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Goblet from Mesopotamia, 1500–1300 BC glazed with Egyptian blue.This was the first synthetic blue, first made in about 2500 BC. The color blue has been important in culture, politics, art and fashion since ancient times.
Blue is a Canadian short drama film, written and directed by Don McKellar and released in 1992. [1] An exploration of culture's ambivalent relationship with pornography , the film stars David Cronenberg as a carpet salesman with a passion for erotic literature , intercut with scenes of explicit sexuality.
Three Colours: Blue (French: Trois couleurs: Bleu, Polish: Trzy kolory: Niebieski) is a 1993 psychological drama film co-written and directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. It is the first instalment in the Three Colours trilogy , themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, followed by White and ...
Inaugurated by the 1969 release of Andy Warhol 's Blue Movie, the phenomenon of adult erotic films being publicly discussed by celebrities (like Johnny Carson and Bob Hope), [56] and taken seriously by critics (like Roger Ebert), [57] [58] a development referred to, by Ralph Blumenthal of The New York Times, as "porno chic", and later known as ...
1893 – Blacksmiths, the first film shown publicly on the Kinetoscope, a system given to Edison; Thomas Edison created "America's First Film Studio", Black Maria. 1894 – Carmencita was made. According to film historian Charles Musser the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera was in the film. She may have been the ...
On the occasion of an upcoming anniversary series at the Academy Museum, we caught up with film scholar B. Ruby Rich, coiner of the term "New Queer Cinema." These films changed queer ...
With the wail of a clarinet, George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' electrified audiences 100 years ago. Today we still love it — and argue about it 100 years ago, 'Rhapsody in Blue' changed the ...
Walt Disney Studios' Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was not the first animated film to be feature-length. El Apóstol, a lost 1917 Argentine silent film that used cutout animation, is considered the first. [90] [91] [92] The misconception comes from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves being the first feature-length film to be animated on cels. [93]