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American Zoetrope (also known as Omni Zoetrope from 1977 to 1980 and Zoetrope Studios from 1980 until 1990) is a privately run American film production company, centered in San Francisco, California and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas.
American Zoetrope is a film production company founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1969. It has produced acclaimed films such as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Virgin Suicides, and Sofia Coppola's debut The Virgin Suicides.
Zoetrope.com is a platform for writers, filmmakers and other artists to share and workshop their works. Founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1998, it has hosted over 100,000 creative works and produced films like Fairyland and The Beguiled.
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.
28 Okt 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: / americanfilminstitute /...
26 Okt 2022 · Learn how Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas founded American Zoetrope in 1969 to create a space for artistic freedom and auteurism in Hollywood. Discover how the failure of their first film, THX-1138, led to the making of The Godfather, one of the most influential and acclaimed movies of all time.
A zoetrope is a cylindrical variant of the phénakisticope, an apparatus suggested after the stroboscopic discs were introduced in 1833. The definitive version of the zoetrope, with replaceable film picture film strips, was introduced as a toy by Milton Bradley in 1866 and became very successful.
