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Directed by Millard Webb. With Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Charles Ruggles, Betty Lawford.
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Directed by Millard Webb. With Walter Huston, Kay Francis, Charles Ruggles, Betty Lawford.
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Directed by Phil Rosen. With Ricardo Cortez, Nancy Welford, Henry B. Walthall, Grace Valentine. A man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife.
The Phantom in the House is a 1929 American film directed by Phil Rosen.
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye. Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation...
Dynamite is an explosive material based on nitroglycerin, initially using diatomaceous earth (AmE: kieselgur; BrE: kieselguhr), or another absorbent substance such as powdered shells, clay, sawdust, or wood pulp. Dynamites using organic materials such as sawdust are less stable and such use has been generally discontinued. Dynamite was invented by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in KrГјmmel (Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), and patented in 1867. Its name is derived from Greek roots ОґПЌОЅО±ОјО№П‚ dГЅnamis that literally mean "connected with power."
Dynamite is usually sold in the form of cylinders about 8 in (20 cm) long and about 1.25 in (3.2 cm) in diameter, with a weight of about 0.5 lb troy (0.186 kg) . Other sizes also exist. The maximum shelf life of nitroglycerin-based dynamite is recommended as one year from the date of manufacture under good storage conditions.
Dynamite is a high explosive, which means its power comes from detonation rather than deflagration.
Another form of dynamite consists of nitroglycerin dissolved in nitrocellulose and a small amount of ketone. This form of dynamite is similar to cordite, and is much safer than the simple mix of nitroglycerin and diatomaceous earth. Military dynamite achieves greater stability by avoiding the use of nitroglycerin and uses much more stable chemicals. Public knowledge of dynamite led to metaphoric uses, such as saying that a particular issue "is political dynamite".
Preparation of dynamite during the construction of the Douglas Dam, 1942.
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Directed by Ub Iwerks. With Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner. Mickey puts on a show in his barnyard. A short dramatic scene by a chicken and rooster; an operatic ode by Patricia Pig, and then the main attraction: Mickey sings and plays his theme song, then dances to it.
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Directed by Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton. With Buster Keaton. A hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
The Balloonatic is a 1923 short comedy film co-directed by and starring Buster Keaton. It was one of Keaton's final short films.
The season series of Silly Symphonies continues, with squirrels storing nuts and corn, crows stealing it, beavers building a dam, ducks migrating, and the like, as the first snows fall.
Autumn or Fall ( /Л€Й”ЛђtЙ™m/, /Л€Й‘ЛђtЙ™m/ or /fЙ”Лђl/, /fЙ‘Лђl/, respectively) is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.
The equinoxes might be expected to be in the middle of their respective seasons, but temperature lag (caused by the thermal latency of the ground and sea) means that seasons appear later than dates calculated from a purely astronomical perspective. The actual lag varies with region. Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as "mid-autumn", others with a longer lag treat it as the start of autumn. Meteorologists (and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, and March, April and May in the southern hemisphere.
In North America, autumn is usually considered to start with the September equinox. In traditional East Asian solar term, autumn starts on or around 8 August and ends on about 7 November. In Ireland, the autumn months according to the national meteorological service, Met Г‰ireann, are September, October and November. However, according to the Irish Calendar which is based on ancient Gaelic traditions, autumn lasts throughout the months of August, September, and October, or possibly a few days later, depending on tradition. In Australia, autumn officially begins on March 1 and ends May 31 According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day (i.e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September) through Thanksgiving (i.e. the fourth Thursday in November), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.
Directed by Herbert Wilcox. With Norman Kerry, Frances Cuyler, Donald Macardle, Henry Vibart.
The Bondman is a later Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip Massinger, first published in 1624. The play has been called "the finest of the more serious tragicomedies" of Massinger.
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Directed by William K. Howard. With Victor McLaglen, Lois Moran, Nick Stuart, Earle Foxe.
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Paul Biensfeldt, Friedrich Kühne. The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
The Loves of Pharaoh (German: Das Weib des Pharao, aka The Wife of the Pharaoh) is a 1922 German historical epic film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It starred Emil Jannings.
A complete version of the film had been considered lost for years. A digitally restored and reconstructed version premiГЁred on 17 September 2011.
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Directed by Lewis Milestone. With Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy. A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.
The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929. The book and its sequel, The Road Back, were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany. It sold 2.5 million copies in twenty-five languages in its first eighteen months in print.
In 1930, the book was adapted as an Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.
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Directed by Donald Crisp. With Rod La Rocque, Lupe Velez, Warner Oland, Louis Natheaux.
Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film, based on the true story of high school math teacher, Jaime Escalante. Edward James Olmos portrayed Escalante in the film and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. The film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2011.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, Randle Ayrton. A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.
The Manxman (1929) is a silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Based on an 1896 romantic novel The Manxman by Hall Caine, the director began work on the film just two weeks after the birth of his daughter, Patricia Hitchcock. This was the last silent film Hitchcock directed before he made the transition to sound film with his next film Blackmail.
The Manxman was filmed almost entirely in the small fishing village of Polperro in Cornwall.
After being thought in the public domain for decades, the film's rights were obtained by French media company Canal+ in 2005. A restored and remastered print of the film was released on DVD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment in 2007.
Directed by M.A. Wetherell. With Moore Marriott, Walter Byron, Julie Suedo, Marie Ault.
Victory (from Latin victoria) is a term, originally applied to warfare, given to success achieved in personal combat, after military operations in general or, by extension, in any competition. Success in a military campaign is considered a strategic victory, while the success in a military engagement is a tactical victory.
In terms of human emotion, victory is accompanied with strong feelings of elation, and in human behaviour is often accompanied with movements and poses paralleling threat display preceding the combat, associated with the excess endorphin built up preceding and during combat. Victory dances and victory cries similarly parallel war dances and war cries performed before the outbreak of physical violence. Examples of victory behaviour reported in Roman antiquity, where the term originates, are the victory songs of the Batavi mercenaries serving under Gaius Julius Civilis after the victory over Quintus Petillius Cerialis in the Batavian rebellion of 69 AD (according to Tacitus), and also the "abominable song" to Wodan, sung by the Lombards at their victory celebration in 579. The sacrificial animal was a goat, around whose head the Langobard danced in a circle while singing their victory hymn (see also Oslac). In the Roman Republic, victories were celebrated by triumph ceremonies and monuments such as victory columns (e.g. Trajan's Column). A trophy is a token of victory taken from the defeated party, such as the enemy's weapons (spolia), or body parts (as in the case of head hunters).
In mythology, victory is often deified, as in Greek Nike or Roman Victoria. Archetypical victories of good over evil, or of light over dark etc. are a recurring theme in mythology and fairy tales. The victorious agent is a hero, often portrayed as engaging in hand-to-hand combat with a monster (as Saint George slaying the dragon, Indra slaying Ahi, Thor slaying the Midgard Serpent etc.). Sol invictus ("Sun invincible") of Roman mythology became an epithet of Christ in Christian mythology. The resurrection of Christ is presented as a victory over Death and Sin by Paul of Tarsus (1 Corinthians 15:55; see also Jesus Christ in comparative mythology).
Latinate victory from the 14th century replaces Old English sige (Gothic sigis, Old High German sigu), a frequent element in Germanic names (as in Sigibert, Sigurd etc.), cognate to Celtic sego- and Sanskrit sahas.
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Directed by Sam Wood. With Elliott Nugent, Robert Montgomery, Cliff Edwards, Sally Starr. Biff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors; roommates at the Fraternity; and star teammates on the USC Football team...
Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin, Henry Bergman. Charlie and friends illustrate various bonds in life and the most important, Liberty Bonds for the war...
The Bond
Directed by
Charlie Chaplin
Written by
Charlie Chaplin
Starring
Charlie Chaplin
Edna Purviance
Albert Austin
Sydney Chaplin
Distributed by
First National Pictures Inc.
Release date(s)
1918
Running time
11 minutes
Country
United States
Language
Silent film
English intertitles
The Bond is a propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Loan Committee for theatrical release to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I.
Made in 1918 with Edna Purviance, Albert Austin and Sydney Chaplin, the film has a distinctive visual motif set in a simple plain black set with starkly lit simple props and arrangements. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating various bonds like the bond of friendship and of marriage and, most important, the Liberty Bond, to K.O. the Kaiser which Charlie does literally.
There was also a British version with Uncle Sam replaced by John Bull and promotes War Bonds.
Directed by Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. With Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake. At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse...
For other uses, see Bellboy (disambiguation).
The Bell Boy
Directed by
Fatty Arbuckle
Starring
Fatty Arbuckle
Buster Keaton
Cinematography
Elgin Lessley
Editing by
Herbert Warren
Release date(s)
March 18, 1918
Running time
33 minutes
Country
USA
Language
Silent
English intertitles
The Bell Boy is a short film produced and released in 1918 by the Comique film company.
The film stars Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton as bellboys in Elk's Head Hotel. They cause trouble with each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse, a sham robbery turns into a real one, and there is a chase on a runaway trolley. Much of the material in this film was later re-used by Keaton in his 1937 film "Love Nest On Wheels". One sequence involving a mop was reused by Keaton in his last film appearance, in The Scribe.
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke, Emil Jannings, Max Laurence.
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Directed by Donald Crisp. With Wallace Reid, Ann Little, Ernest Joy, Henry Woodward.
Believe Me, Xantippe
1918 lantern card
Directed by
Donald Crisp
Produced by
Jesse L. Lasky
Written by
John Frederick Ballard (play)
Olga Printzlau (scenario)
Starring
Wallace Reid
Ann Little
Cinematography
Henry Kotani
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)
June 2, 1918
Running time
5 reels
Country
United States
Language
Silent
(English intertitles)
Believe Me, Xantippe (1918) was a silent comedy film produced by Jesse Lasky for release through Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by actor/director Donald Crisp and starred Wallace Reid and Ann Little.
The film is based on a 1913 William A. Brady-produced play by John Frederick Ballard, Believe Me Xantippe, which on the Broadway stage had starred John Barrymore. The film is now considered a lost film.
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Directed by D.W. Griffith. With Edwin August, Blanche Sweet, Mabel Normand, Charles Hill Mailes. John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby is taken in by John's first wife...
The Eternal Mother
Directed by
D. W. Griffith
Written by
D. W. Griffith
Starring
Blanche Sweet
Edwin August
Cinematography
G. W. Bitzer
Distributed by
Biograph Company
Release date(s)
January 11, 1912 (1912-01-11)
Running time
17 minutes
Country
United States
Language
Silent
English intertitles
The Eternal Mother is a 1912 American short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when Biograph Company and other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Ossi Oswalda, Emil Jannings, Margarete Kupfer, Fritz Schulz.
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Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Mary Pickford, Elliott Dexter, Tully Marshall, Raymond Hatton. A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.
A Romance of the Redwoods
theatrical poster
Directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by
Cecil B. DeMille
Written by
Cecil B. DeMille
Jeanie MacPherson
Starring
Mary Pickford
Cinematography
Alvin Wyckoff
Editing by
Cecil B. DeMille
Studio
Famous Players-Lasky/Artcraft
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)
May 14, 1917 (1917-05-14)
Running time
70 minutes
Country
United States
Language
Silent
English intertitles
A Romance of the Redwoods is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford.
A print of the film survives in the film archive at George Eastman House.

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Directed by Maurice Tourneur. With Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks. Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy...
The Poor Little Rich Girl
Directed by
Maurice Tourneur
Written by
Frances Marion
Starring
Mary Pickford
Madlaine Traverse
Charles Wellesley
Gladys Fairbanks
Cinematography
Lucien Andriot
John van den Broek
Distributed by
Artcraft Pictures Corporation
Release date(s)
March 5, 1917 (1917-03-05)
Running time
65 minutes
Country
United States
Language
Silent film
English intertitles
The Poor Little Rich Girl is a 1917 American comedy-drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur. Adapted by Frances Marion from the 1913 play by Eleanor Gates. The Broadway play actually starred future screen actress Viola Dana. The film stars Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks (returning from the play) and Frank McGlynn, Sr..
The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1991, The Poor Little Rich Girl was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig, Ernst Lubitsch.
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Directed by Donald Crisp. With Julian Eltinge, Daisy Jefferson, Noah Beery, Rosita Marstini.
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Directed by Donald Crisp. With George Beban, Helen Jerome Eddy, Pietro Sosso, Henry Woodward. Marcellini, a successful wine dealer, has a sudden heart attack and dies. His will leaves his entire fortune to his only kin...
Directed by Donald Crisp. With George Beban, Helen Jerome Eddy, Pietro Sosso, Vera Lewis.
TombГ©s du ciel (Lost in Transit)
Directed by
Philippe Lioret
Produced by
Steven Spielberg
Laurie MacDonald
Walter F. Parkes
Written by
Screenplay
Philippe Lioret
Michael Ganz
Starring
Jean Rochefort
Marisa Paredes
Ticky Holgado
Laura del Sol
Music by
Jeff Cohen
Distributed by
DreamWorks Distribution LLC
Release date(s)
23 June 1994
Running time
91 min
Country
France, Spain
Language
French
TombГ©s du ciel (Lost in Transit, literally "Fallen from the Sky") is a 1994 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. TombГ©s du ciel won the Grand Prize at the 6th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival held in February 1995.

Directed by Donald Crisp. With George Beban, Helen Jerome Eddy, Sarah Kernan, Harry De Vere.
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Directed by D.W. Griffith. With W. Chrystie Miller, Claire McDowell, Adolph Lestina, George Nichols. An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age...
What Shall We Do with Our Old?
Directed by
D. W. Griffith
Starring
W. Chrystie Miller
Cinematography
G. W. Bitzer
Distributed by
Biograph Company
Release date(s)
February 13, 1911
Running time
17 minutes
Country
United States
Language
Silent
English intertitles
What Shall We Do with Our Old? is a 1911 drama film directed by D.W. Griffith.
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. With Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts. A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
Joan the Woman
Film poster
Directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by
Cecil B. DeMille
Jesse L. Lasky
Written by
William C. de Mille
Jeanie MacPherson
Starring
Geraldine Farrar
Music by
Hugo Riesenfeld
Cinematography
Alvin Wyckoff
Editing by
Cecil B. DeMille
Studio
Famous Players-Lasky/Cardinal
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)
December 25, 1916 (1916-12-25)
Running time
140 minutes
Country
United States
Language
Silent
English intertitles
Joan the Woman is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Geraldine Farrar as Joan of Arc.
It was the first film to use the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "Wyckoff-DeMille Process") for certain scenes. A print of the film still exists.
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Directed by Richard Foster Baker. With Virginia Valli, Rod La Rocque.
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Directed by Donald Crisp. With Monroe Salisbury, Jack Livingston, Jane Novak, Jack McDonald.
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Directed by Paul Wegener. With Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Lubitsch, Wilhelm Diegelmann.
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Directed by Donald Crisp. With Julian Eltinge, Florence Vidor, Tully Marshall, George Kuwa.
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Directed by Donald Crisp. With George Beban, John Burton, Nigel De Brulier, Paul Weigel.
Directed by Herman C. Raymaker, Ferris Hartman. With Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin, Wallace Beery, Juanita Hansen. Dummy inventor Samuel Tinker has just developed a new life-sized mechanical dummy. He and his partner...
A Clever Dummy
Directed by
Ferris Hartman
Robert P. Kerr
Herman C. Raymaker
Mack Sennett
Produced by
Mack Sennett
Written by
Mack Sennett
Cinematography
Elgin Lessley
Release date(s)
28 June 1917 (1917-06-28)
Running time
23 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
A Clever Dummy is a 1917 American short film directed by Ferris Hartman, Robert P. Kerr, Herman C. Raymaker and Mack Sennett.
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Ernst Lubitsch, Käthe Dorsch, Max Zilzer, Guido Herzfeld.
With Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Charlotte Mineau. After passing the hat and taking the donations intended for German street musicians Charlie heads for the country...
With Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman. The Little Tramp escapes from prison; saves a girl and her mother from drowning; and creates havoc at a swank party.
The Adventurer may refer to:
The Adventurer (novel), a 1948 novel by Mika Waltari
The Adventurer (TV series), a 1972 British TV series
The Adventurer (film), a 1917 short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin
The Adventurer (1928 film) directed by Viktor Tourjansky and W.S. Van Dyke
The Adventurer (1920 film) directed by J. Gordon Edwards starring William Farnum
The Adventurer (1752 newspaper)
The Adventurer (magazine), a games magazine from LucasArts
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Directed by D.W. Griffith. With Blanche Sweet, Robert Harron, W. Chrystie Miller, Wilfred Lucas.
The White Rose of the Wilds
Directed by
D. W. Griffith
Written by
Bret Harte
Frank E. Woods
Starring
Blanche Sweet
Cinematography
G. W. Bitzer
Distributed by
Biograph Company
Release date(s)
May 25, 1911
Running time
17 minutes
Country
United States
Language
Silent
English intertitles
The White Rose of the Wilds is a 1911 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet.
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With Charles Chaplin. As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the rest of staff...
Triple Trouble may refer to:
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Ernst Lubitsch, Else Kentner, Guido Herzfeld, Ossi Oswalda. Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around...
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Directed by Georg Jacoby. With Ernst Lubitsch, Erna Albert, Margarete Kupfer.
With Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, James T. Kelley, Eric Campbell. After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating. Mr. Stout makes advances toward the unwilling Edna (whose father and Mrs...
Directed by Donald Crisp. With Adda Gleason, Mabel Van Buren, Ann Dvorak, Monroe Salisbury. On the estate of Senora Moreno in Southern California, the senora's adopted daughter Ramona lives...
For other uses, see Ramona (disambiguation).
Ramona
Cover to 1893 edition
Author(s)
Helen Hunt Jackson
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre(s)
Novel
Publisher
Little, Brown
Publication date
1884
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
335 (2007 ed.)
ISBN
ISBN 0812973518 (modern)
OCLC Number
56686628
Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in in Southern California after the Mexican-American War, it portrays the life of a mixed-race Scots-Native American orphan girl, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the Christian Union on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. It has had more than 300 printings, and been adapted four times as a film. A play adaptation has been performed annually outdoors since 1923.
The novel's influence on the culture and image of Southern California was considerable. Its sentimental portrayal of Mexican colonial life contributed to establishing a unique cultural identity for the region. As its publication coincided with the arrival of railroad lines to the region, countless tourists visited who wanted to see the locations of the novel.
With Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Wesley Ruggles, John Rand. Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house...
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Thai Traffic Police in Surin, Thailand
German State Police officer in Hamburg, with the rank of Polizeihauptmeister mit Zulage (Confirmed Police Sergeant Major).
The famous "black and white" LAPD police cruiser
Metropolitan police BMW 3 series in London
Romanian Police BMW 550i response car.
Polish Police's Anti-Riot Detachment, filming a gathering. The film could later be presented during a trial as evidence, or used in police training. A water cannon is seen in the background.
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder. Their powers include the legitimized use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police services of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from military or other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie and military police are military units charged with civil policing.
Law enforcement, however, constitutes only part of policing activity. Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the preservation of order. In some societies, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, these developed within the context of maintaining the class system and the protection of private property. Some parts of the world may suffer from police corruption.
Alternative names for police force include constabulary, gendarmerie, police department, police service, crime prevention, protective services, law enforcement agency, civil guard or civic guard. Members may be referred to as police officers, troopers, sheriffs, constables, rangers, peace officers or civic/civil guards. Police of the Soviet-era Eastern Europe were (or are, in some cases, as in Belarus) called the militsiya. The Irish police are called the Garda SГochГЎna ("guardians of the peace"); a police officer is called a garda. As police are often in conflict with individuals, slang terms are numerous. Many slang terms for police officers are decades or centuries old with lost etymology.
With Charles Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell. Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.
The Pawnshop
1916 Lobby Card
Directed by
Charles Chaplin
Edward Brewer (technical director)
Produced by
Henry P. Caulfield
Written by
Charles Chaplin (scenario)
Vincent Bryan (scenario)
Maverick Terrell (scenario)
Starring
Charles Chaplin
Edna Purviance
Henry Bergman
Cinematography
William C. Foster
Roland Totheroh
Editing by
Charles Chaplin
Distributed by
Mutual Film Corporation
Release date(s)
October 2, 1916
Running time
32 minutes
Country
USA
Language
Silent
The Pawnshop was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Mutual Film Corporation. Released on October 2, 1916, it stars Chaplin in the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner, played by Henry Bergman. Edna Purviance plays the owner's daughter, while Albert Austin appears as an alarm clock owner who watches Chaplin in dismay as he dismantles the clock; the massive Eric Campbell's character attempts to rob the shop.
This was one of Chaplin's more popular movies for Mutual, mainly for the slapstick comedy he was famous for at the time.