and for USC football. Unlike most young couples, Brianne and Geoff each have pages on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) — Brianne for...Tags: Movies, Facebook, Jay Leno, Entertainment, Computer Networking and Internet
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Bringing back lost school days
Yesterday I was forwarded an email by LCUSD Supt. Wendy Sinnette in which she called our teaching staff’s activities on the first pupil-free collaboration day “highly productive.” I am a working parent and I had to take the day off....Tags: Entertainment, Teaching and Learning, Curricula
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LCFEF movie night planned
La Caņada Flintridge Educational Foundation officials said this week that they hope to replicate last year’s blockbuster fundraising effort, matching or exceeding the $2 million generated through direct appeals and events. “That increased...Tags: File Sharing, Campaign Finance, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Entertainment, Harry Potter (fictional character)
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The Valley Line: Helping children color in their world
Last weekend I went to visit cousins who live in Oak Glen (elevation about 4,700 feet) where autumn was in full and colorful swing. Because of the higher elevation and the crisp nights, the leaves on many of the trees were beginning to show brilliant...Tags: Blood, Elizabeth II, Hospitals and Clinics, Entertainment, Entertainment Events
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Taking a look at college admission
The La Caņada Thursday Club on Sunday screened “In 500 Words or Less,” an award-winning documentary on the college application process, to a packed room of parents and high school juniors and seniors.
Applying to college is a rite of...Tags: University of Southern California, School Examinations, Documentary (genre), Examinations, Entertainment
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The Valley Line: 'The Help' gets a local showing
Whoever heard of June Gloom in August? Most of the television weather people were chattering last week about the cloudy mornings, calling the weather some kind of phenomenon. Of course by the time you read this column, the clouds will be gone and it will...Tags: Economic Sanctions, Entertainment, Jackson (Hinds, Mississippi), Mississippi, Bryce Dallas Howard
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The Valley Line: Of peacocks and the Pasadena Pops
Iridescent peacock feathers decorated each table last Saturday night at the Pasadena Pops concert, “Marvin Does Movies.” Of course this was a clever way to tell the audience that next year the Pops will be presenting its concerts at the Los...Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Susan Egan, Melissa Manchester
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LCF Library hopes Potter casts a spell
Melissa Rajala was never afraid to make the midnight trek to the bookstore to pick up the newest book of the Harry Potter series as soon as it hit the shelves, even if she didn’t fit J.K. Rowling’s primary demographic. “I was one of the...Tags: Fiction, Entertainment, Foods and Beverages, Marathon, Sports
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Writer's art doesn't reflect his life
If there’s one thing La Caņada Flintridge screenwriter and public schools booster Craig Mazin would like fellow Palm Crest Elementary School parents to know, it’s that for him life definitely doesn’t imitate art. That’s because...Tags: Bradley Cooper, The Hangover (movie), Todd Phillips, Leslie Nielsen, Ed Helms
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