He also produced the movie and wrote the screenplay and musical score. He next directed Shaft (1971), which centers on a Black detective. A major success, it helped give rise to the genre of African American action films known as blaxploitation. A sequel, Shaft’s Big Score, appeared in ...
According to the considerable myth that has developed around the movie since then, Shaft is the original black action hero; the first black character that neither rolled his eyes and smacked his lips like Stepin Fetchit nor felt obliged to deliver his lines with the weighty, sonorous dignity ...
FEED-REEL SHAFT IN A MINIATURE MOVIE PROJECTOR CAPABLE OF REVERSAL PROJECTIONComplete Patent Searching Database and Patent Data Analytics Services.doi:US3494574 AWakahara, ShigeoUS
the movie’s real problems are tone and character. The lack of either creates a new void at the center of the series. Hiring the charismatic Thompson and Hemsworth makes the situation worse, rather than better, because they’ve both been so much better ...
Movie projector with fast rewind - has uncouplable sprockets automatically coupled to shutter and claw drive shaft for correct framingThe projector comprises a mechanism for fast film transport and film transport sprockets (7,11) which can be un-coupled from the film wind drive. The sprockets ...