My Light on Celluloid

cel·lu·loid (sel-yuh-loid) N.

1. A colorless flammable material made from nitrocellulose and camphor and used to make photographic film.

2a. Motion-picture film: "a strange, anachronistic sight: theater pieces transferred to celluloid" (David Ansen).

2b. The cinema; motion pictures: "There are no heroes but in celluloid" (Charles Langbridge Morgan).


Jack Cardiff and Geoffrey Unsworth with the first technicolor camera

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Posted on February 9th at 11:23 PM
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    Jack Cardiff with the first technicolor camera, this man brought things to life. Ava Gardner, Marylin Monroe, Audrey...
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