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New technologies

Kodak

R.I.P. Kodak (b. 1881, † January 19th, 2012) –
the death of celluloid, which will remain a rarity
and oddity only used by a handful of experimental
artists…

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Politics Science

CEA

The CEA is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, established in 1945 by Général de Gaulle. Its mission : to become the leading technological research organization in Europe and to ensure that the nuclear deterrent remains effective in the future.

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Cinema

Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov was first the pseudonym of an avant-garde soviet filmmaker, and then became the name of a group created by Jean-Luc Godard in the 1970s during his revolutionary period.

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Storytelling

36 situations dramatiques

Before Propp did for Russian folktales and Buñuel for Hollywood movies, Frenchman Georges Polti proposed a theory in 1916 that for each story or scenario there exist 36 basic dramatic situations.

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Interactive design

Casablanca – critical edition

The experimental television lab at Georgia Tech has been working with the AFI on a digital critical edition of «Casablanca» that allows scholars to analyze each scene of the film, contrast it with alternate versions, with the original script, and with production notes.