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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: Dedicated to Creating Classics. Since our founding in 1969, we have produced some of the most important films in American cinema.
Zoetrope Workshops. A community for writers, filmmakers and other artists. Since Francis Ford Coppola launched the site more than twenty years ago, more than 100,000 creative works have been workshopped here.
Oct 26, 2022 · A defining chapter in the history of Hollywood's transition from narrative and technical formalism to avant-garde-minded auteurism was the founding of American Zoetrope.
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American Zoetrope is a film studio founded by Francis Ford Coppola in 1969, inspired by the zoetrope, a device that creates the illusion of motion. The studio is known for its innovative and unconventional approaches to filmmaking and its location in San Francisco's Sentinel Building.
A documentary on the early years of Francis Ford Coppola's production company "American Zoetrope" made in 2004 - and is included as a special feature on the "THX 1138" Blu-ray.
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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.
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