Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock Born Today, August 13, 1899
Posted: August 13, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, Mediasphere | Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, British Army, Cinema, Film director, Films, FRONTLINE, Hitchcock, Movies, Mystery, Photography, Psycho, Thriller, Vertigo 1 Comment
On this day in 1899, film director and producer Alfred Hitchcock was born in London. Considered to be a pioneer of the suspense and psychological thriller genres, Hitchcock set precedents in the filmic techniques of camera movement, composition and editing.
Hitchcock’s filmography includes popular classics like Psycho and Vertigo, but he also worked as “treatment advisor” (or film editor) on an unfinished Holocaust documentary commissioned by the British Army in 1945.
[VIDEO] This Day In History: April 21, 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests Begin
Posted: April 21, 2014 Filed under: Asia, History | Tags: Asia, Beijing, China, FRONTLINE, Jeff Widener, Tank Man, Tiananmen Square, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 Leave a commentOn this day in 1989, students began protesting in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the symbolic central space of China. Several weeks later, when the government sent in the army to end the demonstrations, the citizens of Beijing poured into the streets in support of the students.
The demonstrations ended in a massacre on the night of June 3-4, when the government sent the troops into the city with orders to clear Tiananmen Square.
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One day later, a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured on film and video by Western journalists, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the struggle for freedom around the world.
