Cinema

  The first festival took place in 1946. Since then it has been held every year, except in the years 1948 ad 1950, during which it did not take place due to budgeting problems. The Cannes festival soon became one of the most important cinematographic events in the world, along …

  When motion picture production in Europe burgeoned, Globe opened an office in London where it assigned such top photographers as Joel Elkins, Ruan O’Lochlainn, Alex Lowe, David Hurne, Leo Fuchs, Tazio Secchiaroli, Pat McCallum and Richard Polak.

  In the late 1930s, furious over the interference of the fascist Italian government and the Nazi German government in their selection of films for the International Exhibit of Cinematographic Art inVenice, Jean Zay, the French minister of education and fine arts suggested the creation of an international film festival …

  Ornitz’ coverage was so successful that United Artists, the distribution company, which had no overhead staff personnel and thus was more flexible than the major companies, adopted the “special photographer” concept for all their films. In addition to Ornitz, the new photographic pioneers in the virgin land were Bob …

  The Cannes Festival (Festival de Cannes is the official name since 2002, formerly known as the Festival International du Film de Cannes) is a film festival which takes place every year in May in the city ofCannes and lasts about two weeks.   Due to the fact that it …