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| His movie about a monk's tale flopped (it didnt work)and was hired by Llyod |
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| director of Dracula (1931), the cult classic reatuks (1932), and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Sr., and London after Midnight (...circus?) |
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| founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel |
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| first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II. Laurel went on to join the Hal Roach studio, and began directing films, including a 1926 production called Yes, Yes, Nanette. It was his intention to work primarily as a writer and director, but fate stepped in. In 1927, Oliver Hardy, another member of the Hal Roach Studios Comedy All Star players, was injured in a kitchen mishap and Laurel was asked to return to acting. |
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| Known as an asshole,Director of Phantom of the Opera (Camera man became the in between for him and his cast and crew) |
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| important film director of the German silent cinema. (Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari) |
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was a Hungarian[1] - Austrian - American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.
He made an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M. Later he became a popular featured player in Hollywood crime films and mysteries, notably alongside Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet, and as the star of the successful Mr. Moto detective series. |
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| Creature of the black lagoon, and citizen kane |
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| American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 40 years. (someone recongnized them) |
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| Born 1880, director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy." |
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| From: Tin Can Ally Director, Hal Roach(Luke is a pickpocket, hiding out from the cops in a dive in the slum part of town.) He was supposed to be a chaplin rip-off created by Llyod (after some missteps) |
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| roles in monster movies and as the son of silent film actor Lon Chaney. |
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| "Man of a thousand faces" He was a make-up character [Miracle Man, Penalty, Hunchback and Phantom] |
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| Became Hal Roach's supervising director (McCarey and maybe NOT Roach first fully realized the potential of teaming up Laurel and Hardy) |
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| Cinematographer on the 1920 Der Golem |
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| Directed by: F.W. Murnau (Door man who looses his job b/c he took a quick break and was caught and replaced the next day. He struggled to move on in his life) |
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| DIrected by: G.W. Pabst fluid camera movement, invisble editing (set in the depression in Vienna. Wife is murdered, rents a flat daughter of detective looses her job, she moves into a flat and runs a night club with a brothel with a friend... |
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| Making fun of hitler (comedy)double cross. Oona O'Neil starred in it |
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| Directed by: Chaplin (The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events makes him loose the child and is reunited with Edna, mom)[gives a laugh and tear] |
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| Directed by: Fritz Lang. film on social issues. (detective investigates an officiers suicide, witnesses start to be murdered and a bomb goes off and acidentially kills HIS WIFE |
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| Director: John G. Blystone, featuring Hardy and Laurel (Stanley and Oliver are mousetrap salesmen hoping to strike it rich in Switzerland, but get swindled out of all their money by a cheesemaker. While working off their hotel debt, Oliver falls in love with a chambermaid, Anna, who in reality is a famous opera singer spying on her composer husband) |
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| Hires a guy who climbs buildings to entertain ppl, he was in a great deal of danger(famous clock scene) |
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| starring Gloria Swanson, who inherts a brothel (she was very worried about her reputation) in th emovie, is caught with the prince and is thrown out of the castle |
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| Based on Dracula (Count Orlok's move to Wisburg (Obviously the real "Wismar") brings the plague traceable to his dealings with the Realtor Thomas Hutter, and the Count's obsession with Hutter's wife, Ellen the only one with the power to end the evil.) |
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| Director: Fritz Lang (When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.) |
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| The Creature from the Black Lagoon |
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| Features Jack Arnold (supposed to be in far away place but has a telephone pole in background) set in FL and CA (similiar to JAWS) |
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| Director: George Waggner (last one)A practical man returns to his homeland, is attacked by a creature of folklore, and imbued with a malady his disciplined mind tells him can not possibly exist... Larry and Bela are attacked by wolf (every full moon) |
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| Director: James Whale, Cluade Rains (No make-up needed) |
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| Llyod, plot: bombed explodes while he is still holding it (accident) |
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| Director: Edward Wood Jr. (Aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies and vampires to stop human kind from creating the Solaranite (a sort of sun-driven bomb). |
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| Director: Fritz Lang (slains dragon and finds treasure that makes him invisible) |
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| Director: John Hutson (A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.)It was the 1st colorized film |
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| Director: Fritz Lang (In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences) there was a tag line... |
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| Director: Buster Keaton (A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.) |
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| Starring: Harry Langdon (soldier (Harry Langdon) fighting in World War I receives letters and photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. He becomes infatuated with her by long distance. after war he is assistant to a theatrical "strong man", Zandow the Great (Arthur Thalasso). While in America, he searches for Mary Brown... and he finds her, just as Zandow is incapacitated and the little nebbish must go on stage in his place) |
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| Claplin created this, comedy involving exaggerated physical violence or activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense, such as a character being hit in the face with a heavy frying pan or running into a brick wall. |
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| set up a place or situation and then connect every gag you can think of to it, created by chaplin |
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| when you fall on your butt, there are 3 kinds:180, old fashioned, stiff back |
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| The important directors and films of the day (1 of 3 of Mack Sennett and Chaplins basic film structures) |
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| social issues in Germany, very objective, that had no solutions |
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| Conglomerate producers of some of Chaplin’s comedies |
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| montage sequence is a technique in film editing in which a series of short shots is edited into a sequence to condense narrative. It is usually used to advance the story as a whole (often to suggest the passage of time), rather than to create symbolic meaning |
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| G.W. Pabst often directed st. films, they were about german social issues and criminals "New Objectivity" |
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| appeals to the audiences emotions (chaplin films) |
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