Hi again, Just an interesting video to let you know how an Oscar statuette is really made. And it's a lot of work! Have a look and leave comments on what you think about it. We are also using this video as a listening comprehension exercise, so listen to it carefully. You'll get the exercises next week! Click on:
By the way, do you know the origin of the name "Oscar", given to these special statuettes many years ago? Please, leave your answer here as soon as you can , indicating the link where you found the information. There will be a prize for the first student who gets it right!
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ResponderEliminari found the information in these liks:
ResponderEliminarhttp://www.oscars.org/academy/history-organization/history.html
http://www.terra.es/personal/flromera/cual.htm
This is the information:
In 1927 Louis B. Mayer, president of international Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Hollywood, thought about give rewards to the best films, directors and actors annually. Some people help him like Cecil B. de Mille, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Raoul Walsh, Henry King, lrving Thalberg and the director Cedric Gibbons. Cedric Gibbons wanted to design the reward. A few minutes later, during a dinner at Hotel Biltmore, he drew it in the table; he drew a naked man with a sword in her hands.
The sculptor George Stanley made it. It was a figure with 35 centimeters high and with 3.5 of weight, made of bronze and cover with gold. The first ‘Oscar rewards’ was in 4 may of 1927. The name of the rewards was ‘Awards of Merit’ Because they didn’t have a popular name. Although in 1931, Margaret Herrick, say this when she saw the statue: ‘Hey, it seems like my uncle Oscar!’ so, they decided to put this name to the rewards.
Glosary:
Naked – without clothes
Sword - a cutting weapon that has a long metal blade. You use it to kill someone