1948 in Film - Events

Events

  • Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.

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    Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.
    Chinese proverb.

    The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.
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    There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
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