Kodak Theatre Celebrates Fifth Anniversary.LOS ANGELES -- This year's Academy Awards[R] ceremony will mark the five-year anniversary of Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. The 79th Oscars[R] telecast is one of the highlights of the Theatre's year-long anniversary celebration. Eastman Kodak Company is part of the Oscar[R] activities. At the start of the Oscars[R] show on Sunday, Feb. 25, hundreds of fans in the bleachers In The Bleachers is a podcast and website that focuses on Division I-A college football. It is recorded and aired weekly during college football season and features college football experts from the Big Ten, Big East, SEC, ACC, Pac 10, and Big 12 conferences. along the red carpet will use Kodak single-use cameras to photograph Hollywood's hottest entertainers as they meet the media and enter Kodak Theatre. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide will see the Academy Awards[R] telecast live from the Kodak Theatre. For the past five years, the 3,400-seat Kodak Theatre has also become the home of other award shows, TV specials, touring Broadway productions, performances and concerts. Top artists including Alicia Keys, Celine Dion, Tyler Perry, Stevie Wonder and the American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. have graced its stage. In addition to the Academy Awards, this year Kodak Theatre will welcome back high-profile spectacles, including the American Idol finals, Miss USA[R] Pageant, ESPY Awards, GLAAD Media Awards The GLAAD Media Awards were created in 1990 by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to recognize and honor the mainstream media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives. , Daytime Emmy[R] Awards and the 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 Life Achievement Awards. Kodak Theatre is also the physical embodiment of Kodak's longstanding relationship with Hollywood and the motion picture industry. This relationship began 105 years ago when George Eastman developed the long-roll coating machine that made long lengths of motion picture film possible, and continues today. Since the inception of the Academy Awards[R], every Best Picture Oscar[R] winner has been produced on KODAK film, and this year, once again, all five feature films nominated for Best Picture were produced on KODAK color negative film. Kodak itself has been awarded eight Oscars[R] for contributions to the art of motion pictures and for scientific and technical achievements. "Kodak invented the film technology that made the motion picture industry possible," says five-time Oscar nominee Allen Daviau, ASC ASC Ambulatory surgery center, see there , this year's recipient of the coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. American Society of Cinematographers The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) is an educational, cultural, and professional organization. It is not a labor union, and it is not a guild. Membership is by invitation and is extended only to directors of photography and special effects experts with Lifetime Achievement Award for his extraordinary and enduring contributions to the art of filmmaking. "You can trace the roots of the industry back to 1889, when Kodak provided film that Thomas Edison needed for his experimental motion picture camera motion picture camera: see under camera. . Kodak developed a close collaboration with the artists who pioneered the evolution of the art form, and has subsequently been in the forefront of virtually every important film breakthrough and techniques combining film with digital technology." Guided tours at Kodak Theatre are offered seven days a week, with rare production and performance schedule exceptions, from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm, departing every 30 minutes. The walking tour offers visitors architectural highlights of the world-renowned venue, as well as a glimpse of the ultra glamorous side of Kodak Theatre that can be seen on Hollywood's biggest night - the Oscars[R]. About KODAK Kodak is the world's foremost imaging innovator. With sales of $13.3 billion in 2006, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on helping people better use meaningful images and information in their life and work. Consumers use Kodak's system of digital and traditional products and services to take, print and share their pictures anytime, anywhere; Businesses effectively communicate with customers worldwide using Kodak solutions for prepress, conventional and digital printing and document imaging; Creative Professionals rely on Kodak technology to uniquely tell their story through moving or still images; and leading Healthcare organizations rely on Kodak's innovative products, services and customized workflow solutions to help improve patient care and maximize efficiency and information sharing within and across their enterprise. More information about Kodak (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :EK) is available at www.kodak.com. About Kodak Theatre Kodak Theatre is the crown jewel Crown jewel A particularly profitable or otherwise particularly valuable corporate unit or asset of a firm. Often used in risk arbitrage. The most desirable entities within a diversified corporation as measured by asset value, earning power, and business prospects; in takeover of the Hollywood & Highland Center located in the heart of historic Hollywood. The 3,400 seat theatre opened in November 2001 and soon thereafter became known to more than one billion people across the globe as the home of the Academy Awards. Hollywood & Highland Center is owned by CIM (1) (Computer-Integrated Manufacturing) Integrating office/accounting functions with automated factory systems. Point of sale, billing, machine tool scheduling and supply ordering are part of CIM. Group, an integrated, full service real estate investment firm. Kodak Theatre is operated by TheatreDreams. TheatreDreams and its affiliated companies Affiliated Companies A situation that occurs when one company owns a minority interest (less than 50%) in another company. Also refers to companies that are related to each other in some way. Notes: An affiliated company is sometimes referred to as a subsidiary. , which also own and operate The Legendary Chicago Theatre, are led by Tony Award[R]-winning principals Lawrence J. Wilker, Jill Wilker, Joan A. Alper, William W. Becker
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