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Ferdinand Zecca
Ferdinand Zecca (19 February 1864 – 23 March 1947) was a pioneer French film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter. He worked primarily for the Pathé company, first in artistic endeavors then in administration of the internationally based company. Early life Ferdinand Louis Zecca was born in Paris on 19 February 1864 into a family steeped in the entertainment world. His father was the stage manager at the Paris ''Théâtre de l'Ambigu'' while his brothers were actors. Zecca also became a stage manager and then an actor, before working as an entertainer, playing the cornet and singing in Parisian cafés. He was playing the cornet at the ''Foire au Pain d'épices'', when he encountered filmmaker Léon Gaumont. Filmmaking From 1891, Zecca had worked occasionally recording voice-overs for phonograph records for the Pathé Frères company, a pioneer in the cinema and audio recording industries. After 1895, Pathé became more involved in cinema. Gaumont first hired Zecca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcohol And Its Victims
''Les victimes de l'alcoolisme'' ''( en, Alcohol and its victims)'' is a 1902 French short drama film directed by Ferdinand Zecca, inspired by the 1877 naturalist novel L'Assommoir by Emile Zola. It is the first film inspired by this novel and one of first films aimed at fulfilling an objective of general social interest, in this case the fight against alcoholism.Review and link to watch the film: Plot The film is composed of five scenes introduced by intertitles: ''1. Interior of the happy and prosperous worker household'' A working-class family is living happily in a simple but comfortable house, a women, her mother and two children do their daily tasks and when the man of the house comes home, they all have dinner together. ''2. The first step to the wine merchant'' The husband meets in the street some friends who invite him to go and have a drink in a café. ''3. The ravages of alcohol. His wife picks him up at the cabaret'' In the café, the man drinks and plays dice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Film Directors
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century, it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animations and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that emulate Earth, but with a sense of otherness. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy consists of works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from ancient myths and legends to many recent and popular works. Traits Most fantasy uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting. Magic, magic practitioners ( so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1947 Deaths
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January– February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in the 20th century causes extensive disruption of travel. Given the low ratio of private vehicle ownership at the time, it is mainly remembered in terms of its effects on the railway network. * January 1 - The Canadian Citizenship Act comes into effect. * January 4 – First issue of weekly magazine ''Der Spiegel'' published in Hanover, Germany, edited by Rudolf Augstein. * January 10 – The United Nations adopts a resolution to take control of the free city of Trieste. * January 15 – Elizabeth Short, an aspiring actress nicknamed the " Black Dahlia", is found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles; the mysterious case is never solved. * January 16 – Vincent Auriol is inaugurated as president of France. * January 19 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1864 Births
Events January–March * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song "Beautiful Dreamer" is published in March. * January 16 – Denmark rejects an Austrian-Prussian ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution, which says that Schleswig-Holstein is part of Denmark. * January 21 – New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga campaign begins. * February – John Wisden publishes '' The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864'' in England; it will go on to become the major annual cricket reference publication. * February 1 – Danish-Prussian War (Second Schleswig War): 57,000 Austrian and Prussian troops cross the Eider River into Denmark. * February 15 – Heineken brewery founded in Netherlands. * February 17 – American Civil War: The tiny Confederate hand-propelled submarine '' H. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Hatot
Georges Alphonse Hatot (22 December 1876 – 8 August 1959) was a theater manager and pioneering French filmmaker during the late 1890s and early twentieth century. He directed the first known film based on the story of Joan of Arc in 1898 as well as having made the first films to feature the Roman emperor Nero. Besides being a director he also wrote the 1908 serial '' Nick Carter, le roi des détectives'' which was a major success and spawned many detective series in the following years. Biography Georges Alphonse Hatot was born on December 22, 1876 in Paris. Filmography References External links * {{Authority control 1876 births 1959 deaths Film directors from Paris French film directors French men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Au Pays Noir
''Au pays noir'' is a 1905 French silent short film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and Lucien Nonguet, and distributed in english-speaking countries under the titles ''In the Mining District'' (World-wide, English title), ''Down in the Coal Mines'' (United States) and ''Tragedy in a Coal Mine'' (United Kingdom). The film is based on Emile Zola's novel Germinal.Review and link to watch the film: Plot The film shows the hard and dangerous job a coal miner is forced to do, painfully earning his life and that of his family, lost, half of his miserable existence, in the depths of the earth, exposed to the terrible disasters produced by the fulgurating explosions of firedamp, the sudden irruption of water that invades the shafts and galleries, ripping open the walls of the mine, tearing away the woodwork in its irresistible rush. Production The film was shot at the new studio of Pathé in Montreuil, on decors painted by Vincent Lorant-Heilbronn (fr). Some of the sets were large eno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rêve à La Lune
''Rêve à la lune'', also known as ''L'amant de la lune'' is a 1905 French silent short film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and Gaston Velle Gaston Velle (1868–1953) was a French silent film director and pioneer of special effects, who was prominent in early French and Italian cinema during the first two decades of the 20th century. Like his father, the Hungarian entertainer Joseph ..., and distributed in English-speaking countries under the titles ''Dream of the Moon'' (World-wide, English title), ''The Moon Lover'' (United States) and ''Drunkard's Dream or Why You Sign the Pledge'' (United Kingdom). The film depicts a drunkard dreaming he is taken to the Moon.Review and link to watch the film: Plot A drunkard staggers home and is prey to bizarre hallucinations. He first sees himself surrounded by gigantic bottles with human forms with which he executes a frenzied quadrille, then he falls asleep on his bed. While he sleeps, he believes himself on a public square, under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Strike (1904 Film)
''The Strike'' (french: La Grève) is a 1904 French silent short film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and distributed in France by Pathé Frères. The film depicts a strike in a factory violently repressed by the Gendarmerie.Review and link to watch the film: Plot The film is composed of five scenes introduced by title cards: # ''Refusal of arbitration''. The scene is in the Director's office. The workers' delegation is introduced and submits the wishes of their comrades, but the manager, despite his son's intervention, refuses any compromise. # ''The Director's murderess''. The factory is guarded militarily. The delegation goes out and announces the refusal of the Director. The workers, angry, try to invade the factory but an officer orders to fire. Several men and children are wounded or killed. The manager try to parley with the workers. A woman, who had just seen her husband killed before her eyes, grabs a brick and throws it at the head of the manager and kills him. # ''Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Quixote (1903 Film)
''Don Quixote'' (french: Don Quichotte), also known as ''Adventures of the Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote'', is a 1903 French silent short film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and Lucien Nonguet. The film is the oldest surviving cinematographic adaptation of the eponymous novel by Miguel de Cervantes.Review and link to watch the film: Plot The film is described in the Pathé catalogue as a Grand comic scene in 15 tableaux from the Romance by Cervantes. 1. Scene: He starts out to defend the oppressed. 2. Scene: Thrashed, Knighted. 3. Scene: Fight against the windmills. 4. Scene: Imaginary foes. 5. Scene: Receiving the thanks of liberated convicts. 6. Scene: Sancho loses his Ass. 7. Scene: Fight against leather wine bottles. 8. Scene: Gamaches wedding feast. 9. Scene: He smashes the Marionettes. 10. Scene: Drowning in the Ebre. 11. Scene: Enchantment of Dulcinee. 12. Scene: A knight's test. 13. Scene: Sancho Pansa as Governor. 14. Scene: The Tournament. 15. Scene: Deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves (1902 Film)
''Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs'' ''( en, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves)'' is a 1902 French short silent film directed by Ferdinand Zecca, inspired by the eponymous folk tale added to the '' One Thousand and One Nights'' in the 18th century by its French translator Antoine Galland, who heard it from the Maronite storyteller Hanna Diyab. It is the first cinematographic adaptation of this tale.Review and link to watch the film: Plot The film is composed of seven scenes introduced by intertitles: ''1. Open sesame!'' While gathering wood in the forest, Ali Baba, accompanied by his donkey, surprises a gang of thieves carrying their loot. He hides and overhears the magic spell that gives access to the cave where they pile up their treasures. ''2. The thieves' treasure'' Once the thieves are gone, he enters the lair, takes a few bags of gold coins and runs back home. ''3. Rich at last!'' Ali Baba comes back to his house where his wife is expecting him. She is overjoyed when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Par Le Trou De La Serrure
''Par le trou de la serrure'' is a 1901 French silent film, silent short film, short comedy film directed by Ferdinand Zecca and distributed in France by Pathé Frères. It was also distributed in the United States under the titles ''What Is Seen Through a Keyhole'' and ''What Happened to the Inquisitive Janitor'', and in the United Kingdom under the titles ''What Happened: The Inquisitive Janitor'' and ''Peeping Tom''.Review and link to watch the film: Plot A hotel porter finds out the secrets of the guests by looking through the keyholes of four different rooms: * in the first one he sees a woman combing her hair, * in the second, what looked like a woman removes her whig and false breasts, revealing that she was in fact a transvestite, * in the third, a man drinks champagne with a woman sitting on his lap, * finally the door of the fourth room opens while he is watching and the furious guest kicks him down the stairs. Analysis After being hired by Charles Pathé as main film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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