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Skyscrapers (film)
''Skyscrapers'', also known as ''The Skyscrapers of New York'', is an American silent film produced by the Biograph Company which was almost entirely filmed on location on the construction site of one of New York's tallest skyscrapers.Review and link to watch the film: Plot summary In New York City, a worker on a skyscraper construction site, Dago Pete, is fired by the foreman for having started a fight with another worker. As a vengeance, he robs the contractor's watch and pins the blame on the foreman. In a fight on top of the skyscraper, the foreman throws the contractor off a platform. but the latter luckily grabs hold of a girder and is rescued. At the foreman's trial, Dago Pete is exposed by the foreman's young daughter and the contractor and foreman are reconciled.Charles Musser, The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 453-454. Cast *Gene Gauntier Gene Gauntier (born Genevieve Gauntier Liggett, August 26, 1885 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Gauntier
Gene Gauntier (born Genevieve Gauntier Liggett, August 26, 1885 – December 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter and actress who was one of the pioneers of the motion picture industry. A writer, director, and actress in films from mid 1906 to 1920, she wrote screenplays for 42 films. She performed in 87 films and is credited as the director of ''The Grandmother'' (1909). Biography Born as Genevieve Gauntier Liggett in Kansas City, Missouri, to James Wesley and Ada J. Gauntier Liggett, she was the middle child of three children. Her older brother was Richard Green Liggett and her sister was Marguerite Gauntier Liggett, who married Swedish billionaire Axel Wenner-Gren. Gauntier attended the Kansas City School of Oratory while in Kansas City. In 1904, she began her stage career. Gauntier made her way to New York City where she began her career in live theater using the stage name "Gene Gauntier," and first appeared in films between acting jobs with stock company tours. She remem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Slevin
James 'Jim' Slevin was born on 29 November 1861 in Ireland. He played rugby football from 1879 through to 1891 for Wigan Warriors and was involved in re-forming the club in 1879 at the age of 17. He had previously attended the Wigan Grammar School and had a gift for speed and running. He started aged 14 in a local athletics competition winning his running race. In September 1877, Jim won a quarter-mile handicap race in just under 61 seconds. He could also run 110 yards, aged 16 in around 12.4 seconds. He was a member and captain of the Wigan Hare and Hounds Club. He was a fine hurdler. He was a prolific winner, his biggest wins being over the 220 yard hurdles at Preston and Wigan in 1881 and 1882, at Rainhill and Wigan in 1883 and plenty more besides. His career at Wigan spanned from 1879 to 1891 and the majority of it as captain. He was predominantly a three-quarter back and mainly played on the right wing during his career. On debut however, he played at half-back. He made 290 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biograph Company
The Biograph Company, also known as the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1916. It was the first company in the United States devoted entirely to Filmmaking, film production and exhibition, and for two decades was one of the most prolific, releasing over 3000 short films and 12 feature films. During the height of silent film as a medium, Biograph was the most prominent U.S. film studio and one of the most respected and influential studios worldwide, only rivaled by Weimar culture, Germany's Universum Film AG, UFA, Sweden's Svensk Filmindustri and French Third Republic, France's Pathé. The company was home to pioneering director D. W. Griffith and such actors as Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, and Lionel Barrymore. Founding The company was started by William Kennedy Dickson, an inventor at Thomas Edison's laboratory who helped pioneer the technology of capturing moving images on film. Dickson left Edison in Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Film
A silent film is a film without synchronized 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 inter- 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, which existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in larger cities, an orchestra—would play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or 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 experience. "Silent film" is typically used as a historical term to describe an era of cinema p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Location Shooting
Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. When filmmaking professionals refer to shooting "on location", they are usually referring to a "practical location", which is any location that already exists in the real world. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for example, scenes in the film ''The Interpreter (2005 film), The Interpreter'' were set and shot inside the Headquarters of the United Nations, United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan), or it may stand in for a different locale (the films ''Amadeus (film), Amadeus'' and ''The Illusionist (2006 film), The Illusionist'' were primarily set in Vienna, but were filmed in Prague). Location shooting includes any practical location which resembles the location of a scene in the script; for example, students in the USC School of Cinematic Arts, film school of the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Most modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise buildings. Skyscrapers may host offices, hotels, residential spaces, and retail spaces. One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel frame that supports curtain walls. These curtain walls either bear on the framework below or are suspended from the framework above, rather than resting on load-bearing walls of conventional construction. Some early skyscrapers have a steel frame that enables the construction of load-bearing walls taller than those made of reinforced concrete. Modern skyscraper walls are not load-bearing, and most skyscrapers are characterized by large surface areas of windows made possible by steel frames and curtain walls. However, skyscrapers can have curtain walls that mimic conventional walls with a small surfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
American Silent Short Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent American Drama Short Films
Silent may mean: People * Brandon Silent (born 1973), South African former footballer * Charles Silent (1842-1918), German-born American jurist * List of people known as the Silent Music * Silent (band), a Brazilian rock band * The Silents, an Australian psychedelic rock band * Silent, a song by Gerald Walker, from the album I Remember When This All Meant Something... Other uses * Silent film, a film with no sound * Dark (broadcasting) or silent, an off-air radio or TV station * Air Energy AE-1 Silent, a German self-launching ultralight sailplane * Buffalo Silents, a 1920s exhibition basketball team whose members were deaf and/or mute * Silent Pool, a lake in Surrey, United Kingdom * Silent (TV series), a 2022 Japanese television drama See also * Silent Generation, a demographic cohort between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boomers * Silent letter, a letter in a word which is not pronounced * Calvin Coolidge Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; ; Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
