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Frederick Wilson (film Editor)
Frederick Wilson (13 August 1912, London, UK – August 1994, Cambridge) was a British film editor and director. Selected filmography Editor * '' When Knights Were Bold'' (1936) * ''London Melody'' (1937) * '' Millions'' (1937) * '' Stolen Life'' (1939) * '' Under the Frozen Falls'' (1948) * '' Doctor at Sea'' (1955) * ''All for Mary'' (1955) * ''The Iron Petticoat'' (1956) * '' Checkpoint'' (1956) * '' Doctor at Large'' (1957) * ''Campbell's Kingdom'' (1957) * ''The Wind Cannot Read'' (1958) * ''The Captain's Table'' (1959) * '' North West Frontier'' (1959) * '' I Aim at the Stars'' (1960) * ''Mysterious Island'' (1961) * '' Reach for Glory'' (1963) * ''Lancelot and Guinevere'' (1963) * '' Girl in the Headlines'' (1963) * '' The Third Secret'' (1964) * '' Rattle of a Simple Man'' (1964) * ''The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders'' (1965) * ''The Quiller Memorandum'' (1966) * ''Arabesque'' (1966) * '' The Big Game'' (1973) Director * ''Poet's Pub'' (1949) * ''Floodtide ''Flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting shots and combining them into sequences which create a finished motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is often referred to as the "invisible art" because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that they are not aware of the editor's work. On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job of an editor is not simply to mechanically put pieces of a film toge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Aim At The Stars
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural ''ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter ' j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1912 Births
Year 191 ( CXCI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Bradua (or, less frequently, year 944 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 191 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Parthia * King Vologases IV of Parthia dies after a 44-year reign, and is succeeded by his son Vologases V. China * A coalition of Chinese warlords from the east of Hangu Pass launches a punitive campaign against the warlord Dong Zhuo, who seized control of the central government in 189, and held the figurehead Emperor Xian hostage. After suffering some defeats against the coalition forces, Dong Zhuo forcefully relocates the imperial capital from Luoyang to Chang'an. Before leaving, Dong Zhuo orders his troops to loot the tombs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floodtide
''Floodtide'' is a 1949 British romantic drama film directed by Frederick Wilson and starring Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson, John Laurie and Jimmy Logan. The film was one of the four of David Rawnsley's films that used his "independent frame" technique, a form of back projection. Plot A young Scotsman becomes a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming. He works his way up the firm, marries the boss's daughter, and revolutionises shipbuilding. Cast * Gordon Jackson as David Shields * Rona Anderson as Mary Anstruther * John Laurie as Joe Drummond * Jack Lambert as Anstruther * Jimmy Logan as Tim Brogan * Janet Brown as Rosie * Elizabeth Sellars as Judy * Gordon McLeod as Pursey * Ian McLean as Sir John * Archie Duncan as Charlie Campbell * James Woodburn as John Shields * Molly Weir as Mrs. McTavish * Ian Wallace as 1st Director * Alexander Archdale as 2nd Director * Grace Gavin as Mrs. McCrae Critical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poet's Pub
''Poet's Pub'' is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Frederick Wilson and starring Derek Bond, Rona Anderson and James Robertson Justice. It is based on the 1929 novel of the same title by Eric Linklater. The film was one of four of David Rawnsley's Aquila Films that used his proposed "independent frame" technique. It was made at Pinewood Studios. Premise An Oxford poet is persuaded to become manager of the Pelican Pub, after complaining about the food and service. Cast Production The film features actors viewing a combined radiogram television receiver made by Alba ''Alba'' ( , ) is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. It is also, in English language historiography, used to refer to the polity of Picts and Scots united in the ninth century as the Kingdom of Alba, until it developed into the Kingdom ... in 1948. External links * * 1949 films 1949 comedy films Films shot at Pinewood Studios Films based on British novels British comedy films British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Game (1973 Film)
''The Big Game'' is a 1973 action film directed by Robert Day and starring Stephen Boyd, France Nuyen and Ray Milland.McKay p.259 It was shot on location in Cape Town, Rome and Hong Kong. It is also known by the alternative title of ''Control Factor''. Synopsis Seeking a way to promote world peace a wealthy American develops a machine that can control people's minds, and hires two mercenaries to protect it on a ship travelling to Austria where they confront assault by hostile agents. Cast * Stephen Boyd as Leyton van Dyk * France Nuyen as Atanga * Ray Milland as Prof. Pete Handley * Cameron Mitchell as Bruno Carstens * Brendon Boone as Jim Handley * Michael Kirner as Mark Handley * John Van Dreelen as Lee * John Stacy as Gen. Bill Stryker * George Wang as Wong * Marié du Toit as Lucie Handley * Ian Yule as Task Force Leader * Bill Brewer as Ship's Captain * Romano Puppo as Alberto * Larry McEvoy as Dr. Warden * Anthony Dawson Anthony Douglas Gillon Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabesque (1966 Film)
''Arabesque'' is a 1966 American comedy thriller spy film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren, written by Julian Mitchell, Stanley Price, and Peter Stone based on ''The Cipher'', a 1961 novel by Alex Gordon (pseudonym of Gordon Cotler). The film, along with Donen's immediately prior film '' Charade'' (1963), is usually described as being " Hitchcockian", as it features as a protagonist an innocent and ordinary man thrust into dangerous and extraordinary situations. It was the last film of that genre which Donen would make. ''Arabesque'' was filmed in Technicolor and Panavision and was distributed by Universal Pictures. Plot In an undercover mission, Major Sloane kills Professor Ragheeb, an ancient hieroglyphics expert at Oxford University and steals a hieroglyph-encrypted message. Sloane then asks Professor David Pollock, who has taken over Ragheeb's class on hieroglyphics, to meet with shipping magnate Nejim Beshraavi on a business mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Quiller Memorandum
''The Quiller Memorandum'' is a 1966 British neo noir eurospy film filmed in Deluxe Color and Panavision, adapted from the 1965 spy novel '' The Berlin Memorandum'', by Elleston Trevor under the name "Adam Hall", screenplay by Harold Pinter, directed by Michael Anderson, featuring George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow and Senta Berger. The film was shot on location in West Berlin and in Pinewood Studios, England. It was nominated for three BAFTA Awards, while Pinter was nominated for an Edgar Award for the script. The film is a spy-thriller set in 1960s West Berlin, where agent Quiller is sent to investigate a neo-Nazi organisation. The film had its world premiere on 10 November 1966 at the Odeon Leicester Square in the West End of London. Plot A man walks along a deserted Berlin street at night and enters an internally lit phone box. He is shot dead by an unseen gunman. He is British secret agent Kenneth Lindsay Jones. At lunch in an exclusive club in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Amorous Adventures Of Moll Flanders
''The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders'' is a 1965 British historical comedy film directed by Terence Young and starring Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, and Angela Lansbury. It is based on the 1722 novel ''Moll Flanders'' by Daniel Defoe. Plot Summary In 18th century England, an orphan, Moll Flanders, grows up to become a servant for the town's mayor, who has two grown sons. Moll both seduces and is seduced by the eldest son before being abandoned by him and marrying the younger son, a drunken fool who dies, making her a young widow. Moll is employed by Lady Blystone to be a servant. She meets a bandit, Jemmy, who mistakes her for the lady of the house and begins to woo her, pretending to be a sea captain. Moll rebuffs the advances of the actual Mrs. Blystone's husband, only to be sacked from her job when they are spotted together. A banker marries Moll but on their wedding night she flees from him when a gang of thieves (Jemmy and cohorts) appear once more. She chas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rattle Of A Simple Man
''Rattle of a Simple Man'' is a 1964 British comedy-drama film directed by Muriel Box and starring Diane Cilento, Harry H. Corbett and Michael Medwin, based on the 1963 play by Charles Dyer. The screenplay is about a naive man who becomes involved with a prostitute. Premise Percy Winthram is a 39-year-old socially inept, anxious virgin who pretends to be younger and travels by coach to London from Manchester with a group of friends to watch the FA Cup Final. The group have a night out in Soho and a £50 bet leads Percy to spend the evening with prostitute Cyrenne. Selected cast * Diane Cilento as Cyrenne * Harry H. Corbett as Percy Winthram * Michael Medwin as Ginger * Thora Hird as Mrs. Winthram * Charles Dyer as Chalky * Hugh Futcher as Ozzie * Carole Gray as District Nurse * Barbara Archer as Iris * David Saire as Mario * Alexander Davion as Ricardo * John Ronane as Willie * Michael Robbins as George * George Roderick as Papa * Marie Burke as Mama * Bryan Mosle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Third Secret (film)
''The Third Secret'' is a 1964 British CinemaScope neo-noir psychological mystery thriller film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin, Paul Rogers and Alan Webb. The screenplay by Robert L. Joseph focuses on an American newscaster who investigates the mysterious death of his psychoanalyst. According to the film, there are three kinds of secrets; the first, you keep from others; the second, you keep from yourself, and the third is the truth. Plot Prominent London psychoanalyst Dr. Leo Whitset is discovered injured from a gunshot wound in his home by his housekeeper, and as he lies dying he whispers, "blame no one but me". These words lead the coroner to rule the death a suicide, a verdict questioned by one of Dr. Whitset's patients, Alex Stedman, a successful American news commentator for British television who has been in therapy since the death of his wife and daughter. The dead man's 14 year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girl In The Headlines
''Girl in the Headlines'' (AKA ''The Model Girl Murder Case'') is a 1963 British detective film directed by Michael Truman and starring Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, Jeremy Brett, and Jane Asher. It is based on the 1961 novel ''The Nose on my Face'' by actor Laurence Payne. Plot Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders are called in to investigate the murder of a glamorous model. It becomes apparent that the girl had led a chequered life and her acquaintances included drug dealers. Jordan and Hammond Barker are reluctant to help but when the police finally make an arrest, another murder occurs in a seedy Soho jazz café. But are the two murders connected? Cast * Ian Hendry – Inspector Birkett * Ronald Fraser – Sergeant Saunders * Margaret Johnston – Mrs Gray * Natasha Parry – Perlita Barker * Jeremy Brett – Jordan Barker * Kieron Moore – Herter * Peter Arne – Hammond Barker * Jane Asher – Lindy Birkett * Rosalie Crutchley – Maude Klein * Robert Harris – Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
