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 Cameron (journalist) featured him and other commentators talking to the camera about topics of interest to them. Cameron also wrote a radio play, "The Pump" (1973), based on his experience of open heart surgery, which won a Prix Italia award in 1973. In his last years, he wrote a column for "The Guardian". Cameron wrote two volumes of autobiography: "Point of Departure", a chronicle of his life, and "An Indian Summer", about his relationship with India; his marriage to his third wife, Moni, originally of Indian nationality, and his serious car accident and near death in Calcutta. Cameron's first wife, Elma, died