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Napoleon Films
G. B. Samuelson Productions was a British film production company which operated in the silent film and early sound film era of films during the period of 1914 to 1933, during which time the company produced around 70 films. The company was run by G.B. Samuelson, who also directed a number of films. The company also made several films under the names British-Super films and Napoleon Films. Filmography :''This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.'' *'' A Study in Scarlet'' (1914) *Infelice (1915) *'' The Valley of Fear'' (1916) *'' Just a Girl'' (1916) * '' Dr. Wake's Patient'' (1916) * '' Damaged Goods'' (1919) * ''The Bridal Chair ''The Bridal Chair'' is a British silent motion picture of 1919 directed by G. B. Samuelson and starring Miriam J. Sabbage, C. M. Hallard, Daisy Burrell and Mary Rorke. A drama, it was written by Samuelson and Roland Pertwee. The film was prem ...'' (1919) Bibliography * Bamford, Kenton. ''Distorted Images: British National Identit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Production
Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casting, pre-production, shooting, sound recording, post-production, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a film release and an exhibition. Filmmaking occurs in a variety of economic, social, and political contexts around the world. It uses a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques. Although filmmaking originally involved the use of film, most film productions are now digital. Today, filmmaking refers to the process of crafting an audio-visual story commercially for distribution or broadcast. Production stages Film production consists of five major stages: * Development: Ideas for the film are created, rights to existing intellectual properties are purchased, etc., and the screenplay is written. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound Film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplification and recording quality were also inadequate. Innovations in sound-on-film led to the first commercial screening of short motion pictures using the technology, which took place in 1923. The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid-to-late 1920s. At first, the sound films which included synchronized dialogue, known as "talking pictures", or "talkies", were exclusively shorts. The earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie (although it had only limited so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Study In Scarlet (1914 British Film)
''A Study in Scarlet'' is a 1914 British silent drama film directed by George Pearson and starring James Bragington, making him the first English actor to portray Holmes on film. It is based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1887 novel of the same name and is considered to be lost. An American film of the same name was released in the U.S. on the following day, 29 December 1914. , the film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's " 75 Most Wanted" lost films. Production Ward Lock & Co, original publishers of ''A Study in Scarlet'' in the November 1887 edition of ''Beeton's Christmas Annual'', had the comprehensive rights to the book. The company sold the film rights to G. B. Samuelson and his film company. Samuelson's plans for the film were ambitious with outdoor scenes filmed at Cheddar Gorge in Cheddar, Somerset, England doubling for Utah in the United States. James Bragington was an employee of Samuelson's company and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Valley Of Fear (1916 Film)
''The Valley of Fear'' is a British silent adventure film of 1916 directed by Alexander Butler and starring Harry Arthur Saintsbury, Daisy Burrell and Booth Conway. The film is an adaptation of the 1915 novel, ''The Valley of Fear'' by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes. This is now considered a lost film. Production After the success of ''A Study in Scarlet'' in 1914, producer G. B. Samuelson decided to make another feature-length adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. French company Eclair owned the cinematic rights to Conan Doyle's stories up to 1912 which left only one full length story available, ''The Valley of Fear'' While James Bragington was considered a virtual doppelgänger of Sherlock Holmes in ''A Study in Scarlet'', the role in ''The Valley of Fear'' required more from an actor so H.A. Saintsbury was cast instead. Saintsbury had played the role onstage more than any other actor, over 1,000 times in both William Gillette's '' Sherlock Holmes'' as well as Cona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just A Girl (film)
''Just a Girl'' is a British silent motion picture of 1916 directed by Alexander Butler and starring Owen Nares, Daisy Burrell and Paul England. A romance, it was adapted by Harry Engholm from Charles Garvice's novel of the same title published in 1895. Plot Esmeralda, an Australian heiress played by Daisy Burrell, is courted by Lord Trafford (Owen Nares), an English peer in need of money. However, she refuses him and marries the man she loves, Norman Druce, a humble miner.Robert Connelly, Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross, ''Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910-1936'' (1988), p. 132: "JUST A GIRL** (1916, Brit.) 7 reels Samuelson/Moss bw Owen Nares (Lord Trafford), Daisy Burrell (Esmeralda), J. Hastings Batson (The Duke), Minna Grey (The Duchess), Paul England (The Miner). In another of those British social-class soap operas, an Australian heiress rejects an impoverished lord to marry the miner she really loves. d, Alexander Butler; w, Harry Engholm (based on the novel by C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damaged Goods (1919 Film)
''Damaged Goods'' is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Campbell Gullan, Marjorie Day and J. Fisher White. It was based on the 1901 play '' Les Avariés'' by Eugène Brieux. Because of the play's controversial tackling of the subject of venereal disease, the film had issues with censor boards and attracted a degree of notoriety. The film was described by one reviewer as a "masterpiece".Bamford p.20 Cast * Campbell Gullan as George Dupont * Marjorie Day as Henrietta Louches * J. Fisher White as Doctor * James Lindsay as Rouvenal * Joan Vivian Reese as Edith Wray * Bassett Roe as Henry Louches * Annie Esmond Annie Esmond (27 September 1873 – 4 January 1945) was a British stage and film actress. Esmond was born in Surrey, England. She made her stage debut in pantomime in Sheffield in 1891 and later appeared on the American as well as British stage ... as Marie Dupont * Winifred Dennis as The Wife References Bibliography * Bamfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bridal Chair
''The Bridal Chair'' is a British silent motion picture of 1919 directed by G. B. Samuelson and starring Miriam J. Sabbage, C. M. Hallard, Daisy Burrell and Mary Rorke. A drama, it was written by Samuelson and Roland Pertwee. The film was premiered at a Trade Show in July 1919.Rachael Low, Roger Manvell, ''The History of the British Film: 1918-1929'' (Allen & Unwin, 1971), p. 140 Plot Sylvane Sheridan is a cripple in a wheelchair, engaged to Lord Louis Lewis, a faithful middle-aged man who resists the temptation to abandon her for other young ladies, such as Jill Hargreaves. He has vowed not to marry anyone else while Sylvane survives. Cast * Miriam J. Sabbage – Sylvane Sheridan * C. M. Hallard – Lord Louis Lewis * Daisy Burrell – Jill Hargreaves * Mary Rorke Mary Rorke (14 February 1858, in London – 12 October 1938, in London) was a British stage and film actress. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Studios
This is a list of notable British film studios. * 3 Mills Studios – Bow, London * Aardman Animations – Bristol * Beaconsfield Film Studios – Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire * Bray Studios (UK), Bray Studios – Windsor, Berkshire * Bushey Studios – Bushey, Hertfordshire * British and Dominions Imperial Studios – Borehamwood, Hertfordshire * British National Studios (formerly known as Rock Studios) – Borehamwood, Hertfordshire * Catford Studios – Catford, London * Cricklewood Studios – Cricklewood, London * Denham Film Studios – Denham, Buckinghamshire * Dickenson Road Studios, Rusholme, Manchester * Disney, Disney UK – Hammersmith, London * Dragon International Film Studios – Llanilid, Wales * Ealing Studios – Ealing, London * Elstree Studios (Shenley Road), Elstree Film Studios (Associated British Picture Corporation) – Borehamwood, Hertfordshire * Elstree Studios for other facilities in the Elstree a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Production Companies Of The United Kingdom
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 sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
