Celluloid

The specific plastic described in the chapter was celluloid, which is no longer used for anything but the production of ping pong balls. However, plastics in general are something I use nearly for everything. Most of my storage is done through plastic containers because they are generally lightweight and are transparent, allowing me to know exactly what is inside. However, I am also guilty of using disposable plastic. By disposable plastic, I mean plastics bags and plastic that is meant for single use. Disposable plastic is so popular because it is so convenient to throw away after consumption. However, there are too many externalities. Although they are convenient, I have become much more conscious about using plastic in the past few years because of the negative effects it has on the environment…

Gays were excluded mostly in films. Strict production codes for movies like the Hayes Code made gayness forbidden in films up until the late 20th century. Hollywood’s strict rules forced gayness to be closeted and overt at best: “…Hollywood’s sly hints and inadvertent leaks, whereby it, for example, through Katherine Hepburn’s androgynous character in Sylvia Scarlett merely ‘Introduced the possibility of homosexual activity in the film…’” (Ross 168). According to the documentary The Celluloid…

watch, or a woman from anywhere. You ever had a Swiss watch?” A powerful line like the previous statement from the 1948 film Red River already suggests that, ever since the rise of the film industry in the Hollywood scene, the society already knows the concept of labels—of who is gay and who is not. However, the stereotyping of every character in the film as a gay person or not during the early times is very much boxed within the limited knowledge about gender and identity. Film critiques or…

“The big lie about lesbians and gay men is that we do not exist.” Vito Russo, The Celluloid Closet (1981). LGBT people have always been treated poorly, throughout history queer people have been erased, belittled, and ignored. People are generally more accepting and inclusive with queer people, including us in their movies and tv shows sometimes, but more often than not they don’t, and when they do they tend do not do it right. In 2014 only 17.5% of major studio releases included LGBT…

because of her sexuality itself- both for the very fact she is willing to express it, and also because it deviates from the norm. Mrs. Danvers is shown to be a part of this deviant lifestyle, as she is close with Favell as well and Rebecca uses her name as an alias when she goes to the doctor in London. From these hints, Maxim’s overt disgust at her sexuality, and Mrs. Danver’s expressions of grief, one can glean that although Rebecca might have been having an affair with Favell, she had a…

table tennis balls was changed from celluloid to plastic, a material free of celluloid, in 2014. The purpose of this study was to understand the differences and similarities between these two types of ball materials by comparing their behavior upon collision with a table tennis table to aid serious table tennis players. The behavior of the balls before and after collision with a table, at various initial speeds ranging from 15 to 115 km/h, was captured using high-speed cameras. Velocity and spin…

Some flame and a huge amount of smoke will be liberated from the rapidly burning sugar. The chemical formula of the reaction is described as below: 48KNO3 + 5C12H22O11 → 24K2CO3 + 24N2 + 36CO2 + 55H2O There are two ways the smoke bombs can be made at home. The first way is as mentioned above in the experiment. The second way involves using celluloid material which is a transparent flammable plastic made in sheets from camphor and nitrocellulose. Nowadays, ping pong balls are commonly used to…

Walt’s movie Snow White broke new ground in several ways. It was the first celluloid animated feature film ever produced and was the first animated film to be in color (technicolor). They also had to make 250,000 celluloid frames. There are ten steps to make the films, here are the basics of them. First, they make a story board. Next, they story board is presented. Then, the dialogue is laid out so animators know what the characters will say. After that, the animators will make rough sketches of…

the daguerreotype process, allowing people to actually obtain permanent images by camera. Daguerre's process somehow “fixed” the images onto a sheet of silver-plated copper. He polished the silver and coated it in iodine. Then, he put the plate in a camera and exposed it to light. After the image was painted by light, Daguerre covered the plate in a solution of silver chloride. The process created a lasting image unlike past inventors where their images took long to develop and would quickly…

movie was made in 1937 and was called “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” This movie consisted of more than 1,500,000 water-color paintings and pen-and-ink drawings and took over three years to create. Now we use computers or create most of our animated movies, but back then they didn’t have the technology to do that so they made everything by hand. They take oblong photographs of the drawings and paintings and put them on pieces of celluloid, which are transparent sheets, held in a single…