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American Zoetrope (also known as Zoetrope Studios from 1979 until 1990) is an American privately run film studio, centred in San Francisco and founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Opened on December 12, 1969,〔''Fog City Mavericks''. Starz, Englewood, CO, USA. June 15, 2011. Television.〕 American Zoetrope was an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV. The studio has produced not only the films of Coppola (including ''Apocalypse Now'', ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'' and ''Tetro''), but also George Lucas's pre-''Star Wars'' films (''THX 1138''), as well as many others by ''avant-garde'' directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio. Four films produced by American Zoetrope are included in the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films. American Zoetrope-produced films have received 15 Academy Awards and 68 nominations. ==Formation== The company's headquarters is in the historic Sentinel Building, at 916 Kearny Street in San Francisco's North Beach neighbourhood. Coppola named the studio after a zoetrope he was given in the late 1960s by the filmmaker and collector of early film devices, Mogens Skot-Hansen. "Zoetrope" is also the name by which Coppola's quarterly fiction magazine, ''Zoetrope: All-Story'', is often known. American Zoetrope is now owned entirely by Coppola's son and daughter, directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola.〔Coppola stated this in an interview with Harry Knowles for Ain't It Cool News published on May 8, 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Zoetrope」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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