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Algol (film)
''Algol: Tragedy of Power'' (german: Algol. Tragödie der Macht) is a 1920 German science fiction film about an alien from the planet Algol. Production background The film was directed by Hans Werckmeister and stars Emil Jannings and John Gottowt. The story centers on a human who is given a machine by an alien spirit which, if used, would allow him to rule the world. The sets for the movie were constructed by Walter Reimann, one of the set designers of '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (released February 1920). The film was produced by the Deutsche Lichtbild-Gesellschaft (German Light Play Company) in Berlin and was distributed by Universum Film AG (UFA). Its first release was on 3 September 1920 in Berlin, and was subsequently released worldwide including a launch in Finland on 7 November 1921. Preservation status For many years it was believed that this was a lost film, but an intact version was recovered. It was screened by MoMA on Monday 29 November 2010 as part of their f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Werckmeister
Hans Werckmeister (1879 - 4 July 1929) was a German film director. He is best known for his film ''Algol''. Selected filmography * ''The Golden Net'' (1922) * ''The Affair of Baroness Orlovska'' (1923) * ''The Brigantine of New York ''The Brigantine of New York'' (german: Die Brigantin von New York) is a 1924 German silent film directed by Hans Werckmeister and starring Lotte Neumann, Karl Beckersachs, and Elisabeth Pinajeff.Krautz p. 197 The film's sets were designed by t ...'' (1924) References External links * 1879 births 1929 deaths Film directors from Berlin {{Germany-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy of every American film to be deposited at the Library of Congress at the time of copyright registration, but the Librarian of Congress was not required to retain those copies: "Under the provisions of the act of March 4, 1909, authority is granted for the return to the claimant of copyright of such copyright deposits as are not required by the Library." A report created by Library of Congress film historian and archivist David Pierce claims: * 75% of original silent-era films have perished. * 14% of the 10,919 silent films released by major studios exist in their original 35 mm or other formats. * 11% survive only in full-length foreign versions or film formats of lesser image quality. Of the American sound films made from 1927 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longman
Longman, also known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC. Since 1968, Longman has been used primarily as an imprint by Pearson's Schools business. The Longman brand is also used for the Longman Schools in China and the ''Longman Dictionary''. History Beginnings The Longman company was founded by Thomas Longman (1699 – 18 June 1755), the son of Ezekiel Longman (died 1708), a gentleman of Bristol. Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn, a London bookseller, and at the expiration of his apprenticeship married Osborn's daughter. In August 1724, he purchased the stock and household goods of William Taylor, the first publisher of ''Robinson Crusoe'', for 9s 6d. Taylor's two shops in Paternoster Row, London, were known respectively as the '' Black Swan'' and the ''Ship'', premises at that time having signs rather than numbers, and became the publishing house premises. Longman entered into part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Film Source Book
''The Science Fiction Film Source Book'' is a book by David Wingrove published in 1985. Plot summary ''The Science Fiction Film Source Book'' is a book consisting of list of science fiction film plot summaries, with information about producers, directors, and more. Reception Dave Langford reviewed ''The Science Fiction Film Source Book'' for ''White Dwarf A white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to the Sun's, while its volume is comparable to the Earth's. A white dwarf's faint luminosity comes fro ...'' #73, and stated that "To pick a random example, the entry on ''Wizards'' dismisses it as 'comic-orientated' without even mentioning the influence of Vaughn Bode, or Ian Miller's powerfully effective backgrounds. Nitpicking, though, is a game with no ending." References 1985 books Science fiction books {{sf-book-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 In Science Fiction
The year 1920 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 2: Isaac Asimov, American writer, (died 1992). * May 9: **William Tenn, American writer (died 2010) ** Richard George Adams, British writer (died 2016) * June 13: Walter Ernsting, German writer, (died 2005) * August 22: Ray Bradbury, American writer (died 2012) * October 8: Frank Herbert, American writer (died 1986) * Peter Phillips, British writer (died 2012) Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * '' We'', novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin. * ''A Voyage to Arcturus'', novel by David Lindsay. * '' Le Formidable Événement'', novel by Maurice Leblanc. * ''City of Endless Night'', novel by Milo Hastings. Stories collections Short stories The Comet, short story by W. E. B. Du Bois Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies * ''Algol'', by Hans Werckmeister. * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rediscovered Films
This is a list of rediscovered films that, once thought lost, have since been discovered, in whole or in part. See List of incomplete or partially lost films and List of rediscovered film footage for films which were not wholly lost. For a film that was not released before it was rediscovered, the year is when it was produced. The year is also italicized. Silent films Many films of the silent era have been lost. The Library of Congress estimates 75% of all silent films are lost forever. About 10,919 American silent films were produced, but only 2,749 of them still exist in some complete form, either as an original American 35mm version, a foreign release, or as a lower-quality copy. 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s Sound films 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s See also * ''Bezhin Meadow'', directed by Sergei Eisenstein, the production was halted in 1937 by the Soviet government; it was thought lost in World War II, but cuttings and partia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Droste
Sebastian Droste (born Willÿ Knobloch; 2 February 1898 – 27 June 1927) was a German poet, actor, and dancer associated with the underground art subculture of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s. Droste relocated from his hometown of Hamburg to Berlin in 1919. He earned a living as a naked dancer, choreographer and expressionist poet. His first poem appeared in April edition of ''Der Sturm'' that same year, titled 'Tanz' (''Dance)''. A further 15 poems and ‘grotesques’ appeared across 12 editions of the journal alongside other artists and poets such as Kurt Schwitters and Paul Klee. He alternated between publishing under the name Willy or Willi Knobloch. Also in 1919 he published a drama in the Dresden based expressionist journal ''Menschen''. In 1922, Droste married expressionist exotic dancer and actress in silent movies of the Berlin scene, Anita Berber. She and Droste performed fantasias with titles such as "Suicide," "Morphium," and "Mad House". Droste appeared as a dance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrude Welcker
Gertrude Welcker (16 July 1896 – 1 August 1988) was a German stage and silent film actress. She appeared in 64 films between 1917 and 1925. Biography Gertrude Welcker was born in Dresden on 16 July 1896. Her father, who was editor-in-chief and general manager of the Posener Tageblatt, died in 1909. She had a younger brother named Herbert (born 1898). Welcker visited Max Reinhardt's acting school in Berlin during the First World War. From 1915 to 1916 she starred in productions at the Albert Theater in Dresden. From 1916 to 1919 she performed at the Deutsches Theater, Kammerspiele, and Volksbühne. There, she was seen as a prostitute in August Strindberg's ' in a production of , as Lesbia in Felix Hollaender's staging of Friedrich Hebbel's ', as Recha in Lessing's ''Nathan the Wise'', and as sister Martha in Gerhart Hauptmann's '. In addition to these roles, she played under Marion Reinhardt's direction of Georg Büchner's ''Danton's Death'', a maid Sophie in Friedrich Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Hofmann
Ernst Karl Heinrich Hofmann (7 December 1880 – 27 April 1945) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' The White Roses'' (1916) * '' Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917) * '' Countess Kitchenmaid'' (1918) * '' Ikarus, the Flying Man'' (1918) * ''The Mistress of the World'' (1919) * '' The Boy in Blue'' (1919) * '' The Spinning Ball'' (1919) * ''Algol'' (1920) * ''Intrigue'' (1920) * '' Satan'' (1920) * ''The Red Poster'' (1920) * ''Fanny Elssler'' (1920) * '' About the Son'' (1921) * '' Trix, the Romance of a Millionairess'' (1921) * '' Memoirs of a Film Actress'' (1921) * '' Off the Rails'' (1921) * '' Miss Beryll'' (1921) * ''The Inheritance of Tordis'' (1921) * '' Parisian Women'' (1921) * ''Man Overboard'' (1921) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * '' The Call of Destiny'' (1922) * ''Circus People'' (1922) * '' Shadows of the Past'' (1922) * '' The Golden Net'' (1922) * '' The Big Shot'' (1922) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * ''Lyda Ssanin'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erna Morena
Erna Morena (born Ernestine Maria Fuchs, 24 April 1885 – 20 July 1962) was a German film actress, film producer, and screenwriter of the silent era. She appeared in 104 films between 1913 and 1951. Biography Ernestine Maria Fuchs was born into the middle-class family of Eugenie Fuchs (née. Seyler, 1862–1951) and Friedrich Fuchs (1859–1895) on 24 April 1885. She had a younger brother, Friedrich Fuchs (1890–1948), who became a Brentano researcher. Fuchs went to Munich at age 17 to attend the school of applied arts. She later spent half a year in Paris before moving to Berlin in 1909, where she worked as a nurse. She took lessons at the drama school of the German Theater in Berlin, and was hired by Max Reinhardt in 1910 as an actress. The following year she worked there in small roles, and began using the stage name Erna Morena. She made her film debut in 1913 in ''The Sphinx'' by Eugen Illés for the newly founded film production company Literaria Film by Alfred Duske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Hans Adalbert Schlettow (11 June 1888 – 30 April 1945) was a German film actor. Schlettow appeared in around a hundred and sixty films during his career, the majority during the silent era. Among his best-known film roles was ''Hagen von Tronje'' in Fritz Lang's film classic ''Die Nibelungen'' (1924). In 1929 he starred in the British director Anthony Asquith's film ''A Cottage on Dartmoor''.Ryall p.170 He was a member of the Militant League for German Culture and the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization. Schlettow died in the Battle of Berlin. Selected filmography * '' Und wenn ich lieb' nimm dich in acht...!'' (1917) * ''Der breite Weg'' (1917) * '' Die Gespensterstunde'' (1917) * '' Klosterfriede'' (1917) * ''When the Heart Burns with Hate'' (1917) * '' Vier Finger'' (1919) * '' The White Roses of Ravensberg'' (1919) as Count Ludwig Erlenstein * '' Hiob'' (1919) * ''Countess Doddy'' (1919) * ''Dias Geheimnis der alten Truhe'' * ''Algol'' (1920) as Peter Hell * ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Factory
A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods being created or processed within factories. Factories arose with the introduction of machinery during the Industrial Revolution, when the capital and space requirements became too great for cottage industry or workshops. Early factories that contained small amounts of machinery, such as one or two spinning mules, and fewer than a dozen workers have been called "glorified workshops". Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Large factories tend to be located with access to multiple modes of transportation, some having rail, highway and water loading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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