Category: media

“A lost Walt Disney cartoon that pre-dated Mickey Mouse has been discovered in a British film archive and will be offered for auction in Los Angeles on December 14. ‘Hungry Hobos’ was one of 26 episodes featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character created by Disney and cartoonist Ub Iwerks in 1927 for Universal Studios.”

In the search for the earliest music video, there’s a Holy Grail. And it’s been found.

Working out in front of the big screen (which still shows flicks) has become business as usual for customers at the Crunch Fitness in the old Alhambra Theatre.

“Now that the Jane Austen vogue may be fading, Dickens, with this bicentenary happily arriving, is the obvious replacement, the gold medallist for the London Olympic year. Very suitable: Dickens was the man who invented London in literature.”

Forty years after Bruce Lee’s “Fists of Fury” hit U.S. theaters in 1971, martial-arts movies are hitting the A list. The kung fu fix that we used to mainline from Hong Kong–with a little help from Japanese samurai flicks and artless American duds–now is available from a surprising number of countries.

“The last viewership milestone was announced in May as YouTube celebrated its sixth birthday. At that point, the site was delivering 3 billion views per day — so it’s added about 500 million views a day in the past six months. A year earlier, in May 2010, YouTube broke 2 billion views a day.”

“When the English-spoken media in India clamour for a better quality of cinema, what they desire is a cinema that is forged in the Western tradition of storytelling and narrative. What this ignores is the fact that, today, urban and small-town India are the main consumers of Bollywood because that is the only entertainment they are offered.”

“It’s not clear how much money the scammers are stealing from YouTube videomakers. But if you judge by the volume of complaints about the hijacking on Google’s forums, it’s likely Netcom and others are doing pretty well making money for nothing.”

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