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  2. History of film - Wikipedia

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    During this period of experimentation, Méliès discovered and implemented various special effects including the stop trick, the multiple exposure, and the use of dissolves in his films. [16] At the end of 1896, Méliès established the Star Film Company and started producing, directing, and distributing a body of work that would eventually ...

  3. The Discovery (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Discovery is a 2017 British-American romantic science fiction film, directed by Charlie McDowell from a screenplay by himself and Justin Lader. It stars Rooney Mara, Jason Segel, Robert Redford, Jesse Plemons, Riley Keough, and Ron Canada.

  4. The Man Who Knew Infinity - Wikipedia

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    At the turn of the twentieth century, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a struggling and indigent citizen in the city of Madras in India working at menial jobs at the edge of poverty. . While performing his menial labour, his employers notice that he seems to have exceptional skills in mathematics and they begin to make use of him for rudimentary accounting tas

  5. List of rediscovered films - Wikipedia

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    Discovered in a La Paz basement in 1989, it required over a decade of restoration and was not released until 2010. [210] 1931: Love and Duty: Bu Wancang: Ruan Lingyu: Silent film made in China, and rediscovered in Uruguay in the 1990s. [211] 1938: As the Earth Turns: Richard Lyford: Discovered over 80 years later in Lyford's former home. [212 ...

  6. Hedy Lamarr - Wikipedia

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    Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.

  7. Philippa Langley - Wikipedia

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    Philippa Jayne Langley MBE (born 29 June 1962) [6] is a British writer, producer, and Ricardian, who is best known for her role in the discovery and 2012 exhumation of Richard III, as part of the Looking for Richard project, for which she was awarded an MBE.

  8. Mary Steenburgen on being discovered by Jack Nicholson ...

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    In a new Role Recall interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Steenburgen looked back at the various chapters of her career, from being discovered and mentored by Jack Nicholson to falling for Danson ...

  9. Schwab's Pharmacy - Wikipedia

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    Schwab's Pharmacy was a drugstore located at 8024 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, and was a popular hangout for movie actors and movie industry dealmakers from the 1930s through the 1950s. [1]