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1904 Films
The year 1904 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * As shown in the film series '' Westinghouse Works'', some filmmakers begin to move away from eye-level filmmaking and use the camera to explore spaces from an angle usually inaccessible to the average person. * William Fox purchases his first Nickelodeon. * 23 June: Marcus Loew founds the theatre chain, the People's Vaudeville Company, which later was renamed Loews Theatres which was the oldest theatre chain operating in North America when it was merged with AMC Theatres in 2006 Films released in 1904 A * ''Audley Range School, Blackburn'', produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – ( GB) * ''Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup'', directed by Billy Bitzer and A.E. Weed – ( US) B * ''The Bewitched Traveller'', directed by Lewin Fitzhamon and Cecil Hepworth – ( GB) * ''Blackpool Victoria Pier'', produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – ( GB) * '' The Bold Bank Robbery'', directed by Jack Frawley – ( US) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westinghouse Works, 1904
''Westinghouse Works, 1904'' is a collection of American short silent films, each averaging about three minutes in length. The films were taken from April 18, 1904, to May 16, 1904, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and document various Westinghouse manufacturing plants. They were made by G. W. "Billy" Bitzer of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, were shown at the Westinghouse Auditorium at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and may have been made for that purpose. At least 29 films were produced and 21 remain in the collection which is now a part of the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Collection The films in the collection of the Library of Congress are: ''Assembling a generator'' Westinghouse works''Assembling and testing turbines'' Westinghouse works''Casting a guide box'' Westinghouse works''Coil winding machines'' Westinghouse works''Coil winding section E'' Westinghouse works''Girls taking time checks'' Westinghouse works''Girls winding armatures' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Day In The Hayfields
''A Day in the Hayfields'' is a 1904 British silent documentary film directed by Cecil M. Hepworth filmed on location in the United Kingdom. Synopsis This is a documentary film showing the process of making hay as it was in the early 20th century United Kingdom. The cutting, gathering and stacking processes are all documented. At the end there is a shot of children playing in the newly mown hay. This film is significant in its depiction of pre-mechanized agriculture using horses instead of powered farm equipment. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Day In The Hayfields, A 1904 films 1904 short films British black-and-white films British documentary films Agriculture in the United Kingdom History of agriculture in England History of agriculture in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Miracle Under The Inquisition
''Un miracle sous l'inquisition'', sold in the United States as ''A Miracle Under the Inquisition'' and in Britain as ''A Miracle of the Inquisition'', is a 1904 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 558–559 in its catalogues. Méliès appears in the film as the executioner, with a Mademoiselle Bodson as the accused woman. Her distinctive dress, with its four large squares embroidered with animal figures, was reused for Méliès's later films ''The Witch'' and '' The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess''. The special effects of the miracle are carried out with pyrotechnics, substitution splice The substitution splice or stop trick is a cinematic special effect in which filmmakers achieve an appearance, disappearance, or transformation by altering one or more selected aspects of the mise-en-scène between two shots while maintaining th ...s, and dissolves. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace McCutcheon Sr
Wallace may refer to: People * Clan Wallace in Scotland * Wallace (given name) * Wallace (surname) * Wallace (footballer, born 1986), full name Wallace Fernando Pereira, Brazilian football left-back * Wallace (footballer, born 1987), full name Wallace Reis da Silva, Brazilian football centre-back * Wallace (footballer, born May 1994), full name Wallace Oliveira dos Santos, Brazilian football full-back * Wallace (footballer, born October 1994), full name Wallace Fortuna dos Santos, Brazilian football centre-back * Wallace (footballer, born 1998), full name Wallace Menezes dos Santos, Brazilian football midfielder Fictional characters * Wallace, from ''Wallace and Gromit'' * Wallace (''Pokémon'') * Wallace (''Sin City'') * Wallace (''The Wire'') * Wallace Breen, from ''Half-Life 2'' * Wallace Fennel, from ''Veronica Mars'' * Wallace Footrot, from ''Footrot Flats'' * Eli Wallace, from ''Stargate Universe'' * Wallace, from "The Hangover Part III" * Wallace the Brave, from the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Child (1904 Film)
''The Lost Child'' is a 1904 American short silent comedy film produced by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.Review and link to watch the film: Plot A mother sets down her child in the front yard and goes back into the house for a brief moment. As soon as she is gone, the child walks into the doghouse. When the mother comes back outside, she does not see where the child has gone, and when she sees a man in the street with a basket, she runs after him. Soon she has the whole neighborhood in turmoil. Cast * Kathryn Osterman Production and Distribution The film was entirely filmed on location in Brooklyn, New-York, notably in Fort Hamilton. It was allegedly based on a recent incident of the era. It was produced and distributed by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. John L. Fell reports that in November 1904, ''The Mirror'' applauded The Lost Child as a remarkable picture. Analysis The film is composed of 11 shots forming one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraordinaires'', a series of bestselling adventure novels including ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (1864), ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (1870), and '' Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time. In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games. Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey Through The Impossible
''Journey Through the Impossible'' (french: Voyage à travers l'impossible) is an 1882 fantasy play written by Jules Verne, with the collaboration of Adolphe d'Ennery. A stage spectacular in the ''féerie'' tradition, the play follows the adventures of a young man who, with the help of a magic potion and a varied assortment of friends and advisers, makes impossible voyages to the center of the Earth, the bottom of the sea, and a distant planet. The play is deeply influenced by Verne's own ''Voyages Extraordinaires'' series and includes characters and themes from some of his most famous novels, including ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea'', ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'', and ''From the Earth to the Moon''. The play opened in Paris at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin on 25 November 1882, and achieved a financially successful run of 97 performances. Contemporary critics gave the play mixed reviews; in general, the spectacular staging and the use of ideas from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impossible Voyage
''The Impossible Voyage'' (french: Le Voyage à travers l'impossible), also known as ''An Impossible Voyage'' and ''Whirling the Worlds'', is a 1904 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by Jules Verne's play '' Journey Through the Impossible'', and modeled in style and format on Méliès's earlier, highly successful '' A Trip to the Moon'', the film is a satire of scientific exploration in which a group of geographically minded tourists attempt a journey to the sun using various methods of transportation. The film was a significant international success at the time of its release, and has been well received by film historians. Plot Note: ''Since the film is silent and has no intertitles, the proper names and quotations below are taken from the English-language description of the film published by Méliès in the catalog of the Star Film Company's New York Branch.'' A society of geographical enthusiasts, the Institute of Incoherent Geography, plans to make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girls Taking Time Checks
''Girls Taking Time Checks'' is a 1904 silent actuality film photographed by G. W. Bitzer for the Biograph Company in conjunction with Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. It was released by the Biograph Company.''The AFI Institute Catalog, Film Beginnings 1893-1910'', page 415 c.1995 compiled by Elias Savada Synopsis An endless stream of young women stream out of the Westinghouse factory taking their time checks. (#note: as this is 1904 the film was more than likely filmed at the Westinghouse Lamp Plant in Bloomfield, New Jersey Bloomfield is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the township's population was 53,105. It surrounds the Bloomfield Green Historic District. History The initial patent for the land that w ...) References External links Girls Taking Time Checks at IMDb.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Gounod
Charles-François Gounod (; ; 17 June 181818 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been ''Faust (opera), Faust'' (1859); his ''Roméo et Juliette'' (1867) also remains in the international repertory. He composed a large amount of church music, many songs, and popular short pieces including his Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod), Ave Maria (an elaboration of a Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach piece), and ''Funeral March of a Marionette''. Born in Paris into an artistic and musical family Gounod was a student at the Conservatoire de Paris and won France's most prestigious musical prize, the Prix de Rome. His studies took him to Italy, Austria and then Prussia, where he met Felix Mendelssohn, whose advocacy of the music of Bach was an early influence on him. He was deeply religious, and after his return to Paris, he briefly considered becoming a priest. He composed prolifically, writing church music, songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faust (opera)
''Faust'' is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play ''Faust et Marguerite'', in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ''Faust, Part One''. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris on 19 March 1859, with influential sets designed by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry, Jean Émile Daran, Édouard Desplechin, and Philippe Chaperon. Performance history The original version of Faust employed spoken dialogue, and it was in this form that the work was first performed. The manager of the Théâtre Lyrique, Léon Carvalho cast his wife Caroline Miolan-Carvalho as Marguerite and there were various changes during production, including the removal and contraction of several numbers. The tenor Hector Gruyer was originally cast as Faust but was found to be inadequate during rehearsals, being eventually replaced by a principal of the Opéra-Comique, Joseph-Théodore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faust And Marguerite (1904 Film)
''Damnation du docteur Faust'', released in the United States as ''Faust and Marguerite'' and in the United Kingdom as ''Faust'', is a 1904 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Production The film is a fifteen-minute condensation of ''Faust'', an 1859 opera by Charles Gounod based on the Faust legend. The previous year, Méliès had used a different musical version of the legend, Hector Berlioz's ''La damnation de Faust'', as inspiration for his film ''The Damnation of Faust''. Méliès took the role of Mephistopheles. Jeanne Calvière played Siebel; she had been a stablewoman at the Cirque d'Hiver until 1900, when Méliès hired her to play Joan of Arc in his film of the same name. She remained among his core troupe of actors for several years after her debut as Joan. Special effects in the film were created with stage machinery, pyrotechnics, substitution splices, superimpositions, and dissolves. Release The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
