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Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966), was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. One of the most well-known motion picture producers in the world, Disney was the co-founder with his brother Roy O. Disney of Walt Disney Productions, the corporation now known as The Walt Disney Company. Walt Disney is particularly noted for being a successful storyteller, a hands-on film producer, and a popular showman. He and his staff created a number of the world's mo ...

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• Walt Disney - Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
• Walt Disney - The creation of Mickey Mouse
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• Walt Disney - 1937-1954: Animated feature films
• Walt Disney - Disney's Folly: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Walt Disney - Wartime troubles
• Walt Disney - Testimony Before Congress
• Walt Disney - 1955-1966: Theme Parks and Beyond
• Walt Disney - Carolwood Pacific Railroad
• Walt Disney - Planning Disneyland
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• Walt Disney - Early 1960s successes
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• Walt Disney - Plans for Disney World and EPCOT
• Walt Disney - Death of Walt Disney
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Verdens Undergang was a Danish silent film that was released in 1916. The story was written by Otto Rung and the film was directed by August Blom. It had the English language title of The End of the World. This was a science fiction film of an epic nature that depicted the end of the world due to the arrival of an errant comet, and the accompanying social unrest. This film was released just six years after the return of Halley's comet, and in the midst of World War I. So in a certain respec ...

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The city of Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 38,816. The community is mostly surrounded by the city of Los Angeles but also has a border with unincorporated Los Angeles County. Since the 1920s, Culver City has been a significant center for motion picture and later television production, in part because it was the home of MGM Studios. It also was the headquarters for the Hughes Aircraft Company from the 1930s to the 1980s. National Public Radio West and ...

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• Culver City California - History
• Culver City California - The Heart of Screenland
• Culver City California - Decline of the Studios 1960s & 1970s
• Culver City California - Rebirth of Downtown 1990s & 2000s
• Culver City California - Transportation
• Culver City California - Neighborhoods
• Culver City California - Points of interest
• Culver City California - Geography
• Culver City California - Schools
• Culver City California - Demographics
• Culver City California - Famous Culver City natives

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William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate, born in San Francisco, California. William Randolph was the only child of George Hearst, a successful miner who became a multi-millionaire, and later U.S. Senator from California, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, a former school teacher from Missouri. While his father was busy losing and re-gaining fortunes, young William toured Europe with his mother. He was enrolled in St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire at the age of 15. Including:

• William Randolph Hearst - Business
• William Randolph Hearst - Personal
• William Randolph Hearst - The Hearst myth
• William Randolph Hearst - Notes on Sources

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Seventh Heaven is a 1927 silent film that was one of the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (then called "Best Picture, Production"). The film was written by H.H. Caldwell (titles), Benjamin Glazer, Katherine Hilliker (titles), and Austin Strong (play), and directed by Frank Borzage. The movie is a romance starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Gaynor won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Borzage won for Best Director, and Glazer won for Best Writing, Adaptation. Seventh Heaven is the 13th highest grossing silent film in cinema history, taking ...

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• Seventh Heaven - 1937 Remake

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Birth is the process in animals by which an offspring is expelled from the body of its mother. Different forms of birth are ovipary, vivipary or ovovivipary. In humans, the unborn offspring is called fetus after its embryonary stage. Birth - Medical meanings. Childbirth is the process at the end of a successful human pregnancy that results in a baby being born. Natural childbirth is the technique of minimizing medical intervention, particularly anaesthetics, during childbirth.

The Western is an American genre in literature and film. Westerns are art works – films, literature, sculpture, television and radio shows, and paintings – devoted to telling stories set in the American West, often portraying it in a romanticized light. While the Western has been popular throughout the history of movies, it has begun to diminish in importance as the United States progresses farther away from the period depicted. Western genre - Definition. Westerns, by definition, are set in the ...

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• Western genre - Definition
• Western genre - Common themes
• Western genre - Origins of the Western idea
• Western genre - Western literature
• Western genre - Western films
• Western genre - The Classical Western film
• Western genre - Spaghetti Westerns
• Western genre - Revisionist Westerns
• Western genre - Genre studies and Westerns
• Western genre - Influences on and of the Western
• Western genre - Television Westerns
• Western genre - Quote

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List of suicides - A. Johnny Ace, (1954), singer George Washington Adams, (1829), son of John Quincy Adams, jumped off a boat Robert Adams Jr., (1906), congressman from Pennsylvania, shot self after heavy losses in stock speculation Stuart Adamson, (2001), lead singer of the Scottish bands Big Country and the Skids Chris Adkisson a.k.a. Chris von Erich, (1991), professional wrestler Kerry Adkisson a.k.a Kerry von Erich, (1993), professional wrestler Mike ...

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List of suicides, List of suicides - Alphabetical, List of suicides - A, List of suicides - B, List of suicides - C, List of suicides - D, List of suicides - E, List of suicides - F, List of suicides - G, List of suicides - H, List of suicides - I - J, List of suicides - K, List of suicides - L, List of suicides - M, List of suicides - N-O, List of suicides - P, List of suicides - Q-R, List of suicides - S, List of suicides - T, List of suicides - U-V, List of suicides - W, List of suicides - X-Z, List of suicides - Monarchs, List of suicides - By Seppuku, List of suicides - Known afterwards

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Malayalam cinema - Early Era. The first Malayalam movie was released in 1928. It was a silent film titled Vigathakumaran, produced and directed by a businessman, J. C. Daniel who had no prior film experience. However this film was a commercial failure . The second film Marthanda Varma, produced in 1933 was based on a novel by C. V. Raman Pillai. But it was never released due to some legal issues. Balan released in 1938 was the first talkie in Malayalam. It was produced at Chennai (then ...

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Malayalam cinema, Malayalam cinema - History of Malayalam Cinema, Malayalam cinema - Early Era, Malayalam cinema - Malayalam Parallel films of the 1970s, Malayalam cinema - Malayalam Art Cinema of the early 1980s, Malayalam cinema - Golden Age of Malayalam cinema, Malayalam cinema - Popular Malayalam cinema through early-mid 1990s, Malayalam cinema - Current Scenario late 1990s - mid 2000s, Malayalam cinema - Prominent Directors, Malayalam cinema - Major Actors, Malayalam cinema - Major Actresses, Malayalam cinema - See Also

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William studied at Harvard University (1882–1885), but was expelled for sending faculty members chamber pots with the recipient's picture adorning the inside bottom. Searching for an occupation, in 1887 he took over management of a newspaper which his father had accepted as payment of a gambling debt, the San Francisco Examiner. Giving his paper a grand motto, "Monarch of the Dailies", he acquired the best equipment and the most talented writers of the time. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish exposes of mun ...

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William Randolph Hearst, William Randolph Hearst - Business, William Randolph Hearst - Personal, William Randolph Hearst - The Hearst myth

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The stories relating to Robin Hood are apocryphal, verging on the mythological. The modern image widely held today contrasts in many ways with the medieval legend. The modern Robin Hood was created by 16th and 17th century dramatists and writers, while the medieval Robin Hood was probably the creation of wandering minstrels, and is a more elusive figure. His first appearance in a manuscript is in William Langland's Piers Plowman (1377) in which Sloth, the lazy priest, boasts "I ken [know] 'rimes of Robin Hood." The next notice ...

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Robin Hood, Robin Hood - The Robin Hood legend, Robin Hood - Possible locations, Robin Hood - Modern interpretations, Robin Hood - Other trivia, Robin Hood - Movies and TV series, Robin Hood - Appearance in other arts, Robin Hood - Music, Robin Hood - Video games

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Music video - Early precedents. Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, which features extended scenes of battles choreographed to a score by Sergei Prokofiev, set new standards for the use of music in film and has been described as the first music video. However, the roots of the music video can be found even earlier. In 1911 Alexander Scriabin wrote his symphony Prometheus -- Poem of Fire for orchestra and "light organ". And as far back as the 1920s, the animated films of Oskar Fischinger (aptly labelle ...

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Music video, Music video - History of music videos, Music video - Early precedents, Music video - Film and video promos, Music video - Modern era, Music video - MTV, Music video - Music video censorship, Music video - Internet, Music video - Unofficial music videos, Music video - Timeline, Music video - Music video stations, Music video - Music video shows, Music video - Notes

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The film is set in the year 2026, in the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society has been divided into two rigid groups: one of planners or thinkers, who live high above the earth in luxury, and another of workers who live underground toiling to sustain the lives of the privileged. The city is run by Johhan 'Joh' Fredersen (Alfred Abel). The beautiful and evangelical figure Maria (Brigitte Helm) takes up the cause of the workers. She advises the desperate workers not to start a ...

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Metropolis 1927 film, Metropolis 1927 film - Plot, Metropolis 1927 film - Themes, Metropolis 1927 film - Architecture & visual effects, Metropolis 1927 film - Restorations & re-releases, Metropolis 1927 film - Soundtracks & scores, Metropolis 1927 film - Political significance, Metropolis 1927 film - Influence, Metropolis 1927 film - Trivia

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In June 1949 Strand left the United States to present Native Land at the International Film Festival in Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia. It was a departure that marked the beginning of Strand’s long exile from the prevailing climate of McCarthyism. Strand’s unwavering allegiance to Communism, fostered by his time in revolutionary Mexico, made his continuing residency in the United States untenable. The remaining twenty seven years of his life were spent in France where, despite never learning the language, he maintained an impressive creative life, assisted by his ...

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Paul Strand, Paul Strand - Early Modernism, Paul Strand - Film-making, Paul Strand - Exile from McCarthyism, Paul Strand - Strand’s politics

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New York City boasts over forty daily newspapers in several different languages, including such national heavyweights as the Wall Street Journal (daily circulation of 2.1 million) and The New York Times (1.6 million), and America's oldest continuously-published newspaper, the New York Post, founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton. Even the distantly third most popular New York Daily News (786,000) has the seventh-largest circulation in the United States. [1] The Staten Island Advance is a daily paper serving Staten Island and started as the cornerstone of ...

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Media of New York City, Media of New York City - Newspapers, Media of New York City - Magazines, Media of New York City - Television, Media of New York City - Radio, Media of New York City - Film, Media of New York City - Theater, Media of New York City - Literature and book publishing, Media of New York City - Music, Media of New York City - Portrayals of New York in the media

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List of mad scientists - Novels. Dr. Faust, figure of novels and plays (e.g. by Christopher Marlowe and J.W. von Goethe), based on a real figure from the 16th century. Dr. Frankenstein, creator of Frankenstein's monster, in the novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (1818). Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his short story "The Birthmark" (1843), shows a scientist who, while perhaps not mad, is certainly overconfident, and whose meddling with nature brings about tragedy. ...

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List of mad scientists, List of mad scientists - Before 1945, List of mad scientists - Novels, List of mad scientists - Movies, List of mad scientists - After 1945, List of mad scientists - Novels, List of mad scientists - Movies, List of mad scientists - Television series, List of mad scientists - Cartoon/anime, List of mad scientists - Comics, List of mad scientists - Video games, List of mad scientists - Toys

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Helen Keller - Childhood. Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green, on June 27, 1880, to parents Captain Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller. She was not born blind and deaf, but was actually a typical, healthy infant. It was not until nineteen months later that she came down with an illness that the doctors described as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain" which could have possibly been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it ...

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Helen Keller, Helen Keller - Biography, Helen Keller - Childhood, Helen Keller - Education, Helen Keller - Political activities, Helen Keller - Writings, Helen Keller - Honors, Helen Keller - Later life, Helen Keller - Death, Helen Keller - Helen Keller in the arts and popular culture

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Born Jeanne de La Fonte in Lille, Nord, France, she was the daughter of circus artists and who, by age five, was performing in the circus with her parents. In her teen years she began acting in minor stage productions and toured Europe with her troupe. She was performing in Russia when World War I broke out and fled to London. From there, she went on to New York City where she continued to work in the theatre until the opportunity ...

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Renée Adorée, Renée Adorée - Biography, Renée Adorée - Films

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On SF Main SF Article History of SF SF's Golden Age Speculative fiction Cyberpunk Hard SF Soft SF Space opera More subgenres... Computers Cyberware Robots Space ships Hyperspace Time machines Weaponry Aliens Cyberspace Multiverse Utopia/Dystopia more... Novels ...

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Science fiction, Science fiction - Definition and scope, Science fiction - Overall definition, Science fiction - Science fiction and fantasy, Science fiction - Science fiction and mainstream literature, Science fiction - Speculative fiction, Science fiction - Slipstream fiction, Science fiction - Precursors of science fiction, Science fiction - Purpose of science fiction, Science fiction - Subject matter, Science fiction - Forms of media, Science fiction - Magazines, Science fiction - Film, Science fiction - Comics, Science fiction - Radio, Science fiction - Theatre, Science fiction - Terminology, Science fiction - Fandom, Science fiction - SF portals, Science fiction - Bibliographies of SF in various languages

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Most of the film's plot is a setup for the stunts of the final sequence. Lloyd plays a department store clerk who wants to move ahead in his career and marry his hometown sweetheart. He sends her the most expensive presents he can afford. She mistakenly thinks he is already successful enough to support a family and takes a train to visit him. In his embarrassment he pretends to be the store manager when she first arrives. The ruse doesn't last long. He can't really afford to get married yet, and unless he does something dramatic to make ...

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Safety Last, Safety Last - Plot, Safety Last - Background

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One of the most spectacular films of all time, Intolerance was a colossal undertaking filled with monumental sets, lavish period costumes, and requiring more than 3,000 extras. The film consisted of four distinct but parallel stories that demonstrated mankind's intolerance during four different ages in world history. The timeline covered approximately 2,500 years, beginning with: The "Babylonian" period (539 BC) depicts the fall of Babylon as a result of intolerance arising from a conflict between devotees of different Ba ...

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Intolerance film, Intolerance film - Background, Intolerance film - Different existing versions, Intolerance film - Credits, Intolerance film - Cast

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