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Miss Suwanna Of Siam
''Miss Suwanna of Siam'' ( th, นางสาวสุวรรณ; ), was a 1923 romance film written and directed by Henry MacRae, set in Thailand (then Siam) and starring Thai actors. It was one of the first feature films to be made in Thailand, and was the first Hollywood co-production in Thailand. Nothing of the film exists today except for some promotional materials and other ephemera held at the Thailand National Film Archive.Sukwong, Dome and Suwannapak, Sawasdi. ''A Century of Thai Cinema'', Thames and Hudson, 2001. Plot The film is a romance about a young woman named Suwanna who is the object of affection for many men. In her search for true love, she has many adventures and mishaps, including overcoming her father's disapproval, before finally finding her soulmate. Cast * Sa-ngiam Navisthira (''Later'' Anindhita Akhubutra) as Suwanna * Khun Ram Pharotsat (Yom Mongkhonnat) as Klahan * Luang Pharotkamkoson (Mongkhon Sumonnat) as Kongkaew Crew *Director – Henry Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry MacRae
Henry Alexander MacRae (August 29, 1876 – October 2, 1944) was a Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent era, working on many film serials for Universal Studios. One of a number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, MacRae was credited with many innovations in film production, including artificial light for interiors, the wind machine, double exposures and shooting at night. Biography Henry MacRae was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on August 29, 1876, and died in Beverly Hills, California, United States on October 2, 1944, aged 68. He was active as a director from 1912 to 1933, making more than 130 films, most of them silent. In addition to the many westerns and adventure films to his credit, he directed the first Thai- Hollywood co-production, '' Miss Suwanna of Siam'', in 1923. His first " talkie" was the first '' Tarzan'' movie with sound, '' Tarzan the Tiger'' in 1929. He also directed several westerns starring Hoot Gib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khlong
A ''khlong'' ( th, คลอง, ), alternatively spelt as ''klong'' () commonly refers to a canal in Thailand. These canals are spawned by the rivers Chao Phraya, Tha Chin, and Mae Klong, along with their tributaries particularly in the low-lying areas of central Thailand. The Thai word ''khlong'' is not limited to artificial canals. Many smaller rivers are referred to as "''khlong''" followed by the name of the stream. Khlongs in Bangkok there are 1,682 canals in Bangkok, totalling 2,604 kilometres in length. Nine canals are primary flood drainage conduits. In years past, the Thai capital was crisscrossed by khlongs, and so gained the nickname "Venice of the East". Khlongs were used for transportation, for floating markets, but also for sewage disposal. Today, most of the khlongs of Bangkok have been filled in, although the Thonburi __NOTOC__ Thonburi ( th, ธนบุรี) is an area of modern Bangkok. During the era of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, its location ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Lost Films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films. Reasons for loss Films may go missing for a number of reasons. One major contributing factor is the common use of nitrate film until the early 1950s. This type of film is highly flammable, and there have been several devastating fires, such as the Universal Pictures fire in 1924, the 1937 Fox vault fire and the 1965 MGM vault fire. Black-and-white film prints judged to be otherwise worthless were sometimes incinerated to salvage the meager scrap value of the silver image particles in their emulsions. Films have disappeared when production companies went bankrupt. Occasionally, a studio would remake a film and destroy the earlier version. Silent films in particular were once seen as having no further commercial value and were simply junked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Thailand
The cinema of Thailand dates back to the early days of filmmaking, when King Chulalongkorn's 1897 visit to Bern, Switzerland was recorded by François-Henri Lavancy-Clarke. The film was then brought to Bangkok, where it was exhibited. This sparked more interest in film by the Thai Royal Family and local businessmen, who brought in filmmaking equipment and started to exhibit foreign films. By the 1920s, a local film industry was started and in the 1930s, the Thai film industry had its first "golden age", with a number of studios producing films. The years after the Second World War saw a resurgence of the industry, which used 16 mm film to produce hundreds of films, many of them hard-driving action films. The most notable action filmmaker in the 1970s was Chalong Pakdivijit. Known internationally as P. Chalong or Philip Chalong, Chalong became the first Thai director who could successfully break into the international market and made a profit with his 1973 action-packed film ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thai Alphabet
The Thai script ( th, อักษรไทย, ) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand. The Thai alphabet itself (as used to write Thai) has 44 consonant symbols ( th, พยัญชนะ, ''phayanchana''), 16 vowel symbols ( th, สระ, ''sara'') that combine into at least 32 vowel forms and four tone diacritics ( th, วรรณยุกต์ or วรรณยุต, or ) to create characters mostly representing syllables. Although commonly referred to as the "Thai alphabet", the script is in fact not a true alphabet but an abugida, a writing system in which the full characters represent consonants with diacritical marks for vowels; the absence of a vowel diacritic gives an implied 'a' or 'o'. Consonants are written horizontally from left to right, and vowels following a consonant in speech are written above, below, to the left or to the right of it, or a combination of those. History The Thai alphabet is de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Thai General System Of Transcription
The Royal Thai General System of Transcription (RTGS) is the official system for rendering Thai words in the Latin alphabet. It was published by the Royal Institute of Thailand. It is used in road signs and government publications and is the closest method to a standard of transcription for Thai, but its use, even by the government, is inconsistent. The system is almost identical to the one that is defined by ISO 11940-2. Features Prominent features of the system are: *It uses only unmodified letters from the Latin alphabet without diacritics. *It spells all vowels and diphthongs with vowel letters: , , , , . **Single letters , , , , are monophthongs (simple vowels), with the same value as in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). ** Digraphs with trailing are monophthongs; , , sound like respectively and are perhaps chosen for their similarity to IPA ligatures . **Digraphs and trigraphs with trailing , , are diphthongs and are indicated by IPA respectively. * It u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choosak Eamsuk
Choosak Eamsuk or spelt Chusak Iamsuk ( th, ชูศักดิ์ เอี่ยมสุข, nicknamed Nong), known professionally as Nong Cha-cha-cha (โหน่ง ชะชะช่า) is a famous Thai comedian, actor, and former dancer. Biography & career He was born in Ongkharak, Nakhon Nayok province, about northeast of Bangkok. Eamsuk entered the showbiz at the age of 12 as a dancer for many country bands and began to show a stand-up comedy. He then became a dancer for cabaret show in Pattaya where he met his wife. After he became a comedian in the popular comedy troupe Chernyim, he was invited by Petchtai Wongkamlao (Mum Jokmok) to be the MC of the TV show '' Ching Roi Ching Lan'' by Workpoint Entertainment in 1998. It made him famous and widely known ever since. Eamsuk was one of the MCs with Pongsak Pongsuwan (Theng Therdtherng) and Sudarat Butrprom (Tukky Samcha). His younger brother Chukiat Eamsuk (Nui Chernyim) is also a famous comedian. In addit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pongsak Pongsuwan
Pongsak Pongsuwan ( th, พงศ์ศักดิ์ พงษ์สุวรรณ; ; born April 7, 1966, in Sawankhalok District, Sukhothai Province) is a Thai comedian and actor. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Theng Therdtherng ( th, เท่ง เถิดเทิง; ). He has one sister name Pongphan Pongsuwan. A popular comedian in Thai nightclubs and on television, Theng made his feature-film debut in '' Killer Tattoo'', a 2001 action-comedy that was the directorial debut for Yuthlert Sippapak. He portrayed ''Elvis M 16'', an amnesiac hitman-turned-Elvis impersonator, who is lured back to do one more job. The film starred several other Thai comics, including Petchtai Wongkamlao and Suthep Po-ngam, all in sometimes dramatic, action-filled roles. In 2005, he starred in one of the year's biggest hits for the Thai film industry, ''Luang Phii Theng'' ('' The Holy Man''), portraying a street hood who becomes a Buddhist monk. The comedy earned 141 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thai Dance
Dance in Thailand ( th, นาฏศิลป์, or th, นาฏกรรม, ) is the main dramatic art form in Thailand. Thai dance can be divided into two major categories, high art ( classical dance) and low art ( folk dance). Overview The Thai terms for dance, รำ '''ram''''','' and ระบำ '''rabam''' derive from the Old Khmer words រាំ '''raṃ''' and របាំ rapaṃ''', respectively. There is an extended influence of ancient Khmer forms on Thai Classical dance and performance. This is due to the multitude of Khmer words relating to dance, music and performance, along with the similarities found between the gestures of Thai dancers’ depictions in ancient Khmer sculpture and bas reliefs. According to Surapone Virulrak, Thai performance art took shape during the Ayutthaya period. At this time, ''Chak nak Dukdamban'', a "ceremony depicting the churning of the ocean to create the immortal spirit", was performed on special occasions. This ceremony dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Mount
Wat Saket Ratcha Wora Maha Wihan ( th, วัดสระเกศราชวรมหาวิหาร, usually shortened to Wat Saket is a Buddhist temple (''wat'') in Pom Prap Sattru Phai district, Bangkok, Thailand. The temple dates back to the Ayutthaya era, when it was known as Wat Sakae (วัดสะแก). When Bangkok became the capital, King Rama I (1737–1809) renovated the temple and gave it its present name (which roughly translates as "wash hair"): it was believed that on his return from the war, the king stopped to take a bath and wash his hair here, before entering the inner city. Phu Khao Thong ''Phu Khao Thong'' (“Golden Mountain”, ) is a steep artificial hill inside the Wat Saket compound. Rama I's grandson, King Rama III (1788–1851), decided to build a chedi of huge dimensions inside Wat Saket, but the chedi collapsed during construction because the soft soil of Bangkok could not support the weight. Over the next few decades, the abandoned m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nong Teng Nakleng-pukaotong
''Nong Theng Nakleng-pukhaothong'' ( th, โหน่ง เท่ง นักเลงภูเขาทอง or ''Nong and Teng, the Gangsters of Golden Mount'') is a 2006 Thai comedy film starring Pongsak Pongsuwan and Choosak Eamsuk. Plot In 1920s Siam, Bunteng, a member of a likay performing troupe, is faced with the prospect of his art dying when he and his family are threatened with eviction by a businessman who hopes to build a movie theater on the site of their stage. At the same time, the first Hollywood film, ''Miss Suwanna of Siam'', is being made on location in the country. Seeing film as a corruptive influence on traditional Siamese culture, Bunteng, with the help of his gangster friend, Nong, sets about to disrupt the filming and keep his family from being evicted. Cast * Pongsak Pongsuwan as Bunteng * Choosak Eamsuk as Nong * Isaree Soungcharern as Linchee * Nikalaya Dhunlaya as Nuenchan * Nui Choenyeun * Petchtai Wongkamlao Petchtai Wongkamlao, ( th, เ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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