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Attention To Detail Ten Commandments
1,953 wordsCecil B. DeMille was in all a great director, producer, writer and actor. Born Cecil Blount DeMille, he was THE original aristocrat of Hollywood, but this aristocrat had humble beginnings. His father was a clergyman and his mother ran a girls school. An old soul in knee pants and determined to get his show on the road, he ran away from military school and tried to enlist in the Armed forces at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. He was let down when he was turned down for being too young. ...
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Marlon Brando Rita Hayworth
3,086 wordsColumbia Pictures originated with a man whose coarseness and bullying earned him such unloving nicknames as &# 34; Harry The Horror, &# 34; &# 34; White Fang, &# 34; and &# 34; His Crudeness&# 34; : Harry Cohn. The New York-born son of Jewish immigrants, Cohn worked throughout the teens at numerous jobs, in and out of the entertainment industry. By 1918 he was an assistant to Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal, who also employed Harry&# 39; s older brother Jack. The Cohn's left Universal in ...
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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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Saturday Night Live Pee Wee
4,659 wordsBy the mid 1950 s, comedy virtually disappeared from the lists of top-ten moneymaking films. In 1959 it came back and has remained a steady part of America&# 39; s film diet ever since. The genre returned with two hit films which typify the extremes in audience tastes: The Shaggy Dog and Some Like It Hot. Although now rarely revived and barely remembered, the Walt Disney Company&# 39; s live-action comedies were among the biggest box-office hits up until the late &# 39; 70 s. Blending broad humo...
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Fran Ois Avant Garde
5,977 wordsFrance&# 39; s inestimable contribution to world cinema begins in 1889, when Emile Reynaud patented his &# 34; Th? atre Optique. &# 34; This presentation system used perforated film strips, on which he painted such animated shorts as Pauvre Pierrot (1892) and La Press? re Care (1896). His medium was replaced, however, by the live-action motion pictures taken with (and projected by) the Cin? matographe of brothers Louis and Auguste Lumi? re. At Paris&# 39; Grand Caf? on December 28, 1895, they he...
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Boris Karloff Horror Films
3,055 wordsAs a companion piece to the articles outlining the histories of the eight major film studios, this survey examines four low-budget studios. They produced mostly Grade-&# 34; B&# 34; films: genre efforts made quickly and cheaply for targeted audiences usually young ones, whether it was the fare aimed at juvenile cowboy enthusiasts, provided by Monogram, PRC (Producers Releasing Company), and Republic during the 1930 s and &# 39; 40 s, or the older teen crowds sold on AIP&# 39; s (American Interna...
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Judy Garland Rita Hayworth
3,425 wordsAs soon as movies learned to talk, they began to sing. In 1926, Warner Brothers released the short film April Showers, with Al Jolson singing a trio of songs. Jolson then starred in two silent features that included sound sequences in which he sang and spoke: The Jazz Singer (1927) and The Singing Fool (1928). By 1929, the first &# 34; all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing&# 34; musical was released: Broadway Melody, with a score by Arthur Freed and Nation Herb Brown. Produced by MGM, the studio...
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End Of The 1930 Sherlock Holmes
2,322 wordsThe mystery has been popular for just about as long as films have had an audience. Almost as soon as filmmakers could do more than show loosely connected action, there was an interest in presenting puzzles, usually involving crime of some sort. The earliest filming's of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&# 39; s Sherlock Holmes stories date from the first decade of the twentieth century, and the audience for such stories was already well in place. These early examples of mysteries largely concerned rudiment...
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Chain Gang Sean Penn
3,465 wordsThe first prison films in American cinema were short documentaries and melodramas which all shared a strong social consciousness. For The Commonwealth (1912) showed the benefits of convicts performing useful labor; The Convict&# 39; s Parole (1912) and The Convict King (1915) denounced the exploitation of prisoners as cheap workers. Convict Life In The Ohio Penitentiary (1912) and The Modern Prison (1914) depicted the beneficial effects of the humane treatment of convicts; Life In A Western Peni...
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