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Thai Cinema
The cinema of Thailand dates back to the early days of filmmaking, when King Chulalongkorn's 1897 visit to Bern, Switzerland was recorded by François-Henri Lavancy-Clarke. The film was then brought to Bangkok, where it was exhibited. This sparked more interest in film by the Thai Royal Family and local businessmen, who brought in filmmaking equipment and started to exhibit foreign films. By the 1920s, a local film industry was started and in the 1930s, the Thai film industry had its first "golden age", with a number of studios producing films. The years after the Second World War saw a resurgence of the industry, which used 16 mm film to produce hundreds of films, many of them hard-driving action films. The most notable action filmmaker in the 1970s was Chalong Pakdivijit. Known internationally as P. Chalong or Philip Chalong, Chalong became the first Thai director who could successfully break into the international market and made a profit with his 1973 action-packed film call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GDH 559
GDH 559 Co., Ltd. ( th, āļāļĢāļīāļĐāļąāļ āļāļĩāļāļĩāđāļāļ āļŦāđāļēāļŦāđāļēāđāļāđāļē āļāļģāļāļąāļ), usually known as GDH, is a film studio subsidiary to the Thai entertainment conglomerate GMM Grammy. It was founded on 5 January 2016 as a successor to GMM Tai Hub (GTH) â Thailand's most successful film studio of the prior 11 years â which had been dissolved in 31 December 2015 due to internal conflicts between the company's three major shareholders â GMM Grammy, and Hub Ho Hin. GDH had released films of various genres such as romance, comedy, horror and drama as well as the hit film '' Bad Genius''. Background GDH was formed as a joint venture between GMM Grammy and Hub Ho Hin Bangkok following the closure of GMM Tai Hub. The company is registered on December 14, 2015 with registered capital of 150,000,000 million baht under the same shareholding proportion. With the departure of GTH's former president Visute Poolvoralaks, GMM Grammy and Hub Ho Hin rejo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( th, āļāļ āļīāļāļēāļāļīāļāļāļĻāđ āļ§āļĩāļĢāļ°āđāļĻāļĢāļĐāļāļāļļāļĨ; ; ) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Apichatpong has directed several features and dozens of short films. Friends and fans sometimes refer to him as "Joe" (a nickname that he, like many with similarly long Thai names, has adopted out of convenience). His feature films include ''Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'', winner of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; ''Tropical Malady'', which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; '' Blissfully Yours'', which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; '' Syndromes and a Century'', which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there; and ''Cemetery of Splendour'', which premiered in the Un Certain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception hat remainsa practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called "actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social-media platforms (such as YouTube) have provided an avenue for the growth of the documentary- film gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manit Wasuwat
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Manit may refer to: People * Manit Joura, Indian actor * Manit Noywech (born 1980), Thai football player * Manit Rastogi, co-founder of Morphogenesis (architecture firm) * Manit Sriwanichpoom (born 1961), Thai artist Other * Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal (MANIT or NIT Bhopal, NIT-B) is a public technical university located in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is part of a group of publicly funded institutions in India known as National Instit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry MacRae
Henry Alexander MacRae (August 29, 1876 â October 2, 1944) was a Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent era, working on many film serials for Universal Studios. One of a number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood, MacRae was credited with many innovations in film production, including artificial light for interiors, the wind machine, double exposures and shooting at night. Biography Henry MacRae was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on August 29, 1876, and died in Beverly Hills, California, United States on October 2, 1944, aged 68. He was active as a director from 1912 to 1933, making more than 130 films, most of them silent. In addition to the many westerns and adventure films to his credit, he directed the first Thai- Hollywood co-production, '' Miss Suwanna of Siam'', in 1923. His first " talkie" was the first '' Tarzan'' movie with sound, '' Tarzan the Tiger'' in 1929. He also directed several westerns starring Hoot Gib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Suwanna Of Siam
''Miss Suwanna of Siam'' ( th, āļāļēāļāļŠāļēāļ§āļŠāļļāļ§āļĢāļĢāļ; ), was a 1923 romance film written and directed by Henry MacRae, set in Thailand (then Siam) and starring Thai actors. It was one of the first feature films to be made in Thailand, and was the first Hollywood co-production in Thailand. Nothing of the film exists today except for some promotional materials and other ephemera held at the Thailand National Film Archive.Sukwong, Dome and Suwannapak, Sawasdi. ''A Century of Thai Cinema'', Thames and Hudson, 2001. Plot The film is a romance about a young woman named Suwanna who is the object of affection for many men. In her search for true love, she has many adventures and mishaps, including overcoming her father's disapproval, before finally finding her soulmate. Cast * Sa-ngiam Navisthira (''Later'' Anindhita Akhubutra) as Suwanna * Khun Ram Pharotsat (Yom Mongkhonnat) as Klahan * Luang Pharotkamkoson (Mongkhon Sumonnat) as Kongkaew Crew *Director â Henry Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thai Alphabet
The Thai script ( th, āļāļąāļāļĐāļĢāđāļāļĒ, ) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages spoken in Thailand. The Thai alphabet itself (as used to write Thai) has 44 consonant symbols ( th, āļāļĒāļąāļāļāļāļ°, ''phayanchana''), 16 vowel symbols ( th, āļŠāļĢāļ°, ''sara'') that combine into at least 32 vowel forms and four tone diacritics ( th, āļ§āļĢāļĢāļāļĒāļļāļāļāđ or āļ§āļĢāļĢāļāļĒāļļāļ, or ) to create characters mostly representing syllables. Although commonly referred to as the "Thai alphabet", the script is in fact not a true alphabet but an abugida, a writing system in which the full characters represent consonants with diacritical marks for vowels; the absence of a vowel diacritic gives an implied 'a' or 'o'. Consonants are written horizontally from left to right, and vowels following a consonant in speech are written above, below, to the left or to the right of it, or a combination of those. History The Thai alphabet is de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Railway Of Thailand
The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) ( th, āļāļēāļĢāļĢāļāđāļāđāļŦāđāļāļāļĢāļ°āđāļāļĻāđāļāļĒ, abbrev. āļĢāļāļ., ) is the state-owned rail operator under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport in Thailand. History The SRT was founded as the Royal State Railways of Siam (RSR) in 1890. King Chulalongkorn ordered the Department of Railways to be set up under the Department of Public Works and Town and Country Planning. Construction of the Bangkok- Ayutthaya railway (), the first part of the Northern Line, was started in 1890 and inaugurated on 26 March 1897. The Thonburi- Phetchaburi line (), later the Southern Line, was opened on 19 June 1903. The first railway commander of the RSR was Prince Purachatra Jayakara (Krom Phra Kamphaeng Phet Akkarayothin). The Northern Line was originally built as , but in September 1919 it was decided to standardize on and the Northern Line was regauged during the next ten years. On 1 July 1951, RSR changed its name to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purachatra Jayakara
Purachatra Jayakara, Prince of Kamphaengphet ( th, āļāļļāļĢāļāļąāļāļĢāđāļāļĒāļēāļāļĢ; ; 23 January 1881 â 14 September 1936) was a Prince of Siam and a member of the Siamese Royal Family (later Thailand). He founded the House of Chatrajaya (), his descendants still use this royal surname. He was a son of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V the Great) of Siam. He was often called the ''Father of the Thai radio'' and the ''Father of the Thai railways'', due to his contributions in both fields. Biography Prince Purachatra Jayakara was born on 23 January 1881, in the compound of the Grand Palace. He was the 35th son of Chulalongkorn and Consort Wad. He received the education in Suankularb Wittayalai School. In 1894, he attended Harrow School, England. Then attended School of Engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge, and engineering at Chatham. And he attended studying in France and Netherlands in the School of engineering of digging dam-canals. After graduating, he went back to wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Puppet
Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim. The cut-out shapes of the puppets sometimes include translucent color or other types of detailing. Various effects can be achieved by moving both the puppets and the light source. A talented puppeteer can make the figures appear to walk, dance, fight, nod and laugh. Shadow play is popular in various cultures, among both children and adults in many countries around the world. More than 20 countries are known to have shadow show troupes. Shadow play is an old tradition and it has a long history in Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia. It has been an ancient art and a living folk tradition in China, India, Iran and Nepal. It is also known in Egypt, Turkey, Syria, Greece, Germany, France, and the United States. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nang Drama
''Nang yai'' ( th, āļŦāļāļąāļāđāļŦāļāđ, ) is a form of shadow play found in Thailand. Puppets are made of painted buffalo hide, while the story is narrated by songs, chants and music. '' Nang'' means "leather" ("leather puppet" in this case), and in common usage refers to a dance-drama shadow puppet show. ''Nang yai'', whose name specifically means "large shadow puppet", features life-size puppets, while '' nang talung'' (a similar tradition of shadow puppetry whose name derives from Pattalung, a southern city where the tradition has long been popular) features much smaller puppets. Both are particularly popular in southern Thailand. According to James Brandon, most scholars believe that ''nang yai'' came to Thailand via Java and the Malay Peninsula from India. ''Nang yai'' and ''nang talung'' incorporate various episodes of the Indian epic ''Ramayana'' (known as the ''Ramakien'' in Thailand). The art form's traditions originated around the beginning of the 15th century. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farang
Farang ( fa, ŲØąŲÚŊ) is a Persian (and Southeast Asian) word that originally referred to the Franks (the major Germanic tribe) and later came to refer to White Europeans in general. The word "Farang" is a cognate and originates from Old French: "". During the crusades, Frankish control was extended further in the Middle East. Unlike previous Franks, these Franks were almost all Christian as opposed to older Franks who were mixed groups of different religions. Over time, the word began to be used more generically. In 12th century, the term Frank became associated with all of Western Europeans (including the French, Italians, and the Flemish) in the Muslim world. The term ''Frangistan'' ( fa, ŲØąŲÚŊØģ؊اŲ) was used by Thai and Muslims and was also used frequently by Persians. Muslim traders referred to all European traders as Farang and it entered much of the languages of South Asia and Southeast Asia as a term. Name The word ''farang'' is from Persian wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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