cinematograph
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Florence also wrote about how she was weary of celebrity culture and the media: “Accounts of me & my portrait have been printed in every paper, I think, in England. I have been shown in the Cinematograph, written about all over America & Europe. I am tired of this publicity.”
From The Guardian
Men like Gaumont and the Lumière brothers, who patented and presented an early cinematograph in 1895, were focused then on the mechanics of moving pictures as a way to document real life: workers leaving a factory, crowds gathered for a parade, trains traveling along tracks.
From New York Times
The Cinematograph is finished the summer the girl turns nine—although nobody calls it the Cinematograph, they call it bion, Swedish for “cinema”—and it has a heavy, rust-red door and a huge keyhole with light streaming through it.
From The New Yorker
Theater and film had been obsessions since childhood, when he traded an army of tin soldiers for his brother’s cinematograph.
The collection “Bresson on Bresson: Interviews 1943-1983” and Bresson’s own “Notes on the Cinematograph,” published in tandem by New York Review Books, are primers for the gradual understanding of Robert Bresson, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein.
From New York Times
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