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    then the new wave. The silent era as the name implies featured film making without the use of sound while the sound era introduced the addition of sound to films. From the years 1906 to 1911, Australia happened to be the most prolific producer of feature films in the world. As at this period in time, Australian producers had easy access to cinema screen because of the irregular supply of foreign films. This notable success however began to experience a gradual decline as the Hollywood

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    “Did you have sexual contact with the natives?” “No.” “Did you share needles or have any open cuts I should be aware of?” “No . . . ” I said. The masked doctor examined the hundreds of boils on my face and body. A week prior, I got into a bus accident in Tanzania. I was delivering a bag full of medical supplies to a rural hospital. A tropical storm hit the night before, making the gravel road slippery. My vehicle lost control and slammed into a palm tree. I hit the front seat hard, and

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    take the shape of skew, perspective distortion or geometric distortion. We propose fully automatic preprocessing techniques to enhance the digital camera captured images to improve the performance of OCR applications. Our algorithms depend on the features of the text lines and letters and do not need any especial equipment. Experimental results on a real camera captured images demonstrate 10~15 % enhancement in current commercial OCR packages. 1. Introduction Textual content in books, newspapers and

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    security and support when there is a sense of understanding, inclusion and identity to a member trying to fit into a certain group and place. It is a perception of acceptance. The short film by Mark Osborne, More, was released in 1998. The short film features a scrawny gray creature in it’s everyday working life. He is unhappy but gains the strength to keep going by his childhood memories. He works hard to invent a the machine that changes everyone’s dull and negative life by changing their perspective

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    The short film, "Paper man", by John Kahrs is a genuine reflection on his world. The way this is depicted is through his exploration use of magic, the amazing symbolism of the colour used and the service of sound. The representation of these allows, the audience to be more thankful to this film and understand its diversity in the world that it once was. "Paper man", is presented in a reflection of the world through the exploration use of magic. This is best illustrated through the world of 2012

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    because Angelina Jolie’s cheek bones is her most prominent feature. The cheeks must be high and well defined. Defining the cheeks, I choose a medium brown shade of eyeshadow or bronzer. The forehead is the second most important feature to create. Angelina Jolie has a long, narrow forehead, as mine is wide. Having the medium brown shadow on my temples it creates shadows. I create the illusion of a long forehead. After identifying my features, I am ready to start my transformation. The alterations for

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    animated films of the 1930s and 1940s definitely took advantage of the new Technicolor process. For Disney in particular, it was the only colour process that he felt worked for his films (Telotte 48). Especially since the idea of animated films as feature films was relatively new at the time, there was a necessity for the differentiation of Disney’s films to live-action films so that animated films could be taken seriously. Disney used Technicolor to do just that (Telotte 48). Another, arguably more

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    Intro to Cinema Midterm The film “The Prestige” is one of many masterful Nolan films that walks the line between being a meta film about the film industry, and being focused on immersing the audience in the actual content of the film. At a close inspection, comparisons to the film industry can be seen, but they are not so obvious to distract the audience from the central conflicts that are at the forefront of the film. The subject of the film could most easily be defined as surrounding the topics

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    Animated films are one of the most entertaining forms of media out there. When it comes to animated films, two major film companies may come to mind: DreamWorks and Disney. For the past couple of years, people have been asking which company is better, and the answer is quite simply Disney. They have better stories, they maintain a certain theme, they are consistent, and extremely successful which is what makes them stand out from other studios and film companies. Of course, DreamWorks has some of

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    collected from UCI repository for classify the data using the different classification algorithms J48, Naive Bayes, Decision Tree, IBK. This paper evaluates the classification accuracy before applying the feature selection algorithms and comparing the classification accuracy after applying the feature selection with learning algorithms. 1. Introduction As computer and database technologies develop rapidly, data accumulates in a speed unmatchable by human capacity of data processing[2]. Data mining

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