The Original Movie en This month’s ‘Film 100 Years Ago’ introduces The Original Movie, an animated short released in April 1922. It is an episode in the animated series Tony Sarg's Almanac (1921–1923). Influenced by Chinese shadow puppetry and the silhouette style, The Original Movie is a satire about the production system of Hollywood, that caused the inability of writers to recognise their work when it reaches the screen. The…
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Citizen Kane Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) has long been widespread acclaimed. The original camera negative was presumed lost in a vault fire in the 1970s. But during the release of the newly restored version last year, the American writer Nicolas Falacci said there is another story. Falacci, who had been checking and selecting the films frame by frame in the preparation of the restoration in 1991, revealed on his…
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