On this day in movie history - Los Angeles: City of Film Noir (2015)

 

Los Angeles: City of Film Noir
a.k.a. Los Angeles: Cité du Film Noir

documentary directed and written by Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg,

was released in France on February 28, 2015.

 
Cast:
James Ellroy, Eddie Muller, Alain Silver.

On this day in television history - M Squad (1958)

 

M Squad
Season 1. Episode 23.

Episode entitled: The Black Mermaid.

Released February 28, 1958.

Directed by David Rich.

Written by James Edward Grant and Harry W. Junkin.

Music by Stanley Wilson.

 
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Marcia Henderson, Biff Elliot, Paul Newlan, Harry Bartell, Arthur Hanson, Stanley Adams, Eddie Ryder, Elizabeth Harrower.

On this day in television history - Justified (2012)

 

Justified
Season 3. Episode 7.

Episode entitled: The Man Behind the Curtain.

Released February 28, 2012.

Directed by Peter Werner.

Written by Graham Yost, Ryan Farley, Nichelle Tramble Spellman, Ingrid Escajeda, Ryan Farley and Jon Worley.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.
 
Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Raymond J. Barry, Jere Burns, David Andrews, Jim Beaver, David Meunier, Max Perlich, William Ragsdale, Stephen Tobolowsky, Demetrius Grosse, Jenn Lyon, Cleavon McClendon, Mykelti Williamson, Neal McDonough, David Atkinson, Michael Boucher, LaQuita Cleare, Kathleen M. Darcy, Elena Evangelo, Brandon Ford Green, Audra Griffis, Steven Helmkamp, Jonathan Kowalsky, William Gregory Lee, Brendan McCarthy, Van White, Garland Whitt, Chaz Maas.

On this day in music history - The album Transcendence, by Sherry Finzer (2020)

Transcendence

by Sherry Finzer

was released on February 28, 2020.

Track list:

The Ascent; Third Eye Opening; Veil of the Unknown; Inner Awakening; Meditative, relaxing, soothing, contemplative, cinematic, flutes, calming, relaxing - Ancient Roots; Evening Prayer; Winds of Intuition; Elements of Light.

Sam Horn, on writing:

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book.
They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

- Sam Horn.

Recommended reading - In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

 

In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing

by Walter Murch (2001)

Foreword by Francis Ford Coppola.

Published by Silman-James Press.
2nd edition.

Published 2001.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1879505622
ISBN-13: 978-1879505629
 
Description:

In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. Starting with what might be the most basic editing question -- Why do cuts work? -- Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film. Along the way, he offers his unique insights on such subjects as continuity and discontinuity in editing, dreaming, and reality; criteria for a good cut; the blink of the eye as an emotional cue; digital editing; and much more. In this second edition, Murch reconsiders and completely revises his popular first edition's lengthy meditation on digital editing (which accounts for a third of the book's pages) in light of the technological changes that have taken place in the six years since its publication.

Born on this day – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Writer

February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882

Credits:

Aftermath (1873); Ballads and Other Poems (1841); Christus: A Mystery (1872); Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique (1833); Dante's Divine Comedy (1867); Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847); Flower-de-Luce (1867); Household Poems (1865); Hyperion (1839); ; In the Harbor (1882); Kavanagh (1849); Kéramos and Other Poems (1878); Michel Angelo: A Fragment; Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea (1835); Poems of Places (1874); Poems on Slavery (1842); Poets and Poetry of Europe (1844); Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863); The Arrow and the Song; The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1845); The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems (1858); The Divine Tragedy (1871); The Golden Legend (1851); The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi (1863); The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875); The New England Tragedies (1868); The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1852); The Seaside and the Fireside (1850); The Song of Hiawatha (1855); The Spanish Student (1843); The Waif (1845); Three Books of Song (1872); Ultima Thule (1880); Voices of the Night (1839).