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The Carpet From Bagdad
''The Carpet from Bagdad'' is a 1915 American silent adventure film directed by Colin Campbell and based on Harold MacGrath's 1911 eponymous novel. In the story, Horace Wadsworth (played by Guy Oliver), one of a gang of criminals also planning a bank robbery in New York, steals the titular prayer rug from its Baghdad mosque. He sells the carpet to antique dealer George Jones (Wheeler Oakman) to fund the robbery scheme. But the theft places both men and Fortune Chedsoye (Kathlyn Williams), the innocent daughter of another conspirator, in danger from the carpet's guardian. Marketing for the film included a media tour of part of the set and an invitation-only screening sponsored by the publisher of MacGrath's book. ''The Carpet from Bagdad'' was released on May 3, 1915 to mostly positive reviews. Many praised the tinted desert scenes and realistic Middle East imagery, although some felt the scenery overshadowed the characters. The film is now mostly lost, although one badly dam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheeler Oakman
Wheeler Oakman (born Vivian Eichelberger; February 21, 1890 – March 19, 1949) was an American film actor. Early years Oakman was born as Vivian Eichelberger in Washington, D.C., and educated in that city's schools. He grew up in Fairfax, Virginia, after moving there from Washington. Career Before acting in films, Oakman was active in stock theater in the eastern United States. Oakman appeared in over 280 films between 1912 and 1948. In silent films, he was often a leading man. Among his leading ladies were Priscilla Dean, Kathlyn Williams, Colleen Moore and Annette Kellerman. His most successful movie was ''Mickey'', a 1918 comedy-drama, in which he played the love interest of Mabel Normand. In 1928, he had a prominent role as the crime boss in the first all talking feature movie ever made, ''Lights of New York''. Later in the sound era, his career declined, and he often portrayed villains or even henchman, frequently appearing in crime thrillers, melodramas and in We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Lusitania
RMS ''Lusitania'' (named after the Roman province in Western Europe corresponding to modern Portugal) was a British ocean liner that was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 and that held the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908. It was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the three months later. She was sunk on her 202nd trans-Atlantic crossing, on 7 May 1915, by a German U-boat U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. Although at times they were efficient fleet weapons against enemy naval warships, they were most effectively used in an economic warfare role ... off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. The sinking occurred about two years before the United States declaration of war on Germany (1917), United States declaration of war on Germany. Although the ''Lusitania''s sinking was a major factor in building America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V-L-S-E
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, it was the most prolific American film production company, producing many famous silent films. It was bought by Warner Bros. in 1925. History In 1896, English émigré Blackton was moonlighting as a reporter/artist for the New York ''Evening World'' when he was sent to interview Thomas Edison about his new film projector. The inventor talked the entrepreneurial reporter into buying a set of films and a projector. A year later, Blackton and business partner Smith founded the American Vitagraph Company in direct competition with Edison. A third partner, distributor William "Pop" Rock, joined in 1899. The company's first studio was located on the rooftop of a building on Nassau Street in Manhattan. Operations were later moved to the Midwoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Nicholas Selig
William Nicholas Selig (March 14, 1864 – July 15, 1948) was a pioneer of the American motion picture industry. In 1896 he created one of the first film production companies, Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago. Selig produced a string of commercially successful films in the early years of the film industry. His '' The Tramp and the Dog'' (1896) is considered the first narrative film set in Chicago. Selig claimed to have made the first narrative film shot in Los Angeles, ''The Count of Monte Cristo'', and, in 1909, established what may have been the first permanent L.A. studio, in Edendale, Los Angeles. He also produced the first Wizard of Oz film in 1910, the first U.S. company to shoot a two-reel film, ''Damon and Pythias'' (1908), and the first true serial, ''The Adventures of Kathlyn'' (1913–1914). Early life William Nicholas Selig was born March 14, 1864, at 10 Kramer Street, Chicago, Illinois, to Antonia (née Linsky) and Joseph Franz Selig,PDF a Bohemian-Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selig Zoo
The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company that was founded in 1896 by William Selig in Chicago. The company produced hundreds of early, widely distributed commercial moving pictures, including the first films starring Tom Mix, Harold Lloyd, Colleen Moore, and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Selig Polyscope also established Southern California's first permanent movie studio, in the historic Edendale district of Los Angeles. Ending film production in 1918, the business, based on its film production animals, became an animal and prop supplier to other studios and a zoo and amusement park attraction in East Los Angeles until the Great Depression in the 1930s. In 1947, William Selig and several other early movie producers and directors shared a special Academy Honorary Award to acknowledge their role in building the film industry. History William Selig had worked as a magician and minstrel show operator on the west coast in California. Later on, in Chicago, he e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the historical Fertile Crescent, and later the Levant region. It also comprises Turkey (both Anatolia and East Thrace) and Egypt (mostly located in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula being in Asia). Despite having varying definitions within different academic circles, the term was originally applied to the maximum extent of the Ottoman Empire. According to the National Geographic Society, the terms ''Near East'' and ''Middle East'' denote the same territories and are "generally accepted as comprising the countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian territories, Syria, and Turkey". In 1997, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventures Of Kathlyn
''The Adventures of Kathlyn'' (1913) is an American motion picture serial released on December 29, 1913, by the Selig Polyscope Company. An adventure serial filmed in Chicago, Illinois, its thirteen episodes were directed by Francis J. Grandon from a story by Harold MacGrath and Gilson Willets and starred Kathlyn Williams as the heroine. Harold MacGrath's novel of the same title was released a few days later in January 1914, so as to be in book stores at the same time as the serial was playing in theaters. ''The Adventures of Kathlyn'' was the second serial ever made by an American film studio, and is considered to be the first of the cliffhanger serials that became enormously popular during the next decade. The success of the serial spawned a 1916 feature-length film of the same title with basically the same crew and cast. Production The serial came about due to a newspaper circulation war in Chicago that forced the ''Chicago Tribune'' to use more sensationalism. William Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Adaptation
A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film. Although often considered a type of derivative work, film adaptation has been conceptualized recently by academic scholars such as Robert Stam as a dialogic process. While the most common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis, other works adapted into films include non-fiction (including journalism), autobiographical works, comic books, scriptures, plays, historical sources and even other films. Adaptation from such diverse resources has been a ubiquitous practice of filmmaking since the earliest days of cinema in nineteenth-century Europe. In contrast to when making a remake, movie directors usually take more creative liberties when creating a film adaptation. Elision and interpolation In 1924, Erich von Stroheim attempted a literal adaptation of Frank Norris's novel ''McTeague'' with his film ''Greed.'' The resulting film was 9½ hours long, and was cut to four ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Huntley
Fred Huntley (29 August 1862 in London, England – 1 November 1931 in Hollywood, California) was an English silent film actor and director. Fred Huntley made his theater debut at London's Covent Garden in 1879. After years as the leading man with the Carleton Opera Company, Huntley entered the film business as a writer and director for the Selig Polyscope Company in 1912. Filmography Actor * ''The Still Alarm'' (1911) * ''The Herders'' (1911) * ''Stability vs. Nobility'' (1911) * ''The Novice'' (1911) * ''Told in the Sierras'' (1911) * ''The New Faith'' (1911) * ''The White Medicine Man'' (1911) - Medicine Man * ''It Happened in the West'' (1911) * ''The Profligate'' (1911) * ''The Old Captain'' (1911) * ''Slick's Romance'' (1911) * ''Their Only Son'' (1911) * ''A Turkish Cigarette'' (1911) * ''The Regeneration of Apache Kid'' (1911) * ''The Blacksmith's Love'' (1911) * ''The Rival Stage Lines'' (1911) * ''The Artist's Sons'' (1911) * ''Making a Man of Him'' (1911) * ''On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Lonsdale (actor)
Harry J. Lonsdale (born Henry Gittus Lonsdale; 6 December 1862 – 8 February 1939) was a British born actor stage and silent film actor. He played leading parts. and married stage actress Alice Lonnon and then divorced. Lonsdale was born in Worcester, and died in Derby. The National Portrait Gallery has a photograph of him in costume as the Marquis de Corneville in ''Les Cloches de Corneville'' from 1890. Lonsdale had roles in several Colin Campbell directed films for Selig. Selected filmography *''Tommy's Atonement'' (1913) *''The Ex-Convict's Plunge'' (1913) *'' A Change of Administration'' (1913) *''The Rosary'' (1915) *'' Sweet Alyssum'' (1915) *''The Ne'er-Do-Well'' (1916) *'' The Garden of Allah'' (1916) *''His Brothers Keeper'' (1916) *''Who Shall Take My Life?'' (1917) *''Beware of Strangers'' (1917) *''Little Orphant Annie'' (1918) *'' The City of Purple Dreams'' *''The Illustrious Prince'' (1919) *'' The Shepherd of the Hills'' (1919) * ''Where Men Are Men'' (1921) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Clark (actor)
Frank Clark (December 22, 1857 – April 10, 1945) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in almost 200 films between 1910 and 1938. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles. Partial filmography * '' The Sergeant'' (1910) * '' An Assisted Elopement'' (1912) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1912) * ''Alas! Poor Yorick!'' (1913) * '' In the Long Ago'' (1913) * ''Wamba A Child of the Jungle'' (1913) * '' The Spoilers'' (1914) * ''Shotgun Jones'' (1914) * ''Chip of the Flying U'' (1914) * ''The Carpet from Bagdad'' (1915) * ''Sweet Alyssum'' (1915) * ''The Ne'er-Do-Well'' (1916) * '' The Garden of Allah'' (1916) * ''The Man from Painted Post'' (1917) * ''Beware of Strangers'' (1917) * '' The Price of Silence'' (1917) * ''Western Blood'' (1918) * '' The Yellow Dog'' (1918) * '' The City of Purple Dreams'' (1918) * ''The Turn of a Card'' (1918) * '' The Light of Western Stars'' (1918) * ''Trixie from Broadway'' (1919) * ''The Wildernes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenie Besserer
Eugenie Besserer ( – May 29, 1934) was an American actress who starred in silent films and features of the early sound motion-picture era, beginning in 1910. Her most prominent role is that of the title character's mother in the first talkie film, ''The Jazz Singer''. Early life Born in Marseilles, France, Besserer attended the Convent of Notre Dame in Ottawa, Ontario. She was taken by her parents to Ottawa as a girl, and spent her childhood there. She was left an orphan and escaped from her guardians at the age of 12. She came to New York City and arrived at Grand Central Station with only 25 cents (Canadian currency, equivalent to US$0.34 at the time) in her pocket. She managed to locate a former governess, with the assistance of a street car conductor, who helped Eugenie locate an uncle, with whom she lived. She continued her education there. Career Besserer's initial theatrical experience came with McKee Rankin when the producer had Nance O'Neill as a star. Soon, she ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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