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Roy Ward Baker
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Roy Ward Baker, born Roy Horace Baker, was an English film director, credited as Roy Baker for much of his career. His best known film is A Night to Remember which won a Golden Globe for Best English-Language Foreign Film in 1959 and his later career included many horror films and television shows. Born in London where his father was a Billingsgate fish merchant, Baker was educated at a Lycée in Rouen, France, from 1934 to 1939, he worked for Gainsborough Pictures, a British film production company based in the Islington district of London. His first jobs were menial, making tea for crew members, for example and he served in the Army during the Second World War, transferring to the Army Kinematograph Unit in 1943 to make better use of his skills as a production manager and director on documentaries. One of his superiors at the time was novelist Eric Ambler, Ambler also adapted Walter Lords A Night to Remember for Bakers 1958 screen version. His next two films, The Weaker Sex and Paper Orchid were popular but overshadowed by the success of Morning Departure, also featuring John Mills. During the early 1950s, Baker worked for three years at Fox where he directed Marilyn Monroe in Dont Bother to Knock and Robert Ryan in the 3-D film noir Inferno and he returned to the UK in 1953 and continued to work on films. He worked for television during the 1960s and early 1970s and he directed episodes of The Avengers, The Saint, The Persuaders. The Champions, Randall and Hopkirk - all of them adventure series created with an eye on the American market and his experience of working with low budgets in television made him well suited to his next career move into cheaply produced but lavish-looking British horror films. He directed, among others, Quatermass and the Pit The Vampire Lovers and Scars of Dracula for Hammer and he also directed Bette Davis in the black comedy The Anniversary. He also co-directed the Hammer-Shaw Brothers Studio collaboration The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, in the latter part of the 1970s he returned to television, and throughout the 1980s continued to work on shows such as Minder. In 2000 Baker published his memoirs, Directors Cut, A Memoir of 60 Years in Film, Roy Ward Baker died on 5 October 2010 aged 93. Jekyll and Sister Hyde Asylum The Vault of Horror The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires The Monster Club Roy Ward Baker Directors Cut, A Memoir of 60 Years in Film and Television. Roy Ward Baker at the British Film Institutes Screenonline Roy Ward Baker at the Internet Movie Database Roy Ward Baker at BFI Film & TV Database Obituary in The Guardian
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Robert Ryan
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Robert Bushnell Ryan was an American actor who most often portrayed hardened cops and ruthless villains. Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Mable Arbutus, a secretary, and Timothy Aloysius Ryan and he was of Irish and English descent. Ryan was raised Catholic and educated at Loyola Academy and he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932, having held the schools heavyweight boxing title all four years of his attendance. After graduation, the 6′4 Ryan found employment as a stoker on a ship, a WPA worker, Ryan attempted to make a career in show business as a playwright, but was forced to start acting in order to support himself. He studied acting in Hollywood and appeared on stage and in small parts during the early 1940s, beginning with The Ghost Breakers and Queen of the Mob. At Camp Pendleton, he befriended writer and future director Richard Brooks, whose novel, The Brick Foxhole, Ryans breakthrough film role was as an anti-Semitic killer in Crossfire, a film noir based on Brookss novel. The role won Ryan his sole career Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor, from then on, Ryans specialty was tough/tender roles, finding particular expression in the films of directors such as Nicholas Ray, Jean Renoir, Robert Wise and Samuel Fuller. In Rays On Dangerous Ground he portrayed a city cop finding redemption while solving a rural murder. In Wises The Set-Up, he played a boxer who is brutally punished for refusing to take a dive. He also appeared in several war films, including The Longest Day and Battle of the Bulge. He also played John the Baptist in MGMs Technicolor epic King of Kings and was the villainous Claggart in Peter Ustinovs adaptation of Billy Budd, in his later years, Ryan continued playing significant roles in major films. Among the most notable were The Dirty Dozen, The Professionals, the Iceman Cometh and Executive Action both were released in November 1973, after Ryans death. Ryan also played the characters in Shakespeares Coriolanus and Othello. Ryan made his small screen debut in 1955 as Abraham Lincoln in the Screen Directors Playhouse adaptation of Christopher Morleys story. As he explained to reporters, despite financial considerations, Ryan preferred to steer clear of any TV series commitment, The only money in TV is in the series, and I want to stay out of those. Sure, I might make a million or so in a series, Ryan would remain true to these convictions, appearing in many television series, but always as a guest star. Notable appearances include his portrayal of Franklin Hoppy-Hopp in the 1964 episode Who Chopped Down the Cherry Tree. on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour. Similarly, he guest starred as Lloyd Osment in the 1964 episode Better Than a Dead Lion in the ABC psychiatric series, Breaking Point
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Rhonda Fleming
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Rhonda Fleming is an American film and television actress. She acted in more than forty films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s and she was nicknamed the Queen of Technicolor because her fair complexion and flaming red hair photographed exceptionally well in Technicolor. Fleming began working as an actress while attending Beverly Hills High School. She was discovered by the well-known Hollywood agent Henry Willson, after appearing uncredited in several films, she received her first substantial role in the thriller Spellbound, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Her first leading role came in Adventure Island, an action film made in the two-color Cinecolor process. She co-starred with Bing Crosby in her first Technicolor film, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, Fleming exhibited her singing ability, dueting with Crosby on “Once and For Always” and soloing with “When Is Sometime”. She and Crosby recorded the songs for a three-disc,78 rpm Decca album, conducted by Victor Young and she sang on NBCs Colgate Comedy Hour during the same live telecast that featured Errol Flynn, on September 30,1951, from the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. In 1953, Fleming portrayed Cleopatra in Serpent of the Nile and that same year she appeared in two films shot in 3-D, Inferno with Robert Ryan and the musical Those Redheads From Seattle with Gene Barry. The following year she starred with Fernando Lamas in Jivaro, her third 3-D release, the rock remains in place today and is part of a section of the former movie ranch known as Garden of the Gods, which has been preserved as public parkland. Tennessees Partner was one of several movies Fleming made as Ronald Reagans co-star, including Tropic Zone, The Last Outpost, corral co-starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, and the Irwin Allen/Joseph M. Newman production of The Big Circus, co-starring Victor Mature and Vincent Price. Her most recent film was Waiting for the Wind, on March 4,1962, Fleming appeared in one of the last segments of ABCs Follow the Sun in a role opposite Gary Lockwood, who was nearly 14 years her junior. She played a Marine in the episode Marine of the Month, in 1958, Fleming again displayed her singing talent when she recorded her only LP, entitled simply Rhonda. In this album, which was released by Columbia Records, she blended then current songs like Around The World with standards such as Love Me Or Leave Me, conductor-arranger Frank Comstock provided the musical direction. One of her film appearances to date was a bit-role in the 1980 comedy The Nude Bomb as Edith von Secondburg. Fleming has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in 2007, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to her. Fleming has worked for charities, especially in the field of cancer care. In 1991, she and her husband, Ted Mann. In 1964, Fleming spoke at the Project Prayer rally attended by 2,500 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, joining Fleming and Eisley at the rally were Walter Brennan, Lloyd Nolan, Dale Evans, Pat Boone, and Gloria Swanson
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William Lundigan
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William Lundigan was an American film actor. Growing up in Syracuse, New York, Lundigan was the oldest of four sons and his father, Michael F. Lundigan, owned a shoe store in the same building as a local radio station, WFBL. Becoming fascinated by radio, he was playing roles on radio. A graduate of Nottingham High School, Lundigan studied law at Syracuse University and he graduated and passed the bar examination before events changed his career path. A Universal Pictures production chief heard Lundigans voice, met him, arranged a screen test, moving over to MGM, Lundigans last film before enlisting in the U. S. Marine Corps in World War II was Salute to the Marines. He served as a cameraman in the Battle of Peleliu. Lundigan was host for Climax. and Shower of Stars, from September 30,1959, to September 7,1960, Lundigan portrayed Col. Edward McCauley in the CBS television series, Men into Space. In 1963 and 1964, Lundigan joined fellow actors Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. He once had a campaign for a seat on the City Council of Los Angeles. Lundigan married Rena Morgan, and they had a daughter, Anastasia, Lundigan died of apparent heart failure on December 20,1975, at Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California. He was survived by his wife and daughter,1951 Screen Guild Players 1952 Stars in the Air William Lundigan at the Internet Movie Database William Lundigan at the TCM Movie Database William Lundigan at Find a Grave
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Lucien Ballard
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Lucien Ballard, A. S. C. was an American cinematographer and director of photography. Ballard began working on films at Paramount Studios in 1929 and he later joked in an interview that it was a three-day party at the home of actress Clara Bow that convinced him this is the business for me. He began his career loading trucks at Paramount, and became a camera assistant, von Sternberg allowed him credit for his work on The Devil is a Woman, and the two shared a Venice Film Festival award for Best Cinematography in 1935. He also worked with him on The King Steps Out, based on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, on the set of The Lodger, Ballard met and then married actress Merle Oberon, they remained married from 1945 until 1949. Named the Obie, the device benefited Oberon who had sustained facial scarring in the car accident, the Obie would become widely used in the film industry. One film of note is 1941s controversial Howard Hughes film The Outlaw, Hughes cast Jane Russell in the lead, and had numerous camera shots of her ample cleavage. This would get the attention of the Hollywood censors, the film was shot in 1940 and 1941 but would take five years to get to selected theaters. Ballard was the man for the screen tests and did some of the second unit work with both director Howard Hawks and assisted cinematographer Gregg Toland on the first unit crew. In one of his first films, Morocco, directed by von Sternberg and this relationship with Hathaway would come back to benefit Ballard when Hathaway himself became a noted director. They would work together on films, including, Diplomatic Courier, O. Henrys Full House, Prince Valiant, The Sons of Katie Elder, Nevada Smith. The last, because of the beauty of southwestern Colorado. Ballard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for The Caretakers and he worked on more than 130 films during his 50-year career. Lucien Ballard died in a car accident at the age of eighty in 1988, Ballard @ the Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers Lucien Ballard at the Internet Movie Database Ballard @ Allmovie
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Film noir
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Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly such that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywoods classical film noir period is regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. Cinema historians and critics defined the category retrospectively, before the notion was widely adopted in the 1970s, many of the classic films noir were referred to as melodramas. Whether film noir qualifies as a genre is a matter of ongoing debate among scholars. Although film noir was originally associated with American productions, films now so described have been made around the world, many pictures released from the 1960s onward share attributes with film noir of the classical period, and often treat its conventions self-referentially. Some refer to such works as neo-noir. The clichés of film noir have inspired parody since the mid-1940s, the questions of what defines film noir, and what sort of category it is, provoke continuing debate. They emphasize that not every film noir embodies all five attributes in equal measure—one might be more dreamlike, another, while many critics refer to film noir as a genre itself, others argue that it can be no such thing. Because of the diversity of noir, certain scholars in the field, such as film historian Thomas Schatz, treat it as not a genre but a style. Other critics treat film noir as a mood, characterize it as a series, there is no consensus on the matter. By 1931, Curtiz had already been in Hollywood for half a decade, the Universal horror that comes closest to noir, in story and sensibility is The Invisible Man, directed by Englishman James Whale and photographed by American Arthur Edeson. Edeson later photographed The Maltese Falcon, widely regarded as the first major film noir of the classic era, josef von Sternberg was directing in Hollywood at the same time. Films of his such as Shanghai Express and The Devil Is a Woman, with their hothouse eroticism and baroque visual style, the commercial and critical success of Sternbergs silent Underworld was largely responsible for spurring a trend of Hollywood gangster films. Successful films in that such as Little Caesar, The Public Enemy. An important, possibly influential, cinematic antecedent to classic noir was 1930s French poetic realism, with its romantic, fatalistic attitude, the movements sensibility is mirrored in the Warner Bros. drama I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, a forerunner of noir. Among films not considered films noir, perhaps none had an effect on the development of the genre than Citizen Kane
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Technicolor
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Technicolor is the name applied to a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades. It was the major color process, after Britains Kinemacolor. As the technology matured it was used for less spectacular dramas. Occasionally, even a film noir—such as Leave Her to Heaven or Niagara —was filmed in Technicolor, Technicolor is the trademark for a series of color motion picture processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, now a division of the French company Technicolor SA. The Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation was founded in Boston in 1914 by Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Frost Comstock, the Tech in the companys name was inspired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where both Kalmus and Comstock received their undergraduate degrees and were later instructors. Technicolor, Inc. was chartered in Delaware in 1921, most of Technicolors early patents were taken out by Comstock and Wescott, while Kalmus served primarily as the companys president and chief executive officer. The term Technicolor historically has been used to describe at least five concepts, Technicolor, Technicolor process or format, several custom image origination systems used in film production, culminating in the three-strip process in 1932. Technicolor IB printing, a process for making color motion picture prints that allows the use of dyes which are more stable, originally used for printing from color separation negatives photographed on black-and-white film in a special Technicolor camera. This meaning of the name applies to nearly all Wikipedia articles about films made from 1954 onward in which Technicolor is named in the credits, Technicolor originally existed in a two-color system. Because two frames were being exposed at the time, the film had to be photographed and projected at twice the normal speed. Exhibition required a special projector with two apertures, two lenses, and a prism that aligned the two images on the screen. The results were first demonstrated to members of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in New York on February 21,1917, the near-constant need for a technician to adjust the projection alignment doomed this additive color process. Only a few frames of The Gulf Between, showing star Grace Darmond, are known to exist today, convinced that there was no future in additive color processes, Comstock, Wescott, and Kalmus focused their attention on subtractive color processes. This culminated in what would eventually be known as Process 2, the difference was that the two-component negative was now used to produce a subtractive color print. Because the colors were present in the print, no special projection equipment was required. The frames exposed behind the filter were printed on one strip of black-and-white film. After development, each print was toned to a color nearly complementary to that of the filter, orange-red for the green-filtered images, the two prints, made on film stock half the thickness of regular film, were then cemented together back to back to create a projection print. The Toll of the Sea, which debuted on November 26,1922, the second all-color feature in Process 2 Technicolor, Wanderer of the Wasteland, was released in 1924
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3D film
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A three-dimensional stereoscopic film is a motion picture that enhances the illusion of depth perception, hence adding a third dimension. The most common approach to the production of 3D films is derived from stereoscopic photography, 3D films are not limited to theatrical releases, television broadcasts and direct-to-video films have also incorporated similar methods, especially since the advent of 3D television and Blu-ray 3D. 3D films became more and more throughout the 2000s, culminating in the unprecedented success of 3D presentations of Avatar in December 2009. The stereoscopic era of motion pictures began in the late 1890s when British film pioneer William Friese-Greene filed a patent for a 3D film process, in his patent, two films were projected side by side on screen. The viewer looked through a stereoscope to converge the two images, because of the obtrusive mechanics behind this method, theatrical use was not practical. Frederic Eugene Ives patented his stereo camera rig in 1900, the camera had two lenses coupled together 1¾ inches apart. On June 10,1915, Edwin S. Porter and William E. Waddell presented tests to an audience at the Astor Theater in New York City. However, according to Adolph Zukor in his 1953 autobiography The Public Is Never Wrong, My 50 Years in the Motion Picture Industry, nothing was produced in this process after these tests. The earliest confirmed 3D film shown to an audience was The Power of Love. The camera rig was a product of the producer, Harry K. Fairall. Whether Fairall used colored filters on the ports or whether he used tinted prints is unknown. After a preview for exhibitors and press in New York City, the film dropped out of sight, apparently not booked by exhibitors, and is now considered lost. Kelley then struck a deal with Samuel Roxy Rothafel to premiere the first in his series of Plasticon shorts entitled Movies of the Future at the Rivoli Theater in New York City. Also in December 1922, Laurens Hammond premiered his Teleview system, Teleview was the first alternating-frame 3D system seen by the public. Using left-eye and right-eye prints and two interlocked projectors, left and right frames were alternately projected, each pair being shown three times to suppress flicker. Viewing devices attached to the armrests of the seats had rotary shutters that operated synchronously with the projector shutters, producing a clean. The show ran for weeks, apparently doing good business as a novelty. In 1922, Frederic Eugene Ives and Jacob Leventhal began releasing their first stereoscopic shorts made over a three-year period, the first film, entitled Plastigrams, was distributed nationally by Educational Pictures in the red-and-blue anaglyph format
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Mojave Desert
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The Mojave Desert is an arid rain-shadow desert and the driest desert in North America. It is located in the southwestern United States, primarily within southeastern California and southern Nevada, very small areas also extend into Utah and Arizona. The central part of the desert is sparsely populated, while its peripheries support large communities such as Las Vegas, Lancaster, Palmdale, Victorville, the Mojave Desert is bordered by the Great Basin Desert to its north and the Sonoran Desert to its south and east. Topographical boundaries include the Tehachapi Mountains to the west, and the San Gabriel Mountains, the mountain boundaries are distinct because they are outlined by the two largest faults in California – the San Andreas and Garlock faults. The Mojave Desert displays typical basin and range topography and it occupies less than 50,000 sq mi, making it the smallest of the North American deserts. The Mojave Desert is often referred to as the desert, in contrast to the low desert. However, the Mojave Desert is generally lower than the Great Basin Desert to the north, the spelling Mojave originates from the Spanish language while the spelling Mohave comes from modern English. The Mojave Desert receives less than 13 in of rain a year and is generally between 2,000 and 5,000 feet in elevation, zion National Park in Utah lies at the junction of the Mojave, the Great Basin Desert, and the Colorado Plateau. Despite its aridity, the Mojave has long been a center of production, fed by irrigation coming from groundwater. The Mojave is a desert of temperature extremes and two distinct seasons, winter months bring comfortable daytime temperatures, which dip precipitously to around 20 °F on valley floors, and below 0 °F at higher elevations. Storms moving from the Pacific Northwest can bring rain and in places even snow. More often, the shadow created by the Sierra Nevada as well as mountain ranges within the desert such as the Spring Mountains, bring only clouds. By early June, it is rare for another Pacific storm to have a significant impact on the regions weather, summer weather is dominated by heat. Temperatures on valley floors can soar above 120 °F and above 130 °F at the lowest elevations, low humidity, high temperatures, and low pressure, draw in moisture from the Gulf of Mexico creating thunderstorms across the desert southwest known as the North American monsoon. Autumn is generally pleasant, with one to two Pacific storm systems creating regional rain events, october is one of the driest and sunniest months in the Mojave, and temperatures usually remain between 70 °F and 90 °F on the valley floors. After temperature, wind is the most significant weather phenomenon in the Mojave, during the June Gloom, cooler air can be pushed out into the desert from Southern California. In Santa Ana wind events, hot air from the desert blows out into the Los Angeles basin, wind farms in these areas generate power from these winds. The other major factor in the region is elevation
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Decrepit car
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A decrepit car is one that is often old and damaged and is in a barely functional state. Numerous slang terms are used to such cars, which vary by country and region, including jalopy. Age, neglect and damage tend to increase the expense of maintaining a vehicle, the vehicle may reach a point where this expense would be considered to outweigh the value of keeping it. Such vehicles are stripped for parts or abandoned, however. These old, neglected and often barely functional cars have used not only for transport. Their use has earned them a place in popular culture, during the 1930s, the market for used cars first started to grow and decrepit cars were often a poor mans form of transport. Cheap dealers could obtain the cars for very little, make aesthetic adjustments, early hot rodders also purchased decrepit cars as the basis for racers, and early stock car racing was called banger racing in the United Kingdom and jalopy racing in the United States. A jalopy was an class of stock car racing in America. It was originally a beginner class behind midgets, but vehicles became more expensive with time, jalopy races began in the 1930s and ended in the 1960s. The race car needed to be from before around 1941, in Australian slang the terms rust bucket, bunky, old bomb, paddock basher or bomb are used to refer to old, rusty and/or rundown cars. In British slang the terms old rust bucket or simply bucket are used to refer to cars but the favoured term is old banger. The origin of the word is unknown, but could refer to the poorly maintained vehicles tendency to back-fire. The terms shed and cut and shut are also used, in American slang jalopy, clunker, old rust bucket and bucket are also used. Aging luxury sedans depreciate rapidly, as their equipment is expensive to repair. Often, replacement window motors, shock absorbers and door latches cost more than the car is worth, the word jalopy was once common but is now somewhat archaic. Jalopy seems to have replaced flivver, which in the decades of the 20th century also simply meant a failure. Other early terms for a wreck of a car included heap, tin lizzy and crate, in the latter half of the 20th century more coarse terms became popular, such as shitbox. Of unknown origin, jalopy was noted in 1924, another possible origin is the French chaloupe which refers to a motor-boat and could reference the sound an old car would make
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Henry Hull
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Henry Watterson Hull was an American character actor with a unique voice who is best remembered for playing the lead role in Universal Picturess Werewolf of London. Hull was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of William Madison Hull, early in his career, Hull appeared frequently on Broadway, he created the role of Jeeter Lester in the long-running play Tobacco Road, based on the novel by Erskine Caldwell. Hull appeared in 74 films between 1917 and 1966, often playing supporting characters like the uncle of Tyrone Powers love interest Nancy Kelly in Jesse James and he appeared as Charles Rittenhouse, a wealthy industrialist in Alfred Hitchcocks Lifeboat. Other notable roles were as Abel Magwitch in the 1934 version of Great Expectations and in the last film of director Tod Browning and he appeared in Werewolf of London in 1935. Hull memorably portrayed a doctor who Humphrey Bogart goes to for help in High Sierra, then also was cast in Colorado Territory and he played a desert prospector who comes to Robert Ryans rescue in Inferno in 1953. In 1955, Hull appeared as a college professor forced to retire at sixty-five in an episode of CBSs sitcom, Meet Mr. McNutley, later renamed The Ray Milland Show. He guest starred on CBSs Appointment with Adventure, John Paynes NBC western series, The Restless Gun, and the syndicated crime drama, U. S. Marshal. In 1960, Hull appeared on Bonanza, portraying a scout for General John Charles Fremont In 1961, Hull played a man befriended by a young outlaw, portrayed by James Coburn. Ron Harper portrays Parkisons other son, Tom, Hull also guest starred in the series finale of Laramie, the episode The Road to Helena. John M. Pickard also appears in this episode, hulls last film was The Chase with Marlon Brando and Robert Redford. Hull was married to Juliet Van Wyck Fremont from 1913 until her death in 1971 and she was a granddaughter of Civil War general and explorer John C. Frémont and Jessie Ann Benton, the daughter of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, the couple had three children, Henry Jr. Shelley and Joan. When his wife died in 1971, Hull went to Britain to spend his last years with his daughter and he died in Cornwall at his daughters residence on March 8,1977. Hull had two brothers who were also actors, Shelley Hull was a popular leading man, who died in 1919 during the Spanish influenza epidemic. Shelleys wife, Josephine Hull, was an Oscar-winning character actress, hulls other brother, Howard, the eldest brother, was also an actor. He was married, until his death in 1937, to stage star Margaret Anglin, Henry Hull was quoted as saying he owed all his dramatic training to Anglin, with whom he had acted on stage. Henry Hull at the Internet Movie Database Henry Hull at the Internet Broadway Database Henry Hull at preservehollywood. org Henry Hull at Find a Grave
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Carl Betz
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Carl Lawrence Betz was an American stage, film and television actor. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Betz participated in childhood theatricals and he graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in 1939 and then served in the military. Following military service, he graduated from Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, between 1967 and 1969, he played defense attorney Clinton Judd in ABCs Judd for the Defense, and won an Emmy Award in 1969 for his work. After graduating from Mount Lebanon High School, in 1939, he won a scholarship to Duquesne University, during the summer, Betz performed in a Pittsburgh summer stock company and decided to transfer to Carnegie Mellon University, then known as Carnegie Tech, in Pittsburgh to study drama. His education was interrupted when, in 1942, he was drafted into the United States Army and he served in Italy and North Africa during World War II and eventually became a technical sergeant with the Corps of Engineers. After the war, Betz returned to Carnegie Tech and earned a degree in drama, after graduation, Betz worked as a radio announcer and disk jockey before moving to New York City. He continued working in summer and winter stock companies and also worked as a doorman at Radio City Music Hall, Betz made his Broadway debut in 1952 in The Long Watch, and toured with Veronica Lake in the summer stock play, The Voice of the Turtle. He then appeared for 18 months as Collie Jordan on Love of Life, prior to his eight-year run on The Donna Reed Show, Betz made guest appearances on such television series as Sheriff of Cochise, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Millionaire and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1958, Betz was cast as pediatrician Dr. Alex Stone in ABC sitcom The Donna Reed Show, the show revolves around the home and school problems of a middle-class American family in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Alex was often called upon to rescue wife Donna Stone from awkward situations and to monitor the behavior of their children, Mary, Jeff Stone introduced the sentimental hit song My Dad in a 1962 episode, specifically singing the tune to Betz. The series was a hit for ABC and aired for eight seasons from September 1958 to March 1966, during the run of the series, Betz continued acting in stage roles during the shows hiatus. In 1964, he appeared as Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon in a stage run of The Night of the Iguana. After Donna Reeds cancellation, Betz returned to roles and stage work. In 1967, producer Paul Monash offered Betz the role of defense lawyer Clinton Judd in the drama, Judd. Monash had seen Betzs performance in Night of the Iguana in 1964 and was impressed with his acting, Betz initially thought the role was for a guest spot but soon realized Monash had proposed that he star in a new series. Betz initially had misgivings, stating I did not want to do another series, you get bored, the series, which premiered on ABC in September 1967, was praised by critics but struggled in the ratings. Shortly after ABC canceled the series in 1969, Betz won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series for his work on the series. He also made many guest appearances on a variety of television shows such as Mission, Impossible, The Mod Squad, Love, American Style
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Barbara Pepper
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Barbara Pepper was an American stage, television, radio, and film actress. She is best known as the first Doris Ziffel on the sitcom Green Acres. Born as Marion Pepper in New York City, the daughter of actor David Mitchell Dave Pepper, at age 16 she started life in business a Goldwyn Girl. Pepper began making movies, among her many parts were My Fair Lady. In 1943, she married actor Craig Reynolds, the couple had two sons, after Reynolds died in 1949 in a California motorcycle accident, Pepper was left to raise their two sons alone. She made four appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Martha Dale, mother of the character, in the 1957 episode. She may be best remembered as the first Doris Ziffel on Petticoat Junction in 1964, however, her heart ailments forced her to leave the series and she was replaced by Fran Ryan. Her final role was in 1969s Hook, Line & Sinker, Barbara Pepper died on July 18,1969, in Panorama City, California, aged 54, from a coronary thrombosis. Barbara Pepper at the Internet Movie Database Barbara Pepper at the Internet Broadway Database Barbara Pepper at Find a Grave
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Arthur Hill (actor)
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Arthur Edward Spence Hill was a Canadian actor best known for appearances in British and American theatre, films and television. He attended the University of British Columbia and continued his studies in Seattle. Hill made his Broadway debut as Cornelius Hackl in the 1957 revival of Thornton Wilders The Matchmaker, in 1963 he won the Tony Award for Best Dramatic Actor for his portrayal of George in the original Broadway production of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. His other Broadway credits include Ben Gant in the production of Ketti Fringss Look Homeward, Angel, All the Way Home, Something More. He played Dr. Jeremy Stone in the adaptation of Michael Crichtons The Andromeda Strain. Other film work included roles in The Ugly American with Marlon Brando, Harper, scott, The Chairman, Sam Peckinpahs The Killer Elite, Michael Crichtons Futureworld, A Bridge Too Far and he narrated the film version of Ray Bradburys Something Wicked This Way Comes. Arguably, Hills most famous acting role was that of lawyer Owen Marshall and he appeared on many other series, including CBSs The Reporter, a 1964 drama starring Harry Guardino. He also played Grandpa Lansford Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie, Hill died in a Pacific Palisades, California nursing home, aged 84, after a long battle with Alzheimers disease. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean, Arthur Hill at the Internet Movie Database Arthur Hill at the Internet Broadway Database Arthur Hill at Find a Grave
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Diana Muldaur
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Diana Charlton Muldaur is an American film and television actress. Muldaurs television roles include L. A. Laws Rosalind Shays and Dr. Katherine Pulaski in the season of Star Trek. She has been nominated for an Emmy three times, twice for L. A. Law and once for Born Free and she was also nominated twice for a Q award for L. A. Law. She studied acting under Stella Adler and made her name on the New York stage and she was at one point a board member of the Screen Actors Guild and was the first woman to serve as president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. In 1965, Muldaur landed the role of Ann Wicker in the CBS daytime soap opera The Secret Storm and she then did a five-episode arc as Jeannie Orloff in the final season of Richard Chamberlains NBC medical drama, Dr. Kildare. Various roles as a guest star in episodes of television shows followed, including Bonanza, I Spy, The Courtship of Eddies Father, The Invaders, Mannix, Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O. The Virginian, and an arc on the Ben Gazzarra drama Run for Your Life. Multiple collaborations between Muldaur and Burt Reynolds began when they met while guest-starring on the third season The F. B. I. episode An Act of Violence in 1965. Subsequently, Muldaur turned in memorable guest performances on Hawk and Dan August, in 1967, Muldaur guest-starred on the Gunsmoke episode Fandango with James Arness. An excerpt of that dialogue was sampled on the Pink Floyd album The Wall, after Hey You. In 1968, she appeared in the original Star Trek episodes Return to Tomorrow, during this time, a friendship with creator Gene Roddenberry formed that led to him cast Muldaur as Marg in the television movie Planet Earth with John Saxon. Later she appeared as Dr. Katherine Pulaski in 20 episodes of the season of Star Trek. Harold Robbins The Survivors afforded Muldaur her first big break, when in 1969, unfortunately, the soap, a comeback vehicle for Hollywood icon Lana Turner, was canceled early into the 1970 television season after 15 episodes. The cast also included Ralph Bellamy and George Hamilton, Muldaur appeared in the ensemble-apocalypse thriller Chosen Survivors with Jackie Cooper, Richard Jaeckel and Barbara Babcock. In 1977, she played Elaine Mati, the wife of mentally-unstable doctor Telly Savalas in the independent film Beyond Reason. Muldaur guest starred in the first series of Alias Smith and Jones The Great Shell Game in 1971, in a 1972 Hawaii Five-O episode she was guest star, along with Ricardo Montalban. She also had a role as Judge Eleanor Hooper on The Tony Randall Show during the shows 1976-1978 run. Muldaur guest-starred on The Incredible Hulk, playing the part of Helen Banner, David Banners sister, in the season episode, Homecoming in 1979
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James Stacy
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Maurice William Elias, known professionally as James Stacy, was an American film and television actor. In 1973, Stacy was hit by a driver while driving his motorcycle, resulting in the amputation of his left leg and arm. He returned to acting in 1975 before retiring in 1991, Stacy was born Maurice William Elias on December 23,1936, in Los Angeles to an Irish-Scottish waitress and a Lebanese-American bookmaker. Stacy made his debut in Sayonara in 1957, and his television debut in Highway Patrol. He had a role as Fred in The Adventures of Ozzie. During the 1960s he made guest appearances in shows, including Gunsmoke, Hazel, The Donna Reed Show, Have Gun - Will Travel, Combat. Stacy is perhaps best remembered as a star of the western series Lancer, along with Andrew Duggan, Wayne Maunder, Lancer aired on CBS from 1968 to 1970. Stacy played the character Johnny Madrid Lancer, a former gunslinger, Stacy also acted in several motion pictures from the 1950s through the 1970s, including a minor part in the musical South Pacific. On September 27,1973, Stacy was taking Claire Cox for a ride on his motorcycle in the Hollywood Hills when a driver struck them. She died and Stacy lost his arm and leg. Stacys ex-wife, actress and singer Connie Stevens, organized a 1974 celebrity gala to raise money for his expenses, the gala, whose attendees included Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, raised $118,000 for his expenses. In 1976, he won a $1.9 million lawsuit against the bar that had served the drunk driver, after his recovery, Stacy appeared in roles created to accommodate his disability. His comeback film was the 1975 Kirk Douglas Western Posse, in which he was cast as newspaper editor Harold Hellman, in 1977, he starred in the TV movie Just a Little Inconvenience, playing a double-amputee Vietnam veteran. The role earned him his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama or Comedy Special, in 1980, Stacy starred in and produced the TV movie, My Kidnapper, My Love. His brother, Louie Elias, an actor and stuntman, wrote the screenplay, based on the novel by Oscar Saul. Elias was also the associate producer, other television appearances included Hotel, Cagney & Lacey, and Highway to Heaven. His last TV role was in five 1990 episodes of the cop series Wiseguy and he married actress and singer Connie Stevens on October 12,1963, in Hollywood. They were divorced in November 1966, stacys second marriage was to actress Kim Darby in 1968
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Man in the Dark
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Man in the Dark is a 1953 film noir drama 3-D film directed by Lew Landers and starring Edmond OBrien, Audrey Totter and Ted de Corsia. It is a remake of the 1936 Ralph Bellamy film The Man Who Lived Twice and it was the first Columbia Pictures film released in 3-D. Steve Rawley is serving a 10-year prison sentence from a Christmas Eve factory robbery that netted $130,000 and he is offered an immediate parole if willing to undergo an experimental procedure by Dr. Marsden, a brain surgeon. Steve is released, but the operation leaves him with amnesia and he takes another name and believes he lost his memory in a car crash. An insurance investigator, Jawald, trying to find the missing money, is convinced Steve is faking. Lefty, Arnie and Cookie, members of his old gang, kidnap Steve, Steve claims not to know or recognize any of them or Peg, who is said to be his girlfriend. Steve tries to phone for help but is beaten by his captors, Peg begins to believe he is telling the truth about the amnesia. She flees with Steve to an amusement park, a place that Steve keeps seeing in his dreams and he finds a box containing the money. Atop a roller coaster, he fights Lefty, who falls to his death, Arnie is shot by police, who have been summoned by Jawald. By handing over the box of money, Steve hopes that he and Peg will be able to be together, Columbia Pictures rushed a current project into production and completed it in 11 days. Although Warner Brothers touted House of Wax as the first feature produced by a studio in 3-D. The amusement park setting was filmed at Ocean Park in Santa Monica, when the film was released, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, panned the film. He wrote, Columbias first stereoscopic film—a conspicuously low-grade melodrama, must be viewed through polaroid glasses to be seen for any effect whatsoever, is a thoroughly unspectacular affair. More recently, critic Elliott Stein, writing for The Village Voice, discussed the effects used in the film, an endless array of stuff comes whiffling at your face—a lit cigar, a repulsive spider, scissors, forceps, fists, falling bodies, and a roller coaster. The prolific Landers may not have been a director. Man in the Dark at the American Film Institute Catalog Man in the Dark at the Internet Movie Database Man in the Dark at AllMovie Man in the Dark at the TCM Movie Database
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Castro Theatre
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The Castro Theatre is a popular San Francisco movie palace which became San Francisco Historic Landmark #100 in September 1976. Its designer, Timothy L. Pflueger, also designed Oaklands Paramount Theater and other theaters in California in that period. The theater has over 1,400 seats, the theaters ceiling is the last known leatherette ceiling in the USA & possibly the world. Another leatherette ceiling was unfortunately demolished just a few years ago, to achieve the ceilings look as though it is leather requires a special technique regarded as lost today. The Castro Theatre originally opened at 479 Castro Street in 1910 and it was subsequently remodeled into a retail store in the mid-1920s after the larger Castro Theatre was built at 429 Castro Street, its current location, only a few doors up from the original theatre. The new Castro Theatre opened the day to the general public. The Nasser brothers, who built the theater and still own it, the interior is luxurious and ornate, with subtly convex and concave walls and ceiling and a dramatic Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ that is played before films and events. The large neon Castro sign is emblematic of both the theatre and the Castro District, in January 2008, for the filming of the Gus Van Sant biopic Milk, restorations were made to the neon on the theaters marquee and blade sign, and the facade was repainted. The movie about the life and times of Harvey Milk, the San Francisco city Supervisor who was Californias first openly gay elected official, had its premiere at the theater in November 2008. The theater can project modern digital formats such as 4K DCP with 5, the Castro is capable of showing 70 mm films and is one of the few theaters in the world that can show a 70 mm film with separate DTS soundtrack. The Castro Theatre is located on Castro Street near the intersection of Market and 17th Streets, list of San Francisco Designated Landmarks Roxie Cinema Victoria Theater Official website of the Castro Theatre
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Anaglyph 3D
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Anaglyph 3D is the name given to the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eyes image using filters of different colors, typically red and cyan. Anaglyph 3D images contain two differently filtered colored images, one for each eye, when viewed through the color-coded anaglyph glasses, each of the two images reaches the eye its intended for, revealing an integrated stereoscopic image. The visual cortex of the brain fuses this into perceptive tion of a scene or composition. Anaglyph images have seen a recent resurgence due to the presentation of images and video on the Web, Blu-ray Discs, CDs, low cost paper frames or plastic-framed glasses hold accurate color filters that typically, after 2002, make use of all 3 primary colors. The current norm is red and cyan, with red being used for the left channel, the cheaper filter material used in the monochromatic past dictated red and blue for convenience and cost. There is an improvement of full color images, with the cyan filter. Video games, theatrical films, and DVDs can be shown in the anaglyph 3D process, practical images, for science or design, where depth perception is useful, include the presentation of full scale and microscopic stereographic images. Examples from NASA include Mars Rover imaging, and the investigation, called STEREO. Other applications include geological illustrations by the United States Geological Survey, a recent application is for stereo imaging of the heart using 3D ultra-sound with plastic red/cyan glasses. Anaglyph images are much easier to view than either parallel or crossed-view pairs stereograms, however, these side-by-side types offer bright and accurate color rendering, not easily achieved with anaglyphs. Recently, cross-view prismatic glasses with adjustable masking have appeared, that offer an image on the new HD video. Template, 3D Glasses The oldest known description of anaglyph images was written in August 1853 by W. Rollmann in Stargard about his Farbenstereoscope and he had the best results viewing a yellow/blue drawing with red/blue glasses. Rollmann found that with a drawing the red lines were not as distinct as yellow lines through the blue glass. In 1858 Joseph DAlmeida began projecting three-dimensional magic lantern slide shows using red and green filters with the audience wearing red, louis Ducos du Hauron produced the first printed anaglyphs in 1891. This process consisted of printing the two negatives which form a photograph on to the same paper, one in blue. The viewer would then use coloured glasses with red and blue or green, the left eye would see the blue image which would appear black, whilst it would not see the red, similarly the right eye would see the red image, this registering as black. Thus a three dimensional image would result, william Friese-Green created the first three-dimensional anaglyphic motion pictures in 1889, which had public exhibition in 1893. 3-D films enjoyed something of a boom in the 1920s, the term 3-D was coined in the 1950s
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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946
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Time Out Group
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Time Out Group is a digital and print publisher of web sites, apps, magazines and guidebooks covering events, entertainment and culture in cities around the world. Julio Bruno is the Group CEO of Time Out Group, based in cities such as London, New York and Paris, Time Out Group provides entertainment, food, and drink recommendations to an international audience through print and digital platforms. Time Out was established in 1968, by founder Tony Elliott and has developed into a global platform that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city. Operating in 108 cities, across 39 countries, it has a global audience reach of 156 million across all platforms. Time Out provides original content for users to find things to do in the city as well as curated lists of the best films, food, attractions, art, culture, shopping. Time Out recently curated sci-fi films, a sex survey. Time Out Market, launched in 2014 in Lisbon, enables people to discover, book, live, the original Time Out magazine was first published in 1968 by Tony Elliott with Bob Harris as co-editor. The magazine was a one-sheet pamphlet with listings for London. The magazine started as a publication that had an alternative viewpoint on issues such as gay rights, racial equality. Early issues had a print run of around 5,000, the brand was expanded to North America with Time Out New York magazine also known as TONY in 1995 followed by Time Out New York Kids in 1996. The success of taking the Time Out brand abroad led to the expansion of the magazine worldwide, the brand grew to include travel magazines, city guides, and books. Time Out was able to withstand print competition, however, its integration of a digital platform during the online revolution proved to be a challenge. When Time Out New York launched it did not have a website and was competing against well-established online publications such as Citysearch and The Village Voice. Financial loss and the necessity to expand the Time Out brand led Tony Elliott to sell half of Time Out London and 66 percent of TONY to private equity group Oakley Capital in May 2011. The company continued to grow digitally and launched an app for New York. The iPad app was initially sponsored by MasterCard, in July 2015, Time Out Group announced a £7 million investment in Flypay, a pay-at-table mobile app that will integrate its technology into Time Outs media platform. In June 2016, Time Out Group underwent an IPO and trades under the symbol TMO on Londons AIM stock exchange, Time Out Magazine is available in 39 cities including London, New York, Istanbul, Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Lisbon. Time Out London Magazine is a weekly publication based in London. Time Out provides event listings and editorial on film, theatre, Time Out New York was the brands first magazine launch in North America and debuted in 1995
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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AllMovie
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AllMovie is an online guide service website with information about films, television programs, and screen actors. As of 2013, AllMovie. com and the AllMovie consumer brand are owned by All Media Network, AllMovie was founded by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine, who also founded AllMusic and AllGame. The AllMovie database was licensed to tens of thousands of distributors and retailers for point-of-sale systems, websites, the AllMovie database is comprehensive, including basic product information, cast and production credits, plot synopsis, professional reviews, biographies, relational links and more. AllMovie data was accessed on the web at the AllMovie. com website and it was also available via the AMG LASSO media recognition service, which can automatically recognize DVDs. In late 2007, Macrovision acquired AMG for a reported $72 million, the AMG consumer facing web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in August 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. The buyers also include the founders of SideReel and Ackrell Capital investor Mike Ackrell. All Media Network offices are located in San Francisco, California, AllMusic AllGame SideReel All Media Network Official website
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Turner Classic Movies
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Turner Classic Movies is an American movie-oriented basic cable and satellite television network owned by the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner. TCM is headquartered at the Techwood Campus in Atlanta, Georgias Midtown business district, historically, the channels programming consisted mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. However, TCM now has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its Time Warner sister company, Warner Bros. and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Latin America, France, Spain, Nordic countries, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. In 1986, eight years before the launch of Turner Classic Movies, concerns over Turner Entertainments corporate debt load resulted in Turner selling the studio that October back to Kirk Kerkorian, from whom Turner had purchased the studio less than a year before. As part of the deal, Turner Entertainment retained ownership of MGMs library of films released up to May 9,1986, Turner Broadcasting System was split into two companies, Turner Broadcasting System and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reincorporated as MGM/UA Communications Co. The film library of Turner Entertainment would serve as the form of programming for TCM upon the networks launch. After the library was acquired, MGM/UA signed a deal with Turner to continue distributing the pre-May 1986 MGM and to begin distributing the pre-1950 Warner Bros. film libraries for video release. Turner Classic Movies debuted on April 14,1994, at 6,00 p. m. Eastern Time, the date and time were chosen for their historical significance as the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City. The first movie broadcast on TCM was the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, at the time of its launch, TCM was available to approximately one million cable television subscribers. AMC had broadened its content to feature colorized and more recent films by 2002. In the early 90s AMC abandoned its format, leaving TCM as the only movie-oriented cable channel to devote its programming entirely to classic films without commercial interruption. In 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner, which besides placing Turner Classic Movies, in March 1999, MGM paid Warner Bros. and gave up the home video rights to the MGM/UA films owned by Turner to Warner Home Video. In 2008, TCM won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting, in April 2010, Turner Classic Movies held the first TCM Classic Film Festival, an event – now held annually – at the Graumans Chinese Theater and the Graumans Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. In 2007, some of the films featured on TCM were made available for streaming on TCMs website. The networks programming season runs from February until the following March of each year when a retrospective of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies is shown, called 31 Days of Oscar. Turner Classic Movies presents many of its features in their original aspect ratio whenever possible – widescreen films broadcast on TCM are letterboxed on the standard definition feed. TCM also regularly presents widescreen presentations of films not available in the format on any video release
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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The October Man
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The October Man is a 1947 mystery film/film noir starring John Mills and Joan Greenwood, written by novelist Eric Ambler, who also produced. When a bus due to faulty steering, passenger Jim Ackland sustains a serious brain injury. Guilt ridden, he attempts suicide twice during his recovery and he starts a new job as an industrial chemist and gets a room in a hotel. When he reluctantly accepts an invitation for an out, he meets Jenny Carden. They begin seeing each other quite regularly, things reach the point where he confesses he wants to marry her, but he tells her he wants to be sure he has fully recovered first. Molly Newman, one of the hotel residents, asks to borrow £30 from him. As he doesnt have much on him, Jim good-naturedly writes her a cheque. She is found strangled the next night, Wilcox, the married businessman Molly had been seeing, has an alibi. Jim admits to have been walking in the vicinity of the murder site, police Inspector Godby suspects he was another of Mollys boyfriends and that, after falling in love with Jenny, he wanted to rid himself of a possible blackmailer. When Jim learns that Mr. Peachy, the person who lived in the room directly below Mollys, had told the police that Jim was in her every night. Peachy brazenly admits killing Molly, confident that there is no evidence against him, Peachy had regularly given her money, when Jim made her a loan, it had given rise to an insane jealousy, with fatal results. Jim goes to the police, but they do not believe him, when they come to take him into custody, Jim flees. He follows Peachy to Paddington Station, then discovers from a tag on Peachys luggage that he intends to flee the country by plane and he phones Godby with the flight information, but when that has no effect, contemplates suicide again. Fortunately, a letter Molly had posted to Wilcox just before her death incriminates Peachy, Jenny finds Jim and gives him the good news. Cast notes, John Mills daughter, Juliet Mills, plays the part of the child who is killed in a bus accident at the beginning of the film. She was five years old at the time, and it was her film appearance. The film was made at Denham Studio in Buckinghamshire, England, in his New York Times review, Bosley Crowther called it a second rate film with a first-rate actor. surrounded by a generally competent cast. In general, though, the film received critical notices
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Morning Departure
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Morning Departure is a 1950 British naval drama film about life aboard a sunken submarine, directed by Roy Ward Baker, and starring John Mills and Richard Attenborough. It is based on a play of the same name by Kenneth Woollard. It was the film debut of Michael Caine. The submarine dives, but sets off the mine, the mine blows the bows of the submarine off, and floods the after section through the displaced snorkel mast, killing the 53 crew-members in the bow and stern sections. When the shore base becomes aware that Trojan is overdue, surface vessels are sent out to investigate. The captain of the submarine, Lieutenant Commander Peter Armstrong, sensibly provides an indication of their position to these vessels by expelling a quantity of oil rises to the surface. Following standard escape procedure, a diver is sent down with an air line while everyone prepares for the rescue, Armstrong selects the first four for release, they escape safely without incident, and are picked up on the surface. The eight remaining crew assume there are plenty of breathing sets for all to escape successfully. However, the captain discovers that all but four have been destroyed in the blast and this means the final four will have to remain under water until a full salvage operation can be carried out, which may take a week or more. Armstrong assembles the others to draw lots through a pack of cards he deals out, to decide who goes, two, the cook A/B Higgins and the first lieutenant, Lieutenant Manson, with the lowest cards, select themselves to stay behind along with Armstrong. The top three, to go first, also select themselves with high cards, of the other two, there is a tie, both knaves, between Stoker Snipe and E. R. A. On losing a re-deal, young Snipe goes berserk with fear and has to be physically restrained, Armstrong approaches Marks and asks if he will forfeit his place for Snipe, sensing difficulties if Snipe is left behind. They begin to prepare for escape, but Snipe now hangs back and he insists that Marks should go. Marks and the three escape safely through the hatch and are picked up by the salvage vessels. Below, Manson has a fainting fit but Snipe catches him using both arms without difficulty, cheerfully at first, the four begin the wait for the salvage operation. Above, all goes well to begin with, in fine weather, divers manage to secure cables under the submarine, which is slowly winched up, but only fifteen feet per day can be achieved. However, as the go by, the weather turns. As a result, the shifts on the cables
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Highly Dangerous
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Highly Dangerous is a 1950 British spy film starring Margaret Lockwood. The screenplay was written by Eric Ambler and it was released in the US as Time Running Out. Frances Gray is as a British entomologist trying to stop an attack with the help of an American journalist. Although he had specialised in melodramas, Highly Dangerous was a comedy thriller in the vein of Lockwoods earlier hits, The Lady Vanishes. It was directed by Roy Ward Baker, who had served with Ambler during the war, one thing about Eric is that he presents you with a script that is beautifully finished in every detail, said Baker. I think Margaret Lockwood wanted to play a woman, recalled Baker. It was actually Eric Amblers first or second book, although the book had a different title and its character was a man. The filmmakers wanted a Hollywood leading man to play opposite Lockwood, wendell Corey was originally sought before the role was given to Dane Clark, who had recently left Warner Bros. Filming started in June 1950 and took place at Pinewood Studios, Baker later said that Highly Dangerous wasnt a very successful picture. It was an idea although I dont think I did it very well
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I'll Never Forget You (film)
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It starred Tyrone Power and Ann Blyth and was an early film for director Roy Ward Baker. It was adapted from the play Berkeley Square by John L. Balderston, Irene Browne reprised her role as Lady Anne Pettigrew from the 1933 version. It used a technique to The Wizard of Oz, presenting the opening and closing sequences in black-and-white. Peter Standish is an American atomic scientist who is working in a laboratory in London. His co-worker Roger Forsyth, who is worried about Peters lack of activities, takes him to a house in Berkeley Square he inherited. It is there where Peter announces his wishes of living in the 18th century among the high-class family Petigrew he has studied the last years, Peter falls for Kate, but he is more interested in her sister Helen, of whom he has never found any records. Helen, however, is the one not suspicious of Peters presence. Peter admits to her that the 18th century is not what he thought it would be, the narrow-minded people, the poverty and the dirt irritate him. Furthermore, he admits that he is from the future and shows Helen his hidden laboratory in the basement with modern inventions, rather than being afraid, Helen becomes even more interested in Peter. They fall in love, despite Peters awareness that he has to marry Kate in order to not change history, Kate is fed up with Peter and announces that she will not marry him. Rather than trying to court her somehow, Peter is drawn to Helen, things start to look bad for Peter when his laboratory is uncovered. He is committed to the Bethlem Royal Hospital, before being brought away, he rushes to Helens room, where she places a crux ansata to remind him of her love for him. While being taken away, lighting strikes again and Peter is back in present life, there, Forsyth tells him he has been acting like a mad man for the past seven weeks. Peter is shocked when he meets Forsyths sister Martha, who resembles Helen and he rushes out to the graveyard in front of his house, where he not only discovers Helens grave, but that she died of grief shortly after he was taken away to the asylum. Throstle Irene Browne as Lady Anne Pettigrew The film went into production in January 1945, with Gregory Peck, the project, however, was shelved and eventually abandoned, before it was taken up in 1950. On 13 July 1950, Tyrone Power was announced in the lead role, french actress Micheline Presle was originally set to co-star, but she dropped out in March 1951 due to illness. Constance Smith shortly stepped in as her replacement, but producer Darryl F. Zanuck decided she was not experienced enough, initially, Jean Simmons was approached to co-star next to Power. The film was released on DVD as part of the Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection on 29 July 2008, somewhere in Time, a romantic fantasy film starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour The House in the Square at the Internet Movie Database Britmovie
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Don't Bother to Knock
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Dont Bother to Knock is a 1952 American film noir thriller starring Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe and directed by Roy Ward Baker. The screenplay was written by Daniel Taradash, based on the novel Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong, Monroe is featured as a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel where a pilot, played by Widmark, is staying. Her strange behavior makes him aware that she is the last person with whom the parents should have entrusted their daughter. Lyn Lesley, the bar singer at New Yorks McKinley Hotel and she had ended their six-month relationship with a letter. When Jed does register at the hotel, she explains that she sees no future with him because he lacks an understanding heart, meanwhile, elevator operator Eddie introduces his shy niece, Nell Forbes, to guests Peter and Ruth Jones as a babysitter for their daughter Bunny. The Joneses go down to a function being held in the banquet hall. After the child is put to bed, Nell tries on Ruths lacy negligee, jewelry, perfume, seeing Nell from his room directly opposite, Jed calls her on the telephone, but she is not interested. When Eddie checks up on Nell, he is appalled to find her wearing Ruths property, Eddie tells her she can obtain such luxuries for herself by finding another boyfriend to replace the one who was killed. After Eddie leaves, Nell invites Jed over, Nell lies to keep Jed believing that she herself is a guest. She is startled when Jed reveals that he is a pilot and she confides that her boyfriend Philip died while flying an airplane to Hawaii. Bunny comes out and unmasks Nells charade, furious, Nell shakes the child and orders her back to bed. Jed comforts the crying Bunny and lets her stay up, when Bunny looks out the open window, however, it appears that Nell is considering pushing her out. Though Jed snatches the girl away, the incident is witnessed by long-term hotel resident Emma Ballew, Nell escorts the child to bed, then accuses Bunny of spying on her and implies that something might happen to her favorite toy if she makes any more trouble. Jed has decided to seek Lyns forgiveness, but Nell begs him not to leave, as he is fending off a kiss from her, Jed sees scars on her wrists. Nell confesses that after Philip died, she tried to kill herself with a razor, when Eddie checks up on Nell after his shift is over, Nell makes Jed hide in the bathroom. Eddie is irate that Nell is still wearing Ruths things and he orders her to change clothes, then harshly rubs off her lipstick. This enrages Nell, who accuses Eddie of being just like her repressive parents, then, when he suspects there is someone in the bathroom, she hits him over the head with a heavy object. While Jed tends to Eddie, Nell goes into Bunnys room, a suspicious Emma Ballew, knocks on the door
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Night Without Sleep
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Night Without Sleep is a 1952 mystery film noir directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Gary Merrill, Linda Darnell and Hildegarde Neff. A composer, Richard Morton experiences blackouts and cannot account for his actions and he seems to recall a womans screams and a conversation with his wife, Emily, but its all a blur. Morton goes to see his friend John Harkness and is introduced to an actress, Julie Bannon. He also apparently has made a date with Lisa Muller, who is angry when Morton shows up two hours late and he loses his temper and threatens her. Julie goes out with Morton and attempts to him. He returns to Lisa and begins to menace her again, only to suffer another blackout, when he wakes up, Morton is in his own home by himself and isnt sure where he has been or what he has done. He phones Lisa and learns she is all right, concerned, he contacts Julie as well, but she also has not been harmed. Without spark, without inspiration, without intelligence and without suspense, Night Without Sleep at the American Film Institute Catalog Night Without Sleep at the Internet Movie Database Night Without Sleep at AllMovie Night Without Sleep at the TCM Movie Database
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Passage Home
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Passage Home is a 1955 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Captain Lucky Ryland is about to retire, there is a flashback of several years to a voyage on a ship he was captaining from South America. He is forced to give a lift to a British governess, Ruth Elton, both Ryland and his first mate, Vosper, fall for Ruth. Ryland proposes to Ruth but when she turns down his offer he tries to rape her, there is a subplot about the dissatisfaction of the ships crew with the supply of potatoes. The potatoes are dumped overboard and Ryland is determined to find out who is responsible and it turns out this was done by Ike the bosun, who later dies at sea. Passage Home at the Internet Movie Database Passage Home at Britmovie
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Jacqueline (film)
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Jacqueline is a 1956 British drama film shot in Belfast and directed by Roy Ward Baker. It is based on the novel The Grand Man by Catherine Cookson, steel worker Mike McNeils drinking spirals out of control when he loses his job due to vertigo at the Belfast shipyard. But his devoted young daughter Jacqueline vows to help him and she attempts to persuade a tough land-owner to give her troubled dad another chance. Devlin as Mr. Jacqueline at the Internet Movie Database
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Tiger in the Smoke
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Tiger in the Smoke is a 1956 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles and Christopher Rhodes. It is based on the 1952 novel The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham, the film is set in a noirish smog-shrouded London and Brittany, France and combines the genres of mystery, thriller, crime and drama. The cinematography was by Geoffrey Unsworth, having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the wearing a old coat of her husbands. When he is pursued and captured, he out to be Duds Morrison a former soldier. He refuses to tell them anything, and having nothing they can charge him with, the police release him. Morrison again refuses to talk, and tries to flee from Leavitt - into an alley where he is set upon by a gang of ex-soldiers who beat him to death and take Leavitt off as a prisoner. It is soon revealed that they are ex-commandos and former comrades of Morrison, the commander of the raid had been Major Elgin, the husband of Meg. They were led to believe that Elgin had secreted a large amount of treasure in a house in Brittany and now that he is dead they are desperate to get their hands on it. They are wary of their former Sergeant, a psychopath named Jack Havoc, who has escaped from prison and committed several murders. Believing that Morrison was an accomplice of Havoc, they attacked him, wearing their old uniforms they have spent the past few years trying to carve out a living as street musicians, begging from passers by. Realising that releasing Leavitt might open them to being charged for the murder of Morrison, they bind him up and he is rescued later by a patrol policemen who investigates the squat while the musicians are out. Leavitt returns to Meg and together head to Brittany to find the treasure. The treasure is in fact a statue of the Madonna, except for the omission of Campion, the film follows the plot of the book very closely. They eventually reach their hide-out in the basement of a building and amid roars of laughter, send me. You wont have to worry about that said the director, That will be done by the stuntman, once again Frankie Howard of Cruel Sea fame was called in and I watched the preparations for the shot. Guide rails were fixed to keep the pram on its path at the top before plunging freely down the stairs. At the bottom piles of empty cardboard boxes were covered by an old mattress and these would absorb the shock as the pram appeared to hit the opposite wall
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The One That Got Away (film)
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The One That Got Away is a 1957 Second World War film starring Hardy Krüger and featuring Michael Goodliffe, Jack Gwillim and Alec McCowen. The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker with a written by Howard Clewes, based on the 1956 book of the same name by Kendal Burt. The film chronicles the exploits of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra. He initially tried to escape while captive in England, but was successful during transfer to a Canadian POW camp. Luftwaffe fighter pilot Franz von Werra is shot down during the Battle of Britain and he wagers with his RAF interrogator at the POW reception centre, Air Defence Intelligence, located at Trent Park in Cockfosters, near Barnet in Hertfordshire, that he will escape within six months. Initially, von Werra is sent to No 1 prisoner-of-war camp Grizedale Hall in the Furness area of Lancashire and his first escape attempt results in his recapture after an intense manhunt. Subsequently, von Werra is sent to a more secure POW camp near Swanwick and he and four others escape through a tunnel. The others pair up, but von Werra continues alone, reaching Codnor Park railway station, he impersonates a Dutch pilot and claims his Wellington bomber had crashed while on a secret mission. He telephones the nearest airfield, RAF Hucknall, and tricks the duty officer into sending a car, when his story starts to fray, von Werra creeps away and tries to steal an experimental Hawker Hurricane, only to be caught at the last moment. Along with many other POWs, von Werra is sent by ship to Canada, on the train ride across the country, while the guards are distracted, he escapes near Smiths Falls, Ontario, by jumping from a window. Making his way south, von Werra crosses the nearly frozen St Lawrence River in a rowboat and reaches Ogdensburg, New York. The RAF interrogator receives a postcard from von Werra featuring a photograph of the Statue of Liberty, the epilogue states, Despite the efforts of the Canadian Government to obtain his return, and of the United States Authorities to hold him, von Werra crossed the border into Mexico. Travelling by way of Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Spain, on 25 October of the same year, while on patrol, his plane was seen to dive into the sea. No trace of von Werra was found, kenneth More says he was approached to play the lead role but turned it down as he had just played another real-life POW, Douglas Bader in Reach for the Sky. John David, head of the Rank organisation, wanted Dirk Bogarde, director Roy Baker insisted on a German. O. W. Fischer was reportedly considered for the lead, ranks overseas distribution manager then suggested Hardy Krüger. A Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Hawker Hurricane were featured in the production, as of 2014, the Hawker Hurricane IIc is still in existence, flying with the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. The One That Got Away was generally received by audiences and critics
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A Night to Remember (1958 film)
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A Night to Remember is a 1958 British drama film adaptation of Walter Lords eponymous 1955 book, which recounts the final night of the RMS Titanic. Adapted by Eric Ambler and directed by Roy Ward Baker, the film stars Kenneth More and features Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe and it was filmed in the United Kingdom. The films World Premiere was on Thursday,3 July 1958 at the Odeon Leicester Square, Titanic survivor Elizabeth Dowdell attended the American premiere in New York on Tuesday 16 December 1958. The film received acclaim upon release. The Titanic was built to be the largest vessel afloat and was believed to be unsinkable. It included the cream of American and British society, the story of its sinking is told from the point of view of her passengers and crew, principally Second Officer Charles Lightoller. Once in the sea on its maiden voyage, the ship receives a number of ice warnings from other steamers. Late on 14 April 1912, lookout Frederick Fleet spots an iceberg directly in front of the ship, the vessel turns hard to port but collides with the iceberg on its starboard side, opening the first five compartments to the sea, below the waterline. A distress signal is sent out, and efforts begin to signal the SS Californian, visible on the horizon, but its radio operator is off duty and does not hear the distress signal. Unfortunately, the ship is 58 miles away, which means it will take four hours to reach the Titanic. Captain Smith orders Officers Lightoller and William Murdoch to start lowering the lifeboats, many women and children are reluctant to board in the small, cramped lifeboats, and Murdoch and Lightoller must use force to put them in. Many men try to sneak on board, but Lightoller will not allow them, Murdoch, working the other side of the ship, is shown as more accommodating to men. As the stewards struggle to hold back women and children in third-class, most of those from first- and second-class board the lifeboats, the Carpathia is racing to the site, using all possible steam in hopes of saving more lives. The Titanic sinks amid much chaos on the deck, with passengers allowed up from below only after all the lifeboats have gone. The Titanics bow submerges, and there are only two lifeboats left. Lightoller and other able seamen struggle to untie them as the lights flicker off, then the last funnel collapse, then takes its final plunge, Lightoller. One of the collapsible boats is floating, so Lightoller. Chief Baker Charles Joughin is found in the water, not minding the cold because hes been drinking, Lightoller spots another boat, and the men are saved
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The Singer Not the Song
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The Singer Not the Song is a 1961 British drama film based on the 1953 novel by Audrey Erskine-Lindop that was directed by Roy Ward Baker and filmed in Spain. A priest, Father Michael Keogh, is sent by Rome to Quantana, Anacleto is educated and intelligent, and is down on the Church, but he finds in Keogh a man he strangely admires and with whom he can have intelligent conversation. However, he not allow this to distract him from his goal. Each seeks to drive the other out, Roy Ward Baker was forced to direct the film under his contract with Rank. He tried to get out of it by suggesting Luis Buñuel as director but was unsuccessful, richard Burton was going to star in the film at one stage. The film failed at the box office, but has developed a cult following due to its camp homosexual context. Even though the story takes place in Mexico, the film was made in Alhaurín de la Torre, in Andalusia. The Singer Not the Song at the Internet Movie Database The Singer Not the Song at BFI Screenonline The Singer Not the Song at TCMDB
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Flame in the Streets
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Flame in the Streets is a 1961 film directed by Roy Ward Baker and based on the 1958 play Hot Summer Night by Ted Willis. It opened at the Odeon Leicester Square in Londons West End on 22 June 1961, racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian community of post-war Britain. Hot Summer Night premiered at the Bournemouth Pavilion on 29 September 1958 and it ran for 53 performances, closing on 10 January 1959. Directed by Peter Cotes, the cast comprised John Slater, Joan Miller, Andrée Melly, Lloyd Reckord, Harold Scott, by Williss own account, Another less pleasant reaction came in the form of some hate mail. Three weeks after the closure, it was televised on 1 February 1959 as part of the ABC series Armchair Theatre. The director was Ted Kotcheff and the West End cast was retained, with the exception of Joan Miller, according to The Stage, The production. Was shot mostly in close-up giving greater emphasis to black and white, Willis also added two characters, Gabriel Gomez and Harry Mitchell, who are only referred to in the play, and opened out the action to include a nocturnal street brawl in the final reel. Producer-director Roy Ward Baker made the film in CinemaScope, with a cast headed by John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie, Earl Cameron, the new title recalled Williss earlier play No Trees in the Street, which had itself been filmed two years before. Flame in the Streets opened in London on 22 June 1961, Williss script was nominated for a Best British Screenplay BAFTA award, as well as being novelised by John Burke for Four Square Books. Some of the older ones testified that it was a picture of the conditions the incomers faced
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The Valiant (1962 film)
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The Valiant is a 1962 British/Italian international co-production film directed by Roy Ward Baker, and starring John Mills, Ettore Manni, Roberto Risso, Robert Shaw, and Liam Redmond. It is based on the Italian manned torpedo attack which damaged the two British battleships Valiant and Queen Elizabeth and the oil tanker Sagona at the port of Alexandria in December 1941. The film had a Royal Gala Premiere on 4 January 1962 at the Odeon Leicester Square in the presence of H. R. H, the Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent. Two Italian frogmen are captured under suspicion of placing a mine under the HMS Valiant and they are brought onto the ship for questioning
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