AFI PLANNING TO PRESENT CLASSIC FILMS ON WEB.Byline: City News Service The American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase has announced plans to begin presenting classic Hollywood movies on the World Wide Web for the first time. AFI AFI American Film Institute AFI Awaiting Further Instructions AFI Armed Forces Insurance AFI A Fire Inside (band) AFI Air Force Instruction AFI Australian Film Institute AFI Agencia Federal de Investigación will begin presenting the movies later this month on its new ``AFI OnLine Cinema,'' part of its Web site, using ``cutting-edge'' technology that eliminates time-consuming downloading delays, AFI spokesman Seth Oster said. It will mark the first time that early classic films will be presented in their entirety The whole, in contradistinction to a moiety or part only. When land is conveyed to Husband and Wife, they do not take by moieties, but both are seised of the entirety. to a worldwide audience over the Internet, said Dan Harries, AFI's director of on-line media. ``This is a watershed watershed, elevation or divide separating the catchment area, or drainage basin, of one river system or group of river systems from another system or group of systems. The term is also often used synonymously with drainage basin. moment in the continuing effort to bring entertainment to a worldwide audience over the Internet,'' Harries said. ``For the first time in the history of the World Wide Web The World Wide Web ("WWW" or simply the "Web") is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over , anyone anywhere across the globe will be able to log on and watch a classic Hollywood movie in its entirety, on demand and complete with sound.'' AFI will begin the program at 7 p.m. on Jan. 22, with the Internet premiere of the 1916 Charlie Chaplin classic, ``The Rink.'' The Chaplin film will be presented through the end of the month. The second feature, scheduled to run in February, is Buster Keaton's 1921 feature, ``The Boat.'' |
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