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Roy H. Klaffki
Roy H. Klaffki (1882–1965) was an American cinematographer. He was a founding member of the American Society of Cinematographers in 1919.Slide p.10 Selected filmography * ''A Yoke of Gold'' (1916) * '' Barriers of Society'' (1916) * '' The Unattainable'' (1916) * '' Black Friday'' (1916) * '' The Morals of Hilda'' (1916) * ''The Reed Case'' (1917) * ''Treason'' (1917) * '' The Field of Honor'' (1917) * ''Sirens of the Sea'' (1917) * ''The Lash of Power'' (1917) * ''The Wife He Bought'' (1918) * ''Married in Haste'' (1919) * '' His Divorced Wife'' (1919) * '' The Phantom Melody'' (1920) * '' Her Five-Foot Highness'' (1920) * '' Human Stuff'' (1920) * ''The Infamous Miss Revell'' (1921) * '' Three of a Kind'' (1925) * ''Secret Orders'' (1926) * ''The Jade Cup'' (1926) * ''The Adorable Deceiver'' (1926) * '' The Impostor'' (1926) * ''Flame of the Argentine'' (1926) * ''Queen o'Diamonds'' (1926) * ''The Tired Business Man ''The Tired Business Man'' is a 1927 American silent com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phantom Melody
''The Phantom Melody'' is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Douglas Gerrard, and starring Monroe Salisbury, Henry A. Barrows, Ray Gallagher, Charles West and Jean Calhoun. The film was released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company on January 27, 1920. The film's "premature burial" plotline tilts it in the direction of being a horror film as well as a melodrama. Director Gerrard emigrated to Hollywood from Ireland in 1913 to become an actor, but quickly gravitated to film directing in 1916 with his ''The Price of Victory'', but gave up directing soon after filming ''The Phantom Melody''. Plot A wealthy count named Camello is in love with Mary Drake, but his cousin Gregory Baldi is also pursuing her. World War 2 breaks out, and Gregory is thought to have been killed in action. The Count succeeds in getting Mary to marry him, but on the eve of their wedding, Gregory returns home alive. Seeking to rid himself of his rival, Gregory buries Camello alive in an undergroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1882 Births
Year 188 (CLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the Roman Empire as the Year of the Consulship of Fuscianus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 941 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 188 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Publius Helvius Pertinax becomes pro-consul of Africa from 188 to 189. Japan * Queen Himiko (or Shingi Waō) begins her reign in Japan (until 248). Births * April 4 – Caracalla (or Antoninus), Roman emperor (d. 217) * Lu Ji (or Gongji), Chinese official and politician (d. 219) * Sun Shao, Chinese general of the Eastern Wu state (d. 241) Deaths * March 17 – Julian, pope and patriarch of Alexandria * Fa Zhen (or Gaoqing), Chinese scholar (b. AD 100) * Lucius Antistius Burrus, Roman politician (executed) * Ma Xiang, Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wedding March (1928 Film)
''The Wedding March'' is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film written and directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim. It also stars Fay Wray and ZaSu Pitts. Paramount Pictures forced von Stroheim to create two films from the footage, the second being ''The Honeymoon'' (eventually re-edited back into one film for a re-release). ''The Honeymoon'' is now considered lost, the only known copy destroyed in a fire in France in 1959. In 2003, ''The Wedding March'' was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." Plot In Vienna in 1914, Prince Nicki is the scion of a rundown noble family and is commander of a cavalry regiment. During a parade in front of the St. Stephen's Cathedral, Nicki notices beautiful innkeeper's daughter Mitzi in the crowd. Mitzi is eating with her family as her butcher fiance Schani grotesquely spits and embarrasses the entire family. Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tired Business Man
''The Tired Business Man'' is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Allen Dale and starring Raymond Hitchcock, Dot Farley and Margaret Quimby.Munden p.816 It was produced and released by the independent studio Tiffany Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director George Sawley. Synopsis The owners of a paving company are financially struggling and are set out to win a new contract from Alderman McGinnis with the assistance of their stenographer Rita. Cast * Raymond Hitchcock as Alderman McGinnis * Dot Farley as Mrs. McGinnis * Mack Swain as Mike Murphy * Margaret Quimby as Rita * Charles Delaney as Larry Riley * Lincoln Plumer as Pat Riley * Blanche Mehaffey as Violet Clark * Gibson Gowland Gibson Gowland (4 January 1877 – 9 September 1951) was an English film actor. Biography Gowland was born in Spennymoor, County Durham. He started work as a sailor and later became the mate on a ship. For several years from the age of 25 he ... as O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen O'Diamonds
''Queen o'Diamonds'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Evelyn Brent, Elsa Lorimer, and Phillips Smalley. Plot As described in a film magazine review, chorus girl Jerry Lyon resembles Jeanette Durant, a Broadway star whose husband is an international crook. Jerry, in love with struggling playwright Daniel Hammon, is induced to pose as Jeanette. She becomes involved in a series of wild adventures in which she innocently comes into possession of some stolen diamonds. She meets Ramsey, a theatrical producer, who agrees to star Jerry in Daniel's play, after she has brought the police in time to arrest a gang of desperate criminals. Cast * Evelyn Brent as Jeanette Durant / Jerry Lyon * Elsa Lorimer as Mrs. Ramsey * Phillips Smalley as Mr. Ramsey * William Bailey as LeRoy Phillips * Theodore von Eltz as Daniel Hammon * Edward Peil Edward J. Peil Sr. (January 18, 1883 – December 29, 1958) was an American film actor. He ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flame Of The Argentine
''Flame of the Argentine'' is a 1926 American silent action film directed by Edward Dillon and starring Evelyn Brent, Orville Caldwell and Frank Leigh. It was produced by Film Booking Offices of America, and was released in Britain by Ideal Films. It is now considered a lost film. Synopsis Doña Aguila owns a large ranch and a valuable emerald mine in Argentina, but her estate manager Emilio Tovar is trying to swindle her. On a visit to New Orleans, he persuades cabaret performer Inez Remírez to pose as Aguila's long-lost daughter. She returns with him and Doña Aguila it taken in by her, but Remírez is shamed by the older woman's kindness and refuses to help Tovar. He threatens her but she is rescued by American insurance agent Dan Prescott. Cast * Evelyn Brent as Inez Remírez * Orville Caldwell as Dan Prescott * Frank Leigh as Emilio Tovar * Daniel Makarenko as Marsini * Rosita Marstini as Madame Marsini * Evelyn Selbie as Nana * Florence Turner Florence Tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impostor (1926 Film)
''The Impostor'' is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by Chester Withey and starring Evelyn Brent, Carroll Nye, and James Morrison.Connelly p. 366 Synopsis A financially struggling young man uses a family jewel as security on a loan, only for the jewel to then be stolen by a notorious gambler. His sister Judith takes it upon herself to recover the missing jewel and goes undercover to achieve this. Cast * Evelyn Brent as Judith Gilbert * Carroll Nye as Dick Gilbert * James Morrison as Gordon * Frank Leigh as De Mornoff * James Quinn as Lefty * Carlton Griffin Carlton Griffin (May 23, 1893 - July 24, 1940) was an American film actor. He appeared in over 50 films between the mid-1910s until 1940. In his first films, he was credited as C. Elliott Griffin or C. E. Griffin. He was born in New York, New Yo ... as Morris * Edna Griffin as Ann Penn References Bibliography * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. Decemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adorable Deceiver
''The Adorable Deceiver'' is a 1926 American silent comedy film, starring Alberta Vaughn as a princess, forced to flee her home country with her father King Nicholas to New York City, where they make their way as well-meaning con artists. Cast Preservation With no prints of ''The Adorable Deceiver'' located in any film archives, it is a lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o .... Retrieved June 27, 2016 References |
The Jade Cup
''The Jade Cup'' is a 1926 American silent mystery film directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Evelyn Brent, Jack Luden and Eugene Borden.Munden p.391 Cast * Evelyn Brent as Peggy Allen * Jack Luden as Billy Crossan * Eugene Borden as Milano * George Cowl as Anoine Gerhardt * Charles Delaney as 'Dice' Morey * Violet Palmer Violet Renice Palmer (born July 20, 1964) is a retired American basketball referee in the NBA and WNBA and the first female official to reach the highest competitive tier in any major U.S. professional sports league. She also earned recognition a ... as Poppy References Bibliography * 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 * 1926 films 1926 mystery films American silent feature films American mystery films American black-and-white films Film Booking Offices of America films Films directed by Frank Hall Crane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Orders
''Secret Orders'' is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey and starring Harold Goodwin, Robert Frazer, and Evelyn Brent. The film was set in World War I and contained what the ''Chester Times'' described as a "world of swift-flowing melodrama. Plot As described in a film magazine review, Janet Graham is cajoled into marrying Delano, who is a crook. During the War she obtains a position as a Secret Service agent under Bruce Corbin, in charge of scheduling transports. They fall in love. Delano is hired by the Germans and directed to obtain a list of transports sailing to Europe from Corbin's safe. He breaks in and forces Janet to accompany him. She warns a transport by radio to beware of a Hun submarine, which is then discovered and sunk. Corbin and guards rescue her and Delano is killed. Corbin and Janet wed. Cast * Harold Goodwin as Eddie Delano * Robert Frazer as Bruce Corbin * Evelyn Brent as Janet Graaham * John Gough as Spike Slavin * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Of A Kind (1925 Film)
''Three of a Kind'' (also released as ''Three Wise Crooks'') is a 1925 American silent crime film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Evelyn Brent. The film is considered to be lost Lost may refer to getting lost, or to: Geography *Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland * Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US History *Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee .... Plot As described in a film magazine review, Molly Duvans, who works with Dan Pelton and Spug Casey, robs a diamond merchant and makes her getaway through a cleverly contrived fake involving a dental office. In a park she meets Ma Dickenson, nervous and distrait, and at first suspects her of some kind of crookedness. But Ma is genuine. She has lost her purse and her ticket to her home in Greenville. Molly gets her a ticket and sends her home. When the detectives get too warm on the trail of the trio of crooks, Molly goes to Greenville on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
