A Boy and His Atom – to explore the limits of filmmaking, IBM scientists create the world’s smallest movie, made by moving actual atoms frame by frame with IBM’s scanning tunneling microscope.
How far we’ve come in the half-century since Disney’s Our Friend the Atom.
Thelonious Monk - Straight No Chaser (SPA subs).
Produced by Clint Eastwood.
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Sorry Star Wars fans.
Leigh Singer’s Breaking the 4th Wall Movie Supercut
A compilation of scenes and moments from films that all “break the fourth wall” - that is, acknowledge (usually directly to the camera, and therefore the audience) that they’re part of a movie. The term comes from the imaginary “wall” at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled box set in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play.
“We did everything wrong, technically… The only thing we did right was to get a group of people together who were young, full of life, and wanted to do something of meaning.”
— John Cassavetes on Shadows
What would a collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney look like?
It would look like Destino.
Disney and Dali were unable to complete the film due to financial woes during World War II. Fortunately, Walt’s nephew Roy got the job done 53 years later.
Even after completion, it was another 11 years before the masses would see the film. It finally hit the streets as an extra on the 2010 Fantasia/Fantasia 2000 DVD/Blu-ray.
Silent Star Wars (by funfunfunfunfunfive)
“Luis Buñuel’s ferociously brilliant The Exterminating Angel (1962) is one of his most provocative and unforgettable works. In it we watch a trivial breach of etiquette transform into the destruction of civilization. Not only does this story undermine our confidence in our social institutions but it challenges our powers of cognition and perception, which are shown to be easily distorted by unreliable narratives.”
— Marsha Kinder, The Exterminating Angel: Exterminating Civilization
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How a Bicycle is Made (1945) (by British Council Film)
On this day in 1906, the twentieth century’s most infamous earthquake and fire struck San Francisco. This is a compilation of rare footage capturing the devastation and its aftermath. HistoryPin also has a collection of archival images.
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