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John Stepan Zamecnik
John Stepan Zamecnik (May 14, 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio – June 13, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) was an American composer and conductor. He is best known for the "photoplay music" he composed for use during silent films by pianists, organists, and orchestras. Zamecnik used many pseudonyms, including Dorothy Lee, Lionel Baxter, R.L. (Robert) Creighton, Arturo de Castro, "Josh and Ted", J. (Jane) Hathaway, Kathryn Hawthorne, Roberta Hudson, Ioane Kawelo, J. Edgar Lowell, Jules Reynard, F. (Frederick) Van Norman, Hal Vinton and Grant Wellesley. Early life John Zamecnik was born in Cleveland to Czech immigrants Josef Zámečník (1832-1915) and Kateřina Hrubecká (1838-1908). Josef was born in Budičovice and Kateřina was born in the nearby Skály. The couple married in Heřmaň in 1862. Josef's brother Jan later married Kateřina's sister Konstancie in the same place in 1869. Both couples immigrated to Ohio bringing Josef's daughters and perhaps other relatives. Jan's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mysterious - Burglar Music (1913) 1 Opening Zamecnik
Mysterious may refer to: * ''Mysterious'' (album), a 1988 album by Shizuka Kudō * "Mysterious" (song), a 2005 song by Jentina * "Mysterious", a song by Scorpions from the 1999 album ''Eye II Eye'' * Mysterious Walker (1884-1958), American baseball player * Mysterious (horse) Mysterious (1970–1988) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. In a racing career lasting from July 1972 until October 1973 she ran eight times and won five races. Mysterious won Group races on her first four racecourse appearances including ... (1970–1988), thoroughbred racehorse See also * Mystery (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movietone News
Movietone News is a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States. Under the name British Movietone News, it also ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986, in France also produced by Fox-Europa, in Australia and New Zealand until 1970, and Germany as Fox Tönende Wochenschau. History Movietone News evolved from an earlier newsreel established by Fox Films called Fox News which was founded in 1919. It produced silent newsreels. When Fox entered talkies in 1928 with '' Mother Knows Best'', the name Fox Movietone was applied to Fox's sound productions. In the U.S. as Fox Movietone News it produced cinema, sound newsreels from 1928 to 1963, and from 1929 to 1986 in the UK (for much of that time as British Movietone News), as well as 1929 to 1975 in Australia. One of the earliest in the series featured ''George Bernard Shaw Talks to Movietone News'', released on June 25, 1928. One of the known early producers of these newsreels was Abraham Harrison also known as Harry, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betrayal (1929 Film)
''Betrayal'' is a 1929 American silent drama film produced for Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is the last silent film directed by Lewis Milestone, the last silent performance by Gary Cooper, the last silent performance by Germany's Emil Jannings, and the only onscreen pairing of Cooper and Jannings. It is considered a lost film. Plot Swiss peasant girl Vroni (Esther Ralston) is having a secret summer romance with Viennese artist Andre Frey (Gary Cooper). When Andre later returns to Switzerland, he learns that Vroni has been forced to marry wealthy burgomeister Poldi Moser (Emil Jannings). Explaining Andre's appearance, Vroni introduces him as a young man who has just lost his sweetheart, and in sympathy, Poldi invites Andre to be a guest in his house. Several times over the next few years Andre visits, during which time Poldi and Vroni have two children. Andre is overwrought by his repressed feelings toward Vroni, and after seven years, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wedding March (1928 Film)
''The Wedding March'' is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film written and directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim. It also stars Fay Wray and ZaSu Pitts. Paramount Pictures forced von Stroheim to create two films from the footage, the second being ''The Honeymoon'' (eventually re-edited back into one film for a re-release). ''The Honeymoon'' is now considered lost, the only known copy destroyed in a fire in France in 1959. In 2003, ''The Wedding March'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." Plot In Vienna in 1914, Prince Nicki is the scion of a rundown noble family and is commander of a cavalry regiment. During a parade in front of the St. Stephen's Cathedral, Nicki notices beautiful innkeeper's daughter Mitzi in the crowd. Mitzi is eating with her family as her butcher fiance Schani grotesquely spits and embarrasses the entire family. Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abie's Irish Rose (1928 Film)
''Abie's Irish Rose'' is a 1928 early talking (part-talkie) film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Nancy Carroll, Jean Hersholt, and J. Farrell MacDonald. It is based on the 1922 play ''Abie's Irish Rose'' by Anne Nichols. The film was later remade in 1946. Plot A Jewish boy, Abie Levy (Rogers), falls in love with and secretly marries Rosemary Murphy (Carroll), an Irish Catholic girl, but lies to his family, saying that she's Jewish. The fathers of both bride and groom are at first religiously bigoted toward the other but with the birth of twin grandchildren, their antagonism fades. Cast *Charles "Buddy" Rogers as Abie Levy *Nancy Carroll as Rosemary Murphy *Jean Hersholt as Solomon Levy *J. Farrell MacDonald as Patrick Murphy *Bernard Gorcey as Isaac Cohen * Ida Kramer as Mrs. Isaac Cohen *Nick Cogley as Father Whalen * Camillus Pretal as Rabbi Jacob Samuels *Rosa Rosanova as Sarah Preservation status Only reels 3-6 and 9-12 survive of this film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rough Riders (film)
''The Rough Riders'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Victor Fleming, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Noah Beery, Sr., Charles Farrell, George Bancroft, and Mary Astor. The picture is fictional account of Theodore Roosevelt's military unit in Cuba. This film had an alternate release title, ''The Trumpet Call''. The cinematography was by James Wong Howe and E. Burton Steene. Cast *Noah Beery as Hell's Bells *Charles Farrell as Stuart Van Brunt *George Bancroft as Happy Joe *Charles Emmett Mack as Bert Henley *Mary Astor as Dolly *Frank Hopper as Theodore Roosevelt (some sources list him as ''Frank Hooper'') *Fred Lindsay as Leonard Wood *Fred Kohler as Sgt. Stanton * Mark Hamilton as a soldier Preservation Incomplete or fragment prints of ''The Rough Riders'' are extant at the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Ironsides (film)
''Old Ironsides'' is a 1926 American silent film, silent historical film, historical war film directed by James Cruze and starring Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, and George Bancroft (actor), George Bancroft. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Plot Early in the 19th century, USS ''Constitution'' is launched as part of an effort to stop piracy in the Mediterranean Sea. Meanwhile, a young man determined to go to sea (Farrell) is befriended by the bos'n (Beery) of the merchant ship ''Esther'', and he joins its crew. When ''Esther'' reaches the Mediterranean, she too, along with ''Constitution'', becomes involved in the battle against the pirates. Cast *Charles Farrell as "The Commodore" *Esther Ralston as Esther *Wallace Beery as Bos'n *George Bancroft (actor), George Bancroft as Gunner *Charles Hill Mailes as Captain Edward Preble, Preble *Johnnie Walker (actor born 1894), Johnnie Walker as Lieutenant Stephen Decatur (billed as Johnny Walker) *E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Covered Wagon
''The Covered Wagon'' is a 1923 American silent Western film released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by James Cruze based on a 1922 novel of the same name by Emerson Hough about a group of pioneers traveling through the old West from Kansas to Oregon. J. Warren Kerrigan starred as Will Banion and Lois Wilson as Molly Wingate. On their quest they experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack. ''The Covered Wagon'' is one of many films from 1923 that entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019. Plot The action is set in 1848. Two caravans of expatriates unite in Kansas and travel 2,000 miles west to start a new life in Oregon. The leader of the settlers is the elderly father and natural authority, Wingate. Scouts are the headstrong Sam Woodhull and the kind-hearted, talented Will Banion. Banion has a secret around a crime he is said to have committed in the army. Along the way, the pioneers suffer a number of hardships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
