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Notes1:spilt-screen

The most visibly straightforward example of expanded narrative space is spilt-screen cinema.
On a screen interface inscribed by spilt-screen the competing elements are very clear. The competing elements also introduce a paradoxical relationship between the viwer and contemporary cinematic technologies. As the power of computer modelling allows the past to be revisited by viwers as well as charaters within a story-world, a doubled relationship becomes apparent.

Notes2: Soft cinema

1. Following the standard convention of the human-computer interface, the display area is always divided into multiple frames.
2. The Soft Cinema software controls both the layout of the screen and the the sequences of media elements that appear in these frames.

Soft cinema-"Somebody save me"

At the heart of soft cinema is custom software and media databases. The software edits movies in real time by choosing the elements from the database using the systems of rules defined by the authors. In the soft cinema, the clips that been selected to play one after another are always connected on some dimension-geographical location, type of movement in the shot, type of location, and so on. But the dimension can change randomly from sequence to sequence. In addition, in contrast to a traditional film, there are no dissolves or cross-fades. Instead one screen layout is instantly replaced by another.

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Against the war-Edwin Starr

Most famous song which against the war in 70s.

Chinese in New Zealand

Since the arrival of Chinese goldminers in the 1850s, Chinese immigrants and New Zealand Chinese have fast become part of the New Zealand society.

By 1869 there were about 2,000 Chinese people in New Zealand. Almost all were men who came to work the goldfields of Otago and the West Coast. Most of them probably intended to make their fortunes and return to China. An 1871 report dismissed popular allegations against the Chinese, but pressure mounted to exclude further arrivals. Formal restrictions on Chinese immigrants were imposed in 1881. On the goldfields, the Chinese pretty much kept to themselves, living in small ‘Chinatowns’. Some ran their own businesses rather than searching for gold. At Round Hill in Southland, one Chinese man ran his own hotel.