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A Study In Scarlet (1914 British Film)
''A Study in Scarlet'' is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by George Pearson and starring James Bragington, making him the first English actor to portray Holmes on film. It is based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 novel of the same name and is considered to be lost. An American film of the same name was released in the U.S. on the following day, 29 December 1914. , the film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's " 75 Most Wanted" lost films. Production Ward Lock & Co, original publishers of ''A Study in Scarlet'' in the November 1887 edition of ''Beeton's Christmas Annual'', had the comprehensive rights to the book. The company sold the film rights to G. B. Samuelson and his film company. Samuelson's plans for the film were ambitious with outdoor scenes filmed at Cheddar Gorge in Cheddar, Somerset, England doubling for Utah in the United States. James Bragington was an employee of Samuelson's company and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pearson (filmmaker)
George Pearson OBE, (19 March 1875 – 6 February 1973) was a pioneering English film director, producer and screenwriter, mainly in the silent film era. He was born in London. Biography The only son of George Pearson, a silk tie cutter, George Pearson's first profession after Culham College, near Oxford (not a college of the University of Oxford) was teaching. He excelled in this role, becoming a headmaster by 1902 at the age of 26. His major post was at Staples Rd School Loughton Essex, on which there is a blue plaque. He was originally drawn to film making as an educational aid. In 1913 Pearson entered the film industry, initially as a script writer. Pearson worked for Gaumont and later joined the Colonial Film Unit (later the Commonwealth Film Unit), remaining in employment until the age of 81. Though little of his work is known to have survived, Pearson is credited with pioneering the use of the moving camera shot. Awards and personal life In 1951, he was awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheddar, Somerset
Cheddar is a large village and civil parish in the Sedgemoor district of the English county of Somerset. It is situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, north-west of Wells, south-east of Weston-super-Mare and south-west of Bristol. The civil parish includes the hamlets of Nyland and Bradley Cross. The parish had a population of 5,755 in 2011 and an acreage of as of 1961. Cheddar Gorge, on the northern edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves, including Gough's Cave. The gorge has been a centre of human settlement since Neolithic times including a Saxon palace. It has a temperate climate and provides a unique geological and biological environment that has been recognised by the designation of several Sites of Special Scientific Interest. It is also the site of several limestone quarries. The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing. The crop was formerly transporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Silent Feature Films
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain The Kingdom of Great Britain (officially Great Britain) was a Sovereign state, sovereign country in Western Europe from 1 May 1707 to the end of 31 December 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of ... (1707– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 Lost Films
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line. Events January * January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure. * January 11 – The Sakurajima volcano in Japan begins to erupt, becoming effusive after a very large earthquake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 Drama Films
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line. Events January * January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure. * January 11 – The Sakurajima volcano in Japan begins to erupt, becoming effusive after a very large earthquak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 Films
The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.Birchard, Robert S. (2004). ''Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood''. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, p. 1-13, __TOC__ Events * February 2 – Charlie Chaplin's first film, ''Making a Living'' is released. * February 7 – Release of Charlie Chaplin's second film, the Keystone comedy '' Kid Auto Races at Venice'', in which his character of The Tramp is introduced to audiences (although first filmed in ''Mabel's Strange Predicament'', released two days later). * February 8 – Winsor McCay's ''Gertie the Dinosaur'' greatly advances filmed animation movement techniques. * February 10 – Release of the film '' Hearts Adrift''; the name of Mary Pickford, the star, is displayed above the title on movie marquees. * February – Lewis J. Selznick and Arthur Spiegel organize the World Film Corporation, a distributor of independently produced films located in For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lost Films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. Reasons for loss Films may go missing for a number of reasons. One major contributing factor is the common use of nitrate film until the early 1950s. This type of film is highly flammable, and there have been several devastating fires, such as the Universal Pictures fire in 1924, the 1937 Fox vault fire and the 1965 MGM vault fire. Black-and-white film prints judged to be otherwise worthless were sometimes incinerated to salvage the meager scrap value of the silver image particles in their emulsions. Films have disappeared when production companies went bankrupt. Occasionally, a studio would remake a film and destroy the earlier version. Silent films in particular were once seen as having no further commercial value and were simply junked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Paul
Fred Paul (1880–1967) was a Swiss-born British actor and film director. Paul was born in Lausanne in 1880 but moved to Britain at a young age. He was a prolific actor and director in the 1910s and 1920s, but his career dramatically declined with the arrival of sound films. Selected filmography Director * '' The Dop Doctor'' (1915) * '' Infelice'' (1915) * ''The Second Mrs Tanqueray'' (1916) * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1916) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1916) * '' Her Greatest Performance'' (1916) * ''The Lyons Mail'' (1916) * '' The Duchess of Seven Dials'' (1920) * '' The House on the Marsh'' (1920) * '' Lady Tetley's Decree'' (1920) * ''The Little Welsh Girl'' (1920) * ''The English Rose'' (1920) * '' Uncle Dick's Darling'' (1920) * '' A Woman Misunderstood'' (1921) * '' If Four Walls Told'' (1922) * '' The Recoil'' (1924) * '' The Last Witness'' (1925) * ''Safety First'' (1926) * ''Thou Fool'' (1926) * '' The Luck of the Navy'' (1927) * '' The Broken Melody'' (1929) * ''In a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes () is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. First appearing in print in 1887's ''A Study in Scarlet'', the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in ''The Strand Magazine'', beginning with " A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891; additional tales appeared from then until 1927, eventually totalling four novels and 56 short stories. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 1880 and 1914. Most are narrated by the character of Holmes's friend and biographer Dr. John H. Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Valley Of Fear (1916 Film)
''The Valley of Fear'' is a British silent adventure film of 1916 directed by Alexander Butler and starring Harry Arthur Saintsbury, Daisy Burrell and Booth Conway. The film is an adaptation of the 1915 novel, ''The Valley of Fear'' by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes. This is now considered a lost film. Production After the success of ''A Study in Scarlet'' in 1914, producer G. B. Samuelson decided to make another feature-length adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. French company Eclair owned the cinematic rights to Conan Doyle's stories up to 1912 which left only one full length story available, ''The Valley of Fear'' While James Bragington was considered a virtual doppelgänger of Sherlock Holmes in ''A Study in Scarlet'', the role in ''The Valley of Fear'' required more from an actor so H.A. Saintsbury was cast instead. Saintsbury had played the role onstage more than any other actor, over 1,000 times in both William Gillette's '' Sherlock Holmes'' as well as Cona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Barnes (writer)
Alan Barnes is a British writer and editor, mainly related to cult film and television. Biography Barnes is from Newcastle upon Tyne. He was the editor of ''Judge Dredd Megazine'' from 2001 until 2005. Among other strips, Barnes originally commissioned ''The Simping Detective''. He also wrote a handful of ''Judge Dredd'' stories involving alternate universes or featuring a young Dredd. He worked for five years at ''Doctor Who Magazine'' and progressed from writing strips to becoming joint editor in 1998 and sole editor from 2000 until 2002. He subsequently contributed the ongoing ''Fact of Fiction'' series of articles to the magazine. Barnes has written or co-written a number of ''Doctor Who'' audio plays for Big Finish Productions. He has written a number of books on films, including James Bond, Quentin Tarantino and Sherlock Holmes, and his book ''The Hammer Story'', co-written with Marcus Hearn, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction in 1997. Bibliog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
