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People Laugh Make People
963 wordsThe Three Stooges developed their own brand of comedy. They specialized in slapstick, and produced a number of comedies, which are now becoming recognized as classics. During their prime movie making years, the 1930 s and ' 40 s, the Three Stooges made great comedy movies. The Stooges currently hold the record for appearing in more movies than any other comedy team in history. The Three Stooges started their career as a trio in 1925 in a studio in California. They were all actors that wanted to ...
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Whats Happening Daily Lives
1,561 words... get all the time. " Not only was radio initially disapproved of, the vaudeville community actually ordered its acts to stay off the air under penalty of contract cancellation. Musical, concert, and operatic managers also shunned radio fearing that "songs plugged too strongly over the air would lose their sales value, " Billboard reported on March 1, 1930. Eventually, however, both vaudeville and the rest of the industry came to recognize radio as a way of stimulating sales. By 1930, Billboar...
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Typical Teenager 6 Weeks
1,145 wordsLucille Desiree Ball. The first thought that comes into many peoples minds when this name is said would be Lucy the well known funny character she played on her popular TV series I Love Lucy (1951 - 57). How did she become a legend? With dreams of being on stage in musicals to being the star in the big screen. Just like Lucy, Lucille yearned to be a famous performer. Looking back now, anyone could say that her childhood dream came true. Who would have thought that a Jamestown farm girl could bec...
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Urban Areas Large Cities
463 wordsBetween 1865 and 1900 American cities changed drastically. The development was at its fastest moving point. For example, in 1860 only fifty-eight cities in the country had a population between ten and 50 thousand people. This number by 1900 was up to 369. With this rapid population growth came a need for development in these cities. Electronic trolleys were invented to eliminate the tons of waste from horsecars that had for decades fouled city streets. This also caused congestion however, and to...
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Hall Of Fame Straight Man
577 wordsIn 1931, at Empire theater in New York City, Lou Costello and his crew grew worried that they would not be able to find a replacement for his straight man who became ill and was unable to perform. Fortunately, a fellow by the name of Bud Abbott was working the box office at the theater and offered to substitute. These two men performed so well together that Abbott played straight man to Costello's buffoon from then on. William Bud Alexander Abbott, the clown in the straight man /clown relationsh...
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Los Angeles Bad Luck
1,807 wordsWhen the mention of the name Rudolph Valentino happens, it is mostly likely that the response received would be, The Great Lover and The Sheik. Valentino's jaw-dropping appearance and great looks aside, he was also a very fine comedian, something that very few people realize. It was through Valentino that the now very common concept of hot actors such as Tom Cruise came about. (Stiff 2 / 23 / 02) Valentino was a fine actor, a film pioneer, and a film icon. (Hill 2 / 3 / 02) Born May 6, 1895 in C...
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Charlie Chaplin Silent Films
510 words"Our invention can be exploited for a certain time as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that, it has no commercial future whatsoever. " - Auguste Lumire, early filmmaker who, with his brother Louis, organized the first public performance of motion pictures in December 1895 Silent films of the 1910 s and 1920 s were famous for the use of harsh makeup, the gradual development of lighting systems, and the use of inter-titles to show dialogue. Performers used pantomime techniques, exaggerated e...
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20 Th Century 18 Th Century
1,055 wordsClown a performer, usually in a circus, who plays the fool, performs practical jokes, and does tricks to make people laugh. Other names for clowns are buffoon, jester, fool, conjurer, mirth maker, tumbler, gleeman, mime, actor, harlequin, merry counselor, comic, and puppeteer. Even though there are many types of clowns, each clown develops a face, meaning a personality. A clown s face, once created, becomes the clown s unique personal property. Whiteface The oldest type of clown is the whiteface...
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Buster Keaton Warner Bros
4,657 wordsIn 1927 Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, a silent drama with sound sequences in which Al Jolson sang and spoke. The film was a hit, and within two years American cinema shifted irreversibly to talking films. At first everyone was planted around the microphone, but even as the technology improved, sound still slowed down the onscreen tempo because of the greater detail and realism which it brought to action. This change helped the dramatic players of silents, most of whom had equal or great...
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Edison Continued To Make Continued To Make Motion
660 wordsBeing able to capture motion has occupied the human psyche sine primitive times. This is evident through the Lascaux cave paintings which depict buffalo with multiple legs in a attempt to represent the animal running. Other simple innovations also led to the motion picture, these optical toys demonstrated the eyes persistence of vision. These toys grew more advanced, but lifelike motion could not be achieved until the photographic process was nearly perfected. In the 1870 s Edward Muybridge was ...
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Type Of Music Main Theme
3,213 wordsFILM SCORE MUSIC To say that music plays a large role in our society would not do justice to one of the most important and popular art forms of yesterday and today. We underestimate the effectiveness and power that music, in any form, can have over even the most insensitive of people. In almost everything we do and see music is involved in some form or another. Be it a piece played at a wedding, a song played on the radio or even the music played in the background in a television commercial. The...
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American Culture Art Form
796 wordsJazz Dance Jazz dance is a form of personal expression created and sustained though improvisation has certain defining characteristics, including improvisation, isolation, a centrifugal explosion of energy that radiates outward from the hips, and a propulsive rhythm that gives a swinging quality to the movement. -Bob Books Jazz is a crossbreed of north American cultures, a music and dance of the slaves of Africa, and old European Jigs and lit's, Minstrel shows and presumably, Jazz music. Jazz is...
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Negro Dialect Helen Vendler
1,603 wordsOn " Negro Minstrelsy" In The Dream Songs On " Negro Minstrelsy" In The Dream Songs William Wasserstrom What distinguishes a dream song, therefore, is not a coquetry or a clumsiness of art, as Toynbee argued, but a rather capital thing, the discovery that American minstrelsy long ago devised a formula which could transmit the mood of an idea and simultaneously conceal its reason. This discovery enabled Berryman to create what Lowell calls a " waking hallucination, "...
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