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• Stop motion
  On 27 February 1860, Peter Hubert Desvignes received British patent no. 537 for 28 monocular and stereoscopic variations of cylindrical ...identify them if original titles are missing. Possible stop motion in lost films is even harder to trace. The principles of animation and other special effe
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• China Film Archive
  ...anghai International Film Festival for Historic Collection of Unseen China Films from BFI National Archive|work=Targeted News Service}}</ref> ...ition, the Archive undertakes research projects directed at finding ‘lost’ films and abandoned filmmaking practises.<ref name=":44">{{Cite journal|last=Lent
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• The Comic Strip
  {{Short description|Group of British comedians}} {{About|a group of British comedians|other uses|Comic strip (disambiguation)}}
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• List of Encyclopædia Britannica Films titles
  [[Encyclopædia Britannica Films]] was an educational film production company in the 20th century owned by [ See also [[Encyclopædia Britannica Films]] and the [[animated cartoon|animated]] 1990 television series ''[[Britanni
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• Prelinger Archives Table/ab
  | About Bananas|| 1935|| Castle Films|| United Fruit Company|| B&amp;W|| Si|| 11:03 | Act Your Age|| 1949|| Coronet Instructional Films|| N/A|| B&amp;W|| Sd|| 12:31
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• Found footage (film technique)
  ...roject X]]'') and [[family film|family]] (''e.g.'', ''[[Earth to Echo]]'') films. ...or [[surveillance footage]]—according to an analysis of 500 found-footage films conducted by Found Footage Critic.<ref>{{cite web|title= Found Footage Film
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• Ray Harryhausen
  ...death in 2013. During his life, his innovative style of special effects in films inspired numerous filmmakers. In November 2016 the [[BFI]] compiled a list ..., gofer and later camera assistant, whilst working at home animating short films about the use and development of military equipment. During this time, he a
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• Urban Films 1906 Supplementary List to Film Catalogue of June 1905
  ...png|thumb|right|Cover of Charles Urban Trading Company Film Catalog "Urban Films"]] == List of Films ==
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• Orphan film
  {{for|films named "Orphan" or with similar titles|Orphan (disambiguation)#Film}} ...itt was quoted using the metaphor as early as 1992, to refer to silent-era films, newsreels, and kinescopes. Robert Epstein, “Mining Hollywood's Old Movi
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• The Clicking of Cuthbert (film series)
  {{Use British English|date=March 2019}} ....bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f5a8f85 |title=Andrew P. Wilson |website=British Film Institute |access-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> was based on short storie
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• Bubble and Squeek
  {{short description|British series of short animated films}} ...e two main characters: Bubble and Squeek. Their names are derived from the British dish [[bubble and squeak]]. All shorts were produced in [[Technicolor]].
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• Moving Image:Ferry Pilot (1942 film)
  {{about|the 1942 Canadian film|the 1941 British film of the same title|Ferry Pilot (1941 film)}} ...bomber]]s had to be available. The [[Air Transport Auxiliary]] (ATA) was a British wartime civilian organization, headquartered at [[White Waltham Airfield]]
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• Prelinger Archives Table/tu
  |Teaching With Sound Films||1936||Erpi Classroom Films, Inc.||&nbsp;||bw||Sd||&nbsp; |Technicolor for Industrial Films||ca. 1949||Technicolor Corporation||N/A||C||Sd||8:09
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• Moving Image:Churchill's Island
  ...amen and, after the [[Dunkirk evacuation]], the re-building of a decimated British Army. ...'' relied heavily on newsreel footage. The British sequences were from the British [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]]. The d
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• Sweet Disaster
  {{Use British English|date=May 2015}} ...the dialogue-free Dreamless Sleep".<ref name="ukanimation.blogspot" /> The films are fairly obscure; Nick Park noted that Babylon "hasn't really seen the li
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• Charles Urban
  ...d F.B. Stewart. The Warwick Trading Company was also agent for a number of British and French firms, including Frank Mottershaw, James Williamson, Lumière an ...he following year he published his first Urbanora catalogue of educational films.
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• Moving Image:Zero Hour (1944 film)
  ...ghly mobile raiding and [[reconnaissance]] forces began to be used. The [[British Commandos|commando]] carried all they needed and operated in the field, to ...st on the beaches were the "storm troops": French commandos, U.S. Rangers, British Marines backed up by Canadian and U.S. paratroopers. At "Zero Hour", the st
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• DEFA Film Library
  ...nce and arts management. In order to fulfill its dual mission—to make DEFA films available and better known, and to broaden understanding of filmmaking in t ...93 marks the DEFA Film Library's official founding. Byg's idea was to make films from the East German DEFA Studios more available and widely known in North
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• Moving Image:Wings on Her Shoulder
  ...tive and technical positions in the RCAF. While most WDs were located at [[British Commonwealth Air Training Plan]] stations across Canada, many others served ...e shot in Canada and carefully edited with other footage obtained from the British [[Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Information]].<ref>G
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• Moving Image:Global Air Routes
  ...s/entry/canadas-soft-sell-propaganda "Canadian Second World War propaganda films."] ''[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]]'', 2015 (originally broadcas ...rseas Airways]] provided a link to the far-flung [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]], much like the U.S. carrier [[Pan American World Airways|Pan
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• Clay animation
  ...gspot.com/2013/08/stop-motion-explosion-iii-thur-aug-15.html|title=Oddball Films: Stop-Motion Explosion III - Thur. Aug 15 - 8PM}}</ref> ...t to melt while an [[animation camera]] on a [[time-lapse]] setting slowly films the process. For example, consider Vinton's early short clay-animated film
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• Moving Image:When Asia Speaks
  ...East and West. The administrators of the [[British Empire in World War II|British Empire]] on the Indian sub-continent realize that [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] Typical of the NFB's wartime series of [[propaganda]] short films, ''When Asia Speaks'' was a [[compilation documentary]] that relied heavily
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• Montego Bay To Williamsfield, Jamaica
  ...ed in the production of travel, scientific and other broadly ‘educational’ films (McKernan, 2009, 122). ...a but also in Sugar Industry of Jamaica, the first of Kineto’s West Indian films, which was released in Britain on 7 June. Over the summer, Kineto released
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• Inside Fighting China
  ...United States into the [[total war|global conflict]] on the side of the [[British Empire]]. ...ibraries operated by university and provincial authorities. A total of 199 films were produced before the series was canceled in 1959.<ref name="Ohayon">Oha
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• Feeling Yes, Feeling No
  | native_name = <!--(for non-English films: film's name in its native language)--> ...01), p. 245.</ref> The program was first implemented in primary schools in British Columbia and later spread to other Canadian provinces.<ref>MacDougall (1993
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• Travel documentary
  ...Hollywood cinema but 1930s brought about a change in the history of these films with the popularity of independent filmmakers. The [[United Kingdom|British]] [[comedian]] and actor [[Michael Palin]] has made several series in this
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• Canada Carries On
  ...web/20140819084442/http://legacy.tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/films/canada-carries-on |date=2014-08-19 }}''Canadian Film Encyclopedia''(Film Re ...tic%20Patrol%22%20legg&f=false 2005, p. 122.]</ref> One of the most famous films from this series was his ''[[Churchill's Island]]'', released in Canada in
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• Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques
  ...ollecting, preserving, and restoring films and other materials relating to films since the 1930s. The collections range from pre-cinema apparatus to [[digit ..., during which more than 1000 film titles were preserved and restored, 700 films were re-discovered and identified and a Joint European Filmography (JEF) wa
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• Paul Burnford
  ...s. At a young age, he bought a 16mm movie camera, and began making small films, the first of which was called “Moods of Nature,” which he made at appr ...n Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park in Escondido as locations for many of his films.
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• Docudrama
  ...y is the keynote, is generally distinguished from a film merely "[[List of films based on actual events|based on true events]]", a term which implies a grea ...AAQBAJ&pg=PA57}}</ref> Perhaps the most significant of the semidocumentary films was ''[[He Walked by Night]]'', based upon an [[Erwin Walker|actual case]].
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• Life of St. Paul
  ...name="Recommended Films and Filmstrips">{{cite journal |title=Recommended Films and Filmstrips |journal=The Living Church |date=1949 |volume=118 |page=18 | [[Category:1938 short films]]
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• Ethnographic film
  ...hink it rests somewhere between the fields of anthropology and documentary films.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/aaa/ruby.html|archive-url ...raphic filmmaker [[David MacDougall]] wrote in a 1978 paper: "Ethnographic films cannot be said to constitute a genre, nor is ethnographic film-making a dis
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• Strange as It Seems
  ...du the Magician and was an announcer on other programs. He appeared in 213 films between 1904 and 1957. His wife was the former Estelle Allen. Whitman died ...born on [[Cat Island, Bahamas]] on August 24, 1896. His ancestors had been British loyalists during the Revolutionary War and immigrated to the Bahamas in the
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• Moving Image:Now — The Peace
  ...ref> Part of the NFB's ''The World In Action'' series of documentary short films, ''Now — The Peace'' was intended to prepare Canadians for a postwar and ...to schools, libraries, churches and factories, extending the life of these films for another year or two. They were also made available to film libraries op
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• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1909 film)
  |publisher = [[British Film Institute]] |url = http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6bf7cde8
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• Universal Newsreel
  ...-Year''. Also, [[C-SPAN]] and [[Cable News Network|CNN]] regularly use the films for video of events that took place before those networks were founded. ...iversities Film & Video Council}}</ref> both are currently held (including British Paramount News) under [[Reuters]] archive.
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• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom
  ...2011 |title=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom |work=[[British Film Institute]] Film & TV Database |access-date=7 August 2010}}</ref> It w Robert Pohle notes that "Deprived of his voice in those early silent films, Holmes was also transformed from an intellectual, armchair detective into
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• The Magnificent Six and 1/2
  {{Use British English|date=November 2012}} '''''The Magnificent Six and 1/2''''' was a British comedy film series for the [[Children's Film Foundation]]. Based on [[Hal R
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• Nature documentary
  ...series, a collection of fourteen full length and [[short subject]] nature films from 1948 to 1960.<ref>[[True-Life Adventures]]</ref> Prominent among those The first full-length nature-documentary films pioneering colour [[Underwater videography|underwater cinematography]] were
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• Peter Boulton
  |org=Boulton-Hawker Films Ltd. ...represent some of the finest examples in the sub-genre of academic science films. As produced as a family-run enterprise, each film typically would be produ
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• Cardinal Wolsey (film)
  ...py of the film is preserved in the National Film and Television Archive, [[British Film Institute]].<ref>[http://silentera.com/PSFL/data/C/CardinalWolsey1912. [[Category:1912 short films]]
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• Main Page
  ...ored, non-theatrical shorts, lab research, etc. It doesn't include feature films or television programs - although snipes, promotional shorts, TV advertisin ...m] ) but hope to expand holdings by other archives and collectors and list films that nobody has.
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• Jephtah's Daughter: A Biblical Tragedy
  ...The [[BFI National Archive|National Film and Television Archive]] of the [[British Film Institute]] has a print.<ref name=silentera/><ref name=WFPP/> [[Category:American films]]
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• Bunny Dips Into Society
  ...115-116, retrieved October 1, 2015</ref> and was still circulating on the British mainland in late February, 1914.<ref>[http://cymru1914.org/cy/view/newspape [[Category:1913 films]]
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• Going to hospital with mother
  |desc=This film shows how the staff of a British hospital has improvised a method of routinely admitting the mothers of pati :This film shows how the staff of a British hospital has improvised a method of routinely admitting the mothers of pati
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• Bray Productions
  ...2nd edition, paperback, 1993)</ref><ref>Denis Gifford; ''American Animated Films: The Silent Era, 1897–1929''; McFarland & Company; {{ISBN|0-89950-460-4}} ...d Bray to continue the IFS series, which included ''[[Jerry on the Job]]'' films adapted from [[Walter Hoban]]'s comic strip. Many staff members of the form
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• Felix the Cat
  | voice = '''English'''<br> [[Harry Edison]] (1929–1930)<ref name="Sound Films">{{cite book|title=The Talkies|date = 22 November 1999|publisher = Universi [[Paramount Pictures]] distributed the earliest films from 1919 to 1921. [[Margaret J. Winkler]] distributed the shorts from 1922
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• Historic Films Archive
  ...ideo and historic archive footage derived from American Newsreels, Feature Films, Industrial shorts, home movies, out-takes and cartoons. ...Lauro and Richard Plagge in 1991. Lauro had previously worked for Archive Films as a researcher and Plagge for FOX MOVIETONE NEWS when they decided to form
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• Series:Industry on Parade
  ...odge|Arthur Lodge]] formed his company and began producing his educational films. He wrote and produced more than 500 episodes for Industry On Parade. Each ...cal machinery and scientific apparatuses. Fictional machines for Hollywood films. Dallons Laboratories, Hollywood, CA.||
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• Digital storytelling
  The "short narrated films" definition of digital storytelling comes from a production workshop by Dan ...ar video editing software, have made it easy to create aesthetic but short films.
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