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Robert A. Dillon
Robert A. Dillon (February 13, 1889 – November 28, 1944) was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. Dillon was born in New York City and was a brother of director John Francis Dillon. He wrote for more than 80 films between 1914 and 1937, and also directed eight films between 1916 and 1927, including ''The Santa Fe Trail'', ''The Flame Fighter'', ''Phantom Police'', and ''The Lost City''. Dillon died in Los Angeles, California in 1944. Selected filmography * ''The Last of the Mohicans'' (1920) * '' The Man Who Woke Up'' (1921) * '' Beating the Game'' (1921) * ''The Lamplighter'' (1921) * ''Winners of the West'' (1921) * ''In the Days of Buffalo Bill'' (1922) * ''The Radio King'' (1922) * '' The Oregon Trail'' (1923) * '' The Santa Fe Trail'' (1923) * ''South of the Equator'' (1924) * ''Three Keys'' (1925) * ''The Prairie Pirate'' (1925) * '' A Million Bid'' (1927) * ''The Range Riders'' (1927) * ''His Last Bullet'' (1928) * ''The Voice from the Sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Of The Equator
''South of the Equator'' is a 1924 American silent comedy adventure film directed by William James Craft and starring Kenneth MacDonald, Virginia Warwick and Gino Corrado.Connelly p.413 Synopsis The daughter of the democratically elected president of a South American country travels to America in order to secure arms supplies to resist an insurgency in her native country. In New York henchman of the revolutionary movement attempt to thwart her mission, but she is rescued by a young America John Dunlap. He then travels back with her to South America. Cast * Kenneth MacDonald as John Dunlap * Virginia Warwick as Clara Montavlo * Gino Corrado as Presidente Montavlo * Martin Turner as The Young Man's Friend * Alphonse Martell Alphonse Martell (1890 - 1976) was a French actor who wrote and directed ''Gigolettes of Paris'' (1933). He portrayed a director in the 1934 film '' I'll Be Suing You''. He often portrayed a waiter as in the 1946 film '' Falcon's Alibi'', in which ... as T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Silent Film Directors
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Film Directors From New York City
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] |
American Male Screenwriters
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Deaths
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. * January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. * January 5 – Preston North End F.C. is declared the winner of the inaugural Football League in England. * January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States. * January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia. * January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. * January 30 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost City (1935 Serial)
''The Lost City'' is an independently made 12 chapter science fiction film serial created and produced in 1935 by Sherman S. Krellberg and directed by Harry Revier. Plot Scientist Bruce Gordon comes to a secluded area in Africa after concluding that a series of electrically induced natural disasters had originated from in the area. There he finds the crazed Zolok, last of the Lemurians, in a secret complex inside a mountain. Zolok had created the natural disasters as a prelude to his attempt to take over the world, holding a brilliant scientist, Dr. Manyus, there hostage, along with his daughter, Natcha. He had forced Manyus to create mindless "giant" slaves out of the natives as a private army and as the serial progresses we learn Manyus also turned another tribe, the spider-worshipping Wangas, into thin, impotent whites. Gordon helps Manyus and his daughter to escape Zolok, but they encounter Ben Ali, a malignant slave trader; meet the sexy native Queen Rama, who tries to hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Voice From The Sky
''The Voice from the Sky'' is a 1930 American science fiction film serial directed by Ben F. Wilson and starring Wally Wales and Neva Gerber. The film was considered to be a lost film, but was recently rediscovered. It is the first serial film to have full sound. Cast * Wally Wales as Jack Deering, U. S. Secret Service * Neva Gerber (as Jean Dolores) as Jean Lovell * Robert Walker as Edgar Ballin * J. P. Lockney as Geoffrey Mentor * Al Haskell as Henchman 'Patch-Eye' * Cliff Lyons as Henchman 'Humpy' * John C. McCallum as J. C. Gates * Merle Farris as Mrs. Deering (Jack's mother) * The Man from Nowhere (a mysterious black-cloaked figure) List of episodes # Doomed # The Cave of Horrors # The Man from Nowhere # Danger Ahead # Desperate Deeds # Trail of Vengeance # The Scarlet Scourge # Trapped by Fate # The Pit of Peril # Hearts of Steel See also * List of film serials * List of film serials by studio This is a list of film serials by studio, separated into those released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Last Bullet
''His Last Bullet'' is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by Ben F. Wilson and starring Al Hoxie and Peggy O'Day. Cast * Al Hoxie as Tom Randall * Peggy O'Day as Ethel Thompson * Ben Wilson Jr. as Phil Randall * Ellis Houston as Joe Corrigan * Slim Parelda as Miller * Ed La Niece Ed, ed or ED may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Ed'' (film), a 1996 film starring Matt LeBlanc * Ed (''Fullmetal Alchemist'') or Edward Elric, a character in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' media * ''Ed'' (TV series), a TV series that ran fro ... as Jed Thompson * Sunflash the Wonder Horse as Sunflash, Tom's Horse References External links * 1928 films 1928 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films 1920s English-language films Films directed by Ben F. Wilson Silent American Western (genre) films 1920s American films {{silent-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Range Riders
''The Range Riders'' is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Ben F. Wilson and starring Wilson, Neva Gerber, Al Ferguson.Connelly p.227 Cast * Ben F. Wilson as Sra. Shannon * Neva Gerber as Betty Grannan * Al Ferguson as 'Sundown' Sykes * Ed La Niece Ed, ed or ED may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Ed'' (film), a 1996 film starring Matt LeBlanc * Ed (''Fullmetal Alchemist'') or Edward Elric, a character in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' media * ''Ed'' (TV series), a TV series that ran fro ... as Henry Fellows * Earl Turner as Capt. Lae * Fang the Dog as Pard the Dog References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997. External links * 1927 films 1927 Western (genre) films 1920s English-language films Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Million Bid (1927 Film)
''A Million Bid'' is a 1927 silent drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello. It is based on the 1908 play, ''Agnes'', by Gladys Rankin Drew writing under the pseudonym "George Cameron". The story was previously filmed in 1914 under the same name. Cast * Dolores Costello as Dorothy Gordon * Warner Oland as Geoffrey Marsh * Malcolm McGregor as Dr. Robert Brent * Betty Blythe as Mrs. Gordon * William Demarest as George Lamont * Douglas Gerrard as Lord Bobby Vane * Grace Gordon as Maid to the Gordons Preservation status An incomplete print of this film, with Italian intertitles, is housed at the Library of Congress The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is .... References External links * * *with lobby cards) 1927 films Films directed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
