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Birdy (film)

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Birdy is a 1984 American drama film based on William Wharton's 1978 novel of the same name. [1]

152 relations: A&M Records, Agnews Developmental Center, Alan Marshall (producer), Alan Parker, AllMusic, American Film Institute, Anamorphic widescreen, Ashcombe House, Somerset, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Birdy (novel), Box Office Mojo, British Board of Film Classification, Bruno Kirby, California, Camera dolly, Camera operator, Charisma Records, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Cinematographer, Daniel Lanois, Danny Glover, David Geffen, Dissociative disorder, Drama (film and television), DVD, Electric grand piano, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Emanuel Levy, England, Fairlight CMI, Family Snapshot, Federal Aviation Administration, Film adaptation, Film criticism, Film editing, Film rights, Film score, Flashback (narrative), Frame story, Galley proof, Garrett Brown, Gasworks, Geffen Records, Gene Siskel, Geoffrey Kirkland, Gerry Hambling, Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival), Hercules, California, Holiday Inn, ..., Hornbill, In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel song), International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Janet Maslin, Karen Young (actress), Lanham, Maryland, Limited release, List of mayors of Philadelphia, Location manager, Location scouting, Los Angeles Times, Macmillan Publishers, Marshall Bell, Maryland, Matthew Modine, McFarland & Company, Methane, Michael Seresin, Mill Creek, Philadelphia, Missing in action, Modesto, California, Mrs. Soffel, Mubi (streaming service), Music workstation, National Board of Review, National Board of Review: Top Ten Films, New York City, Newby Island landfill, Nicolas Cage, Nonlinear narrative, Oakland, California, Omnibus Press, Option (filmmaking), Orion Pictures, Ornithopter, Pan and scan, Panavision, Pauline Kael, Pennsylvania, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (1980 album), Peter Gabriel (1982 album), Philadelphia, Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia House of Correction, Post-production, Pre-production, Principal photography, Production budget, Production designer, Record producer, Remix, Review aggregator, Roger Ebert, Rotten Tomatoes, Rough cut, Rowman & Littlefield, Sampler (musical instrument), San Francisco, San Jose, California, Sandy Baron, Santa Clara County, California, Santa Clara, California, Shooting schedule, Simon & Schuster, Skycam, Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel song), So (album), Somerset, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Special effect, Spin (magazine), Steadicam, Stockton, California, Stunt double, Sun-Sentinel, Synthesizer, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Theater for the New City, Toronto, Trailer (promotion), TriStar Pictures, Turner Classic Movies, Twilight Zone accident, Twilight Zone: The Movie, United States Army, Variety (magazine), VHS, Vietnam War, Warsaw International Film Festival, Weighted arithmetic mean, Wide release, Wildwood, New Jersey, William Wharton (author), Wilson Goode, World War II, WUPA, 1985 Cannes Film Festival, 46th Street station (SEPTA), 5001 Nights at the Movies. Expand index (102 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Agnews Developmental Center

Agnews Developmental Center was a psychiatric and medical care facility, located in Santa Clara, California.

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Alan Marshall (producer)

Alan Marshall is a British film producer.

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Alan Parker

Sir Alan William Parker (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Anamorphic widescreen

Anamorphic widescreen (also called Full height anamorphic) is a process by which a comparatively wide widescreen image is horizontally compressed to fit into a storage medium (photographic film or MPEG-2 Standard Definition frame, for example) with a narrower aspect ratio, reducing the horizontal resolution of the image while keeping its full original vertical resolution.

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Ashcombe House, Somerset

Ashcombe House at Swainswick, north-east of Bath in Somerset, England is a Gothic revival country house.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches.

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Birdy (novel)

Birdy is the debut novel of William Wharton, who was more than 50 years old when it was published.

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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Bruno Kirby

Bruno Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Jr.; April 28, 1949 – August 14, 2006) was an American actor, singer, voice artist, chef, and comedian.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Camera dolly

A camera dolly is a wheeled cart or similar device used in filmmaking and television production to create smooth horizontal camera movements.

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Camera operator

A camera operator, sometimes informally called a cameraman, is a professional operator of a film or video camera.

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Charisma Records

The Famous Charisma Label (Charisma for short) was a British record label founded in 1969 by former journalist Tony Stratton-Smith.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Cinematographer

A cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the chief over the camera and light crews working on a film, television production or other live action piece and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image.

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Daniel Lanois

Daniel Roland Lanois (born September 19, 1951) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter.

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Danny Glover

Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist.

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David Geffen

David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, and philanthropist.

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Dissociative disorder

Dissociative disorders (DD) are conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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Electric grand piano

The electric grand piano is a stringed musical instrument played using a keyboard, in which the vibration of strings struck by hammers is converted by pickups into electrical signals, analogous to the electric guitar's electrification of the traditional guitar.

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Elizabeth Whitcraft

Elizabeth Whitcraft is an American actress who played small parts in some notable American films in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Emanuel Levy

Emanuel Levy is an American film critic and professor who has taught at Columbia University, New School for Social Research, Wellesley College, Arizona State University and UCLA Film School.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fairlight CMI

The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, — with links to some Fairlight history and photos developed based on the commercial license of Qasar M8 dual-MC6800 microprocessor musical instrument originally developed by Tony Furse of Creative Strategies in Sydney, Australia.

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Family Snapshot

"Family Snapshot" is a song written and performed by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, appearing on his third eponymous album.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation.

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Film adaptation

A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.

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Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.

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Film editing

Film editing is a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking.

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Film rights

Film rights are rights under copyright law to produce a film as a derivative work of a given item of intellectual property.

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Film score

A film score (also sometimes called background score, background music, film soundtrack, film music, or incidental music) is original music written specifically to accompany a film.

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Flashback (narrative)

A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

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Frame story

A frame story (also known as a frame tale or frame narrative) is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story, whereby an introductory or main narrative is presented, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage either for a more emphasized second narrative or for a set of shorter stories.

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Galley proof

In printing and publishing, proofs are the preliminary versions of publications meant for review by authors, editors, and proofreaders, often with extra-wide margins.

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Garrett Brown

Garrett Brown (born April 6, 1942) is an American inventor, best known as the inventor of the Steadicam.

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Gasworks

A gasworks or gas house is an industrial plant for the production of flammable gas.

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Geffen Records

Geffen Records is an American major record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Interscope Geffen A&M Records imprint.

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Gene Siskel

Eugene Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999) was an American film critic and journalist for the Chicago Tribune.

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Geoffrey Kirkland

Geoffrey Kirkland (born 1939) is an English production designer.

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Gerry Hambling

Gerry Hambling (14 June 1926 – 5 February 2013) was a British film editor whose work is credited on 49 films; he had also worked as a sound editor and a television editor.

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Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)

The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films.

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Hercules, California

Hercules is a city in western Contra Costa County, California.

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Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is a British-owned American brand of hotels, and a subsidiary of InterContinental Hotels Group.

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Hornbill

The hornbills (Bucerotidae) are a family of bird found in tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and Melanesia.

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In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel song)

"In Your Eyes" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel from his fifth solo album So (1986).

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International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, or IATSE (full name: International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada), is a labor union representing over 140,000 technicians, artisans and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live theatre, motion picture and television production, and trade shows.

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Janet Maslin

Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times.

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Karen Young (actress)

Karen Young (born September 29, 1958) is an American actress.

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Lanham, Maryland

Lanham is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland.

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Limited release

Limited release is a film distribution strategy of releasing a new film in a few theaters across a country, typically in major metropolitan markets.

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List of mayors of Philadelphia

The Mayor of Philadelphia is the chief executive of the government of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Philadelphia.

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Location manager

The location manager is a member of the film crew responsible for finding and securing locations to be used, obtaining all fire, police and other governmental permits, and coordinating the logistics for the production to complete its work.

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Location scouting

Location scouting is a vital process in the pre-production stage of filmmaking and commercial photography.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

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Marshall Bell

Archibald Marshall Bell (born September 28, 1942) is an American actor.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Matthew Modine

Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker, who rose to prominence through his role as United States Marine Corps Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.

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Methane

Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen).

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Michael Seresin

Michael Stephen Seresin, ONZM BSC, (born 17 July 1942) is a New Zealand cinematographer, best known for several collaborations with the British director Alan Parker.

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Mill Creek, Philadelphia

Mill Creek is a neighborhood in the West Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Missing in action

Missing in action (MIA) is a casualty classification assigned to combatants, military chaplains, combat medics, and prisoners of war who are reported missing during wartime or ceasefire.

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Modesto, California

Modesto (Spanish for "modest"), officially the City of Modesto, is the county seat and largest city of Stanislaus County, California, United States.

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Mrs. Soffel

Mrs.

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Mubi (streaming service)

MUBI (formerly The Auteurs) is a film website that integrates a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, a database, and an online magazine known as The Notebook.

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Music workstation

A music workstation is an electronic musical instrument providing the facilities of.

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National Board of Review

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures is an organization dedicated to discuss and select what their members regard as the best film works of each year.

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National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

The following is a list of the Top 10 Films chosen annually by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, beginning in 1929.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newby Island landfill

The Newby Island Landfill (NISL) is one of the largest active dumps on the shores of the San Francisco Bay.

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Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor, director and producer.

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Nonlinear narrative

Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique, sometimes used in literature, film, hypertext websites and other narratives, where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Omnibus Press

Omnibus Press is the world’s largest specialist publisher of music-related books.

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Option (filmmaking)

In the film industry, an option is a contractual agreement between a potential film producer (such as a movie studio, a production company, or an individual) and the author of source material, such as a book, play, or screenplay, for an exclusive, but temporary, right to purchase the screenplay, given the film producer lives up to the terms of the contract.

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Orion Pictures

Orion Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture producer and distributor that produced and released films from 1978 until 1999 and was also involved in television production and syndication throughout the 1980s until the early 1990s.

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Ornithopter

An ornithopter (from Greek ornithos "bird" and pteron "wing") is an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.

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Pan and scan

Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown in fullscreen proportions of a standard definition 4:3 aspect ratio television screen, often cropping off the sides of the original widescreen image to focus on the composition's most important aspects.

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Panavision

Panavision is an American motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California.

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Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

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Peter Gabriel (1980 album)

Peter Gabriel is the third album by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released in May 1980.

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Peter Gabriel (1982 album)

Peter Gabriel is the fourth album released by English rock musician Peter Gabriel.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia City Hall

Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of government for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia House of Correction

The Philadelphia House of Correction is one of five local prisons operated by the Philadelphia Prison System.

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Post-production

Post-production is part of the process of filmmaking, video production, and photography.

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Pre-production

Pre-production is the process of fixing some of the elements involved in a film, play, or other performance.

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Principal photography

Film production on location in Newark, New Jersey, April 2004. Principal photography is the phase of film production in which the movie is filmed, with actors on set and cameras rolling, as distinct from pre-production and post-production.

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Production budget

A film production budget determines how much money will be spent on the entire film project.

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Production designer

In film and television, a production designer (or P. D.) is the person responsible for the overall visual look of the production.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Remix

A remix is a piece of media which has been altered from its original state by adding, removing, and/or changing pieces of the item.

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews of products and services (such as films, books, video games, software, hardware and cars).

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Rough cut

In filmmaking, the rough cut is the second of three stages of offline editing.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an independent publishing house founded in 1949.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Jose, California

San Jose (Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.

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Sandy Baron

Sandy Baron (born Sanford Irving Beresofsky; May 5, 1936 – January 21, 2001) was an American comedian who performed on stage, in films, and on television.

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Santa Clara County, California

Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is California's 6th most populous county, with a population was 1,781,642, as of the 2010 census.

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Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara is a city in Santa Clara County, California.

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Shooting schedule

A shooting schedule is a project plan of each day's shooting for a film production.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Skycam

Skycam is a computer-controlled, stabilized, cable-suspended camera system.

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Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel song)

"Sledgehammer" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel.

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So (album)

So is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986 by Charisma Records.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (abbreviated as SPHE) is the home video distribution division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Special effect

Special effects (often abbreviated as SFX, SPFX, or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the film, television, theatre, video game and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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Steadicam

Steadicam is a brand of camera stabilizer mounts for motion picture cameras invented by Garrett Brown and introduced in 1975 by Cinema Products Corporation.

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Stockton, California

Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California.

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Stunt double

A stunt double is a type of body double, specifically a skilled replacement used for dangerous film or video sequences, in movies and television (such as jumping out of a building, jumping from vehicle to vehicle, or other similar actions), and for other sophisticated stunts (especially fight scenes).

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Sun-Sentinel

The Sun-Sentinel is the main daily newspaper of Broward County, Florida.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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Theater for the New City

Theater for the New City, founded in 1971 and known familiarly as "TNC", is one of New York City's leading Off-Off-Broadway theaters, known for radical political plays and community commitment.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Trailer (promotion)

A trailer (also known as a preview or coming attraction) is a commercial advertisement for a feature film that will be exhibited in the future at a cinema, the result of creative and technical work.

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TriStar Pictures

TriStar Pictures, Inc. (spelled as Tri-Star until 1991 and stylized as TRISTAR) is an American film studio that is a division of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, part of Sony Pictures whose owned by Japanese multinational conglomerate Sony Corporation.

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Turner Classic Movies

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network operated by Turner Broadcasting System. Launched in 1994, TCM is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. Historically, the channel's programming consisted mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its WarnerMedia sister company, Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Latin America, France, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

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Twilight Zone accident

On July 23, 1982, a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian Dunes in Valencia, Santa Clarita, California, during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie.

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Twilight Zone: The Movie

Twilight Zone: The Movie is a 1983 American science fiction anthology film produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis as a cinematic interpretation of the 1959–64 TV series created by Rod Serling.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Warsaw International Film Festival

Warsaw Film Festival (Warszawski Festiwal Filmowy) is a major film festival held every October in Warsaw, Poland.

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Weighted arithmetic mean

The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.

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Wide release

In the American motion picture industry, a wide release is a motion picture that is playing nationally.

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Wildwood, New Jersey

Wildwood is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States.

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William Wharton (author)

William Wharton (7 November 1925 – 29 October 2008), the pen name of the artist Albert William Du Aime, was an American-born author best known for his first novel Birdy, which was also successful as a film.

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Wilson Goode

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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WUPA

WUPA, virtual channel 69 (UHF digital channel 43), is a CW owned-and-operated television station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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1985 Cannes Film Festival

The 38th Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 20 May 1985.

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46th Street station (SEPTA)

46th Street station is a SEPTA station in Philadelphia.

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5001 Nights at the Movies

5001 Nights at the Movies, first published in 1982, is a book compiling passages of film critic Pauline Kael's reviews from the silent era to the 1980s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdy_(film)

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