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Oliver Davis (composer)
Oliver Reynolds Davis (born January 1972) is an English writer, composer, pianist and singer. Early life and studies Davis studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating in 1994. He has since composed and produced albums, soundtracks, concertos and television scores working with London orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra. Composition Oliver Davis graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1994. He has composed numerous works for stage and concert hall with much of his work concentrated on his series of albums which feature the LSO and RPO orchestras, his latest album reaching no.1 in the iTunes Classical Charts. He has worked with many leading ballet companies including The Royal Ballet The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The largest of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in ..., San Francisco Ball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Academy Of Music
The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the first Duke of Wellington. Famous academy alumni include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Elton John and Annie Lennox. The academy provides undergraduate and postgraduate training across instrumental performance, composition, jazz, musical theatre and opera, and recruits musicians from around the world, with a student community representing more than 50 nationalities. It is committed to lifelong learning, from Junior Academy, which trains musicians up to the age of 18, through Open Academy community music projects, to performances and educational events for all ages. The academy's museum houses one of the world's most significant collections of musical instruments and artefacts, including stringed instruments by Stradivari, Guarneri, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Loncraine
Richard Loncraine (born 20 October 1946) is a British film and television director. Loncraine was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Loncraine received early training in the features department of the BBC, including a season directing items for ''Tomorrow's World''. Before his career in film, he was a sculptor and the first to create a chrome Newton's cradle. In 1996, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival for ''Richard III''. Filmography Film *'' Slade in Flame'' (1975) *'' Full Circle'' (1977) *''The Missionary'' (1982) *'' Brimstone and Treacle'' (1982) *''Bellman and True'' (1987) *''Richard III'' (1995) *''My House in Umbria'' (2003) *''Wimbledon'' (2004) *''Firewall'' (2006) *'' My One and Only'' (2009) *''5 Flights Up'' (2014) *''Finding Your Feet'' (2017) Television *''Secret Orchards'' (1979) *''Blade on the Feather'' (1980) *''Wide-Eyed and Legless ''Wide-Eyed and Legless'' (known in the US as ''The Wedding Gif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cramp Twins
''The Cramp Twins'' is an animated television series created by cartoonist Brian Wood based on his 1995 graphic novel of the same name. The show was produced by Sunbow Entertainment (in season 1), Telemagination (in season 2), and TV-Loonland AG, in association with Cartoon Network Europe. Overview The series follows the adventures of Lucien Cramp (Kath Soucie) and Wayne Cramp (Tom Kenny), fraternal twin brothers who live with their germophobic mother Dorothy (Nicole Oliver) and their Western-obsessed father Horace (Ian James Corlett) in the fictional town of Soap City. Wayne and Lucien's personalities clash, and they rarely get along. Wayne has a friend called Dirty Joe (Lee Tockar), who owns a dump, and neighbour Wendy Winkle (Jayne Peterson) has a crush on him, but he hates her. Wayne's and Lucien's teacher is Miss Hillary Hissy (Cathy Weseluck). Lucien's friends include environment-friendly Tony Parsons (Terry Klassen) and geeky Mari Phelps (Tabitha St. Germain). Two seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBBC (TV Channel)
CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 7–16. Its sister channel CBeebies broadcasts programming and content for children aged under 7. It broadcasts every day from 7am to 7pm (7am to 9pm from 11 April 2016 to 4 January 2022), timesharing with BBC Three. History Launched on 11 February 2002 alongside its sister channel, CBeebies, which serves the under 6 audience, the name was previously used to brand all BBC Children's and Education, BBC Children's content carried on BBC One and BBC Two. CBBC was named Channel of the Year at the Children's British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA awards in November 2008, 2012 and 2015. The channel averages 300,000 viewers daily. The channel originally shared bandwidth on the Freeview (UK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CiTV
CITV (short for Children's ITV, also known as the CITV Channel) is a British free-to-air children's television channel owned by ITV plc. It broadcasts content from the CITV archive and acquisitions, every day from 6 am to 9 pm which was previously 6 am to 6 pm until 21 February 2016. It is also the title of a programming block on the ITV (TV network), ITV network at weekends. ''Children's ITV'' launched on 3 January 1983, as a late afternoon programming block on the ITV network for children aged 5–13.At this point, there was only one "ITV" channel in any given area- transmitter overlap and split weekday/weekend franchises aside- and "ITV" was solely a generic/collective name for the various regional commercial television stations. It replaced the earlier ''Watch It!'' branding and introduced networked in-vision continuity links between programmes. These links were originally pre-recorded from a small London studio, up until 1987 when ITV Central, Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pongwiffy
Kaye Umansky (; born 6 December 1946) is an English children's author and poet. She has written over 130 books for children and her work ranges from picture books to novels. She is best known for the Pongwiffy & Jim Series. Early life Kaye Umansky was born in Plymouth, Devon. Her mother was a music teacher and encouraged her to play from a young age and her father was also a teacher who encouraged her reading. As an only child, Kaye wrote stories and plays, which she tried to get her friends to act in. After Kaye left school, she went to London to train as a teacher. Kaye enjoyed teaching music, drama and creative writing, but not mathematics. Alongside her husband, Kaye formed a soul band and played in the evenings and at weekends; she says they "never became rich and famous, but we had a lot of fun". She continued writing as a hobby and began writing full-time when her daughter was born. Personal life She lives in North London with her husband Mo, an engineer, they have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journey Beyond Sodor
Journey or journeying may refer to: * Travel, the movement of people between distant geographical locations ** Day's journey, a measurement of distance ** Road trip, a long-distance journey on the road Animals * Journey (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse * Journey (wolf) or OR-7, a gray wolf being electronically tracked in the Northwest United States Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Journey'' (1972 film), a 1972 Canadian film directed by Paul Almond * ''Journey'' (1995 film), a 1995 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV film * ''Journey'' (2004 film), a 2004 short film written and directed by Christine Shin * ''Journey'', a Telugu dubbed movie of original Tamil movie ''Engaeyum Eppothum'' Literature * ''Journey'' (novel), a 1989 historical novel by James Michener * ''A Journey'' (2010), Tony Blair's memoirs * ''Journey'' (picture book), a 2013 children's book by Aaron Becker * '' Journey: The Adventures of Wolverine MacAlistaire'', a 1983 comic by William Messner-Loebs Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventure Film
An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, animation, comedy, drama, fantasy, science fiction, family, horror, or war. Overview Setting plays an important role in an adventure film, sometimes itself acting as a character in the narrative. They are typically set in far away lands, such as lost continents or other exotic locations. They may also be set in a period background and may include adapted stories of historical or fictional adventure heroes within the historical context. Such struggles and situations that confront the main characters include things like battles, piracy, rebellion, and the creation of empires and kingdoms. A common theme of adventure films is of characters leaving their home or place of comfort and going to fulfill a goal, embarking on travels, quests, tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate "production numbers". The musical film was a natural development of the stage musical after the emergence of sound film technology. Typically, the biggest difference between film and stage musicals is the use of lavish background scenery and locations that would be impractical in a theater. Musical films characteristically contain elements reminiscent of theater; performers often treat their song and dance numbers as if a live audience were watching. In a sense, the viewer becomes the diegetic audience, as the performer looks directly into the camera and performs to it. With the advent of sound in the late 1920s, musicals gained popularity with the public and are exemplified by the films of Busby Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CGI Animation
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the use of computer graphics to create or contribute to images in art, printed media, video games, simulators, and visual effects in films, television programs, shorts, commercials, and videos. The images may be static ( still images) or dynamic ( moving images), in which case CGI is also called ''computer animation''. CGI may be two-dimensional (2D), although the term "CGI" is most commonly used to refer to the 3-D computer graphics used for creating characters, scenes and special effects in films and television, which is described as "CGI animation". The first feature film to make use of CGI was the 1973 film ''Westworld''. Other early films that incorporated CGI include ''Star Wars'' (1977), '' Tron'' (1982), '' Golgo 13: The Professional'' (1983), ''The Last Starfighter'' (1984), '' Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985) and ''Flight of the Navigator'' (1986). The first music video to use CGI was Dire Straits' award-winning " Money for Nothin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Stoten
David Stoten (born in Luton, Bedfordshire) is a short film maker and director and caricaturist on TV's ''Spitting Image''. Stoten won the BAFTA award with longtime collaborator, Tim Watts in 1994 for '' The Big Story''. Since then, Stoten has provided storyboards for, amongst others, ''Corpse Bride'', ''Mr. Bean's Holiday'' and the TV series ''Charlie and Lola''. Credited as one of the "Spitting Image team" (under Roger Law), Stoten provided the cover to 2007's QI "E" Annual, as well as contributing incidental illustrations.The ''QI'' Team, ''The QI Annual "E"'', (Faber and Faber, 1 November 2007) Stoten has been an ongoing contributor to The Oldie. In 2015, Stoten provided caricatures for the ITV show Newzoids. As a sculptor, Stoten has made maquettes for the animation film industry whilst also sculpting a range of Gorillaz figures for the designer toy company Kidrobot. Stoten was Head of Story for the animated Feature Film ''Gnomeo and Juliet'' and subsequently became the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Race
''The Great Race'' is a 1965 American Technicolor slapstick comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood, directed by Blake Edwards, written by Arthur A. Ross (from a story by Edwards and Ross), and with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. The supporting cast includes Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn, Arthur O'Connell and Vivian Vance. The movie cost US$12 million (equivalent to $98.36 million in 2020), making it the most expensive comedy film at the time. The story was inspired by the actual 1908 New York to Paris Race. It is known for one scene that was promoted as "the greatest pie fight ever". It was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing. Plot The Great Leslie and Professor Fate are competing daredevils at the turn of the 20th century. Leslie is the classic hero – always dressed in white, handsome, ever-courteous, enormously talented and successful. Leslie's nemesis, Fate, is the traditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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