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The Scarecrow
A scarecrow is a decoy used to discourage birds from disturbing crops. Scarecrow(s) or The Scarecrow(s) may also refer to: Comics * Scarecrow (DC Comics), a supervillain in the Batman series * Scarecrow (Marvel Comics), a supervillain * Straw Man (comics), originally Scarecrow, a Marvel Comics character Film and television Films * ''The Scarecrow'' (1920 film), an American silent short film starring Buster Keaton * ''The Scarecrow'' (''Hollywood Television Theatre''), a 1972 American television film presentation of the play by Percy MacKaye (see below) * ''Scarecrow'' (1973 film), an American film starring Al Pacino and Gene Hackman * ''The Scarecrow'' (1982 film), a New Zealand film * ''Scarecrow'' (1984 film), a Russian drama film by Rolan Bykov * ''The Scarecrow'' (1985 film), an Iranian film * ''Scarecrows'' (1988 film), an American horror film * ''The Scarecrow'' (2000 film), an American animated fantasy film * ''Kakashi'' (translated as ''Scarecrow''), a 2001 Japane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarecrow (1920 Film)
''The Scarecrow'' is a 1920 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton, and written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline.Fristoe, Roger."The Scarecrow."''Turner Classic Movies''. November 7, 2017. Plot Buster plays a farmhand who competes with his housemate (Roberts) to win the love of the farmer's daughter ( Sybil Seely). Running from a dog that he believes is rabid, he races around brick walls, jumps through windows, and falls into a hay thresher that rips off most of his clothes. He is forced to borrow a scarecrow's clothes in a nearby field. He then trips into a kneeling position while tying his shoes, and Sybil believes he is proposing marriage. They speed off on a motorcycle, with Joe and the farmer (played by Buster's father, Joe) in hot pursuit. Scooping up a minister during the chase, they are married on the speeding motorcycle and splash into a stream, where they are pronounced man and wife. Cast * Buster Keaton as Farmhand #1 * Edward F. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarecrow
A scarecrow is a decoy or mannequin, often in the shape of a human. Humanoid scarecrows are usually dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops.Lesley Brown (ed.). (2007). "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles". 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . Scarecrows are used around the world by farmers, and are a notable symbol of farms and the countryside in popular culture. Design The common form of a scarecrow is a humanoid figure dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds such as Corvus, crows or Old World sparrow, sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops. Machinery such as windmills have been employed as scarecrows, but the effectiveness lessens as animals become familiar with the structures. Since the invention of the humanoid scarecrow, more effective methods have been developed. On California far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarecrow And Mrs
A scarecrow is a decoy or mannequin, often in the shape of a human. Humanoid scarecrows are usually dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops.Lesley Brown (ed.). (2007). "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles". 6th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. . Scarecrows are used around the world by farmers, and are a notable symbol of farms and the countryside in popular culture. Design The common form of a scarecrow is a humanoid figure dressed in old clothes and placed in open fields to discourage birds such as Corvus, crows or Old World sparrow, sparrows from disturbing and feeding on recently cast seed and growing crops. Machinery such as windmills have been employed as scarecrows, but the effectiveness lessens as animals become familiar with the structures. Since the invention of the humanoid scarecrow, more effective methods have been developed. On California far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarecrows
''The Scarecrows'' is a young-adult novel by Robert Westall, published by Chatto & Windus in 1981. It is a psychological novel with a supernatural twist, featuring a thirteen-year-old boy's reaction to his mother's courtship and remarriage six years after his father's death. It deals with themes of rage, isolation and fear. Beside the inner themes, it "tells of a boy and his family brought to the brink of destruction by sinister external forces" and it may be called a ghost story. Its US Library of Congress Subject Headings are remarriage, stepfathers, and horror stories. Westall and ''The Scarecrows'' won the annual Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Thus he became the second writer with two such honours, having won the 1975 Medal for ''The Machine Gunners''. William Morrow and Company published the US edition under its Greenwillow Books imprint within the calendar year. Plot summary The story is a third-person limited narrative, with the point of view entirely t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarecrow (short Story)
This is a list of books from the ''Goosebumps'' book series written by R. L. Stine and published by Scholastic. The first book, ''Welcome to Dead House'', was published in July 1992. Numerous spin-off series were written by Stine, including ''Goosebumps Series 2000'' (published from 1998 to 2000), ''Goosebumps Gold'' (which was never released), ''Give Yourself Goosebumps'' (1995 to 2000), ''Goosebumps HorrorLand'' (2008 to 2012) and ''Goosebumps Most Wanted'' (2012 to 2016). More than 400 million ''Goosebumps'' books have been sold,White, Michael (May 15, 2008)"Sony Acquires Movie Rights to `Goosebumps' Children's Books" ''Bloomberg''. Retrieved on November 25, 2010. making it the best-selling series of all time for several years.Foerstel, Herbert"Banned in the U.S.A.: a reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries" Greenwood Press, 2002. p. 222. At one point, ''Goosebumps'' sold 4 million books a month. A film based on the books was released on October 16, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarecrow (play)
''The Scarecrow'' is a play written by Percy MacKaye in 1908, and first presented on Broadway in 1911. It is based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "Feathertop", but greatly expands upon the tale. Mackaye himself stated that he hoped that the play would not be taken as a dramatization of "Feathertop", since the intentions of the two works are so different: "The scarecrow Feathertop is ridiculous, as the emblem of a superficial fop; the scarecrow Ravensbane is pitiful, as the emblem of human bathos." Productions Frank Reicher, known to modern audiences for playing the ship's captain in the original ''King Kong'' and its sequel ''Son of Kong'', starred in the title role in the original 1911 Broadway production. The play had what would now be considered an extremely short run in New York (23 performances). In 1923 it was filmed as a silent movie, ''Puritan Passions'', starring Mary Astor. The play was revived twice in New York (most recently in 2005), has been made into an opera, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Changeling (Williams Novel)
Sean Llewellyn Williams (born 23 May 1967) is an Australian author of science fiction who lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Several of his books have been ''New York Times'' best-sellers. Early life and education Williams was born in Whyalla, South Australia on 23 May 1967. He studied sciences and music at Pulteney Grammar School and matriculated third in his year (1984), topping the state for Musical composition. That same year, he won the Young Composer's Award for a theme and three variations for string quartet with flute, oboe and trumpet soloists called "Release of Anger". He then went to Adelaide University and studied a Bachelor of Economics and wrote for the student newspaper ''On Dit''. He completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Adelaide University in 2005 and was in 2010 a PhD candidate at the same institution. Writing career He is the author of over eighty published short stories and thirty-nine novels, including ''Twinmaker'' and (with Garth Nix) th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarecrow (Connelly Novel)
''The Scarecrow'' is a 2009 novel written by American author Michael Connelly. It was Connelly's 21st book (20th novel) and the second featuring as the main character Jack McEvoy, a reporter now living in Los Angeles, and FBI agent Rachel Walling. As a result, the novel is a sequel to the events in Connelly's 1996 book '' The Poet'', although another Connelly novel, ''The Narrows'', was published in 2004 as the "official" sequel to ''The Poet''.''The Narrows'' at MichaelConnelly.com Novel listing on the official website of author Michael Connelly. The book was published in the UK and Ireland on May 12, 2009, and in the US and Canada on May 26, 2009. Although McEvoy has made two subsequent appearances in Connelly's Harry Bosch novels ('' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarecrow & Other Anomalies
''Scarecrow & Other Anomalies'', by Oliverio Girondo, is a collection of short prose poems written originally in Spanish. ''Scarecrow'' inspired the feature film ''The Dark Side of the Heart'' (1994), directed by Eliseo Subiela. ''Xenosbooks.com'', accessed October 22, 2011. Synopsis The collection includes the short stories "Invitation to Vomit", "It's All Drool", "Lunarlude" and others.Xenos Books preface From the Anti-Preface of Karl Kvitko: "The crazy thing is so spectacularly original that even though alerted by my advance notice you are still going to be more surprised by Scarecrow than by anything else you have ever read in your life, even ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarecrow (Oz)
The Scarecrow is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum and illustrator W.W. Denslow. In his first appearance, the Scarecrow reveals that he lacks a brain and desires above all else to have one. In reality, he is only two days old and merely naïve. Throughout the course of the novel, he proves to have the brains he seeks and is later recognized as "the wisest man in all of Oz," although he continues to credit the Wizard for them. He is, however, wise enough to know his own limitations and all too happy to hand the rulership of Oz, passed to him by the Wizard, to Princess Ozma, and become one of her trusted advisors, though he typically spends more time having fun than advising. Character biography In ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' In Baum's classic 1900 novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'', the living scarecrow encounters Dorothy Gale in a field in the Munchkin Country while she is on her way to the Emerald City. He tells her about his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Schofield
Captain (land and air), Captain Shane Michael Schofield, callsign Scarecrow, United States Marine Corps, is a fictional character, whose exploits form the basis of a series created by the Australian author Matthew Reilly. He appears in ''Ice Station'' (1998), ''Area 7 (novel), Area 7'' (2001), ''Scarecrow (novel), Scarecrow'' (2003), ''The Four Legendary Kingdoms'' (2016; cameo appearance), and the spin-off ''Hell Island'' (2005). While the plot differs from novel to novel, it is mainly based around Schofield's legendary reputation as a strong Marine (armed services), Marine, revered by the Marines that serve under his command, and is known for his high-risk Military tactics, tactical manoeuvres. The role was voiced by Australian actor Joshua Mensch in the ''Ice Station'' live shows and Radio drama, audio drama at the Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Fringe Festival. Biography Schofield's callsign "Scarecrow" refers to the vertical scars running over each of his eyes. They were inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarecrow (novel)
''Scarecrow'' is the fifth Matthew Reilly novel, and the third to feature the main character Captain Shane Schofield, USMC. It was released in 2003. Plot Majestic-12, a group of the world's richest men, make up a bounty list of fifteen targets that have to be eliminated before 12 noon of October 26. Among the targets is Shane Schofield, who at that moment is on a mission in Siberia with Book II and a group of U.S. Marines. Schofield's team is supposed to meet up with two Delta groups, the leaders of which are also on M-12's hit list. Schofield's unit comes under fire from a group of bounty hunters led by Cedric Wexley and all but Schofield and Book II are killed. Schofield and Book II escape via a hijacked plane owned by a bounty hunter known as the Hungarian. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, Schofield's girlfriend Elizabeth Gant leads a group of Marines, along with Mother, to a cave system where Osama bin Laden's number two man is. Schofield races to Afghanistan to find Gant so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
