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A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope: Directed by Gary Leva. With Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Dalva, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg.
Founded in 1969 by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, American Zoetrope is an American film production company based in San Francisco, California. It was formerly known as Omni Zoetrope and Zoetrope Studios from 1980 until 1990. The company has produced notable films by Coppola, such as Apocalypse Now and Bram Stoker's Dracula, as well as ...
American Zoetrope was founded in 1969 with the mission of finding creative, fast, and economic approaches to film. By constantly embracing new technology and innovatively applying it to movie production, American Zoetrope has built a rich history of pioneering unconventional filmmaking techniques. Surprising a Hollywood that had been using many ...
American Zoetrope has helped to launch the careers of some of today's best-known actors and filmmakers. Here are some of the people whose careers began in, or were given an early boost by, American Zoetrope productions:
Oct 26, 2020 · American Zoetrope burst onto the scene with George Lucas' THX 1138 and it did not go well. In order to make the money back, they lost on that film, Coppola and Zoetrope took The Godfather. It was a real happy accident he got the gig. In an interview between Coppola and The Rumpus, he talks about how he grew into The Godfather, "In my earlier ...
Oct 28, 2009 · George Lucas talks about his first interactions with Francis Ford Coppola, creating American Zoetrope and how his film THX-1138 came to be.CONNECT WITH AFI:h...
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Coppola and American Zoetrope acquired the screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, a coming-of-age account of Abbott growing up with her single father — widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott — amid the AIDS epidemic in 1970s and 1980s San Francisco.
