James Cameron first feature film since 1997's "Titanic". It is composed almost entirely of computer-generated animation, using a more-advanced version of the "performance capture" technique used by director Robert Zemeckis in "The Polar Express". James Cameron had written an 80-page scriptment for "Avatar" in 1995 and announced in 1996 that he would make the film after completing "Titanic". In December 2006, Cameron explained that the delay in producing the film since the 1990s had been to wait until the technology necessary to create his project was advanced enough, since at the time no studio would finance for the development of the visual
James Davidson Stuart Cameron in Dacca, Pakistan. A sum of £5000 was left to the College by Sir James Cameron to form a fund, called the Sir James Cameron Medal, the interest to be used to assist in financing the St Andrew’s Day Festival for educational purposes. He died of a heart attack during his chairing of a meeting of the Edinburgh Medical Library on 13 February 1969. The Lancet published his obituary on 22 February. He married Esther Johanne Frederickson-Dover (of an Indian missionary family) in 1929 but they had no children. James Davidson Stuart Cameron Sir James Davidson Stuart Cameron, (1900 –