100 Years Of Harold Lloyd’s Glass Character
2017 marks 100 years since the first appearance of the Glass Character, Harold Lloyd’s most memorable comic persona and the star of his greatest shorts and features. To mark the occasion, we’ll be celebrating the centenary on big and small screens around the world.
In donning a humble pair of spectacles, Lloyd added another dimension to an already successful career and secured his place in the pantheon of great silent comedians alongside the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. The development of the Glass Character would see Lloyd make the bold move to shed the Lonesome Luke persona, and his Chaplin-esque trappings, that had secured his popularity from 1915-1917 and create a style all of his own. See Full Article BY Park Circus
Lumière 2017
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‘Art of VR’ to Open at Sotheby’s New York
The Advanced Imaging Society’s Virtual Reality Society aims to raise public awareness of virtual reality through “The Art of VR,” a two-day festival taking place June 22-23 at Sotheby’s New York. The event will feature speakers, including filmmakers Doug Liman and Maria Bello, as well as virtual reality experiences for applications such as museums, dance, theater, film and travel.
Featured VR projects will include Sun Ladies, the story of the all-female militia fighting ISIS produced by Maria Bello and Kate Brooks; Liman-directed episodic series Invisible; the pilot episode of animated Raising a Rukus, produced by VRC and Oscar winner Robert Stromberg; and VR film Le Musk by two-time Oscar- and Grammy-winning musical artist A.R. Rahman. The latter, co-produced by Intel in conjunction with motion seat-maker Positron, combines sound, haptics, motion and smell.
Sotheby’s and Loot Interactive will curate a separate Space VR Gallery, a space-themed exhibit including the debut of The Apollo 11 VR Museum as well as informational short Buzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways, and Fox and Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant In Utero and The Martian VR Experience.
During the festival, Loot Interactive and Suzanne Lloyd will unveil a preview of the Harold Lloyd Museum Experience in VR featuring a collection of the Hollywood legend’s 3D photography set in an explorable multi-floor modern museum. Article by Hollywoodreporter.com
Congratulations Graduates
As Heartland Community High School’s class of 2017 graduates Sunday in Henderson, Nebraska, they’ll be joined by two special guests, each keeping a promise eight years in the making.
The guests are Brian Selznick, award-winning author/illustrator of “Wonderstruck” and “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” and Suzanne Lloyd, the granddaughter of Nebraska-born silent film star Harold Lloyd.
How did Selznick (who lives in New York) and Lloyd (Los Angeles) come to be at a high school graduation ceremony in a tiny town of 1,000 in the middle of Nebraska? Well, that’s kind of a funny story. One that involves a silent film festival and a whole lot of letters to Johnny Depp. Read More
