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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.
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In 1947 there were only 14,000 TV sets in the U.S. In seven more years there were 32 million. Television had clearly replaced motion pictures as the... more
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In 1947 there were only 14,000 TV sets in the U.S. In seven more years there were 32 million. Television had clearly replaced motion pictures as the most popular medium of entertainment.
RKO Radio stopped making movies in 1956, a year later completely selling off their studio facilities while Duke's home studio for years, Republic, sold their production facilities to CBS in 1959.
As film goers had lost their habit of regularly going to the movies, 20th Century's Fox's founder and head, Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979), gambled in 1953 on a wide screen process called Cinemascope. The Biblical epic "The Robe," only temporarily stopped the theater hemorrhaging.
Television did not completely convert to color until the mid 1960's while by 1952 75% of all feature films were lensed in color.
Duke's first wide screen film was the William A. Wellman directed "The High and the Mighty" (1954). All his subsequent films were shot wide screen, while his final bla...
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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