Classic Trailer | "2024 AMPAS Awards | Videos & Recap"
Classic Trailer | "Grand Hotel" (1932)
Contemporary Trailer | "A Beautiful Mind" (2001)
Contemporary Trailer: "Spotlight" (2015)
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William Shakespeare said "There are no small parts..."; William Shatner may have said it too, but the longhair with the tights was first, or so the reports go. In this feature we explore what it really means to be a "Working" Actor in Motion Pictures and Television. | Featured: Tom Bower, Robert Newman, Mindy Sterling, Amy Aquino, Art Hindle, Bill Lucking, Madison Mason, Pat Harrington, Shelley Morrison, Eve Gordon, Bill Smitrovich, Barbara Niven, Robert Donner, among many more! -
The Director's Chair is a compilation of interviews from a variety of sources with many of our leading Directors of both the past and present. In these interviews lie "Golden Nuggets" of information from which everyone working in the Motion Picture and Television Industry can learn! | Credit: Jonas Mekas: An American Film Director at Work: Martin Scorsese -
Film & Television Composers score music to accompany a motion picture for film or television. This could include dramatic underscore as well as popular songwriting. The traditional role of a film composer is to provide the orchestral dramatic underscore, and only more recently has the popular soundtrack begun to stand on its own. | Credit: Brian Tyler's "Power Rangers" (2017 movie) scoring session at Abbey Road with the Philharmonia of London. Soundtrack album available on Varese Sarabande Records. -
A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods. || Producer: David O. Selznick | Director: Victor Fleming | Screenplay: Sidney Howard (from the story by Margaret Mitchell) | Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell, Leslie Howard, Butterfly McQueen -
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home in Kansas and help her friends as well. || Producer: Mervyn LeRoy | Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor | Screenplay: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf | Music: Harold Arlen and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Herbert Stothart | Cinematography: Harold Rosson | Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton -
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. || Producer: Frank Capra | Director: Frank Capra | Screenplay: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra | Music: Dimitri Tiomkin | Cinematography: Joseph F. Biroc, Joseph Walker | Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers. -
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. || Producer: Orson Welles | Director: Orson Welles | Screenplay: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles | Music: Bernard Herrmann | Cinematography: Gregg Toland | Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead. -
In Casablanca in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate encounters a former lover, with unforeseen complications. || Producers: Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner | Director: Michael Curtiz | Writers: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein | Music: Max Steiner | Cinematography: Arthur Edeson | Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre. -
Two youngsters from rival (ethnically divergent) New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. || Producers: Saul Chaplin, Walter Mirisch, Robert Wise | Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Screenplay: Ernest Lehman | Music: Leonard Bernstein | Cinematography: Daniel L. Fapp | Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris.
