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Norman Dawn
Norman O. Dawn (25 May 1884 – 2 February 1975) was an early American film director. He made several improvements on the Matte (filmmaking), matte shot to apply it to motion picture, and was the first director to use rear projection in film production. Dawn's innovations in glass and matte shots Dawn's first film ''Missions of California'' made extensive use of the glass shot, in which certain parts of the intended image are painted on a piece of glass and placed in between the camera and the live action. Many of the buildings which Dawn was filming were at least partially destroyed; by painting sections of roof or walls, the impression was made that the buildings were in fact, still whole. The main difference between the glass shot and the matte shot is that with a glass shot, all filming is done with a single exposure of film. Dawn combined his experience with the glass shot with the techniques of the matte shot. Up until this time, the matte shot was essentially a double-exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Dawn
Katherine Dawn (1896-1984) (born Katherine Virginia Madden, and sometimes credited as Susan Denis) was an American actress, screenwriter, and editor active during the 1920s through the 1940s. She was married to director Norman Dawn, who she met when she was working as a scenarist at Universal Pictures. Selected filmography As actress: * '' Showgirl's Luck'' (1931) * ''Black Hills'' (1929) * '' Black Cargoes of the South Seas'' (1929) * ''For the Term of His Natural Life'' (1927) * ''Typhoon Love'' (1926) * ''Justice of the Far North'' (1925) * ''Lure of the Yukon'' (1924) As screenwriter: * ''Orphans of the North'' (1940) * ''Taku'' (1937) As editor: * ''For the Term of His Natural Life ''For the Term of His Natural Life'' is a story written by Marcus Clarke and published in ''The Australian Journal'' between 1870 and 1872 (as ''His Natural Life''). It was published as a novel in 1874 and is the best known novelisation of life ...'' (1927) References External li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolves Of The North (1921 Film)
''Wolves of the North'' is a 1921 American silent Western film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Herbert Heyes, Percy Challenger and Eva Novak. Cast *Herbert Heyes as 'Wiki' Jack Horn *Percy Challenger as Professor Norris *Eva Novak as Aurora Norris *Starke Patteson as David Waters *Barbara Tennant Barbara Tennant (19 May 1892 – 18 March 1982) was an English actress. She appeared in over a hundred silent films between 1912 and 1928. Early life Barbara Tennant was born in London, and began performing there. She moved to North America a ... as Jenfau Jen *Eagle Eye as Massakee *Clyde Tracy as Lech *Millie Impolito as Rose of Spain References Bibliography * External links * 1921 Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American Western (genre) films Films directed by Norman Dawn American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films 1920s American films {{1920s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Lost Worlds
''Two Lost Worlds'' is a 1951 science fiction/adventure film directed by Norman Dawn and starring James Arness and Laura Elliott. The film was produced independently by Boris Petroff (dba Sterling Productions Inc.) from his original story. The film was scripted by Phyllis Parker (with later, added scenes written by Tom Hubbard and voice-over narrative by Bill Shaw), and distributed by Eagle-Lion Classics Inc., with a 1952 reissue by Classic Pictures Inc. Plot The year is 1830. The American clipper ship, the ''Hamilton Queen'', is attacked by pirates in the New Hebrides (present day Vanuatu). The ship's mate Kirk Hamilton is wounded and heads to Queensland, Australia for medical treatment. While at the hospital, he meets and falls in love with Elaine Jeffries (Rogers), the fiancée of Martin Shannon a rancher. A romantic rivalry develops and the pirates, who attacked Kirk and his ship kidnap her along with her friend, Nancy Holden. Kirk and Shannon pursue the pirates and they s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic Fury
''Arctic Fury'' is a 1949 American adventure film directed by Norman Dawn and Fred R. Feitshans Jr. and written by Charles F. Royal, Norton S. Parker, Robert Libott and Frank Burt. The film stars Alfred Delcambre, Eve Miller, Gloria Petroff, Dan Riss, Merrill McCormick and Fred Smith. The film was released on May 4, 1949, by RKO Radio Pictures. ''Arctic Fury'' is an updated version of the film ''Tundra'' (1936), which starred Alfred Del Cambre (billed as "Del Cambre"). ''Tundra'', like other films produced by the Edgar Rice Burroughs-Tarzan company, was filmed on location under primitive and sometimes treacherous conditions. Norman Dawn staged the action, serving as director and co-photographer. In 1949 director-film editor Fred Feitshans, Jr. prepared a remake to be produced in Hollywood, using many of the arctic action sequences from the original ''Tundra''. Co-stars Alfred Delcambre and Merrill McCormick were hired to repeat their former roles in new scenes. Plot As the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Call Of The Yukon
''Call of the Yukon'' is a 1938 American action/adventure film produced and released by Republic Pictures, directed by John T. Coyle and B. Reeves Eason and starring Richard Arlen and Beverly Roberts. The film features extensive Alaskan location shooting by Norman Dawn who shot several films there. The film is based on the 1926 novel ''Swift Lightning A Story Of Wildlife Adventure In The Frozen North'' by Northern genre writer James Oliver Curwood. The film's working titles were ''Thunder in Alaska'' and ''Swift Lightning''.http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/70105/Call-of-the-Yukon/notes.html Plot Adventuring author Jean Williams is living in the wilds of Alaska alongside the Eskimo people gathering material for her novel. She befriends several animals who become her loyal friends such as a pair of bear cubs whose mother has been killed by hunter Gaston Rogers, a talking raven and the bereaved collie Firefly who will not leave the grave of her master, a game warden killed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tundra (1936 Film)
''Tundra'' is a 1936 drama film directed by Norman Dawn and featuring Merrill McCormick, Frank Baker and Earl Dwire. Originally the film was backed by Universal Pictures, but it was dropped when Carl Laemmle lost control of the studio. Production and distribution was then taken over by the independent Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures. Seven months of location shooting took place in Alaska. The film's sets were designed by the art director Charles Clague. Footage from the film was later re-used for the 1949 RKO release ''Arctic Fury''.Gevinson, Alan. ''Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960''. University of California Press, 1997. p. 51. . Cast *Alfred Delcambre as Dr. Jason Barlow *Merrill McCormick as Mack - The Trapper *Jack Santos as Kuyuk - Eskimo from Noonak *Frank Baker as White Man from Noonak *Earl Dwire Earl Dwire (October 3, 1883 – January 16, 1940), born Earl Dean Dwire, was an American character actor who appeared in more than 150 movies be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Hills (1929 Film)
''Black Hills'' is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Katherine Dawn, George Fisher and George Chandler. It was shot on location in South Dakota from April 1928. Plot Edith Budwell inherits her father's lumber business, but discovers that a series of fires are being started by a rival company with the connivance of a crooked foreman. She goes undercover posing as a Swedish cook in order to gather enough evidence to expose them. Cast *Katherine Dawn as Edith Bidwell * George Fisher as Jack Merritt *Bob Webster as Dude McGee *Aldine Webb as Lizzie McGee *George Chandler George Chandler (June 30, 1898 – June 10, 1985) was an American actor who starred in over 140 feature films, usually in smaller supporting roles, and he is perhaps best known for playing the character of Uncle Petrie Martin on the televi ... as Soopy *Roy Dow as Dick References Bibliography * External links * 1929 Western (genre) films 1920s English-lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adorable Outcast
''The Adorable Outcast'' is a 1928 Australian silent film directed by Norman Dawn about an adventurer who romances an island girl. The script was based on Beatrice Grimshaw's novel ''Conn of the Coral Seas''. It was one of the most expensive films made in Australia until that time, and was Dawn's follow up to ''For the Term of His Natural Life'' (1927). It did not perform as well at the box office and helped cause Australasian Films to abandon feature film production. For the American market, the film was retitled ''Black Cargoes of the South Seas''. Synopsis A young adventurer, Stephen Conn (Edmund Burns) is in love with an island girl, Luya (Edith Roberts). An evil blackbirder Fursey ( Walter Long) kidnaps Luya to get hands on some gold, but Stephen rescues her with the help of Luya's tribe. When it is revealed that Luya's parents were white, she and Stephen are married.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typhoon Love
''Typhoon Love'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Mitchell Lewis, Ruth Clifford and Katherine Dawn. The plot follows two adventurers working on an opal mine and a captain who schemes against them, ultimately dying and freeing his daughter to marry one of them. Cast * Mitchell Lewis *Ruth Clifford *T. Roy Barnes * George Fisher *Katherine Dawn Katherine Dawn (1896-1984) (born Katherine Virginia Madden, and sometimes credited as Susan Denis) was an American actress, screenwriter, and editor active during the 1920s through the 1940s. She was married to director Norman Dawn, who she met ... References Bibliography * External links * 1926 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films Films directed by Norman Dawn American black-and-white films 1920s American films {{1920s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justice Of The Far North
''Justice of the Far North'' is a 1925 American silent adventure film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Arthur Jasmine, Marcia Manon and Laska Winter. Cast *Arthur Jasmine as Umluk *Marcia Manon as Wamba *Laska Winter as Nootka *Charles Reisner as Mike Burke *Max Davidson Max Davidson (May 23, 1875 – September 4, 1950) was a German-American film actor known for his comedic Jewish persona during the silent film era. With a career spanning over thirty years, Davidson appeared in over 180 films. Career Born i ... as Izzy Hawkins * George Fisher as Dr. Wells * Katherine Dawn as Lucy Parsons *Steve Murphy as Broken Nose McGee References External links * 1925 adventure films American adventure films Films directed by Norman Dawn American silent feature films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures films 1920s English-language films 1920s American films Silent adventure films {{1920s-US-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After Marriage
''After Marriage'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn and starring Margaret Livingston, George Fisher, and Helen Lynch Helen Lynch (April 6, 1900 – March 2, 1965) was an American silent film actress, mainly known for her roles playing gun molls and other morally dubious characters. Biography Lynch was born in 1900 in Billings, Montana, where she was also ra .... Plot As described in a film magazine review, David Morgan, a young man who tires of his wife Lucille, is captivated by the actress Alma Lathrop, only to learn that his one rival for her full attention is his own father. Father and son meet on the actress’ yacht. The son leaves and, in a quarrel, the woman kills his father. She is arrested. The young man asks his wife’s forgiveness, and it is granted. Cast References Bibliography * External links * 1925 drama films 1920s English-language films American silent feature films Silent American drama films Films directed by N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lure Of The Yukon
''Lure of the Yukon'' is a 1924 American silent Western film, also classified as a Northern film. It is directed by Norman Dawn and stars Eva Novak, Spottiswoode Aitken, and Buddy Roosevelt. It is set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, and was filmed on location in the Territory. Cast *Eva Novak as Sue McGraig *Spottiswoode Aitken as Sourdough McCraig *Buddy Roosevelt as Bob Force (credited as Kent Sanderson) *Arthur Jasmine as Kuyak *Howard Webster as Dan Baird *Katherine Dawn Katherine Dawn (1896-1984) (born Katherine Virginia Madden, and sometimes credited as Susan Denis) was an American actress, screenwriter, and editor active during the 1920s through the 1940s. She was married to director Norman Dawn, who she met ... as Ruth Baird *Eagle Eye as Black Otter References Bibliography * External links * 1924 Western (genre) films Silent American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films American silent feature films 1920s English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |