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Celluloid Skyline Introduction
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Based on the award-winning book by the architect and author
James Sanders, and presented by Turner Classic Movies and
Time Warner Cable in conjunction with a special on-air film
festival, Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies
will be an extraordinary celebration of the hundred year love
affair between the film industry and one of the world's greatest
cities.
Opening in Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall on May
25, 2007, the month-long multimedia exhibit will bring to life
the glittering cinematic metropolis –"movie New York"–that
has mesmerized audiences around the world for decades.
During the show's run, thousands of visitors will find
themselves immersed in a magical environment: a luminous
"dream city "built from some of the most spectacular
movie-making artifacts and images ever created, including:
Gigantic "scenic backing "paintings produced at MGM during
the golden age of Hollywood to recreate New York on the
studio lot. The actual artifacts used in the making of such
legendary films as Hitchcock's North by Northwest
and Vincente Minnelli's The Clock, these awesome
recreations of New York cityscapes and interiors (up to 27
feet high and 60 feet wide) have never been seen before –and
will probably never be seen again –by the general public.
Hauntingly beautiful film footage from Paramount Studios,
including images of New York streets, interiors, skylines,
etc., from the mid-1930s to today. Used as evocative
backgrounds behind actors in "process shots" on studio
sound stages, or for "establishing shots" at the start of films,
this footage will be presented continuously on two large rear
projection screens. Standing in front of the screens, visitors
will be able to "star" in their own classic New York films.
A projected montage of more than 80 rare and unusual
production stills and location shots culled from the book,
Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies by James
Sanders. These will include views from films themselves, both
celebrated and obscure, as well as dozens of
"behind-the-scenes "views showing films being shot on
stages as well as location.
Selection of forty "actuality" films shot in New York in the
earliest days of the movie industry, projected on a 60"plasma
monitor near the start of the exhibit. Photographed in and
around New York from 1896 to 1906 by Edison and Biograph
cameramen, these riveting short films movingly document the
growing city's streets, skyline, construction projects, public
events and spectacles.
Sequence of 22 handsomely designed display panels
featuring over 200 dramatic enlargements of a spectacular
array of production stills, location shots, art department
drawings, models, renderings, etc., along with informative
captions, introductory text, and "pull quotes "drawn from
noted filmmakers, critics, as well as the fondly remembered
dialogue of films themselves.
 
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31 Days of Oscar Highlights for Feb. 18
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