"South Pacific" has its merits, but the Minnelli films exist in another dimension: these are not adaptations but original works that embrace all that is unique about the motion picture medium.
The best reason for buying a Blu-ray player right now is Warner Home Video's high-definition version of "How the West Was Won," a film made 46 years ago in the highest-definition moving picture medium the world had seen: Cinerama.
But big history is very much present here, in the form of a tragic account of the 20th century: a century of staggering atrocities, which the aesthetic glories of the motion picture medium (or any other art form) were unable to prevent, and may, in Mr. Godard's view, have even encouraged.
"I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.
Stage makeup proved to be wholly unsatisfactory for the motion-picture medium.
The opposite holds true in the United States and Great Britain, although most composers of distinction in both countries between the mid-1930s and the mid-1950s made some original contributions to the motion-picture medium.
In 194O, Joseph Kennedy, the isolationist American ambassador to Britain, father of JFK, had advised the Hollywood moguls to "get those Jewish names off the screen" and to "stop making anti-Nazi pictures or using the film medium to promote or show sympathy to the cause of 'democracies' versus 'the dictators'".
We thus present an aggregate picture of medium-run change over the period 1997/2001 to 2006/2012, encompassing the possibility of some occupations switching their classification over the period as the required skills evolve.
Data on perceptions of change over the last decade indicated that per herd and per cow productivity are both increasing in high market quality sites with a more mixed picture in medium and low-quality sites.
Brakhage saw Méliès as his precursor, "the first man to recognise motion pictures as medium of both super-nature and under-world".
