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		<title>On the Move</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lobby card for Abel Gance&#8217;s Napoleon (1927) &#8220;I found myself becoming bored with the stationary camera, and I wanted to be completely free. The cameramen never refused to do what I asked of them, but they were not particularly pleased at the idea of having to hold the camera. At that time there were no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Animated Film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What was the first animated film? It was probably Emile Cohl&#8217;s Fantasmagorie, which premiered on August 17, 1908. &#8211; Source: Variety]]></description>
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		<title>A Beautiful Mask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Image from Queen Christina (1933) &#8220;Garbo asked me, &#8216;What do I play in this scene?&#8217; Remember she is standing there for 150 feet of film &#8212; 90 feet of them in close-up. I said, &#8216;Have you heard of tabula rasa? I want your face to be a blank sheet of paper. I want the writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mamoulian Palette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Color cinematography tends to brighten and cheapen natural color. The problem was to counteract that. I realized that color in films is nearer to painting than to the stage. . . . So I treated the color the way a painter would. I devised what came to be known as the Mamoulian Palette. . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down to Size</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Publicity photo for Woman of the Year (1942) During the casting of the 1942 film Woman of the Year, Katharine Hepburn was selected to play opposite screen veteran Spencer Tracy, thus beginning a professional and personal relationship that would last for twenty-five years (they did eight additional films together and had a legendary &#8212; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Her Best Side</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s 1944 film Lifeboat, a drama about eight survivors of a freighter sunk by a German U-boat, was one of the most popular films of the year (it was also nominated for three Academy Awards). While posing for publicity photographs for the film, actress Mary Anderson approached the director and asked, &#8216;What is my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerful Hypnotism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poster for The Miracle of Morgan&#8217;s Creek (1944) &#8220;The Miracle of Morgan&#8217;s Creek, the new Preston Sturges film, seems to me funnier, more adventurous, more abundant, more intelligent, and more encouraging than anything that has been made in Hollywood for years&#8230; The essential story is hardly what you would expect to see on an American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Something Bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I watched Preston Sturges work on Sullivan&#8217;s Travels. He let me go through the entire production, watching him direct &#8212; and I directed a little. I&#8217;d stage a scene and he&#8217;d tell me how lousy it was. Then I watched the editing and I was able to gradually build up knowledge. Preston insisted I make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Sides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frame from a Pepe Le Pew cartoon &#8220;Were some of the Warners characters based on yourself? I didn&#8217;t have to leave home to find the mistakes the Coyote would make. I mean, give me any tool and I&#8217;m in trouble. I have yet to learn the mysteries of a screwdriver. My wife and daughter would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puddy Tat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Did many ideas come from personal experience? Oh, yes &#8212; all the time; one of our writers, Warren Foster, heard a child in a park say, &#8216;Mommy, Mommy, I taut I taw a twirl!&#8217; He brought this back to the studio and the &#8216;twirl&#8217; became a &#8216;puddy tat&#8217; so we could get a cat-versus-canary thing [...]]]></description>
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