The 1950S in Popular Culture: Beatniks, Elvis, and Polka Dot Skirts.

The 1950s was an interesting decade, jammed between another World War and a new, threatening age of nuclear power and atomic energy. This period saw the roots sewn for the carefree generation of the 60s, as the ‘Beat generation’ saw no hope and thus began to rebel against social conventions. The classic musical Grease sums […]

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The Success Of Black Women Filmmakers Of Africa And The African Diaspora

It is indeed a wonderful revelation in the history of world cinema that immensely talented women filmmakers of Africa and the African Diaspora are making it really big in innovative filmmaking. Not only are they challenging old cinematic prescriptions, they are also using their superior art of cinema to create and establish new visions of […]

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Facebook and Instagram down : All over the World.

Facebook and Instagram users around the world are having trouble accessing the social media apps on Thursday morning (NZ time), apparently due to an outage. Social media sites Facebook and Instagram are down for users around the world, with Facebook confirming it is not because of a cyber-attack. Facebook acknowledged the outage just before 7am NZT, […]

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Rich Heritage of Indian Films

Indian film industry is one of most popular industry that serves as a vehicle to showcase cultural, moral, and social beliefs. Since centuries Indian films have been recognized worldwide for their excellent direction, great script, superb acting, outstanding choreography, and heart warming songs. The early movies ushered in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Bengali language but […]

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White Cyclorama in Film Making

Most uses of Hollywood white cyc are used in conjunction with green screen in creating special effects on stage or film making. Cyc is an abbreviation for cyclorama. A cyc is any type of wall background incorporating one or more curve surfaces to create a background. Cyc backgrounds can appear to have no visual beginning […]

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