In Hollywood, where Time Warner owns the Warner Brothers movie studio, the company's motion picture operations reported a 7 percent increase in revenue, to $3.3 billion.
Pixar, which quietly celebrated its 25th anniversary this year, remains one of the most admired motion picture operations in Hollywood history, but there are fears — perhaps overblown — that its focus will stray.
The claim is disputable, however, specifically because Edison's motion-picture operations were entrusted to an assistant, W.K.L. Dickson, and generally because there are several plausible pre-Edison claimants in England and France.
After a rather dismal period in the 1970s and '80s, Sony moved their motion picture operations to Culver City's former MGM studios in the early '90s, leading to a recently revitalized downtown area with upscale bars and quirky but user-friendly restaurants.
But the documents presented in court indicate that they have confiscated enough papers to assemble a fairly exact picture of operations there during the three and a half years of war, which killed an estimated 200,000 people and drove some two million from their homes.
Surviving staff tried to help the injured, and MSF posted pictures of an operation in an improvised surgery, but other pictures showed staff members apparently collapsed in shock and grief.
Three video pictures of the operation streamed on the screen — one from a camera in the operating light, one from a wide-angle room camera, and one with the feed from the anesthesia monitor.
Open image in new window Fig. 3 Diagrammatic representation of the process of tunnel drilling as seen in a lateral view image intensifier picture during the operation.
It's similar to a farmers' market where you go and meet the farmer and see pictures of the operation".
It can also send one of its two SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters to the boarding sites to beam back pictures of the operation, using special sensors that create images from the heat of ships and other objects.
