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Here Comes Tobor
''Here Comes Tobor'' (1956) was a proposed American science-fiction television series, meant as a spin-off off the 1954 film Tobor the Great. The 26-minute pilot was produced by Richard Goldstone for the 1956–1957 season, written by Arnold Belgard and directed by Duke Goldstone . However, the project was not aired and only a pilot episode was filmed.Terrace, Vincent. Crime Fighting Heroes of Television: Over 10,000 Facts from 151 Shows, 1949-2001'. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. p. 79 Tobor ('Robot' spelled backwards) was a nine-foot-tall robot that had come into the control of the U.S. government.Billboard 21 apr 1956'. p. 14 In ''Here Comes Tobor'', Tobor is owned by Professor Bruce Adams (played by Arthur Space) and mind-controlled by Adam's genius nephew Tommy (Tommy was played by Tommy Terrell although ''Billboard'' erroneously stated at the time that eleven-year-old actor Tiger Fafara had been cast for the role).Billboard 14 apr 1956'. p. 4 Tommy is, in the series, abl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here Comes Tobor
''Here Comes Tobor'' (1956) was a proposed American science-fiction television series, meant as a spin-off off the 1954 film Tobor the Great. The 26-minute pilot was produced by Richard Goldstone for the 1956–1957 season, written by Arnold Belgard and directed by Duke Goldstone . However, the project was not aired and only a pilot episode was filmed.Terrace, Vincent. Crime Fighting Heroes of Television: Over 10,000 Facts from 151 Shows, 1949-2001'. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. p. 79 Tobor ('Robot' spelled backwards) was a nine-foot-tall robot that had come into the control of the U.S. government.Billboard 21 apr 1956'. p. 14 In ''Here Comes Tobor'', Tobor is owned by Professor Bruce Adams (played by Arthur Space) and mind-controlled by Adam's genius nephew Tommy (Tommy was played by Tommy Terrell although ''Billboard'' erroneously stated at the time that eleven-year-old actor Tiger Fafara had been cast for the role).Billboard 14 apr 1956'. p. 4 Tommy is, in the series, abl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a metonymy, shorthand reference for the Cinema of the United States, U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was Merger (politics), consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis (publisher), Harrison Gray Otis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha Video
Alpha Video (also known as Alpha Home Entertainment) is an entertainment company, based near Philadelphia, that specializes in the manufacturing and marketing of public domain movies and TV shows on DVD. Alpha Video releases approximately 30 new DVD titles monthly and has over 3,500 DVDs in their active catalog, including hundreds of rare films and TV shows from Hollywood's past. With 600+ DVDs of TV shows in active distribution, industry publication ''DVD Release Report'' ranks Alpha Video #3 in their ranking of the "Top 20 Sources for TV Series on DVD Through the Period Ending December 31, 2009," behind Warner Home Video (733 releases) and Paramount Home Entertainment (666 releases). With over 1,461 theatrical releases available, the same publication ranks Alpha Video #2 in the "Top 20 Sources for Theatrical Catalog on DVD," just behind Warner Home Video (1,609 releases). The company is privately held, and owned by Collectables Records founder Jerry Greene. Alpha Video i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DVD-R
DVD recordable and DVD rewritable are optical disc recording technologies. Both terms describe DVD optical discs that can be written to by a DVD recorder, whereas only 'rewritable' discs are able to erase and rewrite data. Data is written ('burned') to the disc by a laser, rather than the data being 'pressed' onto the disc during manufacture, like a DVD-ROM. Pressing is used in mass production, primarily for the distribution of home video. Like CD-Rs, DVD recordable uses dye to store the data. During the burning of a single bit, the laser's intensity affects the reflective properties of the burned dye. By varying the laser intensity quickly, high density data is written in precise tracks. Since written tracks are made of darkened dye, the data side of a recordable DVD has a distinct color. Burned DVDs have a higher failure-to-read rate than pressed DVDs, due to differences in the reflective properties of dye compared to the aluminum substrate of pressed discs. Comparing recordab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DVD Region Code
DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back only DVDs encoded to their region (plus those without any region code). The American DVD Copy Control Association also requires that DVD player manufacturers incorporate the regional-playback control (RPC) system. However, region-free DVD players, which ignore region coding, are also commercially available, and many DVD players can be modified to be region-free, allowing playback of all discs. DVDs may use one code, multiple codes (multi-region), or all codes (region free). Region codes and countries Any combination of regions can be applied to a single disc. For example, a DVD designated Region 2/4 is suitable for playback in Europe, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Jackson (composer)
Howard Jackson (born Howard Manucey Jackson 8 February 1900 in St. Augustine, Florida – 4 August 1966 in Florida) was an American film composer of feature movies and industry documentaries. He was often uncredited. Biography Jackson began scoring films and writing cues for Universal Pictures from 1929, with his first total film score being '' Broadway'' (1929). He later moved to Paramount Pictures and scored several early films for Frank Capra, '' The Three Stooges'' and other works for Columbia Pictures often without credit. He scored 150 feature films and 250 short subjects. He finished his career at Warner Bros. pp. 356-361 Hischak, Thomas S. ''The Encyclopedia of Film Composers'' Rowman & Littlefield, 16 Apr 2015 Partial filmography * '' Broadway'' (1929) * '' Young Eagles'' (1930) * ''Playboy of Paris'' (1930) * ''I'm No Angel'' (1933) * '' Goldie Gets Along'' (1933) * '' Lady for a day'' (1933) * '' It Happened One Night'' (1934) * '' Thirty-Day Princess'' (1934 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Dudley
Carl Ward Dudley (1910–1973) was an American film director and producer. He was best known for directing and producing short travelogues. Biography Early life Carl Ward Dudley was born on December 31, 1910, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Career He became a film director and producer. Indeed, in 1944, he founded the Dudley Pictures Corporation, a film production company. In the 1950s, he produced thirty documentary shorts in the '' This World of Ours'' series. In 1958, he directed and produced the Cinerama feature '' South Seas Adventure''.Sanya Shoilevska Henderson, ''Alex North, Film Composer: A Biography, with Musical Analyses of A Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, The Misfits, Under the Volcano, and Prizzi's Honor'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2003, p. 22/ref> Personal life He married Eleanor Murphy, the sister of screenwriter Richard Murphy (screenwriter), Richard Murphy (1912-1993). One of their daughters, Carol Ward Dudley, married producer Gabriel K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guild Films
A guild ( ) is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular area. The earliest types of guild formed as organizations of tradesmen belonging to a professional association. They sometimes depended on grants of letters patent from a monarch or other ruler to enforce the flow of trade to their self-employed members, and to retain ownership of tools and the supply of materials, but were mostly regulated by the city government. A lasting legacy of traditional guilds are the guildhalls constructed and used as guild meeting-places. Guild members found guilty of cheating the public would be fined or banned from the guild. Typically the key "privilege" was that only guild members were allowed to sell their goods or practice their skill within the city. There might be controls on minimum or maximum prices, hours of trading, numbers of apprentices, and many other things. These rules reduced free competition, but sometimes maintained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has become popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Cowling
Bruce Cowling (October 30, 1919 – August 22, 1986) was a film and television actor in the 1940s and 1950s. The Oklahoma-born actor appeared in twenty films including ''Song of the Thin Man'' (1947), '' Battleground'' (1949), ''Ambush'' (1950), ''The Painted Hills'' (1951), ''Gun Belt'' (1953) as Virgil Earp and '' To Hell and Back'' (1955). He voiced several characters on the ''Lone Ranger'' radio show and also made several appearances in different roles on ''The Loretta Young Show ''The Loretta Young Show'' (originally known as ''Letter to Loretta'') is an American anthology drama television series broadcast on Sunday nights from September 2, 1953, to June 4, 1961, on NBC for a total of 165 episodes. The series was hosted ...''. Filmography References External links * * 1919 births 1986 deaths American male film actors Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract players American male television actors American male radio actors 20th-century American male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiger Fafara
Lucas "Luke" Fafara II (born January 3, 1945), also known as Tiger Fafara, is a former American child actor best known for portraying the role of "Tooey Brown" on the sitcom '' Leave It to Beaver''. Career Born in San Francisco, California, Fafara is the older brother of Stanley Fafara. Both boys were raised in Studio City, Los Angeles and began acting in film and television in the mid-1950s. Both were hired to appear on '' Leave It to Beaver'' after their mother took them to an open casting call. "Tiger" Fafara was cast as "Tooey Brown," a friend of Wally Cleaver while Stanley was cast as Beaver Cleaver's friend Hubert "Whitey" Whitney. Besides appearing on ''Leave It to Beaver'', Fafara appeared in episodes of various television series including '' Schlitz Playhouse of Stars'', '' Private Secretary'', ''Lassie Lassie is a fictional female Rough Collie dog and is featured in a short story by Eric Knight that was later expanded to a full-length novel called ''Lassie Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
