DWA and Chinese partners have revealed designs for an entertainment complex in Shanghai, elaborating Hollywood\'s growing ties with China.
March 21st, 2014
DWA and Chinese partners have revealed designs for an entertainment complex in Shanghai, elaborating Hollywood's growing ties with China. The project is led by "Kung Fu Panda" Creator DWA, together with Chinese investment fund CMC Capital Partners and Hong Kong developer Lan Kwai Fong.
They said their "Dream Center," because of open in 2017, will have a 500-seat IMAX cinema with international film festivals and red carpet events in mind and music and performance venues.
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.
