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Amedee J. Van Beuren
Amedee J. Van Beuren (born Amedee Vignot; July 10, 1879 – November 12, 1938) was the producer of Frank Buck's first three films, as well as many cartoons and short films. Early years Van Beuren was born in New York, the son of Alfred Vignot, who died in 1894, and Marietta Ferguson. Subsequently, Marietta married Alfred van Beuren on January 13, 1898, when Amadee was in his 9th year, and he took on his stepfather's surname. Alfred van Beuren was head of the van Beuren advertising company, which became a part of the General Outdoor Advertising Company. Amedee was educated at public and private schools and a business college. He worked in the livery business, groceries, and then as a salesman. Van Beuren Productions One of Amedee van Beuren's earliest and most successful projects was a series of cartoons produced by his Van Beuren Studios, Aesop's Film Fables. Later movies produced included the Frank Buck features Bring 'Em Back Alive (1932), Wild Cargo (1934), and Fang and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmel, New York
Carmel (pronounced ) is a Town (New York), town in Putnam County, New York, Putnam County, New York (state), New York, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the town had a population of 33,576. The town may have been named after Mount Carmel in Israel. The Town of Carmel is on the southern border of Putnam County, abutting Westchester County, New York, Westchester County, approximately north of New York City and west of Danbury, Connecticut. It has no incorporated villages, although the hamlets of Carmel Hamlet, New York, Carmel and Mahopac, New York, Mahopac each have populations sizable enough to be considered villages. History The town was settled around 1740 by George Hughson. On the night of April 26, 1777, after learning the news that the British had begun burning nearby Danbury, Connecticut, Danbury, Connecticut, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington rode the entire night through the hamlets of Carmel, Mahopac, Kent, New York, Kent Cliffs and Farmers Mills, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Buck (animal Collector) (1887–1942), U.S. representative from California 1933–1942
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Frank Buck may refer to: *Frank Buck (Tennessee politician) (born 1943), state legislator in Tennessee * Frank Buck (animal collector) (1884–1950), American wildlife importer and media personality * Frank E. Buck (1884-1970), Canadian horticulturalist *Frank H. Buck Frank Henry Buck (September 23, 1887 – September 17, 1942) was an American heir, businessman and politician. He served as U.S. Representative from California from 1933 to 1942. Biography Early life Frank Buck was born on a ranch near Vac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Producer
A film producer is a person who oversees film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting the script, coordinating writing, directing, editing, and arranging financing. The producer is responsible for finding and selecting promising material for development. Unless the film is based on an existing script, the producer hires a screenwriter and oversees the script's development. These activities culminate with the pitch, led by the producer, to secure the financial backing that enables production to begin. If all succeeds, the project is "greenlighted". The producer also supervises the pre-production, principal photography and post-production stages of filmmaking. A producer is also responsible for hiring a director for the film, as well as other key crew members. Whereas the director makes the creative decisions during the production, the producer typically ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (state)
New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. state by area. With 20.2 million people, it is the fourth-most-populous state in the United States as of 2021, with approximately 44% living in New York City, including 25% of the state's population within Brooklyn and Queens, and another 15% on the remainder of Long Island, the most populous island in the United States. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east; it has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest. New York City (NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and around two-thirds of the state's popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Beuren Studios
The Van Beuren Corporation was a New York City-based animation studio that produced theatrical cartoons as well as live-action short-subjects from the 1920s to 1936. History In 1920, the Keith-Albee organization formed Fables Pictures for the production of the Aesop's Film Fables cartoon series with Paul Terry, who himself owned 10 percent of the studio. Producer Amedee J. Van Beuren bought out the studio in 1928, retaining Terry and renaming the business after its new owner. Van Beuren released Terry's first sound cartoon '' Dinner Time'' (1928) (a month before Disney's ''Steamboat Willie'') through Pathé Exchange, which later became part of RKO Pictures. Terry ran the animation studio while Van Beuren focused on other parts of the business. In 1929, Terry quit to start his own Terrytoons studio and John Foster took over the animation department. Van Beuren released his films through RKO Radio Pictures. The early sound Van Beuren cartoons are almost identical to the late si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aesop's Film Fables
''Aesop's Fables'' (later renamed ''Aesop's Sound Fables'') is a series of animated short subjects, created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. Produced from 1921 to 1933, the series includes '' Closer than a Brother'' (1925), ''The Window Washers'' (1925), '' Small Town Sheriff'' (1927), '' Dinner Time'' (1928), and ''Gypped in Egypt'' (1930). ''Dinner Time'' is the first cartoon with a synchronized soundtrack ever released to the public. The series provided inspiration to Walt Disney to found the Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri, where he created Mickey Mouse. History Terry was inspired to make the series by young actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook, who suggested making a series of cartoons based on ''Aesop's Fables''. Although Terry later claimed he had never heard of Aesop, he said that Estabrook's idea was worthwhile. Terry immediately began to set up a new studio called Fables Studios, Inc. and received backing from the Keith-Albee Theatre circuit. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bring 'Em Back Alive (1932 Film)
''Bring 'Em Back Alive'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code jungle adventure documentary filmed in Malaya starring Frank Buck. The film was promoted with an NBC radio series of the same title. Production After unsuccessfully attempting to interest the main Hollywood motion picture companies to finance his trips to make a series of shorts, Buck approached Amedee Van Beuren whose studio only made cartoons and live action short subjects released through RKO Studios. Van Beuren agreed to Buck's conditions that he finance all expenses of Buck's expedition, pay Buck with a share of the profits and not view any of the footage sent back until Buck was present, as Buck was unsure of how the images would actually look on film. Van Beuren kept his word and when viewing the footage they both realised they had enough film of high quality to make a feature film. Photography In ''Bring ‘Em Back Alive,'' unlike in most other jungle pictures of the time, director Clyde E. Elliott kept the came ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Cargo (1934 Film)
''Wild Cargo'' is a 1934 jungle adventure documentary starring Frank Buck. Buck depicts the ingenious methods by which he traps wild birds, mammals and reptiles. Many scenes were photographed on the vast Malayan estates of Buck's friend, Sultan Ibrahim of Johor, who appears in person in the film. Scenes Among the scenes in the film are: *a python's escape from its box; Buck recaptures the giant snake. *a fight to the death between a black panther and a python in which the python comes off victorious *Buck traps a man-eating tiger *a python crawls in between the bars of a pig pen and swallows the pig; the snake has imprisoned itself, for with the pig inside it, it could not extricate itself from the pen *a python attacks Buck in the jungle, and Buck must shoot the huge snake to save his own life *a king cobra escapes from its box and attacks Buck Behind the camera Cameraman Leroy G. Phelps was nearly crippled by an infection he acquired after scratching himself on a poison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fang And Claw (1935 Film)
''Fang and Claw'' is a 1935 jungle adventure documentary starring Frank Buck. Buck continues his demonstration of the ingenious methods by which he traps wild birds, mammals and reptiles in Johore Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the northwest. Johor shares maritime bor .... Scenes Among the scenes in the film: * Buck shoots a tiger attacking a young rhino and captures the rhino. * Buck captures a bird of paradise *Buck captures a python by shooting off the tree limb supporting the snake *Buck captures a large group of monkeys by luring them with tapioca.” Behind the camera The film took nine months to make. A python cinematographer Harry E. Squire was helping Buck to force into a box left a wound on Squire’s right arm. Reception “The intrepid Mr. Buck displays his ingenuity and courage…Fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friendly Sons Of St
Friendly may refer to: Places * Friendly, West Yorkshire, a settlement in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England * Friendly, Maryland, an unincorporated community in the United States * Friendly, Eugene, Oregon, a neighborhood in the United States * Friendly, West Virginia, a town in the United States * Friendly Islands or Tonga Other uses * Friendly (surname) * Friendly (musician), Australian-born musician * Friendly (sport) or exhibition game, a game of association football or bandy that has no consequence in a wider competition * Friendly's, an American restaurant chain * Friendly Center, a shopping mall in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States * Friendly Hall, a building on the University of Oregon campus * Friendly High School, a public high school in Fort Washington, Maryland, United States * Friendly number, in mathematics, shares a property concerning its divisors * Friendly TV, a British TV station from 2003 to 2010 See also * Friend (other) * Friendly Hills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Lowell
Joan Lowell (born Helen Wagner; November 23, 1902 – November 7, 1967) was a movie actress of the silent film era from Berkeley, California. Lowell published a sensational autobiography, ''Cradle of the Deep'', in 1929, which turned out to be fictionalized. Early life According to the ''Cradle of the Deep'', Lowell's mother was hailing from Boston's Lowell family, and her father was the son of a landowner from Montenegro and a Turkish woman. Lowell feared that her father, Captain Nicholas Wagner (Preacher Nick), had died on December 24, 1924. Newspapers reported that his ship, the ''Oceanic Vance'', sank off the coast of Mexico. Two weeks overdue in Los Angeles, California, the schooner was sighted in January 1925, fifteen miles (24 km) northwest of San Diego. The ''Oceanic Vance'' had lost her convoy, the schooner ''Westerner'', on Christmas Eve, 1924. Actually, Joan Lowell was born in Berkeley, California. She studied in the Garfield Junior High School in Berkeley. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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