Ten writers, from a Norwegian parlor to a Lagos courtyard, who taught the modern stage what a play could carry.
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Storytelling in light and motion. Explore cinema as an art form, its directors, movements, and the films that shape culture.
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Ten comedians who taught the movies how to be funny, from the pratfalls of the silent screen to the first wisecracks of sound.
Ten writers, from a Norwegian parlor to a Lagos courtyard, who taught the modern stage what a play could carry.
Ten directors who, between the 1940s and the 1980s, made cinema a language the whole world could speak.
Ten women who ruled the screen from the 1930s to the 1950s, turning the studio system's manufactured glamour into an art form, and sometimes into power.
Ten leading men, from the swashbuckler to the mumbler, who taught the movies how a hero should look and sound.
After a film is completed, the final stage is bringing it to audiences. This phase is often called distribution.
Once filming is complete, the project moves into post production. This stage is where the raw footage begins to take shape as a finished film.