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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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Borderline Personality Disorder Mental Health Services
1,609 wordsBorderline personality disorder "is defined in the DSM IV, a manual used by psychiatrists to diagnose all mental disorders, as an AXIS II disorder which has symptoms of impulsively and emotional dys regulation" (Livesley 146). A person with BPD have feelings of abandonment and emptiness, and have "frantic efforts to avoid abandonment, going to extremes to keep someone from leaving" (Burger 300). He or she is emotionally unstable and forms intense but unstable interpersonal relationships. They sh...
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Reverend Richard Johnson Position Of Chaplin Man
760 wordsIn a land intended to be dumping grounds for Britain's moral filth, Reverend Richard Johnson worked hard at laying the foundations of Christianity in Australia. Born in 1757 at Welton, England, he was educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge. He graduated with a BA in 1783, and was appointed a deacon and priest by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1786. Only five months before the First Fleet set sail, Richard Johnson was recommended and approved for the position of Chaplin, to establish the Church...
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Amp Quot Gold Rush
1,190 words& # 9; When Charlie Chaplin was a little boy, a sheep escaped on its way to a slaughterhouse near where he lived. Charlie and other youngsters chased the sheep around, laughing and having fun. But when it was taken away, Charlie realized the sad finality of death and cried to his mother. That incident paved the way for the theme of Charlie's future filmmaking career. Comedy mixed with pathos made perfect sense to him. He was also an everyman character, a lost soul, a wanderer - he embodied t...
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Buster Keaton Prentice Hall
2,324 wordsBuster Keaton "No man can be a genius in slap shoes and a flat hat. " Buster Keaton. First of all one needs to remember that Joseph Frank (Buster) Keaton was born into a family of vaudevillians. Joseph, his father, did an eccentric dance act and his mother, Myra, danced and played the saxophone. He was the oldest of three siblings; he had one brother, Harry (Jingles), and a sister, Louise, both of whom would later appear with the rest of his family in some of his movie shorts. Buster joined his ...
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Immigration And Naturalization Service Person In The World
1,954 wordsCharlie Chaplin was born on April 15, 1889, in London, England to Charles Chaplin, Sr. , and Hannah Hill. He was taught to sing before he could talk and danced just as soon as he could walk. At a very young age Chaplin was told that he would be the most famous person in the world. When Charlie was five years old he sang for his mother on stage. Everyone in the audience loved him and threw their money onto the stage. When Chaplin was eight, he appeared in a clog dancing act called Eight Lancashir...
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Gold Rush Doesn T
1,181 wordsWhen Charlie Chaplin was a little boy, a sheep escaped on its way to a slaughterhouse near where he lived. Charlie and other youngsters chased the sheep around, laughing and having fun. But when it was taken away, Charlie realized the sad finality of death and cried to his mother. That incident paved the way for the theme of Charlie s future filmmaking career. Comedy mixed with pathos made perfect sense to him. He was also an everyman character, a lost soul, a wanderer he embodied the American s...
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Famous Person United States Charlie
521 wordsCharlie Chaplin Charles Spencer Chaplin was born in Walworth, London on April 16, 1889. His parents, Charles and Hannah Chaplin were music hall performers in England, his father was quite well know in the profession. Charlie had one sibling, a brother named Sydney. At a very early age Charlie was told that someday he would be the most famous person in the world. Charlie first appeared onstage at the age of six as an unscheduled substitute for his mother. When his performance was over the audienc...
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Creator Of Comedy Charlie Chaplin Age
521 wordsCHARLIE CHAPLIN The most successful comedian of all time went by the name of Charlie Chaplin. It was said by many that Charlie Chaplin was the creator of comedy, while others considered him a genius. Charlie Chaplin could make people laugh even with no sound. And even though his films were black and white he put a lot of color into everyones life. Charlie Chaplin was a man with many talents and despite his rough childhood he strived to become the legend he is today The creator of comedy was born...
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Creator Of Comedy Charlie Chaplin Age
456 wordsThe most successful comedian of all time went by the name of Charlie Chaplin. It was said by many that Charlie Chaplin was the creator of comedy, while others considered him a genius. Charlie Chaplin could make people laugh even with no sound. And even though his films were black and white he put a lot of color into everyones life. Charlie Chaplin was a man with many talents and despite his rough childhood he strived to become the legend he is today The creator of comedy was born in London in Ap...
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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 Gold Rush
3,911 wordsIn the first years of American cinema, comedies appeared only occasionally among the numerous documentaries, dramas, and actions Edwin S. Porter directed at Thomas Edison&# 39; s New York studio from 1900 to 1909. His earliest comedies, up until around 1902, were one-joke shorts in various series: Grandma and Grandpa, Happy Hooligan, Old Maid. In his 1906 The Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend, Porter deftly employed the fantastic trick-photography humor which France&# 39; s George M? li? s had developed ...
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Francis Ford Coppola Point Of View
1,656 wordsBeginning roughly with the release of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved the Bomb in 1964, and continuing for about the next decade, the Sixties era of filmmaking made many lasting impressions on the motion picture industry. Although editing and pacing styles varied greatly from Martin Scorcesses hyperactive pace, to Kubrick's slow methodical pace, there were many uniform contributions made by some of the eras seminal directors. In particular, the Sixties saw ...
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Makes The Artist Wesley Snipes Genre
794 wordsGenre in filme+re (zh n+re) noun 1. A type or class: Emaciated famine victims... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent (Helen Kitchen). 2. a. A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content: his six String Quartets... the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's (Time). b. A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life. [French, from Old French, kind, from Latin genus, gener-...
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Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar
1,467 wordsJames Marshal Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington, on November 27, 1942; a black American of African, European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent. An unsettled home environment made Jimi spend much of his early years staying with his grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, in Canada. His mother died when Jimi was 15 about the same time as Jimi began to take a serious interest in music and playing the guitar. When he was 12 he got his first electric guitar the instrument which shaped t...
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Charlie Chaplin Gold Rush
306 wordsMordaunt Chaplin Chaplin? s New Gem Mordaunt Hall, a reporter from the New York Times, refers to Charlie Chaplin as a? Great host of spectators. ? In his review of Chaplin? s new film, ? The Gold Rush? . Not even the scorching heat could keep the public from seeing this spectacular flick. New Yorkers swarmed to the theatres to view the new film. The excitement of the moviegoers was abundantly present at the Mark Strand Theatre. The crowd applauded Chaplin as he took his seat in the heart of the ...
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D W Griffith Buster Keaton
6,372 wordsWhile films made during cinema&# 39; s early days may appear archaic, awkward, or even unintentionally funny to some modern viewers, they were part of a revolution in entertainment that was never before equaled and perhaps may never be equaled again. Later innovations such as television and the internet (so far more of an information medium than an entertaining one) owe their acceptance, if not their very existence, to the initial discovery that people are endlessly fascinated when a narrative s...
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