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Barney McGill
Barney McGill (April 30, 1890 – January 11, 1942) was an American cinematographer who was nominated at the 4th Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for the film ''Svengali''. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1890. He was the cinematographer for more than 90 films from 1919 to 1941. Partial filmography * ''My Lady Friends'' (1921) * ''Marry the Poor Girl'' (1921) * ''The Man from Glengarry'' (1922) * ''Glengarry School Days'' (1923) *''A Self-Made Failure'' (1924) (with Ray June) *''A Trip to Chinatown'' (1926) *'' What Price Glory?'' (1926) *''Casey at the Bat'' (1927) *'' The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary'' (1927) *''Jaws of Steel'' (1927) *'' Across the Atlantic'' (1928) *''The Crimson City'' (1928) * ''The House of Scandal'' (1928) *''State Street Sadie'' (1928) *''The Terror'' (1928) (as Chick McGill) *''Noah's Ark'' (1928) (with Hal Mohr) *''The Home Towners'' (1928) *''The Desert Song'' (1929) *''The Hottentot'' (1929) *''Gold Diggers of Broadway'' (1929) *''The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the Capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Utah, most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the county seat, seat of Salt Lake County, Utah, Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With a population of 200,133 in 2020, the city is the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which had a population of 1,257,936 at the 2020 census. Salt Lake City is further situated within a larger metropolis known as the Salt Lake City–Provo–Orem Combined Statistical Area, Salt Lake City–Ogden–Provo Combined Statistical Area, a corridor of contiguous urban and suburban development stretched along a segment of the Wasatch Front, comprising a population of 2,746,164 (as of 2021 estimates), making it the 22nd largest in the nation. It is also the central core of the larger of only two major urban areas located within the Great Basin (the other being Reno, Nevada). Salt Lake C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casey At The Bat (1927 Film)
''Casey at the Bat'' is a 1927 American silent film, directed by Monte Brice, written by Ernest Thayer and based on the 1888 baseball poem of the same name. The picture stars Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, ZaSu Pitts and Sterling Holloway in his film debut. Surviving period advertisements indicate Eddie Sutherland may have been slated as director before Brice. A copy was preserved at the Library of Congress. Cast * Wallace Beery as Casey * Ford Sterling as O'Dowd * ZaSu Pitts as Camille * Sterling Holloway as Elmer Putnam * Spec O'Donnell as Spec * Iris Stuart as Trixie * Sydney Jarvis as McGraw * Lotus Thompson as Rosalind Byrne * Sally Blane as Florodora Girl See also * '' Breaking into the Big League'' (1913) * ''Babe Comes Home ''Babe Comes Home'' is a 1927 American silent sports comedy film produced and distributed through First National and directed by Ted Wilde. The film is a baseball-styled sports film centering on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson. The film was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Diggers Of Broadway
''Gold Diggers of Broadway'' is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Winnie Lightner and Nick Lucas. Distributed by Warner Bros., the film is the second all-talking, all-Technicolor feature-length film (after ''On with the Show!'', also released that year by Warner Bros). ''Gold Diggers of Broadway'' became a box office sensation, making Winnie Lightner a worldwide star and boosting guitarist crooner Nick Lucas to further fame as he sang two songs that became 20th-century standards: "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine." Based on the 1919 play '' The Gold Diggers''—which was also turned into a silent film of the same name in 1923—''Gold Diggers of Broadway'' utilized showgirls, Technicolor, and sound as its main selling points. It was chosen as one of the ten best films of 1929 by '' Film Daily''. As with many early Technicolor films, no complete print survives, although the last twenty minutes do, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hottentot
''The Hottentot'' is a lost 1929 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller. It is based on the 1920 Broadway play ''The Hottentot'' by William Collier, Sr. and Victor Mapes. A previous silent version was produced by Thomas H. Ince in 1922, starring Douglas MacLean. at silentera.com Plot Sam Harrington (Edward Everrett Horton) is a simple horse lover who is mistaken for a champion steeplechase jockey and prevailed upon by Peggy Fairfax (Patsy Ruth Miller) to take part in an upcoming race.Cast * |
The Desert Song (1929 Film)
''The Desert Song'' is a 1929 American Pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy. It was photographed partly in two-color Technicolor, the first film released by Warner Bros. to include footage in color. The film included a 10-minute intermission during which music was played. It was based on the hit musical play with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, and Frank Mandel, which opened at the Casino Theatre on Broadway on November 30, 1926, and ran for a very successful 465 performances. Although some of the songs from the show have been omitted, the film is otherwise virtually a duplicate of the stage production and extremely faithful to it. On the basis of the success of ''The Desert Song'', Warner Bros. quickly cast John Boles in an all-color musical feature called ''Song of the West'', which was completed by June 1929 but had its release delayed until Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Home Towners
''The Home Towners'' is a 1928 American comedy film directed by Bryan Foy and starring Richard Bennett, Doris Kenyon, and Robert McWade. This film was the third all talking picture produced by Warner Brothers to be released. Cast * Richard Bennett as Vic Arnold * Doris Kenyon as Beth Calhoun * Robert McWade as P. H. Bancroft * Robert Edeson as Mr. Calhoun * Gladys Brockwell as Lottie Bancroft * John Miljan as Joe Roberts * Vera Lewis Vera Lewis (June 10, 1873 – February 8, 1956) was an American film and stage actress, beginning in the silent film era. She appeared in more than 180 films between 1915 and 1947. She was married to actor Ralph Lewis. Biography She was b ... as Mrs. Calhoun * Stanley Taylor as Wally Calhoun * James T. Mack as Casey * Patricia Caron as Maid Preservation status ''The Home Towners'' is now lost. References Bibliography * Roy Liebman. ''Vitaphone Films: A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts''. McFarland, 2003. External lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Mohr
Hal Mohr, A.S.C. (August 2, 1894 in San Francisco – May 10, 1974 in Santa Monica, California) was a famed movie cinematographer who won an Oscar for his work on the 1935 film, '' A Midsummer Night's Dream''. He was awarded another Oscar for ''The Phantom of the Opera'' in 1943, and received a nomination for '' The Four Poster'' in 1952. Career From a young age, Hal Mohr wanted to pursue a career in cinematography because he was curious to learn about how to make pictures move onscreen. He worked as a photo finisher in a photo lab to gain experience with the camera. When he was 19 years old, he filmed his first movie, ''Pam's Daughter'', which, unfortunately, was never seen by the public because of problems with the motion picture distribution company. Mohr moved to Hollywood in 1915 and began working at Universal City to gain further experience in the industry. There, he filmed ''The Jazz Singer'' in 1927 for Warner Brothers. In 1915, in an early example of an exploitati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah's Ark (1928 Film)
''Noah's Ark'' is a 1928 American epic romantic melodramatic disaster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello and George O'Brien. The story is by Darryl F. Zanuck. The film was released by the Warner Bros. studio. It is representative of the transition from silent movies to "talkies", although it is essentially a hybrid film known as a part-talkie, which used the new Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. Most scenes are silent with a synchronized music score and sound effects, in particular the biblical ones, while some scenes have dialogue. Plot After the Great Flood, Noah and his family are seen outside of the Ark praising the Lord, followed by depictions of the building of the Tower of Babel, the worshipping of the golden calf, and then the eve of World War I, where a bankrupted trader shoots his uncaring stockbroker. In 1914, American playboy Travis and his New York taxi driver buddy Al are traveling aboard the " Oriental Express" train. Travis helps a pio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Terror (1928 Film)
''The Terror'' is a 1928 American pre-Code horror film written by Harvey Gates and directed by Roy Del Ruth, based on the 1927 play of the same name by Edgar Wallace. It was the second " all-talking" motion picture released by Warner Bros., following '' Lights of New York''. It was also the first all-talking horror film, made using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. Plot "The Terror", a killer whose identity is unknown, occupies an English country house that has been converted into an inn. Guests, including the spiritualist Mrs. Elvery and detective Ferdinand Fane, are frightened by strange noises and mysterious organ music. Connors and Marks, two men just released from gaol, have sworn revenge upon "The Terror". Following a night of mayhem that includes murder, the identity of "The Terror" is revealed. Cast *May McAvoy as Olga Redmayne *Louise Fazenda as Mrs. Elvery, a spiritualist *Edward Everett Horton as Ferdinand Fane, a Scotland Yard detective * Alec B. Francis as Dr. Red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Street Sadie
''State Street Sadie'' is a 1928 American crime drama film directed by Archie Mayo, and released as a silent film with talking sequences using Warner Bros.' Vitaphone sound-on-disc process.Progressive Silent Film List: ''State Street Sadie'' at silentera.com This is regarded as a film. /ref> Cast * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The House Of Scandal
''The House of Scandal'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by King Baggot and starring Pat O'Malley, Dorothy Sebastian and Gino Corrado.Munden p.366 Cast * Pat O'Malley as Pat Regan * Dorothy Sebastian as Ann Rourke * Harry Murray as Danny Regan * Gino Corrado as Morgan * Lee Shumway as The Butler * Jack Singleton as A Man About Town * Ida Darling as Mrs. Chatterton * Lydia Knott Lydia Knott (October 1, 1866 – March 30, 1955) was an American actress of the silent film era. She appeared in more than 90 films between 1914 and 1937. Biography Knott was born in Tyner, Indiana, the daughter of Lambert and Clarissa Kn ... as Mrs. Rourke References Bibliography * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1928 films 1928 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crimson City
''The Crimson City'' (1928) is an American silent drama film produced by Warner Bros. written by Anthony Coldeway and directed by Archie Mayo. Actors include Myrna Loy, Anna May Wong, Sōjin Kamiyama, John Miljan, Leila Hyams and Richard Tucker. The film was released with a Vitaphone soundtrack with a music score and sound effects. The film was released by Warner Brothers Pictures on April 7, 1928. Plot The story centers on an Asian woman named Onoto (Loy), who is rescued from slavery by a fugitive of European ancestry named Gregory Kent (Miljan). They fall in love, but prevailing mores about race doom the romance. Onoto leaves Kent so that he may marry another (Hyams). Cast *Myrna Loy as Onoto *John Miljan as Gregory Kent *Leila Hyams as Nadine Howells *Matthew Betz as "Dagger Foo" *Anders Randolf as Major Howells * Sōjin Kamiyama as Sin Yoy *Anna May Wong as Su *Richard Tucker as Richard Brand Preservation status The only known surviving copy is kept at the Museo del Cine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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