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Perley Poore Sheehan
Perley Poore Sheehan (7 June 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States – 30 September 1943 in Sierra Madre, California, United States) was an American film writer, novelist and film director. He was once married to Virginia Point (1902-unknown). Sheehan also wrote detective and adventure fiction for the pulp magazines. Sheehan wrote two fantasy novels, '' The Abyss of Wonders'' (1915), about a lost civilization in the Gobi Desert, and ''The Red Road to Shamballah'' (1932–1933) about a hero with a Tibetan magic sword.Gene Christie, ''The People of the Pit, and other early horrors from the Munsey pulps''. Normal, IL : Black Dog Books, 2010. (p.202) Works Filmography as a film writer (note: most of manuscripts below are movies, which are based on his novels.) * '' The Dragon'' (1916) * '' The Bugler of Algiers'' (1916) * ''The Whispering Chorus'' (1918) * '' Brave and Bold'' (1918) * '' A Society Sensation'' (1918) * '' Upstairs'' (1919) * '' Three Sevens'' (1921) * '' Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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A photograph (also known as a photo, or more generically referred to as an ''image'' or ''picture'') is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. Most photographs are now created using a smartphone or camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would perceive. Etymology The word ''photograph'' was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light". History The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce. The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
