Moviola
A Moviola is a device that allows a film editor to view a film while editing. It was the first machine for motion picture editing when it was invented by Iwan Serrurier in 1924. The Moviola company is still in existence and is located in Hollywood where part of the facility is located on one of the original Moviola factory floors.
History
Iwan Serrurier's original 1917 concept for the Moviola was as a home movie projector to be sold to the general public. The name was derived from the name "Victrola" since Serrurier thought his invention would do for home movie viewing what the Victrola did for home music listening. However, since the machine cost $600 in 1920 (equivalent to $20,000 in the 2000s), very few sold. An editor at Douglas Fairbanks Studios suggested that Iwan should adapt the device for use by film editors. Serrurier did this and the Moviola as an editing device was born in 1924 with the first Moviola being sold to Douglas Fairbanks himself. Ninety four years later, a framed copy of the original receipt still resides at Moviola, the company, in Hollywood.
Moviola (cinema service)
Moviola is a rural cinema service operating in the British West Country counties of Dorset, Devon, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. It provides a cinema service for rural communities that have no or distant access to cinema theatres, showing a range of films in village halls and other venues. It advertises itself as "The South and West's Rural Multiplex", and with 80 screening venues is one of the largest rural film schemes in Europe. It is a registered charity.
History
Moviola started operations in 2001, and after a few years of pilot operations it was first incorporated as "Dorset Film Touring" in February 2004. As "Dorset Film Touring" it was registered as United Kingdom Charity 1107649 in January 2005. In the summer of 2009, the Company and Charity officially adopted the name "Moviola". Moviola is governed by a small Board whose members have the dual functions of Trustees of the Charity and Directors of the Trading Company (Moviola Ltd). The Board members are recruited from the local community and from the film exhibition sector and serve in an entirely voluntary capacity. The Oscar-winning screenwriter and actor Julian Fellowes, who lives in Dorset, is Patron of Moviola.
Moviola (novel)
Moviola is a 1979 novel, published by Simon & Schuster, by writer-director Garson Kanin.
The novel tells the fictional story of Ben Farber, an immigrant who arrives in Hollywood at the beginning of its Golden Era. Farber narrates the story of his life, interwoven with the legendary events and people that made Hollywood the Movie Capital of the World. Farber interacts with Greta Garbo, with David and Myron Selznick during the talent search for the perfect Scarlett O'Hara, and with the discovery of Marilyn Monroe among other people and other events.
Moviola was subsequently turned into a 3-part miniseries for NBC in 1980; the episodes have also been as stand-alone TV movies. They are:
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- Bajofondo Tango Club released: 2002
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- Dead Knowledge released: 2007
- Glen Echo Auto Harp released:
- Rumors of the Faithful released:
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by Belle & Sebastian
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by Millencolin
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by Man'a
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by Banda el Recodo
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by Francis Cabrel
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by Rasputina
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by Hyper Crush
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by Son By Four
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by Black Happy
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by Terry Reid
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by LOS NIETOS
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by Cesaria Evora
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by Fey
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by Jean Ferrat
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by Coyote Dax
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by Tierra Cali
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by Blue Sky Mile
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by Joe Moses
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by Beyond The Embrace
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by La Hora Pico
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by Makers
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by Jeffrey Foucault
Mayfly
by: Belle & SebastianLovesick on a sunny afternoon
You are tired of stopping in
You are waiting for the time
Mayfly, woken up when skys are clear
I don't mind you coming near
Keep me company till she comes again
You are the one who's privy to
I am the one who's making do
Because you saw him in the park
Because you saw him at the bridges with the people in the park
Cana was the start of something big
You were there in the beginning
You were there to see him play
Mayfly, woken up when sky's are blue
I don't mind the sight of you
Keep me company till she comes around
You are the one who's privy to
I am the one who's making do
Because you saw him at the celebrations standing at the side
He had the moves to save the day
But you would love him anyway
Lovesick, it came back upon yourself
You are the girl left on the shelf
You are incapable of playing the fool
Longing:so what's different today?
You sent the boys and girls away
You are concerned with matters lofty
But puzzled so it makes you sick
Your diary's looking like a bible with it's verses lost in time
And lost in meaning for the people who surround you
It's a crying shame