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Norman McLaren made short films for the Canadian National Film Board for many years, films with names like Fiddie-De-Dee and Hoppity-Pop and Blinkety Blank. He is highly acclaimed by some as a pioneer in experimental cinema--particularly of the stop-motion technique. Other titles by McLaren include Dots and Loops, Boogie Doodie and A Chairy Tale. I've only seen one of these little nightmares, the one most commonly shown in this country, something called Pas de Deux. In fact, I must have seen it 300 times--it seems like everytime I settle back for some good...
...more than half a century after he completed the bulk of his work, Ives is generally acknowledged as the greatest, certainly the most original of America's composers. A fierce, patriotic innovator, he combined the best instincts of Edison and Whitman; he was the first important American to pioneer a musical path outside the European tradition. He was once thought of, erroneously, as a kind of Grandma Moses of music, an untutored primitive breaking all the rules without realizing it. Ives broke the rules all right, but only after having mastered them as a Yale music student. "I found...
...Gregory Pincus, who died in 1967, was the pioneer researcher for an effective birth control pill, and the donation will be made in his name...
Everybody helps his friends. It's a great American tradition-all the way back to pioneer days-sharing work, helping to build a house. I've always shared. I've always been very fortunate because I've had the money. When somebody had a problem, I was glad to help. It's very simple...
...Birth of a Nation," directed by pioneer film-maker D.W. Griffith and released in 1915, presents a militantly anti-black view of the South after the Civil War. But as the first movie to use moving cameras and night filming, among other innovations, it is generally considered a motion picture landmark...