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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"motion pictures"”.
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Copyright in motion pictures : the digital era
My thesis specifically deals with copyright and its role within the film industry. Chapter 1 starts off by dealing with how the concept of film grew from a series of photographs to the concept of a film per se, gaining its own individual right to legal protection. It then goes on to analyse what …
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Collaborative Brain-Computer Interfaces in Rapid Image Presentation and Motion Pictures
The last few years have seen an increase in brain-computer interface (BCI) research for the able-bodied population. One of these new branches involves collaborative BCIs (cBCIs), in which information from several users is combined to improve the performance of a BCI system. This thesis is focused …
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Monitor Men: An Intertextual Analysis of Motion Pictures Directed by George Clooney
… this dissertation, such analysis includes other motion pictures and television shows in which George Clooney has starred, plus additional movies that I identify as not only related to Clooney-directed films, but that also illuminate those films via thematic and formal similarities. My overarching …
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The history and social significance of motion pictures in South Africa, 1895-1940
… of the atmosphere of the period in which motion pictures first appeared. In South Africa, a remarkable degree of self-reliance was practiced by the populations of comparatively isolated towns during the nineties. Despite the slowness of communication, the laboriousness of travel and the …
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A critical analysis of the use of educational motion pictures by two methods.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University.
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Model-based motion estimation and its application to restoration and interpolation of motion pictures
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1986.
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A study of motion-based detection and removal of defects in digital motion pictures
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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An experimental study of solid propellant deflagration using high speed motion pictures and postfire residue analysis
… Measurements taken from the high speed motion pictures included resolution, propellant burning rate, the diameter of burning particles ejected from the surface, and vertical velocity of burning particles. The diameters of the burning particles were approximately 7 to 12 times the …
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The effectiveness of motion pictures as supplementary devices in the teaching of literature at Pattengill junior high school Lansing, Michigan
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1935
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The Effects of Exposing Teachers to Selected Methods of Film Utilization
… if a change in the ways in which instructors use motion pictures could be brought about by exposing the instructors to a summary of applied research (Appendix A) related to the instructional use of motion pictures.
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The impact of online word of mouth on consumer decision-making: the case of cinema audiences
… consumers learn from it. Using a sample of 132 motion pictures released between April and September 2010 and more than 38,000 online ratings from a social network, word of mouth is clustered into two dimensions: volume, representing the amount of online posts, and valence, representing the …
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The Educated Spectator: Cinema and Pedagogy in France, 1909-1930
… draws on a wide range of sources (including motion pictures, film journals, and essays) in order to analyze the debate over the social and aesthetic role of cinema that took place in France from 1909 to 1930. During this period, as the new medium became the most popular form of entertainment, …
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The cross-cultural camera of Akira Kurosawa
… cross-cultural similarities that are revealed by motion pictures through analyzing the work of Akira Kurosawa and contrasting it with selective mainstream cinema texts. Kurosawa is a critical case in point due to his welding of Occidental and Japanese ideas into his films, and his origin from a …
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Social dimensions of Hollywood movie music
… they interact in the course of making music for motion pictures. Social considerations further affect the processes in which film musicians produce the actual notes, timbres and styles heard in live accompaniments and on soundtracks, shaping the structures, idioms, instrumental media, and …
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Science fiction and the theatre
… widespread acceptance in popular literature and motion pictures, the theatre has produced few science-fiction plays of merit. This study offers two possible reasons: the stigma of pulp literature which the genre has borne since its formative period in the 1930s, and the myth that science fiction …
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Serial Architectures: Nonfiction Film and the Built Environment, 1896-1920
… filmmakers including the Ford Motor Company, motion studies conducted by industrial management researchers Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, and industrial and educational films depicting geography, this dissertation investigates media as an instrument for understanding the built environment. While …
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Hollywood, African Consolidated Films, and "bioskoopbeskawing," or bioscope culture : aspects of American culture in Cape Town, 1945-1960
… oral interviews, periodicals, and a survey of motion pictures in Cape Town between 1946 and 1960, this thesis illustrates that not only did American images and products dominate the South African market, but American methods of mass marketing and advertising intensified South Africa's …
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Re-Defining C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman: Conventional and Progressive Heroes and Heroines in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, and The Golden Compass
… series and both have been made into recent motion pictures by Hollywood. This paper explores these two books through the lens of their conventional and progressive authors. I discuss in detail the gifts that the heroes and heroines are given, the setting of these books, and the function of …
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Investigation of Different Video Compression Schemes Using Neural Networks
… has great significance in the communication of motion pictures and still images. The need for compression has resulted in the development of various techniques including transform coding, vector quantization and neural networks. this thesis neural network based methods are investigated to …
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