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1906 Films
The year 1906 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events *December 14 – Pathé Frères pioneer the luxury cinema with the opening of the Omnia Cinéma-Pathé in Paris. *December 26 – The world's first feature film, ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'', is released. * Carl Laemmle opens one of the first movie theaters in Chicago. Notable films released in 1906 A * ''Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp (Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse)'', directed by Albert Capellani, based on the Middle-Eastern Aladdin, folk tale – (List of French films before 1910, France) * ''The Automobile Thieves'', directed by J. Stuart Blackton – (List of American films of 1906, US) D * ''Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906 film), Dream of a Rarebit Fiend'', directed by Edwin S. Porter – (List of American films of 1906, US) G * ''The Gans-Nelson Contest'', starring Joe Gans and Battling Nelson – (List of American films of 1906, US) H * ''The Hilarious Posters (Les Affiches en goguette)'', dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Segundo De Chomón
Segundo Víctor Aurelio Chomón y Ruiz (also Chomont or Chaumont ; 17 October 1871 – 2 May 1929) was a pioneering Spanish film director, cinematographer and screenwriter. He produced many short films in France while working for Pathé, Pathé Frères and has been compared to Georges Méliès, due to his frequent camera tricks and optical illusions. He is regarded as the most significant Spanish silent film director in an international context. Biography Born in Aragon (Spain), Segundo de Chomón reportedly got into film through the efforts of his French actress wife, Julienne Mathieu, who appeared in early Pathé-Frères, Pathé Frères productions and worked in some special effects Parisian workshops like Élisabeth and Berthe Thuillier, Thuillier's studio. Around 1900 he became an agent for Pathé Frères in Spain, publicizing and distributing their films out of Barcelona. In 1901, Chomón began producing actuality films in Spain on an independent basis and distributing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace McCutcheon Sr
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List Of Australian Films Before 1910
:''This is a chronological list of Australian films by decade and year for years 1890s–1910s. For a complete alphabetical A-Z list, see :Australian films''. A list of films produced in Australia by year, from the 1890s to the end of the 1910s, in the List of Australian films. Pre 1910s External links Australian filmat the Internet Movie Database Marius SestierLumière Catalogue {{DEFAULTSORT:Australian Films (1896-1919) 1890s Lists of 1890s films Films A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of Visual arts, visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are gen ... Lists of 1900s films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Tait (film Director)
Charles Tait (15 November 1868 – 27 June 1933) was an Australian concert, film and theatrical entrepreneur. His most notable achievement was as the director and writer of ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' regarded as the world's first feature-length film. The film was first shown on 26 December 1906. Tait was born in Castlemaine, Victoria, the son of John Turnbull Tait (1830–1902), a tailor from Scalloway, Shetland Islands, Scotland, and his English wife Sarah, née Leeming. John Tait migrated to Victoria in 1862 and settled at Castlemaine where he married Sarah. They had nine children: including Charles (1868–1933), John Henry (1871–1955), James Nevin (1876–1961), Edward Joseph (1878–1947) and Frank Samuel (1883–1965) (later Sir Frank). In about 1879, the Taits moved to Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. On 21 June 1899 Charles married Elizabeth Jane Veitch; and they were to have two daughters and two sons. The Tait brothers' earliest presentations centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scheming Gambler's Paradise
''The Scheming Gambler's Paradise'' () is a 1905 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 784–785 in its catalogues. Plot In an opulent room, a crowd is playing at a gambling table. Suddenly a servant rushes in to warn them that the police are about to raid their gambling den. In a few moments, in a flurry of moving panels, the gamblers disguise the whole room as a millinery, with the women posing as hat makers and the men hiding just outside. The raiding police come in, are astonished to find no gambling den, and apologize profusely for disturbing the "milliners". As soon as the police leave, the room is changed back into a gambling den and the games resume. All is going well when the servant rushes in to announce a much bigger raid. This time, there is no time to transform the room, so the gamblers simply rush out, leaving one of them to turn out the light in the chandelier. He drops on the floor to hide, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 "Professor" Velle, Gaston began his career as a travelling magician, before putting his illusionist skills to work in cinema and ultimately creating more than fifty films between 1903 and 1911. He worked under Auguste and Louis Lumière, before serving as the head of production for the Italian film studio Cines. But he is best remembered for his work at Pathé, where he was hired to produce trick films that might rival those of his contemporary, Georges Méliès, including classic shorts like Burglars at Work (1904). Some films pioneered lasting techniques, such as his ''Les Invisibles'' (1906) – the first known invisible man film. Velle also created some of the first féerie films, such as ''tit-for-tat'' (1906). Additionally, Velle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter R
Walter may refer to: People and fictional characters * Walter (name), including a list of people and fictional and mythical characters with the given name or surname * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 1987), who previously wrestled as "Walter" * Walter, standard author abbreviation for Thomas Walter (botanist) ( – 1789) * "Agent Walter", an early codename of Josip Broz Tito * Walter, pseudonym of the anonymous writer of '' My Secret Life'' * Walter Plinge, British theatre pseudonym used when the original actor's name is unknown or not wished to be included * John Walter (businessman), Canadian business entrepreneur Companies * American Chocolate, later called Walter, an American automobile manufactured from 1902 to 1906 * Walter Energy, a metallurgical coal producer for the global steel industry * Walter Aircraft Engines, Czech manufacturer o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The '?' Motorist
''The '?' Motorist'' is a 1906 British silent comedy trick film, commonly called "The Mad Motorist" or "Questionmark Motorist" and directed by Walter R. Booth. Released in October 1906, the film is "one of the last films that W.R. Booth made for the producer-inventor R.W. Paul," and, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "looks forward to the more elaborate fantasies that Booth would make for Charles Urban between 1907 and 1911, as well as drawing on a wide range of the visual tricks that Booth had developed over the preceding half-decade." Booth later remade the film as '' The Automatic Motorist'' in 1911. The film has also been compared to the work of Georges Méliès and "The Impossible Voyage." Plot The film features a couple on the run from the police. While running from the police, they end up driving over the policeman, who magically recovers seconds after and continues to run after the car. Soon the couple comes to a building and their car magically drive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mysterious Retort
''L'Alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou la Cornue infernale'', released in the United States as ''The Mysterious Retort'' and in Britain as ''The Alchemist and the Demon'', is a 1906 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 874–876 in its catalogues. Plot In a laboratory, an alchemist is working with a large retort on a stove. After consulting a book, he falls asleep in a chair near the retort. As he sleeps, a giant snake comes out of the stove and transforms into a jester, who wakes the alchemist and forces him to look in a hand-mirror. When the alchemist does so, the retort grows much larger, the alchemist falls back to sleep, and a giant spider with a human face appears inside the retort. The spider dissolves into a young woman sprinkling coins onto the ground. Sparks escape from the retort and transform into a ghost. The alchemist wakes in terror, and the giant retort explodes. Two assistants run to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Merry Frolics Of Satan
''The Merry Frolics of Satan'' (, literally ''The Four Hundred Tricks of the Devil'') is a 1906 French silent trick film by Georges Méliès. The film is an updated comedic adaptation of the Faust legend, borrowing elements from two stage ''féerie'' spectaculars: ''Les Pilules du diable'' (1839), a classic stage fantasy with knockabout comedy, and ''Les Quatre Cents Coups du diable'' (1905), a satirical update of ''Les Pilules du diable'' to which Méliès had contributed two sequences, one of which he incorporated into the present film. In addition to directing and acting in it, Méliès supervised all aspects of the film's design and trick effect work, including extensive use of stage machinery, in his lavishly individual style, which was already unusual in the mass production-dominated French film industry. The film follows the adventures of an ambitious engineer who abandons his family and responsibilities when he barters with the Devil (played by Méliès himself) for superhu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
