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Tommy Kirk
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Thomas Lee Tommy Kirk is an American former actor and later a businessman. Kirk was born in Louisville, Kentucky, one of four sons and his father was a mechanic who worked for the Highway Department, his mother, a legal secretary. Looking for better job opportunities, they moved to Downey in Los Angeles County, California, in 1954, Kirk accompanied his elder brother Joe to an audition for a production of Eugene ONeills Ah, Wilderness. At the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, Joe was not cast, losing out to Bobby Driscoll, but Tommy was, and he made his stage debut opposite Will Rogers, Jr. The performance was seen by an agent from the Gertz agency who signed Kirk and succeeded in casting him in an episode of TV Readers Digest, The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs. Kirk began to work steadily in television, episodes of The Man Behind the Badge, Frontier, Letter to Loretta, The Californians, Gunsmoke, Angel, Big Town, and Matinee Theatre. Kirk also supported Angie Dickinson in a feature called Down Liberty Road. Of these experiences, Kirk especially liked working on Matinee Theatre, I think I did more than any other actor. That was a training ground. They were hour-long shows, telecast live from coast to coast, I worked with some fascinating people—Sarah Churchill and others — and I started getting known. In April 1956, Kirk auditioned for the part of Joe Hardy for The Mickey Mouse Club serial The Hardy Boys and he was successful and was selected to co-star with Tim Considine. The show was filmed in June and early July 1956, and broadcast that October, the show and Kirks performance were extremely well received and led to a long association between the actor and the studio. Kirk also hosted short travelogues for the segment of the shows second season. He did the narration for The Eagle Hunters, and then co-hosted two more travelogues with Annette Funicello. Tommy also did voice-dubbing work for the Danish-made film Vesterhavsdrenge, shown on the Mickey Mouse Club as the serial Boys of the Western Sea, around this time it was announced Kirk would appear as Young Davy Crockett, but this does not seem to have eventuated. Kirks career received its biggest break yet when in January 1957 Disney cast him as Travis Coates in Old Yeller, Kirk had the lead role in the film, which was enormously successful, and he became Disneys first choice whenever they needed someone to play an all-American teenager. Kevin Corcoran played his brother and the two of them would often be teamed. Both Kirk and Corcoran were announced for the cast of Rainbow Road to Oz, a film based on the stories of L. Frank Baum
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Warner Bros.
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Entertainment Inc. – colloquially known as Warner Bros. or Warner Bros. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios, Warner Bros. is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America. The companys name originated from the four founding Warner brothers, Harry, Albert, Sam, Jack, the youngest, was born in London, Ontario. The three elder brothers began in the theater business, having acquired a movie projector with which they showed films in the mining towns of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Sam and Albert Warner invested $150 to present Life of an American Fireman and they opened their first theater, the Cascade, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1903. When the original building was in danger of being demolished, the modern Warner Bros. called the current building owners, the owners noted people across the country had asked them to protect it for its historical significance. In 1904, the Warners founded the Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company, in 1912, Harry Warner hired an auditor named Paul Ashley Chase. By the time of World War I they had begun producing films, in 1918 they opened the first Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert, along with their auditor and now controller Chase, handled finance and distribution in New York City. During World War I their first nationally syndicated film, My Four Years in Germany, on April 4,1923, with help from money loaned to Harry by his banker Motley Flint, they formally incorporated as Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated. The first important deal was the acquisition of the rights to Avery Hopwoods 1919 Broadway play, The Gold Diggers, however, Rin Tin Tin, a dog brought from France after World War I by an American soldier, established their reputation. Rin Tin Tin debuted in the feature Where the North Begins, the movie was so successful that Jack signed the dog to star in more films for $1,000 per week. Rin Tin Tin became the top star. Jack nicknamed him The Mortgage Lifter and the success boosted Darryl F. Zanucks career, Zanuck eventually became a top producer and between 1928 and 1933 served as Jacks right-hand man and executive producer, with responsibilities including day-to-day film production. More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director, lubitschs film The Marriage Circle was the studios most successful film of 1924, and was on The New York Times best list for that year. Despite the success of Rin Tin Tin and Lubitsch, Warners remained a lesser studio, Sam and Jack decided to offer Broadway actor John Barrymore the lead role in Beau Brummel. The film was so successful that Harry signed Barrymore to a contract, like The Marriage Circle. By the end of 1924, Warner Bros. was arguably Hollywoods most successful independent studio, as the studio prospered, it gained backing from Wall Street, and in 1924 Goldman Sachs arranged a major loan
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Mystery film
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Mystery film is a genre of film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of an issue by means of clues, investigation, suspense is often maintained as an important plot element. This can be done through the use of the soundtrack, camera angles, heavy shadows, Alfred Hitchcock used all of these techniques, but would sometimes allow the audience in on a pending threat then draw out the moment for dramatic effect. This genre has ranged from early mystery tales, fictional or literary detective stories, a related film subgenre is spy films. Mystery films mainly focus with solving a crime or a puzzle, the mystery generally revolves around a murder which must then be solved by policemen, private detectives, or amateur sleuths. At times the viewer is presented with information not available to the main character, the central character usually explores the unsolved crime, unmasks the perpetrator, and puts an end to the effects of the villainy. The successful mystery film adheres to one of two types, known as Open and Closed. Mystery novels have proven to be a medium for translation into film. The sleuth often forms a leading character, and the plots can include elements of drama, suspense, character development, uncertainty. The locales of the tale are often of a mundane variety. Successful mystery writers can produce a series of books based on the same sleuth character, until at least the 1980s, women in mystery films have often served a dual role, providing a relationship with the detective and frequently playing the part of woman-in-peril. The women in films are often resourceful individuals, being self-reliant, determined. They can provide the triggers for the events follow, or serve as an element of suspense as helpless victims. The earliest mystery films reach back to the silent era, the first detective film is often cited as Sherlock Holmes Baffled, a very short Mutoscope reel created between 1900 and 1903 by Arthur Marvin. It is the film to feature the character of detective Sherlock Holmes. In France, the popular Nick Carter detective novels inspired the first film serial, Nick Carter and this six-episode series was followed with Nouveaux aventures de Nick Carter in 1909. Louis Feuillade created the highly popular Fantômas serial based on the serial novel about Juve. Later detective serials by Feuillade include The Vampires, Judex, Tih Minh, feuillades films, which combined realism, poetic imagery, and pure fantasy, influenced the American The Perils of Pauline, directors such as René Clair, and Surrealists such as André Breton
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Santa Catalina Island (California)
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Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U. S. state of California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island is 22 miles long and 8 miles across at its greatest width, the island is located about 22 miles south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is 2,097 feet Mt. Orizaba, Santa Catalina is part of the Channel Islands of California archipelago and lies within Los Angeles County. Catalina was originally settled by Native Americans who called the island Pimugna or Pimu, the first Europeans to arrive on Catalina claimed it for the Spanish Empire. Over the years, territorial claims to the transferred to Mexico. Since the 1970s, most of the island has been administered by the Catalina Island Conservancy and its total population in the 2010 census was 4,096 people,90 percent of whom live in the islands only incorporated city, Avalon. The second center of population is the village of Two Harbors at the islands isthmus. Development occurs also at the settlements of Rancho Escondido and Middle Ranch. The remaining population is scattered over the island between the two population centers, the Tongva called the island Pimu or Pimugna and referred to themselves as the Pimugnans or Pimuvit. Archeological evidence shows Pimugnan settlement beginning in 7000 BC, the Pimugnans had settlements all over the island at one time or another, with their biggest villages being at the Isthmus and at present-day Avalon, Shark/Little Harbor, and Emerald Bay. The Pimugnans were renowned for their mining, working and trade of soapstone which was found in quantities and varieties on the island. This material was in demand and was traded along the California coast. The first European to set foot on the island was the Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, on October 7,1542, he claimed the island for Spain and christened it San Salvador after his ship. Over half a century later, another Spanish explorer, Sebastián Vizcaíno, vizcaino renamed the island in the saints honor. The colonization of California by the Spanish coincided with the decline of the Pimugnans because of diseases brought by them from Europe. By the 1830s, the entire native population had migrated to the mainland to work in the missions or as ranch hands for the many private land owners. Franciscan friars considered building a mission on Catalina, but abandoned the idea because of the lack of water on the island. While Spain maintained its claim on Catalina Island, foreigners were forbidden to trade with colonies, russian hunters from the Aleutian Islands, and America set up camps on Santa Catalina and the surrounding Channel Islands to hunt otters and seals around the island for their pelts
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Mystery Science Theater 3000
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. The show premiered on KTMA in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 24,1988 and it later aired on The Comedy Channel/Comedy Central for another six seasons until its cancellation in 1997. Thereafter, it was picked up by The Sci-Fi Channel and aired for three seasons until another cancellation in August 1999. Over the series ten seasons,197 episodes and a film were produced. In 1995, there was also The Mystery Science Theater Hour, in 2015, Hodgson led a crowd funded revival of the series with at least fourteen episodes in its first season, to initially broadcast on Netflix in April 2017. These scenes were framed with interstitial sketches, the shows cast changed over its duration, most notably, the character of Joel was replaced by Mike Nelson in the shows fifth season. The revival will feature a new cast, including Jonah Ray as the new human test subject, along with Felicia Day. Factory, who along with Hodgson now own the rights to the show, MST3K was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME in 2007, and TV Guide has noted MST3K as one of the top cult television shows. The show won a Peabody Award in 1993, was nominated for two Emmy Awards in 1994 and 1995, and for the CableACE Award from 1992 to 1997. MST3K also brought to several older movies that had not received public attention and were subsequently identified as some of the worst movies ever made, most notably Manos. MST3K is set in the not-too-distant future, to keep his sanity, Joel builds several sentient robots collectively named the bots, Tom Servo, Crow T. Joel has no control over when the start, because he used the parts that would have allowed him to do so to build the robots. As the movie plays, Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow wisecrack and mock the movie — a practice often referred to as riffing — to prevent themselves from going mad. Over the course of the run, there were several cast changes. When Weinstein left the series after the first national season, Kevin Murphy replaced him as the voice of Tom Servo while TVs Frank replaced Weinsteins Dr. Erhardt as Dr. Forresters lackey. Hodgson departed the series halfway through the season, head writer Michael J. Nelson replaced him as the shows human host until the end of the series. When Conniff left following the season, Dr. Forrester was paired with his mother Pearl Forrester for the seventh season. Episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 are generally 90 minutes in running time, each episode primarily features the riffing of the movie, with these theater segments wrapped with live-action skits performed by the cast
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Ray Davies
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Sir Raymond Douglas Ray Davies, CBE is an English musician. He was the rhythm guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for The Kinks and he has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television. At the dissolution of the Kinks in 1996, Davies embarked on a career as a singer-songwriter. Davies was born at 6 Denmark Terrace, Fortis Green, in Muswell Hill, North London and he is the seventh of eight children born to Fred and Annie Davies, including six older sisters and younger brother Dave Davies. His father is of Welsh ancestry and he went to William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School. Davies was an art student at Hornsey College of Art in London in 1962–1963, gomelsky arranged for Davies to play at his Piccadilly Club with the Dave Hunt Rhythm & Blues Band, and on New Years Eve the Ray Davies Quartet opened for Cyril Stapleton at the Lyceum Ballroom. A few days later he became the permanent guitarist for the Dave Hunt Band, Davies then joined the Hamilton King Band until June 1963, the Kinks spent the summer supporting Rick Wayne on a tour of US airbases. Davies led the Kinks through a period of musical experimentation between 1966 and 1975, with notable achievements and commercial success. The Kinks disbanded in 1996, and Ray Davies has performed solo since then, in 1990, Davies was inducted, with the Kinks, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and, in 2005, into the UK Music Hall of Fame. On 4 January 2004, Davies was shot in the leg while chasing thieves who had snatched the purse of his companion as they walked in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The shooting came less than a week after Davies was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, Davies was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to the arts. Beginning with A Well Respected Man and Where Have All the Good Times Gone and he began to explore the aspirations and frustrations of common working-class people, with particular emphasis on the psychological effects of the British class system. Face to Face, the first Kinks album composed solely of material, was a creative breakthrough. Other songs like Situation Vacant and Shangri-La hinted at the sense of insecurity. Occasionally, he varied the groups sound with more disparate musical influences, such as raga, bossa nova and calypso. Davies is often at his most affecting when he sings of giving up worldly ambition for the rewards of love and domesticity, or when he extols the consolations of friendship. Yet another perennial Ray Davies theme is the championing of individualistic personalities and lifestyles, on his 1967 masterpiece Waterloo Sunset, the singer finds a fleeting sense of contentment in the midst of urban drabness and solitude. Davies mid-period work for the Kinks also showed signs of a social conscience
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Little Richard
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Richard Wayne Penniman, known as Little Richard, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. His music also played a key role in the formation of popular music genres, including soul. Little Richard has been honored by many institutions and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its first group of inductees in 1986. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and he is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. Little Richard was born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5,1932, in Macon and he was the third eldest of the 12 children of Leva Mae and Charles Bud Penniman. His father was a deacon who sold bootlegged moonshine on the side and owned a nightclub. His mother was a member of Macons New Hope Baptist Church, initially, Little Richards first name was supposed to have been Ricardo but an error resulted in Richard instead. The Penniman children were raised in a neighborhood of Macon called Pleasant Hill, in childhood, he was nicknamed Lil Richard by his family, because of his small and skinny frame. A mischievous child who played pranks on neighbors, Little Richard began singing in church at a young age, possibly as a result of complications at birth, Little Richard had a slight deformity that left one of his legs shorter than the other. This produced an unusual gait, he was mocked for its allegedly effeminate appearance, Little Richards family was highly religious, joining various A. M. E. Baptist and Pentecostal churches, with family members becoming ministers. Little Richard enjoyed the Pentecostal churches the most, because of their charismatic worship and he had observed that people sang to feel their connection with God and to wash their trials and burdens away. Little Richards initial musical influences were gospel performers such as Brother Joe May, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, may, who as a singing evangelist was known as the Thunderbolt of the Middle West because of his phenomenal range and vocal power, inspired the boy to become a preacher. Little Richard attended Macons Hudson High School, where he was a below-average student and his musical talent, however, was recognized there when he learned to play the alto saxophone. His mother recalled how Richard was always musical and that when he was young, he would beat on the steps of the house. She also recalled that Richard was so quick at learning to play the saxophone that he was allowed to play with the marching band immediately. While in high school, Little Richard obtained a job at Macon City Auditorium for local secular. Little Richard sold Coca-Cola to crowds during concerts of star performers of the day, such as Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder, on October 27,1947, Sister Rosetta Tharpe heard 14-year-old Little Richard singing two of her gospel recordings before her concert at Macon City Auditorium
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Musical film
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The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline. The musical film was a development of the stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology. Typically, the biggest difference between film and stage musicals is the use of background scenery and locations that would be impractical in a theater. Musical films characteristically contain elements reminiscent of theater, performers often treat their song, in a sense, the viewer becomes the diegetic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it. The 1930s through the early 1950s are considered to be the age of the musical film. Musical short films were made by Lee de Forest in 1923–24, beginning in 1926, thousands of Vitaphone shorts were made, many featuring bands, vocalists and dancers. The Jazz Singer, released in 1927 by Warner Brothers, was the first to include a track including non-diegetic music and diegetic music. This feature-length film was also a musical, featuring Al Jolson singing Dirty Hands, Dirty Face, Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Blue Skies and My Mammy. Historian Scott Eyman wrote, As the film ended and applause grew with the houselights and she saw terror in all their faces, she said, as if they knew that the game they had been playing for years was finally over. Still, only isolated sequences featured live sound, most of the film had only a musical score. In 1928, Warner Brothers followed this up with another Jolson part-talkie, The Singing Fool, theaters scrambled to install the new sound equipment and to hire Broadway composers to write musicals for the screen. The first all-talking feature, Lights of New York, included a sequence in a night club. The enthusiasm of audiences was so great that in less than an all the major studios were making sound pictures exclusively. The Broadway Melody had a plot about two sisters competing for a charming song-and-dance man. Advertised by MGM as the first All-Talking, All-Singing, All-Dancing feature film, it was a hit, there was a rush by the studios to hire talent from the stage to star in lavishly filmed versions of Broadway hits. The Love Parade starred Maurice Chevalier and newcomer Jeanette MacDonald, written by Broadway veteran Guy Bolton, Warner Brothers produced the first screen operetta, The Desert Song in 1929. They spared no expense and photographed a large percentage of the film in Technicolor and this was followed by the first all-color, all-talking musical feature which was entitled On with the Show
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Beach party film
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With this film, AIP is credited with creating the genre. In addition to the AIP films, several contributions to the genre were produced and released by major, according to various sources, the genre comprises over 30 films, with the lower-budget AIP films being the most profitable. The earliest films by AIP, as well as those by other studios, focused on surfing, one of the earliest uses of the term in print is found several times in the June 1965 issue of Mad magazine in an article written by Larry Siegel. Commentators on the genre have used this term as well, occasionally the term “surf movie” refers to a straightforward dramatic film that uses surfing as a backdrop or plot device, such as Big Wednesday or Blue Crush. Both films, which were up-front comedies for teenagers, employed the tried and true formula of a popular trend coupled with romance, arkoff said that he didn’t care much for the Italian production because “there’s not enough there that American teenagers can identify with. But the beach is a setting for a teenage movie. And it doesn’t hurt to show girls in bathing suits. Unlike previous films such as the aforementioned Gidget and Love in a Goldfish Bowl, parental characters do not appear in any of the AIP films, and are rarely mentioned in their plots, if at all. Additionally, these movies were produced as escapism, so the characters in them lived in a world where the focus was on having a good time. The advertising for the films was also fairly suggestive for the period, promising on the poster much in the way of teenage sex. For example, Beach Party teased, “It’s what happens when 10,000 kids meet on 5000 beach blankets. ”While Muscle Beach Party promised, “When 10,000 biceps go around 5,000 bikinis, you know what’s going to happen. ”Likewise, Ski Party intoned, “It’s where the HE’S meet the SHE’s on SKIS – and there’s only one way to get warm. ”Though the clothing for both sexes in the cast was revealing by the standard of the day, the films never featured any sex scenes or nudity. In reality, more “sex” was suggested in these films – as well as their posters and trailers – than in anything the studio had previously produced. Arkoff was able to get 1956 Academy-award winner Dorothy Malone and the popular Bob Cummings as adult supporting characters, the deal came with one caveat, that Funicello not appear in a bikini. With Avalon and Funicello on board, a pairing was evident. American International Pictures produced a series of films that fall into the genre. With the exception of Sergeant Deadhead, Fireball 500 and Thunder Alley, Funicello does not appear in Avalon’s Sergeant Deadhead and Avalon does not appear in Funicello’s Thunder Alley. Although the film was styled as a sequel, its content does not place it in the party genre. As mentioned above, in addition to Avalon and Funicello appearing in every film, AIP employed several newer actors
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Rhino Entertainment
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Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978. It is currently the division for the Warner Music Group. Founded in 1978, Rhino was originally a novelty and reissue label during the 1970s and 1980s, one of Rhinos early artists was The Twisters, whose Los Angeles popularity far exceeded their album sales. The labels on early Rhino records featured the mascot character. Some of the labels earliest successes with reissues were achieved by acquiring the rights to the White Whale Records catalog that included the Turtles, by the mid-1980s, most of Rhinos releases were reissues of previously released recordings licensed from other companies. Rhino was quick to get into the disc market, releasing dozens of oldies CDs at the dawn of the CD age in 1984. Their retrospective compact disc releases, such as those in the Billboard Top Hits series, are often remastered to restore or improve upon the original analog audio quality. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the company continued to sign artists and release new music, on the main Rhino label and on subsidiary labels such as RNA. In 1985, Rhino signed a distribution agreement with Capitol Records. During 1989 Rhino and Capitol’s parent EMI made a deal to jointly acquire Roulette Records, Rhino received the US rights to Roulettes catalog, excluding jazz. When the distribution deal with Capitol ended in 1992, Rhino signed a new deal with Atlantic Records. In 1998, Time Warner bought the other half of Rhino, the Rhino Records retail store, which was not part of the sale, closed in 2005. Periods, in addition to WBs own post-1949 period, Rhinos soundtrack releases include Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade, North by Northwest, Casablanca, King Kong, Doctor Zhivago, Superman, and Finians Rainbow. The Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. film soundtrack libraries are managed by Warner Bros. in-house label subsidiary. In 1999, Rhino started the Rhino Handmade division of limited-edition releases available primarily from their website, all Handmade deluxe editions were limited to about 3,000 copies or less, and once sold out were not re-pressed. In 2003, co-founders and longtime executives Richard Foos and Harold Bronson left Rhino, soon after, Foos inaugurated a new label, Shout. Factory, which began releasing dozens of CDs and videos mirroring the original early-1990s Rhino philosophy, in 2004, Time Warner spun off its music divisions and today Rhino is part of the newly organized Warner Music Group. In June 2006, Warner Strategic Marketing in the U. K. was dissolved, the division has two main factions, TV-advertised compilations and catalog material from the Warner vaults
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Ted V. Mikels
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Ted V. Mikels was an American independent filmmaker primarily of the horror cult film genre. Movies that he produced and directed include Girl in Gold Boots, The Astro-Zombies, and The Doll Squad. Mikels was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on April 29,1929, his father was a Croatian immigrant who worked as a meat cutter, during his grade school years, he was an amateur photographer who developed his own film in his bathtub. While in 8th grade, he was awarded his first acting role in a film that was to star William Powell, by the age of 15, he was a regular stage performer and developed an interest in film-making when he attempted to shoot his performances. In 2008, he said, I figured out that you have to move the camera around to get different angles, in the 1950s, Mikels moved to Bend, Oregon, joined the Bend Community Players little theater group, and founded his own film production company. Soon, he began producing both educational documentaries, and short dramatic features, additionally, as horseman, archery expert, Indian and stuntman, he contributed to the production of several Hollywood films made in Central Oregon. Notably, during on location filming of The Indian Fighter, he taught studio special effects crews a technique for making flaming arrows appear authentic, before leaving Oregon in the early 1960s, Mikels wrote and directed his first feature-length film in 1963, entitled Strike Me Deadly. In 1993, Mikels began running run TVM Studios, a film and video production studio based in Las Vegas, the certificate was awarded to Mikels for his contributions to the filmmaking industry. In 2010, Mikels released the third installment in his Astro-Zombies franchise, Astro-Zombies M3, both were produced by TVM Global Entertainment in association with Blue Heron International Pictures, and distributed by Alpha New Cinema. Mikels died on October 16,2016 at the age of 87 from complications of colon cancer, in 2007, Alpha Video released ten of Mikels films on DVD under the Alpha New Cinema imprint. Mikels Signature Collection, which was autographed by Mikels,1963, Strike Me Deadly 1964, Dr. Film Alchemy, The Independent Cinema of Ted V. Mikels. The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels, official website Ted V. Mikels at the Internet Movie Database Documentary The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels official site Ted V. Mikels Interview at Love & Pop
