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Floyd Crosby
Floyd Delafield Crosby, A.S.C. (December 12, 1899 – September 30, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer, descendant of the Van Rensselaer family, and father of musicians Ethan and David Crosby. Early life Crosby was born and raised in West Philadelphia, the son of Julia Floyd (née Delafield) and Frederick Van Schoonhoven Crosby. Through his maternal grandmother, he was descended from the prominent Van Rensselaer family. His maternal grandfather was Dr. Francis Delafield. His maternal uncle was Edward Henry Delafield (18801955). Career During his career, Floyd Crosby was involved in the cinematography of more than 100 full-length movies. He won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film '' Tabu: A Story of the South Seas''. In 1973, Crosby participated in an oral history sponsored by the American Film Institute, part of which dealt with his work on '' Tabu: A Story of the South Seas''.https://archive.org/details/TapeIISid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Philadelphia
West Philadelphia, nicknamed West Philly, is a section of the city of Philadelphia. Alhough there are no officially defined boundaries, it is generally considered to reach from the western shore of the Schuylkill River, to City Avenue to the northwest, Cobbs Creek to the southwest, and the SEPTA Media/Wawa Line to the south. An alternate definition includes all city land west of the Schuylkill; this would also include Southwest Philadelphia and its neighborhoods. The eastern side of West Philadelphia is also known as University City. Topography The topography of West Philadelphia is composed of rolling hills rising slowly from the Schuylkill River toward Cobbs Creek in the west and toward Belmont Plateau in the northwest. This gradual elevation makes the skyline of Center City visible from many points in West Philadelphia. The Wynnefield neighborhood is a location frequently used by photographers and organizers of civic events. Demographics According to the 2010 census, 216,4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van Cortlandt Family
The Van Cortlandt family was an influential political dynasty from the seventeenth-century Dutch origins of New York through its period as an English colony, then after it became a state, and into the nineteenth century. It rose to great prominence with the award of a Royal Charter to Van Cortlandt Manor, an tract in today's Westchester County sprawling from the Hudson River to the Connecticut state line granted as a Patent to Stephanus Van Cortlandt in 1697 by King William III. Among the Van Cortland family tree are members of the Philipse family, van Rensselaer family, Schuyler family, Livingston family, the de Peyster family, the Gage family, the Jay family (including John Jay, the Founding Father and first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court), and the Delanceys. Its legacy includes Van Cortlandt Park and the Van Cortlandt House Museum in the Bronx, New York; the town of Cortlandt in northern Westchester County, New York; Van Cortlandt Upper Manor House in the hamlet of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devil Take Us
''Devil Take Us'' is a 1952 American short documentary film on driving safety directed by Herbert Morgan. It was part of the Theatre of Life documentary series. It was nominated for two Academy Awards The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ..., one for Best Documentary Short and the other for Best Two-Reel Short. References External links * 1952 films American short documentary films American black-and-white films 1950s short documentary films 1952 documentary films 1952 short films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films {{short-documentary-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brave Bulls
''The Brave Bulls'' (aka ''Toros Bravos'' and ''The Brave Bulls, A Novel'') is a 1949 Western novel written by Tom Lea (his first) about the raising of bulls, on the ranch Las Astas, for bullfighting in Mexico. Las Astas is based on the real "La Punta", a 15,000 hectare (about 37,000 acre) ranch in eastern Jalisco, near Lagos de Moreno, at one time the largest fighting-bull ranch in the world. Lea, also an artist and muralist, did illustrations throughout the book and on the end papers and dust jacket. Prior to, during World War II, and after, Lea was an artist, and not an author. He went to Mexico to get a better idea about bullfighting, but forgot to take a sketchbook or paintbox, so he found himself using words to describe what he would have as a visual artist. Plot ''The Brave Bulls'' is the story of Luis Bello, ''"The Swordsman of Guerreras"'', the greatest matador in Mexico, who is at the top of his profession, with everything that comes with it, money, a mistress, fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Father's House
''My Father's House'' ( he, בית אבי) is a 1947 British Mandatory Palestine-American drama film directed by Herbert Kline, with a script by Jewish-American novelist and journalist Meyer Levin. Kline and Levin produced the film. The cinematography is by Floyd Crosby. Amy Kornish and Costel Safirman, Israeli Film – A Reference Guide, Praeger, 2003, p. 103-104. Meir Schnitzer, Israeli Cinema: Facts/ Plots/ Directors / Opinions, Kinneret Publishing House, 1994. p. 38. The film was an official selection of the 1950 Venice Film Festival. One of the lead actors was the Israeli sculptor Yitzhak Danziger, who was cast due to his exotic appearance. At the time, Ronnie Cohen, the lead actor, was nine years old. He had been born in Britain to a Zionist family and had immigrated to Israel when he was three. The director spent a few months looking for an English-speaking child until he found Cohen through the film's make-up artist, who was the hairdresser of Cohen's mother. The mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traffic With The Devil
''Traffic with the Devil'' is a 1946 American short documentary film about traffic problems in Los Angeles, directed by Gunther von Fritsch. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Plot summary Cast * Charles Reineke as Narrator (as Police Sgt. Charles Reineke) * Ben Hall as Out-of-Gas Motorist (uncredited) * Ralph Montgomery as Motorist (uncredited) * Eva Puig Eva Puig (1894–1968) was a Mexican film actress.McLaughlin p.282 Partial filmography * '' The Crime of Dr. Forbes'' (1936) - Mrs. Luigi (uncredited) * ''Rancho Grande'' (1940) - Mama Fernandez (uncredited) * '' Forty Little Mothers'' (1940) - ... as Driver of Ford Deluxe Convertible (uncredited) * Jason Robards Sr. as Irate Motorist (uncredited) * Ray Spiker as Irate Motorist, Honking Horn (uncredited) References External links * * * 1946 films 1946 documentary films 1946 short films Black-and-white documentary films American short documentary films American black-an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Land (1942 Film)
The Land may refer to: Film * ''The Land'' (1969 film), 1969 Egyptian film * ''The Land'' (1974 film), 1974 South Korean film * The Land (2015 film), 2015 short documentary directed by Erin Davis about an adventure playground of the same name * ''The Land'' (2016 film), coming-of-age film directed by Steven Caple Jr. Literature * The Land (Torres novel), a novel by Brazilian writer Antonio Torres published by Readers International. * ''The Land'' (Taylor novel), a novel by Mildred D. Taylor * '' Haaretz'', Israeli newspaper whose name means "The Land" (as in the Land of Israel) * ''The Land'' (newspaper), a rural newspaper in Australia owned by Fairfax Media * ''The Land'' (magazine), a Minnesota farm and rural life newspaper owned by CNHI * The Land, setting of Stephen R. Donaldson novels in ''The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever'' * The Land, setting for Robert J. Sawyer novels in ''Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy'' * The Land (poem), narrative poem by English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's All True (film)
''It's All True'' is an unfinished Orson Welles feature film comprising three stories about Latin America. "My Friend Bonito" was supervised by Welles and directed by Norman Foster in Mexico in 1941. "Carnaval" (also known as "The Story of Samba") and "Jangadeiros" (also known as "Four Men on a Raft") were directed by Welles in Brazil in 1942. It was to have been Welles's third film for RKO Radio Pictures, after ''Citizen Kane'' (1941) and ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1942). The project was a co-production of RKO and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs that was later terminated by RKO. While some of the footage shot for ''It's All True'' was repurposed or sent to stock film libraries, approximately 200,000 feet of the Technicolor nitrate negative, most of it for the "Carnaval" episode, was dumped into the Pacific Ocean in the late 1960s or 1970s. In the 1980s a cache of nitrate negative, largely black-and-white, was found in a vault and presented to the UCLA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Power And The Land
Power most often refers to: * Power (physics), meaning "rate of doing work" ** Engine power, the power put out by an engine ** Electric power * Power (social and political), the ability to influence people or events ** Abusive power Power may also refer to: Mathematics, science and technology Computing * IBM POWER (software), an IBM operating system enhancement package * IBM POWER architecture, a RISC instruction set architecture * Power ISA, a RISC instruction set architecture derived from PowerPC * IBM Power microprocessors, made by IBM, which implement those RISC architectures * Power.org, a predecessor to the OpenPOWER Foundation * SGI POWER Challenge, a line of SGI supercomputers Mathematics * Exponentiation, "''x'' to the power of ''y''" * Power function * Power of a point * Statistical power Physics * Magnification, the factor by which an optical system enlarges an image * Optical power, the degree to which a lens converges or diverges light Social sciences and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fight For Life
''The Fight for Life'' is a 1940 American medical drama film nominated for the Best Original Score of a Picture composed by Louis Gruenberg and released by Columbia Pictures. Plot At the City Hospital a young intern witnesses the death of a young mother in a maternity hospital delivery room. Very worried about having overlooked a fact that could have prevented death, he began to frequent a maternity clinic in a poor neighborhood of Chicago to learn more about maternity mortality and find new ways to avoid it. Cast *Myron McCormick (The young intern) * Storrs Haynes (The teacher) *Will Geer (2nd Teacher) *Dudley Digges (Head Doctor) *Dorothy Adams Dorothy Adams (January 8, 1900 – March 16, 1988) was an American character actress of stage, film, and television. Early years Adams was born in Hannah, North Dakota. She later moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, and was educated there. ... (The Young Woman) * Effie Anderson (The Receptionist) References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The River (1938 Film)
''The River'' is a 1938 short documentary film which shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico, leading to catastrophic floods and impoverishing farmers. It ends by briefly describing how the Tennessee Valley Authority project was beginning to reverse these problems. It was written and directed by Pare Lorentz and, like Lorentz's earlier 1936 documentary ''The Plow That Broke the Plains'', was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant", going into the registry in 1990. The film won the "best documentary" category at the 1938 Venice International Film Festival. Both films have notable scores by Virgil Thomson that are still heard as concert suites, featuring an adaptation of the hymn " How Firm a Foundation". The film was narra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
