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  The UnMuseum - Ringing Rocks
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 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Lost Rudolph Valentino film discovered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
A copy of Rudolph Valentino's silent film "Beyond the Rocks" has been found in the Netherlands, becoming the only known existing print of the 1922 classic, the Amsterdam Film Museum said Saturday.
"Beyond the Rocks," directed by Sam Wood, was the only film in which Valentino starred opposite another silent era legend, Gloria Swanson.
"Beyond the Rocks" was the 24th of Valentino's 32 films, and no negatives or prints were known to exist until now.
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 beyond the rocks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Beyond the Rocks was presumed to have disappeared for many years.
Beyond the Rocks is a 1906 novel by Elinor Glyn and a 1922 silent film, based on that novel, in which Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino (credited as...
The discovery of the classic Beyond the Rocks (Sam Wood, 1922) was one of the...
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 Beyond the Rocks
Once believed to be lost and gone for good, the 1922 film Beyond the Rocks resurfaced in 2005 after a print was discovered in the Netherlands.
Newly restored and accompanied by an excellent musical score by Henny Vrienten, this 1922 romantic adventure based on a novel by Elinor Glyn is chiefly of interest for the one-time casting of Gloria Swanson with Rudolph Valentino, and as an early example of the work of director Sam Wood.
Published in 1906, Beyond the Rocks follows a young woman in her prearranged marriage to a wealthy older man, and her scheme to restore her family’s lost fortune.
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 Discovery and restoration of "Beyond the Rocks," A lost Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino silent film
Two nitrate reels of "Beyond the Rocks" were discovered when staff at the Filmmuseum were taking inventory of a collection of more than 2,000 cans of film bequeathed to them by a collector.
In the case of 'Beyond the Rocks,' this phase was omitted," said Giovanna Fossati, archivist at the Filmmuseum.
Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino in "Beyond the Rocks." 1922.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /news/press/2005/btr.html   (723 words)

  
 Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
A new score will be composed for this world première of the restored version of Beyond the Rocks or Gouden Boeien (Golden Shackles, the title under which the film was once released in The Netherlands).
Beyond the Rocks was based on a book written by Elinor Glyn in 1906.
Scenario by Jack Cunningham, from the novel Beyond the Rocks by Elinor Glyn.
notebooks.morgaine-lefaye.net /movies   (832 words)

  
 Nederlands Filmmuseum: "Lost" Valentino Film Found   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Beyond the Rocks is the only film that stars the two Hollywood icons Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson.
This is why Beyond the Rocks represents a truly unique moment in film history.
A new score will be composed for this world premiere of the restored version of Beyond the Rocks or Gouden Boeien (Golden Shackles, the title under which the film was once released in The Netherlands).
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 7b. Sedimentary Rocks: Layered Storytellers [Beyond Books - Earth Science: Part 2]
Sedimentary rocks are classified according to their sediment type.
Because older rocks contain simpler fossils, the age of a rock can be estimated by looking at any fossils in it.
The color of sedimentary rock is another clue to the chemical composition of the sediments from which it formed.
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 Filmmuseum Presents Long Lost Valentino Movie
Beyond the Rocks was restored and provided with a score by composer Henny Vrienten.
Beyond the Rocks will be in theaters in the Netherlands starting May 26.
The restoration of Beyond the Rocks was made possible among others by ING Real Estate Development.
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 Film Intelligence > Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson in Beyond The Rocks
She was always hoping to find a print of Beyond the Rocks again, she said, not because she had any illusions about its being a great film, but because she and Valentino had such a good time making it.
Madame Glyn's literary genre was torrid tosh, and Beyond the Rocks does her ample justice.
The director of Beyond the Rocks was Sam Wood.
www.filmintelligence.org /rediscovery.htm   (1086 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: Beyond the Rocks
Devotées of silent drama will probably take Beyond the Rocks in stride, but the rest of us are going to need to do some adjusting, as Elinor Glyn's romantic fantasy definitely belongs to the tastes and manners of another age.
Beyond the Rocks is finely attuned to the expectations of the 1922 audience.
Beyond the expected galleries of art and stills are a docu on the restoration and on about the eccentric Dutch film collector in whose cache of films the feature was found.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s2048bey.html   (1163 words)

  
 Bringing back ‘Beyond the Rocks’ - Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English
A glimpse of the character name 'Theodora' was the first indication that they might have found part of the long-lost Beyond the Rocks, and this was quickly confirmed by the presence of the two stars.
Beyond the Rocks would be their only film together, which of course only adds to its historical interest.
And while films as recent as 1981 are now in need of repair work, the search for films from a bygone age continues, and she believes there is still every chance that some of the estimated two-thirds of silent films that are 'lost' may yet turn up.
www.radionetherlands.nl /features/dutchhorizons/weeklyfeature/050706dh   (1301 words)

  
 Beyond the Rocks (US - DVD) in Reviews > Video Discs at DVDActive
Even so, all things considered, Beyond the Rocks looks absolutely exquisite for it's age, and all companies involved in the restoration process should be very proud of their achievement.
Beyond the Rocks has been fitted with an orchestral score by composer Henny Vrienten as well as added sound effects such as crowd sounds, gunshots, and horse galloping.
Beyond the Rocks is a glowing testament to why this forgotten genre is still cherished today.
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 Geol Evol Virginia-Cross Section A
Even though basement rocks underlie all of a continent they are usually only exposed in old mountain ranges where uplift and erosion has stripped away all the overlying rock.
They are the oldest rocks along the east coast and have had a long, complex history that culminated in the Grenville orogeny (mountain building event) of 1.1 billion years ago.
The Grenville igneous rocks began as magma (liquid rock), so at the time of their formation we would be surrounded by seething, glowing, red hot liquid rock, swirling and surging in large chambers intruding their way (emplacing) into the mountain core.
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 Roquebrune Rocks Sites Visit, Notre-Dame de la Roquette, History France - Provence Beyond
The Rocher (rock) is at the north edge of the Massif des Maures, a mountain range that runs from the edge of Toulon to Fréjus-St. Raphaël.
The deep-red rocks are also clearly visible from small roads throughout the region, and are a lovely backdrop to the village of Roquebrune-sur-Argens.
The GR51 trail crosses along the southern edge of the rocks, and there are numerous other little trails and small roads in the area to the south.
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 IDS: Lost Valentino film found (Arts, 04/19/2004)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Valentino was an Italian-born movie idol who died in 1926 at the age of 30.
According to the Amsterdam Film Museum, "Beyond the Rocks" is the only known existing print of the 1922 classic.
Van den Brink said the film was found in the estate of a film collector from the city of Haarlem, a city in the west of Amsterdam near the North Sea.
www.idsnews.com /print.php?id=22821   (371 words)

  
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 Amazon.com: Beyond the Rocks: DVD: Rudolph Valentino,Gloria Swanson,Edythe Chapman,Alec B. Francis,Robert ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Beyond the Rocks inspired still more excitement at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival because it was the only movie ever to costar two of the silent era's highest-wattage luminaries: Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino.
Beyond the Rocks is a moody melodrama about a poor girl named Theodora (Gloria Swanson) who marries for money and position but truly loves another man (Rudolph Valentino).
Paramount's 1924 melodrama "Beyond the Rocks", has always been a much sought after film title and was believed to be long lost except for one surviving fragment of film a few minutes long.
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 Silent Era : DVD : Beyond the Rocks (1922) Review
Long thought to be lost, a single print of Beyond the Rocks (1922), with Dutch intertitles, was recovered from the collection of a film collector by the Nederlands Filmmuseum in 2000, and identified as a nearly-complete print in 2004.
The romantic drama is never maudlin and presents to the viewer a subtly modulating tale of the triumph of love.
Beyond the Rocks (1922), color-tinted fl and white, 85 minutes, not rated, with The Delicious Little Devil (1919), fl and white, 54 minutes, not rated.
www.silentera.com /DVD/beyondtheRocksDVD.html   (896 words)

  
 Valentino's 'Beyond the Rocks' found
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- A copy of Rudolph Valentino's silent film ''Beyond the Rocks'' has been found in the Netherlands, becoming the only known existing print of the 1922 classic, the Amsterdam Film Museum said Saturday.
''Beyond the Rocks,'' directed by Sam Wood, was the only film in which Valentino starred opposite Gloria Swanson.
It is about a woman forced to marry an older man. The woman then falls in love with Valentino's character.
www.suntimes.com /output/movies/cst-nws-rudy18.html   (97 words)

  
 Film Threat - Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
“Beyond the Rocks” is being presented as a “long-lost classic,” and no one can argue about it being long-lost.
If you go into “Beyond the Rocks” trying to cash a reality check, you will be out of luck at every turn.
WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
www.filmthreat.com /Reviews.asp?Id=7982   (816 words)

  
 Silent Era : Info : Beyond the Rocks (1922) Recovered
Beyond the Rocks was presumed to have disappeared for many years.
The Nederlands Filmmuseum decided to restore the film (intertitles and color tints intact), which is complete except for approximately two minutes of irrecoverable damage, and will present the restored film during the second edition of the Filmmuseum Biennial, which took place on 5-10 April 2005 in Amsterdam.
The restored edition of Beyond the Rocks (with Henny Vrienten’s soundtrack) had its world premiere on April 5 during the opening of the second Filmmuseum Biënnale.
www.silentera.com /info/beyondtheRocks.html   (910 words)

  
 7c. Metamorphism: Changed Rocks [Beyond Books - Earth Science: Part 2]
The intense heat of the magma alters the rock, often causing its minerals to recrystallize.
Whether metamorphic rocks are formed by contact with hot magma or by pressure from colliding plates in the Earth, the result is that mineral crystals in the original rock are rearranged.
Cupid and Psyche, by Antonio Canova, was carved from marble, a metamorphic rock.
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 Beyond the Rocks review
The full title of this film should read "Beyond the Rocks, or Around the World with Rodolph and Gloria." For, if there is a single corner of Europe which is not touched by these two happy adventurers it is because Burton Holmes has never heard of it.
"Beyond the Rocks" has a slight glimmer of originality at the end when the fat, vulgar and rich husband is obliging enough to go to Africa and get himself shot so that his wife and the handsome young stranger may be happy.
This prosaic husband is the real hero of the piece, but because he is fat and still a grocer for all his millions, the roseate spotlight falls on the slim young lover.
www.silentsaregolden.com /reviewsfolder/beyondtherocksreview.html   (816 words)

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