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1931 In Science Fiction
The year 1931 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 9 : Algis Budrys, American writer, (d. 2008 in science fiction, 2008) * January 28 : Sakyo Komatsu, Japan writer, (d. 2011 in science fiction, 2011) * December 3 : Bob Shaw, British writer, (d. 1996 in science fiction, 1996) Deaths Events Literary releases Novels * '':fr:Druso, Druso oder : die gestohlene Menschheit'', by :de:Friedrich Freksa, Friedrich Freksa. Stories collections Short stories Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies * ''Frankenstein (1931 film), Frankenstein'', by James Whale. * ''End of the World (1931 film), End of the World'', by Abel Gance. * ''A Connecticut Yankee (film), A Connecticut Yankee'', by David Butler (director), David Butler. Awards The main Outline of science fiction#Science fiction awards, science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. See also * 1931 in science * 1930 in science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Whale
James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theatre director and actor, who spent the greater part of his career in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood. He is best remembered for several horror films: ''Frankenstein (1931 film), Frankenstein'' (1931), ''The Old Dark House (1932 film), The Old Dark House'' (1932), ''The Invisible Man (1933 film), The Invisible Man'' (1933) and ''Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935), all considered classics. Whale also directed films in other genres, including the 1936 Show Boat (1936 film), film version of the musical ''Show Boat''. Whale was born into a large family in Dudley, Worcestershire now Metropolitan Borough of Dudley. He discovered his artistic talent early on and studied art. With the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in the British Army and became an officer. He was captured by the Germans and during his time as a prisoner of war he realised he was interested in drama. Following his release at the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction By Year
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 In Science Fiction
The year 1932 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * September 28 : Michael Coney, British writer (died in 2005). * November 7 : Vladimir Volkoff, French writer (died in 2005). * November 8 : Ben Bova, American writer (died in 2020). * August 15 : Robert Forward, American writer (died in 2002). Deaths Events Literary releases Novels * '' Cat Country'', by Lao She. * ''Brave New World'', by Aldous Huxley. Stories collections Short stories * ''The Cities of Ardathia'', by George Henry Weiss. Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies * '' Island of Lost Souls'', by Erle C. Kenton. Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. See also * 1932 in science * 1931 in science fiction * 1933 in science fiction References {{Reflist Science fiction by year * science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 In Science Fiction
The year 1930 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * June 3 : Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (died 1999) * November 15 : J. G. Ballard, British writer (died 2009) * Donald Malcolm, Scottish writer (died 2013) Deaths Events * Creation of the American magazine ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', now called ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact''. Literary releases Novels * ''Last and First Men'', by Olaf Stapledon. * ''Tarzan at the Earth's Core'', by Edgar Rice Burroughs. * '' Utopolis'', by Werner Illing. Stories collections Short stories Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies * ''Just Imagine'' directed by David Butler Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. See also * 1930 in science * 1929 in science fiction * 1931 in science fiction References {{Reflist Science fiction by year * science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In Science
The year 1931 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy * French astronomer Bernard Lyot invents the coronagraph. Chemistry * Erich Hückel proposes Hückel's rule, which explains when a planar ring molecule will have aromatic properties. * Harold Urey and associates at Columbia University demonstrate the existence of heavy water. Earth sciences * Modified Mercalli intensity scale introduced as a seismic scale for earthquakes in the United States. History of science * Het Nederlandsch Historisch Natuurwetenschappelijk Museum ("The Dutch Historical Museum of the Natural Sciences") opens in Leiden. Mathematics * January – Kurt Gödel's " On Formally Undecidable Propositions..." is published in ''Monatshefte für Mathematik''. Physics * November 26 – Harold Urey discovers deuterium by the fractional distillation of liquid hydrogen. * Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll build the first prototype electron microscope. * Paul Dirac proposes that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outline Of Science Fiction
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting. Exploring the consequences of such innovations is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas". What is science fiction? * Definitions of science fiction: Science fiction includes such a wide range of themes and subgenres that it is notoriously difficult to define. Accordingly, there have been many definitions offered. Another challenge is that there is disagreement over where to draw the boundaries between science fiction and related genres. Science fiction is a type of: * Fiction – form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s). Although fiction often describes a major branch of literary work, it is also app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Butler (director)
David Butler (December 17, 1894 – June 14, 1979) was an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and television director. Biography Butler was born in San Francisco, California. His mother was actress Adele Belgrade, and his father was actor and director Fred J. Butler. His first acting roles were playing extras in stage plays. He later appeared in two D.W. Griffith films: ''The Girl Who Stayed Home'' and ''The Greatest Thing in Life''. He also appeared in the 1927 Academy-Award winning film ''7th Heaven (1927 film), 7th Heaven''. The same year, Butler made his directorial debut with ''High School Hero'', a comedy for Fox Film Corporation#Fox Film Corporation, Fox. During Butler's nine-year tenure at Fox, he directed over 30 films, including four Shirley Temple vehicles. Butler's last film for Fox, ''Kentucky (film), Kentucky'', won Walter Brennan an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Butler worked with Bing Crosby in ''Road to Morocco'' and ''If I Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Connecticut Yankee (film)
''A Connecticut Yankee'' is a 1931 American Pre-Code film adaptation of Mark Twain's 1889 novel, ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court''. It was directed by David Butler to a script by William M. Conselman, Owen Davis, and Jack Moffitt. It was produced by Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century Fox), who had earlier produced the 1921 silent adaptation of the novel, ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court''. ''A Connecticut Yankee'' is the first sound film adaptation of Twain's novel.Grellner, Alice; and Harty, Kevin J. (1991). "Films". In Norris J. Lacy, ''The New Arthurian Encyclopedia'', p. 152 (New York: Garland, 1991); . It is unrelated to the 1927 musical also titled '' A Connecticut Yankee''. As in '' The Wizard of Oz'', many of the actors in the film play more than one role, a character in the real world and one in the dream world. The film stars Will Rogers as Hank Martin, an American accidental time traveler who finds himself in Camelot back in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abel Gance
Abel Gance (; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 188910 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: ''J'accuse'' (1919), ''La Roue'' (1923), and ''Napoléon'' (1927). Early life Born in Paris in 1889, Abel Gance was the illegitimate son of a prosperous doctor, Abel Flamant, and a working-class mother, Françoise Péréthon (or Perthon). Initially taking his mother's name, he was brought up until the age of eight by his maternal grandparents in the coal-mining town of Commentry in central France. He then returned to Paris to rejoin his mother, who had by then married Adolphe Gance, a chauffeur and mechanic, whose name Abel then adopted. Although he later fabricated the history of a brilliant school career and middle-class background, Gance left school at the age of 14, and the love of literature and art which sustained him throughout his l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
End Of The World (1931 Film)
''End of the World'' (french: La Fin du monde) is a 1931 French science fiction film directed by Abel Gance based on the novel ''Omega: The Last Days of the World'' by Camille Flammarion. The film stars Victor Francen as Martial Novalic, Colette Darfeuil as Genevieve de Murcie, Abel Gance as Jean Novalic, and Jeanne Brindau as Madame Novalic. The plot concerns a comet hurtling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions people have to the impending disaster. Scientist Martial Novalic who discovers the comet, seeks a solution to the problem and becomes a fugitive after skeptical authorities blame him for starting a mass panic. ''End of the World'' was director Abel Gance's first sound film. The original film was to be over three hours long, but the backing production took the film from Gance, and cut it to be 105 minutes. It was again cut on its release in the United States under the title of ''Paris after Dark''. Neither abridged version of the film was well re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankenstein (1931 Film)
''Frankenstein'' is a 1931 American pre-Code science fiction horror film directed by James Whale, produced by Carl Laemmle Jr., and adapted from a 1927 play by Peggy Webling, which in turn was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus''. The Webling play was adapted by John L. Balderston and the screenplay written by Francis Edward Faragoh and Garrett Fort, with uncredited contributions from Robert Florey and John Russell. ''Frankenstein'' stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, an obsessed scientist who digs up corpses with his assistant in order to assemble a living being from body parts. The resulting creature, often known as Frankenstein's monster, is portrayed by Boris Karloff. The make-up for the monster was provided by Jack Pierce. Alongside Clive and Karloff, the film's cast also includes Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye, and Edward Van Sloan. Produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, the film was a commercial success up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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