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The War At Home (1979 Film)
''The War at Home'' is a documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin, area during the time of the Vietnam War. It combines archival footage and interviews with participants that explore the events of the period on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The film was nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Feature. Synopsis The film focuses on student protests of government policies in the Vietnam War, clashes between students and police, and the responses of politicians and the public to the turmoil. Among the major events included is the Sterling Hall bombing. Intended to destroy the Army Math Research Center in the building, the bombing also caused massive destruction to other parts of the building, resulting in the death of a physics researcher, Robert Fassnacht, who was not involved in the Army Math Research Center. Bomber Karleton Armstrong, brother of Dwight Armstrong, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Alexander Brown
Barry Alexander Brown (born 28 November 1950 in Warrington, Cheshire) is an English born-American film director and editor. As a film editor, he is best known for collaborations with film director Spike Lee, editing some of Lee's best known films including ''Do the Right Thing'' (1989), ''Malcolm X'' (1992), '' He Got Game'' (1998), ''25th Hour'' (2002), ''Inside Man'' (2006), and ''BlacKkKlansman'' (2018), the latter of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 91st Academy Awards. As a film director, Brown co-directed the documentary film '' The War at Home'' (1979), for which it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was one of the youngest nominees for the category. Some of his other film directing credits include ''The Who's Tommy, the Amazing Journey'' (1993), a documentary film about The Who's ''Tommy'' album, and the feature films '' Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control'' (2002), starring Bronson P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording. Samples may comprise elements such as rhythm, melody, speech, sounds or entire bars of music, and may be layered, equalized, sped up or slowed down, repitched, looped, or otherwise manipulated. They are usually integrated using hardware ( samplers) or software such as digital audio workstations. A process similar to sampling originated in the 1940s with '' musique concrète'', experimental music created by splicing and looping tape. The mid-20th century saw the introduction of keyboard instruments that played sounds recorded on tape, such as the Mellotron. The term ''sampling'' was coined in the late 1970s by the creators of the Fairlight CMI, a synthesizer with the ability to record and play back short sounds. As technology improved, cheaper standalone samplers with more memory emerged, such as the E-mu Emulator, Akai S950 and Akai MPC. Sampling is a foundation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Documentary Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Films
The year 1979 in film involved many significant events. Highest-grossing films United States and Canada The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows: International Major events * March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, '' Take Down''. * March 5 – Production begins on ''The Empire Strikes Back''. * March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures. * May 25 – ''Alien'', a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released. * May 29 - Mary Pickford, a silent screen legend and Hollywood pioneer who was, at the height of her career, the most famous woman in the world, dies of a stroke. * May 31 – ''The Muppet Movie'', Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature-length motion pictures, is released in United Kingdom. * June 11 – John Wayne, a famous Western movie actor, dies at the age of 72 from stomach cancer. * June 29 – '' Moonraker'', the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Peary
Dannis Peary (born August 8, 1949) is an American film critic and sports writer. He has written and edited many books on cinema and sports-related topics. Peary is most famous for his book ''Cult Movies'' (1980), which spawned two sequels, '' Cult Movies 2'' (1983) and '' Cult Movies 3'' (1988) and are all credited for providing more public interest in the cult movie phenomenon. He is the brother of film critic, columnist, actor, and documentary filmmaker Gerald Peary. Early life and education Peary was born in Philippi, West Virginia to Laura Chaitan and Joseph Y. Peary, a professor. During his childhood, he moved to South Carolina, and then New Jersey. In 1971, he earned a B.A. in history from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He also worked as a film critic for the ''Daily Cardinal'' student newspaper. In 1975, he earned an M.A. in cinema, with honors, at the University of Southern California. While attending USC, he worked as the fine arts and sports editor for ''L.A. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IndieCollect
IndieCollect is a film preservation organization founded by Sandra Schulberg in 2010. Its goal is to preserve U.S. independent films. Background Schulberg worked for five years to restore the 1948 film ''Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today'' and realized the need to preserve independent films. When the studio DuArt Film and Video shut down its film photochemical processing division, it had 60,000 cans of film left behind in its vaults. IndieCollect requested permission from DuArt to access its vaults. IndieCollect engaged in outreach and enlisted institutions including the UCLA Film and Television Archive, Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House, Anthology Film Archives, Library of Congress, and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescue film negatives from the vaults. Film titles were identified and either added to archives or returned to filmmakers. While negatives could be returned to filmmakers, they could not be projected, requiring making a print from the negative to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trials Of Muhammad Ali
''The Trials of Muhammad Ali'' is a 2013 American documentary about the heyday of boxer Muhammad Ali's career, with special focus on his conversion to Islam and his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War. It won an award for Best Use of News Footage from the International Documentary Association in 2014. Cast Interviewees: * Louis Farrakhan * Robert Lipsyte * John Carlos * Angelo Dundee Archive footage: * Muhammad Ali * George W. Bush * David Susskind * Lyndon Johnson * Jerry Lewis * Malcolm X * Martin Luther King Jr. * Elijah Muhammad Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was an African American religious leader, black separatist, and self-proclaimed Messenger of Allah, who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1934 until his deat ... References External links * 2013 films Kartemquin Films films Films about Muhammad Ali 2010s English-language films 2010s American films {{bio-documentary-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Siegel
Bill Siegel (December 24, 1962 – December 11, 2018) was an American documentary film producer and director. Documentaries directed by Siegel include Emmy Award-winning '' The Trials of Muhammad Ali'' and the Academy Award-nominated ''The Weather Underground'' in 2003. He once worked for Kartemquin Films, which announced his unanticipated death the day after from unspecified causes. He wrote ''The Control Factor:Our Struggle to See the True Threat'', described as exploring "the psychological maneuvers, fantasies, and entanglements we engage in to avoid clearly seeing the Islamic threat that confronts us" by its publisher. The book criticizes Barack Obama's treatment of what Siegel calls the Muslim threat. In 2013 he wrote that "any objective review of Obama's actions to date would conclude that Obama is properly described as the "Muslim Uncle" or even the "Muslim Godfather" (the Mafia had its roots in Islamic controlled Sicily) as he consistently promotes, protects, and over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napalm
Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical (usually gasoline (petrol) or diesel fuel). The name is a portmanteau of two of the constituents of the original thickening and gelling agents: coprecipitated aluminium salts of naphthenic acid and palmitic acid. Napalm B is the more modern version of napalm (utilizing polystyrene derivatives) and, although distinctly different in its chemical composition, is often referred to simply as "napalm". A team led by chemist Louis Fieser originally developed napalm for the US Chemical Warfare Service in 1942 in a secret laboratory at Harvard University. Of immediate first interest was its viability as an incendiary device to be used in fire bombing campaigns during World War II; its potential to be coherently projected into a solid stream that would carry for distance (instead of the bloomy fireball of pure gasoline) resulted in widespread adoption in infantry flamethrowers as well. Napalm burns at temp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dow Chemical Company
The Dow Chemical Company, officially Dow Inc., is an American multinational chemical corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, United States. The company is among the three largest chemical producers in the world. Dow manufactures plastics, chemicals, and agricultural products. With a presence in about 160 countries, it employs about 54,000 people worldwide. Dow has been called the "chemical companies' chemical company," as its sales are to other industries rather than directly to end-use consumers. Dow is a member of the American Chemistry Council. In 2015, Dow and fellow chemical company DuPont agreed to a corporate reorganization which involved the merger and split of Dow and DuPont into three different companies. The plan commenced in 2017, when Dow and DuPont merged to form DowDuPont, and finalized in April 2019, as the materials science division was spunoff from DowDuPont and took the name of the Dow Chemical Company. History Early history Dow was founded in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teach-ins
A teach-in is similar to a general educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs. The main difference between a teach-in and a seminar is the refusal to limit the discussion to a specific time frame or a strict academic scope. Teach-ins are meant to be practical, participatory, and oriented toward action. While they include experts lecturing on their area of expertise, discussion and questions from the audience are welcome, even mid-lecture. "Teach-ins" were popularized during the U.S. government's involvement in Vietnam. The first teach-in, which was held overnight at the University of Michigan in March 1965, began with a discussion of the Vietnam War draft and ended in the early morning with a speech by philosopher Arnold Kaufman. The first teach-in The concept of the teach-in was developed by anthropologist Marshall Sahlins of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor during a meeting on March 17, 1965. Previously, around 50 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
