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Travel to Cuba with photographer and educator Derrick Story to sample its people, places, and culture.
Cuba is a unique place with a unique history. Understanding that history and its impact on Cuba's vibrant music, bold art, astounding architecture, and delicious food is critical to capturing beautiful and faithful photographs. Travel to Cuba with photographer and educator Derrick Story to sample its people, places, and culture. Derrick shares what...
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Delve further into the history and culture of Sicily in this lesson. Study the plural forms of nouns, and how numbers are spoken in Italian. Practice both elements using an imaginary dialogue concerning a Sicilian literary character. Learn how to describe people, places, and things with adjectives; how adjectives reflect gender and number; and practice describing a Renaissance painting.
8) First blood
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A mentally unstable Vietnam vet has a one-man war with the police force of a small town after they abuse him. Includes a never-before-seen alternate suicide ending, deleted scenes and commentary with Sylvester Stallone.
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Rambo volume 2
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John Rambo returns to Vietnam to find and rescue a group of American P.O.W's that have been there since the Vietnam War. Includes deleted scenes, audio commentary with Sylvester Stallone and more.
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Production veteran and instructor Eduardo Angel introduces important techniques to create compelling lighting for sales, promotional, and corporate videos.
In corporate and documentary films, the subjects are actual people, places, and things. Filmmakers have very limited flexibility when it comes to choosing or enhancing them. Compelling lighting, however, can help resolve challenges with the subjects, locations, the time of day, and even the weather,...
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In 1988 David Hockney -- painter, graphic artist, photographer, stage designer, writer -- had a major retrospective at the Tate Gallery. Author and presenter Melvyn Bragg met with Hockney at what is now Tate Britain to film an interview for The South Bank Show. Since he burst on to the art scene in the mid-1960s, Hockney has become one of the most successful modern British painters and also a popular personality, known for his passionate and skilled...
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For the five years between 1908 and 1913, DW Griffith directed some 450 films for the Biograph Company, delivering at a rate of two or three films per week. These films, one and two reels in length, are sometimes regarded as apprentice works, films in which Griffith borrowed, invented, and perfected the forms and techniques that he later used to such memorable effects in The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Way Down East (1920), Orphans...
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Bon: Mustang to Menri tells the story of Asonam, a 10 yr. old boy, who made a journey from his homeland, the ancient kingdom of Mustang (now part of Nepal) to Menri Monastery in Northern India. There Asonam made the commitment to become a Geshe, equivalent to a PhD, and after 13 additional years of education in languages, philosophy, debate, and Bon traditions he achieved this goal. Decades after leaving his village, Asonam returns with the education,...
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For the five years between 1908 and 1913, DW Griffith directed some 450 films for the Biograph Company, delivering at a rate of two or three films per week. These films, one and two reels in length, are sometimes regarded as apprentice works, films in which Griffith borrowed, invented, and perfected the forms and techniques that he later used to such memorable effects in The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Way Down East (1920), Orphans...
