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Charlie The Elephant
Charlie, sometimes Charley or Old Charlie, (b. unknown, d. 1923) was an elephant who lived at the Universal City Zoo in Universal City, California, United States, from approximately 1914 to 1923 and appeared in scores of silent-era films. He was executed in approximately August 1923 for his attack on trainer Curley Stecker. Life and work Apparently formerly known as Prince Rajah, Charlie the Elephant weighed just shy of five tons (4,500 kg).Death Sentence for Movie Elephant, New Philadelphia Daily Times Newspaper Archives August 22, 1923 Page 5Famed Elephant Must Be Killed, Defiance Crescent News 27 Aug 1923, Defiance, Ohio, USA He may have been found hauling teakwood near Calcutta in 1889 or 1899 by a scout for Karl Hamburg and brought to the Berlin Zoo. Circus manager and actor Duke R. Lee then brought Charlie to the United States in 1902 or 1903. Animal collector Frank Buck claimed to have "brought him back from India," but Frank Buck told a lot of fibs. A movie mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Big Universal Elephant
Charlie may refer to: Characters * "Charlie," the head of the Townsend Agency', from the ''Charlie's Angels'' franchise * Charlie, a character on signs for the CharlieCard, a smart card issued by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority * Charlie, mascot of British restaurant Little Chef * Charlie Dompler, main character from animated series '' Smiling Friends'' Film and television * ''Charlie'' (2015 Malayalam film), a 2015 Indian Malayalam-language film * ''Charlie'' (2015 Kannada film), a 2015 Indian Kannada-language film * ''Charlie'' (TV series), a 2015 political drama series based on the life of Charles J. Haughey * "Charlie", a 2004 episode of the television series '' The Mighty Boosh'' * '' 777 Charlie'', a 2022 Indian Kannada-language film Military * Charlie-class submarine, of the Soviet Navy * "Charlie", American military slang referring to the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers * "Charlie", the letter "C" in the NATO phonetic alphabet Music * Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man And Beast (1917 Film)
''Man and Beast'' is a 1917 American silent adventure film directed by Henry MacRae and starring Harry Clifton, Eileen Sedgwick and L.M. Wells.Connelly p.381 Cast * Harry Clifton as Carl von Haagen * Eileen Sedgwick as Gretel von Haagen * L.M. Wells as Mr.Townsend * Mattie Witting as Mrs. Townsend * J. Parks Jones as Ned Townsend * Kingsley Benedict Kingsley Benedict (November 14, 1878 – November 27, 1951) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1915 and 1930. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Benedic ... as Eitel van Haagen References Bibliography * Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. External links * 1917 films 1917 adventure films American silent feature films American adventure films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Henry MacRae 1910s English-language fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motion Picture News
The ''Motion Picture News'' was an American film industry trade paper published from 1913 to 1930. History The publication was created through the 1913 merger of the ''Moving Picture News'' founded in 1908 and ''The Exhibitors' Times'', founded earlier in 1913.Grau, Robert (1914). The Theatre of Science', p. 247 After being acquired by Martin Quigley in 1930, the publication was merged with ''Exhibitors' Herald World'' to form the ''Motion Picture Herald''. See also * List of film periodicals Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception. Their articles contrast with film reviewing in newspapers and magazines whi ... References External links ''Motion Picture News'', Vols. 20–24(November–December 1919), via Google Books ''Motion Picture News'' (1913–1930)links at Media History Digital Library 1913 establishments in the United States 1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media History Digital Library
] The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) is a non-profit, open access digital archive founded by David Pierce and directed by Eric Hoyt that compiles books, magazines, and other print materials related to the histories of film, broadcasting, and recorded sound and makes these materials accessible online for free. The MHDL both digitizes physical materials and acquires digital copies from outside libraries, archives, collectors, and other collaborators. Most of the material in its more than 2.5 million pages is in the public domain and therefore free for all to use with no restrictions. Projects of the Media History Digital Library include its search engine Lantern and its data visualization platform Arclight, and it is currently led by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in Madison, Wisconsin. Film and media studies librarian James Steffen has called the MHDL one of "the two most important digital collections today for study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NewspaperArchive
Heritage Microfilm, Inc. (est. 1997) is a preservation microfilm and microfilm digitization business located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. History The company began in 1996 when the microfilm division of Cedar Rapids-based Crest Information Technologies was sold to Christopher Gill. The microfilm division was responsible at the time for preserving newspapers and for microfilming business documents. The business document filming portion of the business was soon dropped in favor of the newspaper microfilming division. Crest in 1999 sold the remaining portion of the company to Lason. In 1999, Heritage Microfilm began digitizing newspaper microfilm and launched NewspaperArchive. Soon after, it began creating smaller "branded" newspaper archive websites in collaboration with publishing partners. The firm works with ANSI/AIIM standards for preservation microfilming. It has a humidity and temperature-controlled storage facility. It is a Kodak ImageGuard facility. One of its specializatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Antonio Express
The ''San Antonio Express-News'' is a daily newspaper in San Antonio, Texas. It is owned by the Hearst Corporation and has offices in San Antonio and Austin, Texas. The ''Express-News'' is the third largest newspaper in the state of Texas, with a daily circulation of nearly 100,000 copies in 2016. The newspaper's online presence includes both the subscription version of the ''San Antonio Express-News'' and the ad-supported ''mySA''. History The paper was first published in 1865 as a weekly tabloid-style newspaper under the name ''The San Antonio Express''. At that time, the city had already had a number of other newspapers in a number of different languages. However, all the other publications went out of business, leaving only the ''Express'' to serve the city. In December 1866, the ''Express'' made the move from a weekly paper to a daily newspaper, and expanded into a full newspaper by the early 1870s. The early days of the ''Express'' was marked by several leadership chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Digital Newspaper Collection
The California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) is a freely-available, archive of digitized California newspapers; it is accessible through the project's website. The collection contains over six million pages from over forty-two million articles. The project is part of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California Riverside. History The Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research was one of six initial participants in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a newspaper digitization project established from a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Between 2005 and 2011, the CBSR received three two-year grants, and contributed around 300,000 pages to Chronicling America, the public face of the NDNP. Published newspaper titles submitted include the ''San Francisco Call'', ''Los Angeles Daily Herald'', ''Amador Ledger'', and the ''Imperial Valley Press''. In 2015, the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestkusten
was an originally Swedish-language newspaper, published in California from 1887 to 2007. It was founded as ''Ebenezer'', a church news bulletin by Augustana Lutheran pastor Johannes Tellen, but it soon changed focus and became a newspaper after he gave it over to editor and typesetter Alrik G. Spencer. For most of its run, it was a weekly newspaper published in San Francisco. It was primarily a local newspaper for Swedish Americans in northern California, but also contained news from the Swedish press in the form of special reports. Swedish-Americans Ernst Skarstedt and took over the newspaper in 1894, increasing its popularity. After Olsson's death in the 1950s, it was run by writer Karin Person for some time; the association Friends of Vestkusten was founded in 1968 to keep it afloat when Person began to struggle. More recently, the paper was owned and operated for many years by Swedish-American Barbro Sachs-Osher, who purchased it in 1991. It has been digitized and is sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FamilySearch
FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software. It is operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and is closely connected with the church's Family History Department. The Family History Department was originally established in 1894 as the Genealogical Society of Utah (GSU) and is the largest genealogy organization in the world. FamilySearch maintains a collection of records, resources, and services designed to help people learn more about their family history. Facilitating the performance of LDS ordinances for deceased relatives is another major aim of the organization. Although it requires user account registration, it offers free access to its resources and service online at FamilySearch.org. In addition, FamilySearch offers personal assistance at more than 5,100 family history centers in 140 countries, including the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Family Tree secti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brass Bottle (1923 Film)
''The Brass Bottle'' is a 1923 American silent fantasy comedy film produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by First National Pictures. The original 1900 novel '' The Brass Bottle'' by Thomas Anstey Guthrie was produced as a Broadway play in 1910. A 1914 silent followed. Both silent versions are lost. A 1964 adaptation starred Tony Randall and Barbara Eden. Cast *Harry Myers as Horace Ventimore *Ernest Torrence as Fakresh-el-Aamash *Tully Marshall as Professor Hamilton *Clarissa Selwynne as Mrs. Hamilton *Ford Sterling as Rapkin *Aggie Herring as Mrs. Rapkin *Charlotte Merriam as Sylvia Hamilton * Edward Jobson as Samuel Wackerbath *Barbara La Marr as The Queen *Otis Harlan as Captain of the Guard *Hazel Keener *Julanne Johnston Julanne Johnston (May 1, 1900 – December 26, 1988) was an American silent film actress. Biography Johnston was born and educated in Indianapolis, Indiana, then her family moved to Hollywood. There she took dancing lessons at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinn
Jinn ( ar, , ') – also Romanization of Arabic, romanized as djinn or Anglicization, anglicized as genies (with the broader meaning of spirit or demon, depending on sources) – are Invisibility, invisible creatures in early Arabian mythology, pre-Islamic Arabian Religious system, religious systems and later in Islamic mythology and Islamic theology, theology. Like humans, they are accountable for their deeds, can be either believers (''Muslim'') or unbelievers (''kafir''); depending on whether they accept God's guidance. Since jinn are neither innately evil nor innately good, Islam acknowledged spirits from other religions and was able to adapt spirits from other religions during its expansion. Jinn are not a strictly Islamic concept; they may represent several Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia, pagan beliefs integrated into Islam. To assert a strict monotheism and the Islamic concept of ''Tauhid'', Islam denies all affinities between the jinn and God, thus placing the jinn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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