Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and actor Chris Hemsworth announced this year s Oscar nominations in the Academy s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California.
January 22nd, 2014
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs and actor Chris Hemsworth
announced this year s Oscar nominations in the Academy s Samuel Goldwyn
Theater in Beverly Hills, California.
The nominations for
the 86th Academy Awards, which will be held at the Dolby Theatre on
Hollywood Boulevard and North Highland Avenue in Los Angeles, on March
2, 2014.
Check out the nominations from Animation & Visual Effects Categories.
At MIFF2014 Gitanjali Rao’s “True Love Storyâ€& Dhavani Desai’s Chakravyuh got awards
The seven day international documentary film festival, MIFF 2014 concluded in Mumbai with the best of the work in documentary, animation and short films honored with awards, presented by film makers Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shyam Benegal.
15 th Pune International Film Festival
The Pune Film Foundation has been organizing the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) jointly with the
Government of Maharashtra for the past 14 years with great fanfare.
Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) was born in 2002. The aim was to attract the best in celluloid to
the city, a task that it has achieved and how, over the last 14 years and transformed from a sleepy town
to a bustling metropolis with a mix of varied cultures and hu
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
