|
Alco Films
Alco Films, established as Alco Film Corporation, was a short-lived American film distributor established in New York City during the silent film era in 1914. It was co-founded by Al Lichtman. The company worked to establish exclusive distribution deals with movie theater networks for its films. It entered bankruptcy proceedings in 1915 after internal strife, but the shareholders reorganized as Metro Pictures Metro Pictures Corporation was a motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leased fac ... in January 1915. Selected filmography * '' The Nightingale'' (1914) * '' Salomy Jane'' (1914) * '' Tillie's Punctured Romance'' (1914) * '' Shore Acres'' (1914) References {{reflist, refs= {{cite book , last = Eyman , first = S. , title = Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer , publisher = Simon & Schus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Distributor
A film distributor is responsible for the marketing of a film. The distribution company may be the same with, or different from, the production company. Distribution deals are an important part of financing a film. The distributor may set the release date of a film and the method by which a film is to be exhibited or made available for viewing; for example, directly to the public either theatrically or for home viewing ( DVD, video-on-demand, download, television programs through broadcast syndication etc.). A distributor may do this directly, if the distributor owns the theaters or film distribution networks, or through theatrical exhibitors and other sub-distributors. A limited distributor may deal only with particular products, such as DVDs or Blu-ray, or may act in a particular country or market. The primary distributor will often receive credit in the film's credits, one sheet or other marketing material. Theatrical distribution If a distributor is working with a the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of intertitle, title cards. The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a piano, pianist, theatre organ, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or musical improvisation, improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the inter-title cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the film did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Lichtman
Alexander Lichtman (April 9, 1888 – February 20, 1958) was a film salesman, occasionally working as a film producer. He was president of United Artists in 1935. He proposed the process of block booking to Adolph Zukor, which became industry standard practice. '' Variety'' called him "perhaps the greatest film salesman in the history of the business". Biography Lichtman was born in Monok, Hungary. His parents were Joseph Lichtman and Pepe (aka Josephine) Zuckermandel. The family emigrated to the US when Lichtman was 10 but his parents died within the next 3 years. He started work as an usher at a burlesque house in New York and later joined the circus and also gave monologues for Gus Sun's ''Gus Sun Time'' before joining Powers Motion Pictures Co. in New York. He tried to persuade Adolph Zukor to let him produce a film of ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' but was instead hired as a field manager for Zukor at Famous Players in 1912, gaining a 10% interest in the company. Two years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archive
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. They have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity. In general, archives consist of records that have been selected for permanent or long-term preservation on grounds of their enduring cultural, historical, or evidentiary value. Archival records are normally unpublished and almost al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movie Theater
A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, the movies, the pictures, picture theater, the silver screen, the big screen, or simply theater is a building that contains auditoria for viewing films (also called movies) for entertainment. Most, but not all, movie theaters are commercial operations catering to the general public, who attend by purchasing a ticket. The film is projected with a movie projector onto a large projection screen at the front of the auditorium while the dialogue, sounds, and music are played through a number of wall-mounted speakers. Since the 1970s, subwoofers have been used for low-pitched sounds. Since the 2010s, the majority of movie theaters have been equipped for Digital cinema#Digital projection, digital cinema projection, removing the need to create and transport a physical film stock#Intermediate and print stocks, film print on a heavy reel. A great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Pictures
Metro Pictures Corporation was a motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leased facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It was purchased in 1919. History Metro Pictures was founded as a film distribution company in February 1915 by a number of "exchange men" with Richard A. Rowland as president, George Grombacher as vice-president and Louis B. Mayer as secretary. Grombacher owned exchanges in Portland and Seattle. Rowland and Metro's 2nd vice president James B. Clark were from the Roland & Clark company based in Pittsburgh. Metro was capitalized with $300,000 in cash and founded for the purpose of controlling movie productions for the exchanges. Rowland had been an investor in Alco Films which was a distribution company for a coalition of production companies. Mayer convinced Rowland to set up Metro to replace Alco to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Nightingale (1914 Film)
''The Nightingale'', drama film directed and written by Augustus Thomas in 1914, is a silent drama film, which Alco Film Corporation released. Ethel Barrymore makes her acting debut in this feature film, which Thomas wrote specifically for her. Thomas, famed as a Broadway playwright, was the best friend of Barrymore's father Maurice and had known the actress since she was a child. As with many of Barrymore's films to come, the advertising for this film says the film is told in 'acts' as with a stage play, an effort to remind the audience of the star's status and preference for the legitimate stage. This film was long thought to be lost. Cast *Ethel Barrymore as Isola Franti, 'The Nightingale' *William Courtleigh as Tony Franti *Frank Andrews as Andrea Franti *Conway Tearle as Charles Marden *Charles A. Stevenson as Nathan Narden *Irving Brooks as 'Red' Galvin *Mario Majeroni as David Mantz *Philip Hahn as Jean de Resni *Ida Darling as Mrs. Belmore *Bobby Stewart as Nathan Marden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salomy Jane (1914 Film)
''Salomy Jane'' is a 1914 silent Western film based on Bret Harte's 1898 novella "Salomy Jane's Kiss" and Paul Armstrong's 1907 play based on Harte's story, ''Salomy Jane''. ''Salomy Jane'' was California Motion Picture Corporation's (CMPC) debut feature, as well as the screen debut of stage actress and singer Beatriz Michelena. George E. Middleton saw in his Latina wife a competitor to Mary Pickford as a premier screen star, and each CMPC production was intended to be a Michelena vehicle. Despite being well received by the public, it did not return a profit for the national distributor, Alco Films. It is the only known surviving complete work of silent film era actress Beatriz Michelena and the CMPC. Plot In rough-and-tumble Gold Rush-era California, Salomy Jane is saved from the ruffian Red Pete by a heroic stranger (the Man, aka Jack Dart), and he is saved from a lynching after being falsely accused of a crime. Cast * Beatriz Michelena as Salomy Jane * House Peters a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914 Film)
''Tillie's Punctured Romance'' is a 1914 American Silent film, silent comedy film directed by Mack Sennett and starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, and the Keystone Kops. The picture was the only feature-length comedy made by the Keystone Studios, Keystone Film Company. At the time of production Marie Dressler was a major stage star, and in this film Chaplin and Normand support her as leads within Keystone's stock company of actors. The film is based on Dressler's stage play ''Tillie's Nightmare'' by A. Baldwin Sloane and Edgar Smith (librettist), Edgar Smith. ''Tillie's Punctured Romance'' is notable for being the last Chaplin film which he neither wrote nor directed, as well as the first feature-length slapstick comedy in history of film, all of cinema. In it, Chaplin plays a slightly different role from his The Tramp, Tramp character, which was relatively new at the time. However, he retains a moustache (here a, pencil-thin "dude" type rather than his usua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shore Acres (1914 Film)
''Shore Acres'' is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Jack Pratt and starring Charles A. Stevenson, Riley Hatch and Conway Tearle. It is based on the 1893 play '' Shore Acres'' by James A. Herne, later also adapted into a 1920 film of the same title.Goble p.220 Cast * Charles A. Stevenson as Nathaniel Berry * Riley Hatch as Martin Berry * Conway Tearle as Sam Warner * Edward Connelly as Josiah Blake * Violet Horner as Helen Berry * Gladys Fairbanks as Ann * Harry Knowles as Captain Ben * Philip Traub as Bob * Madge Evans as Mildred References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in B ..., 1999. External links * 1914 films 1914 drama films 1910s English-lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
