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Carrots (film)
''Carrots'' is a 1917 British silent film, silent crime film directed by Frank Wilson (director), Frank Wilson and starring Chrissie White, Lionelle Howard and Gerald Lawrence.Palmer p.884 A young female costermonger known as "Carrots" helps her policeman boyfriend thwart a criminal gang led by her own brother. Selected filmography * Chrissie White as Carrots * Lionelle Howard as Mike * Gerald Lawrence as PC Park * W.G. Saunders as Old Un' * Johnny Butt * Gordon Begg as Nobby * Harry Gilbey References Bibliography * Palmer, Scott. ''British Film Actors' Credits, 1895-1987''. McFarland, 1988. External links * 1917 films 1917 crime films British crime films British silent feature films Films directed by Frank Wilson Films set in England Hepworth Pictures films British black-and-white films 1910s English-language films 1910s British films {{1910s-crime-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wilson (director)
Frank Wilson (1873–?), was a British actor, writer and film director.Low p.151 Wilson was a prolific director during the silent era, shooting well over 200 shorts and feature films. He worked at the pioneering Hepworth Pictures in Walton Studios and later at Broadwest of Walthamstow Studios. Selected filmography Director * '' The Jewel Thieves Outwitted'' (1913) * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1913) * '' A Cigarette-Maker's Romance'' (1913) * ''The Heart of Midlothian'' (1914) * ''Justice'' (1914) * '' Her Boy'' (1915) * '' The Nightbirds of London'' (1915) * '' The White Boys'' (1916) * ''The Grand Babylon Hotel'' (1916) * '' A Bunch of Violets'' (1916) * ''A Gamble for Love'' (1917) * ''The Man Behind 'The Times''' (1917) * ''Her Marriage Lines'' (1917) * '' The Woman Wins'' (1918) * ''The Soul of Guilda Lois'' (1919) * ''The Irresistible Flapper'' (1919) * ''With All Her Heart ''With All Her Heart'' is a 1920 British silent drama film directed by Frank Wilson and starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Begg
Gordon Begg (14 January 1868 – February 1954) was a Scottish stage and film actor. During the silent film era he made several films in Hollywood, before returning to Britain. He appeared as William Shakespeare in the 1930 British revue film ''Elstree Calling''. Selected filmography * '' The Cost of a Kiss'' (1917) * '' A Sinless Sinner'' (1919) * '' The Harbour Lights'' (1923) * '' The Bandolero'' (1924) * ''His Buddy's Wife'' (1925) * '' The Celestial City'' (1929) * ''Elstree Calling'' (1930) * ''The Officers' Mess'' (1931) * '' Out of the Blue'' (1931) * ''The Sleeping Cardinal'' (1931) * '' Strictly Business'' (1931) * ''The Shadow'' (1933) * '' Princess Charming'' (1934) * '' Dangerous Ground'' (1934) * ''The Night of the Party'' (1935) * ''The Marriage of Corbal'' (1936) * '' Where There's a Will'' (1936) * ''English Without Tears'' (1944) * '' Welcome, Mr. Washington'' (1944) * '' They Knew Mr. Knight'' (1946) * ''Great Expectations ''Great Expectations'' is the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Black-and-white Films
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Hepworth Pictures Films
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Films Set In England
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Frank Wilson
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...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] |
British Crime 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 (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Crime Films
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 ** WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. ** An anti- prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Films
1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the most, along with 1913. Secondarily the year saw a limited global embrace of narrative film-making and featured innovative techniques such as continuity cutting. Primarily, the year is an American landmark, as 1917 is the first year where the narrative and visual style is typified as "Classical Hollywood". __TOC__ Events *January – ''Panthea'' is released, the first film from the company that Joseph Schenck formed with his wife, Norma Talmadge, after leaving Loew's Consolidated Enterprises. *February – Buster Keaton first meets Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in New York and is hired as a co-star and gag man. *April 9 – Supreme Court of the United States rule in Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Manufacturing Co. which ends the Motion Picture Patents Company appeal and results in the end of the company. *April 23 â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Gilbey
Harry Gilbey was a British actor who appeared in more than fifty films during the silent era including '' After Dark'' (1915).Goble p.49 Selected filmography * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1913) * '' Kissing Cup'' (1913) * '' After Dark'' (1915) * ''Barnaby Rudge'' (1915) * '' The House of Fortescue'' (1916) * ''The Man Behind 'The Times''' (1917) * '' The Eternal Triangle'' (1917) * ''Broken Threads'' (1917) * ''With All Her Heart'' (1920) * ''The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick ''The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick'' is a 1921 British silent film, silent comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley based on the 1837 novel ''The Pickwick Papers'' by Charles Dickens. As of August 2010, the film is missing from the BFI National Arch ...'' (1921) * '' Sybil'' (1921) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown British male film actors Place of death mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Butt
John William H. Butt (1870–1931) was an English film actor of the silent era. He was born in Bradford and died in North Bierley, West Yorkshire. Selected filmography * ''The Chimes'' (1914) * ''Far from the Madding Crowd'' (1915) * ''The Grand Babylon Hotel'' (1916) * ''The Man Behind 'The Times''' (1917) * ''The American Heiress'' (1917) * '' Carrots'' (1917) * '' The Diamond Necklace'' (1921) * '' The Skipper's Wooing'' (1922) * ''Sam's Boy'' (1922) * '' A Will and a Way'' (1922) * '' No. 7 Brick Row'' (1922) * '' The Head of the Family'' (1922) * ''The Monkey's Paw'' (1923) * '' Lawyer Quince'' (1924) * ''The Prehistoric Man'' (1924) * '' Sen Yan's Devotion'' (1924) * '' The Flying Fifty-Five'' (1924) *'' The Gold Cure'' (1925) * '' Nell Gwyn'' (1926) * ''Second to None'' (1927) * '' Passion Island'' (1927) * ''Carry On'' (1927) * '' The Hellcat'' (1928) * ''The Last Post The "Last Post" is either an A or a B♠bugle call, primarily within British infantry and Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
