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Kenean Buel
Kenean J. Buel (c.1873 – November 5, 1948) was an American film director. Biography Born in Kentucky, Buel became involved in theater and eventually made his way to New York City where he was hired by the Kalem Company in 1908 as a film director under the tutelage of Sidney Olcott. Buel was part of the pioneering Kalem team that filmed in Florida in the winter months and in the fall of 1910, the rapidly growing Kalem organization sent him to head up a filming unit in California. After directing more than 50 films for Kalem, including a number starring Alice Joyce, Buel signed on with Fox Film Corporation in 1915 for whom he made another seventeen films. In 1919 he directed films for an independent company and made his last film in 1920. Kenean Buel died in New York City in 1948. Partial filmography * ''As You Like It'' (1912) * '' The Confederate Ironclad'' (1912) * '' A Sawmill Hazard'' (1913) * '' A Desperate Chance'' (1913) *''The Brand (film)'' (1914) * ''Blazing Love'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brand (film)
''For the podcast Vince Russo's The Brand for The RELM Network see Vince Russo'' ''The Brand'' is a silent film released in the U.S. in 1914. Jere F. Looney wrote the story for the film and Kenean Buel directed. It was a Kalem film in two parts. The story features a girl sent to a reformatory by her step-mother and a girl from the slums. Cast *Alice Joyce as Mary * Tom Moore *Henry Hallam *Helen Lindroth * John E. Mackin *Alice Hollister *Mary Ross *Doris Hollister Reception The film received reviews from publications including ''New York Dramatic Mirror'' and ''Moving Picture World The ''Moving Picture World'' was an influential early trade journal for the American film industry, from 1907 to 1927. An industry powerhouse at its height, ''Moving Picture World'' frequently reiterated its independence from the film studios. I ...''. References American silent short films American black-and-white films 1914 films 1910s American films {{1910s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Directors From Kentucky
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] |
The Place Of Honeymoons
''The Place of Honeymoons'' is a 1920 silent American film written by Ida Harrison and directed by Kenean Buel. It stars Emily Stevens, Montagu Love, Frankie Mann and Joseph Selman. Cast list Production The production was filmed in Newton, Massachusetts at the Atlas Film Company studios. While ready for release earlier in the year, it was not distributed until November 1920 by Pioneer Films. Reception ''Moving Picture World The ''Moving Picture World'' was an influential early trade journal for the American film industry, from 1907 to 1927. An industry powerhouse at its height, ''Moving Picture World'' frequently reiterated its independence from the film studios. I ...'' did not give the film a good review. They felt the film's pace was slow and rambling, and the relationship between the two leads, Emily Stevens and Montagu Love, was never well developed. While they enjoyed Love's performance, the felt that Stevens was miscast and not carry off her role well. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Little Sister (1919 Film)
''My Little Sister'' is a lost 1919 silent film drama directed by Kenean Buel and starring Evelyn Nesbit. It was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. Cast *Evelyn Nesbit – The Elder Sister *Leslie Austin – Eric (*Leslie Austen) *Lillian Hall – Bettina *Kempton Greene – Ranny *Lyster Chambers – The Stranger *Herbert Standing – Guy Whitby Dawson *Carolyn Lee – Madame Aurore (*Caroline Lee) *Amelia Summerville – The Gray Hawk *Ben Hendricks – The Colonel * Louise Rial – Aunt Josephine *Martha Mayo – The Sisters' Mother *Marie Burke – Lady Helmstone *Henry Hallam – Lord Helmstone *Lucille Carney – Lady Barbara See also *1937 Fox vault fire The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industr ... References External links * * 1919 films A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Fallen Idol
''A Fallen Idol'' is a lost film, lost 1919 American silent melodrama film starring Evelyn Nesbit, a famed former model and Broadway showgirl who had been at the center of two highly publicized court trials after her wealthy husband shot and killed a prominent architect in 1906 in front of hundreds of witnesses. The plot has some parallels with Nesbit's well-known life story, as do most of the films in which she appeared – exploiting her fame to attract audiences to her films. As in her life, the story centers around a beautiful woman pursued by two male rivals and a rape by a man of wealth and power. Other aspects of the story are quite different from those of her life. Nesbit plays a Hawaiian princess. Plot The plot centers around the Hawaiian Princess Laone (Nesbit), whose love for a man named Keith Parrish is thwarted by societal pressure from her benefactor Mrs. Parrish, who is his aunt. Princess Laone is despondent after being persuaded to refuse Keith Parrish's proposal, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman Who Gave
''The Woman Who Gave'' is a lost 1918 American silent melodrama film directed by Kenean Buel and starring Evelyn Nesbit, a former Gibson girl, "It girl" model and showgirl involved in a 1906 "trial of the century" that involved a killing and an allegation of rape – whose films often exploited the fame of her life story. The film was produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. The film went into release the day before fighting in World War I ended. Cast *Evelyn Nesbit as Colette *Irving Cummings as Adrien Walcott * Robert Walker as Don Walcott *Eugene Ormonde as Prince Vacarra *Dorothy Walters as Delia Picard *Russell Thaw (Nesbit's son) as Rudolph Reception Like many American films of the time, ''The Woman Who Gave'' was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 1, of the intertitle "Colette is not that kind", the entire struggle incident including closeups of a man sugge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She (1917 Film)
''She'' is a 1917 American silent fantasy adventure drama film directed by Kenean Buel and produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation. It was loosely based on H. Rider Haggard's oft filmed 1887 best-selling novel, '' She: A History of Adventure''. Now considered lost, the film starred Valeska Suratt and Ben Taggart. Cast * Valeska Suratt as Ayesha, 'She' * Ben Taggart as Leo Vincey * Miriam Fouche as Ustane * Thomas Wigney Persyval as Billali * Tom Burrough as Horace Holly * Martin Reagan as Job See also *1937 Fox vault fire *List of Fox Film films This is a list of feature films produced by the Fox Film Corporation, including those films produced by its corporate predecessor, the Box Office Attractions Company. Some of the later films in this list were produced by Fox Film, but were release ... References External links * *''She''at silentera.comScene from the now lost film(University of Washington, Sayre collection) 1917 films 1910s adventure drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Peacock
''The New York Peacock'' is a 1917 American silent crime drama film directed by Kenean Buel. Distributed by Fox Film Corporation, the film starred Valeska Suratt. It is now considered lost. Cast *Valeska Suratt as Zena * Harry Hilliard as Billy Martin *Eric Mayne as Mr. Martin *Alice Gale as The Mother *Claire Whitney as Billy's Wife *William Black as Graham (credited as W.W. Black) *John Mackin as Miller *Frank Goldsmith as Durrant See also *1937 Fox vault fire The 1937 Fox vault fire was a major fire that broke out in a 20th Century-Fox film-storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States, on July 9, 1937. Flammable nitrate film had previously contributed to several fires in film-industr ... References External links * * 1917 films 1917 crime drama films Lost crime drama films Fox Film films American crime drama films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Lost American films Films directed by Kenean Buel 1917 lost films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bitter Truth (film)
''The Bitter Truth'' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Kenean Buel and starring Virginia Pearson, Jack Hopkins and William H. Tooker.George A. Katchmer ''A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors'' p 83 "The Bitter Truth with Virginia Pearson and Jack Hopkins (a parson)" Cast * Virginia Pearson as Anne * Jack Hopkins as Graves, a parson * William H. Tooker as Judge Marcus * Alice May as Martha Marcus * Sidney D'Albrook Sidney D'Albrook (May 3, 1886 – May 30, 1948) was an American actor. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, a son of Harry Dahlbruck, a musician, and Jennie McGuire. He was working as an actor in Davenport, Iowa, in 1910, living with his sister Rut ... as The Parson References Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011. External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Little Imps
''Two Little Imps'' is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by Kenean Buel and starring Jane Lee, Katherine Lee and Leslie Austin. Cast * Jane Lee as Jane * Katherine Lee as Katherine * Leslie Austin as Billy Parke * Edna Hunter as Betty Murray * Edwin Holt as William Murray * Stuart Sage as Bob Murray * Sidney D'Albrook as Burglar * William Harvey William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who made influential contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, the systemic circulation and proper ... as His Pal References External links * 1917 films 1917 drama films American silent feature films American drama films American black-and-white films Films directed by Kenean Buel Fox Film films 1910s English-language films 1910s American films Silent American drama films {{1910s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blazing Love
''Blazing Love'' is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Kenean Buel and starring Virginia Pearson and Louise Huff.Solomon p.233 Cast * Virginia Pearson as Margaret Walsh * Louise Huff Louise Huff (November 14, 1895 – August 22, 1973) was an American actress of the silent film era. Biography Huff was a descendant of former President of the United States, President James Knox Polk. She began her acting career at the age ... as Jeanne Clark * Frank Burbeck as Morgan Delafield * Mattie Ferguson as Mammy * Frank Goldsmith as Russell Barridan * John Merkyl as Stephen Bond * George Selby as Arthur Graham * Louis Stern as Charles Walsh References Bibliography * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011. External links * 1916 films 1916 drama films 1910s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films Films directed by Kenean Buel American black-and-white ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
