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	1929 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The days of the silent film were numbered.
		The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
		The Broadway Melody is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of Broadway Melody films that would run until 1940.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1929_in_film (316 words)

	One hundred Years of Film Sizes. Almost one hundred film widths and perforations were experimented with.
		Whereas film equipment has undergone drastic changes in the course of a century it is a little miracle that 35mm has remained the universally accepted film size.
		Films from 10 to 15 meter lengths in special containers were for rent from Edison depots or by mail.
		An optimum use of the film width was obtained by expanding the image and reducing the size of the perforations on both sides.
	www.xs4all.nl /~wichm/filmsize.html#STANDARD (3847 words)

	Film History of the 1920s
		Films varied from sexy melodramas and biblical epics by Cecil B. DeMille, to westerns (such as Cruze's The Covered Wagon (1923)), horror films, gangster/crime films, war films, the first feature documentary or non-fictional narrative film (Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922)), romances, mysteries, and comedies (from the silent comic masters Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd).
		Film theaters and studios were not initially affected in this decade by the Crash in late 1929.
		By 1929, the film-making firms that were to rule and monopolize Hollywood for the next half-century were the giants or the majors, sometimes dubbed The Big Five.
	www.filmsite.org /20sintro.html (2406 words)

	Maui Film Festival at Wailea - June 11-15, 2003
		Big Business (1929 Silent Film with Laurel and Hardy) • Stan and Ollie are Christmas tree salesmen in California.
		Business is slow and a simple argument with one grumpy prospective customer (James Finlayson) escalates from a simple argument into full scale mutual destruction with Stan and Ollie destroying the customer's house and garden, whilst Finlayson reduces their car to scrap metal, all under the disbelieving gaze of a police officer and an assembled crowd.
		The film's opening football game sequence is actually the last reel of Lloyd's 1925 classic "The Freshman" and Mad Wednesday's thrill sequence climax was an attempt by Sturges to surpass Lloyd's memorable skyscraper stunts in Safety Last.
	www.mauifilmfestival.com /mff-wailea2003/alpha_list2003.htm (2282 words)

	Learn more about Big Business in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Big Business is a 1929 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy short subject.
		The film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
		Another film named Big Business appeared in the 1980s: a comedy starring Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /b/bi/big_business.html (245 words)

	Big-Business - Awesome movies, movie search engine, movie reviews and movie news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Big Business Big Business is a 1929 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedy short subject.
		Doing business as The phrase "doing business as" is a legal term, meaning that the name used by a company is not the same as the name it is actually incorporated under.
		Big Jay McNeely Cecil James (Big Jay) McNeely (born on April 29, 1927 in Los Angeles, California), is an American rhythm and blues tenor saxophonist.
	www.awesomemovies.info /Big-Business.html (331 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
		"Film, once it's preserved, must not be locked away in some remote vault or only be available on videotape or on television," she said.
		Film preservation means leng-thening a film's life, often by transferring it from nitrate stock to longer-lasting acetate or polyester film, Frick said.
		Until 1951, all films were made on cellulose nitrate-based stock, which was preferred because of the beautiful, shimmering images it yielded.
	starbulletin.com /96/12/12/features/story1.html (732 words)

	FILMS AT THE CANNON GRANGE - WILTON, CT
		Three classic silent film comedies will be shown with live piano accompaniment at the Wilton Cannon Grange, Wilton, CT on February 18, 2006 at 7 pm.
		Buster Keaton's The General (1927), one of the most celebrated silent films is the feature, with Laurel and Hardy's Big Business (1929), and the pre-Russian Revolution "Revenge of a Kinematographic Cameraman" (1912).
		The feature film, Buster Keaton’s “The General” (1927) is generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies, and was Keaton's own favorite.
	www.jmucci.com /films/grange.htm (363 words)

	Category:United States National Film Registry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry.
		List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry
		The Fall of the House of Usher (1928 film)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:United_States_National_Film_Registry (144 words)

	The Virginia Film Festival :: Schedule
		The film is based on the on the real-life "Godfather of the Kremlin," Boris Berezovsky (renamed Platon Makovski in the movie), who made a fortune in the early years of Russia's transition to capitalism.
		The aim of the filmmakers was not merely to make biographical film with a corrupted-yet-admirable protagonist, but to also "write a serious story about [their] native land." While focusing on the life of one man, therefore, Tycoon also offers a compelling picture of early post-soviet Russia.
		The film is a startlingly intimate pas de deux between legendary director Robert Altman’s fluid camerawork, the pulsating life force of ballet, and the richly textured behaviors of the dancers.
	www.vafilm.com /php-bin/filmfest/eventsList.php?day=19&event=174 (2706 words)

	pseudopodium: Big business monkeys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Big business monkeys: An office job is a lot like agreeing to be put in cold storage for a year.
		Big business monkeys: A story ripped from sixty-five-years-later's headlines, High Pressure remains the best fictional treatment of Internet startups, taking us from moronic vision statement through publicity-inflated stock prices to a happily sold-out ending in only 72 minutes of overtime.
		From the business owners' point of view, the only solution, painful though it might be, was to induce a recession, a process started off by Paul Volcker ("The standard of living of the average American has to decline") in 1979, and pushed forward with enthusiasm by the Reagan administration.
	www.pseudopodium.org /search.cgi?Big+business+monkeys (3951 words)

	UNLV Short Film Archive - Archive 100
		The first work of the significant poet, playwright and surrealist Jean Cocteau is one of the most important contributions to early avant-garde cinema--a stunning, primal and powerful work that uses jagged, poetic, harsh and highly personal images, dreams and symbols to reflect an artist's inner life.
		The majesty of the Fleischer studio’s erotic imagination by way of commercial American animation combined with the brilliance of jazz as Cab Calloway performs “St. James Infirmary Blues” and spooks Betty Boop.
		During the two decades I came of age when shorts were shown, this was one that was always included.
	www.unlv.edu /programs/filmarchive/catalog_archive100/1928-1943.html (335 words)

	Comedies on Film
		BIG BUSINESS (1929) As enterprising Christmas tree salesmen, selling trees in sunny California in July, they encounter a customer who does not like his afternoons interrupted by door-to-door salesmen and the spirit of "peace on earth" turns to a destructive version of "can you top this?" with hilarious results!
		This is one of Laurel and Hardy's earliest talkies.
		This Blackhawk Films adaptation from the original sound feature captures all the great moments and plot devices in what is about a fifty percent digest.
	www.a-1video.com /comedies_on_film.htm (13185 words)

	THE MARX BROTHERS SILVER SCREEN COLLECTION - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Yet it's because of the film's unerring satirical eye that it became the group's biggest box office failure, swimming against the stream, as it were, of popular sanguinity.
		A film that would by itself cement the Marx Brothers as the perpetrators of one work of pure comic genius, Horse Feathers is the troupe's first masterpiece and the first film to pull together all of their throughlines and tendencies.
		It wouldn't be until their next film, Monkey Business, that the Marx shtick at last found its home as an animal of the screen instead of an orphan of the stage.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/marxbrotherssilverscreen.htm (2102 words)

	National Film Registry Titles of the US Library of Congress
		The films in the National Film Registry represent a stunning range of American filmmaking - including Hollywood features, documentaries, avant-garde and amateur productions, films of regional interest, ethnic, animated and short film subjects -- all deserving recognition, preservation and access by future generations.
		But they are films that continue to have cultural, historical or aesthetic significance -- and in many cases represent countless other films also deserving of recognition.
		For each title named to the Registry, the Library of Congress works to ensure that the film is preserved for all time, either through the Library's massive motion picture preservation program at Dayton, Ohio, or through collaborative ventures with other archives, motion pictures studios, and independent film makers.
	www.filmsite.org /filmreg.html (379 words)

	Laurel & Hardy: Big Business (Silent) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I know not everyone cares for slapstick, but a lot of people are big fans of it, and it´s really counterproductive and even a bit insulting to basically say that it´s good enough if you like that sort of thing, but you´d be better-served checking out the work of other less-physical comedians.
		All in all, a great little film that would be one of the ideal first L&H silents for a fan to see if s/he´s only familiar with their sound work.
		The 3 star rating is mostly out of respect for Laurel and Hardy as pioneers of the medium, not to mention their multiple talents and charm such as I have rarely seen on the silver screen.
	www.pagenation.com /an/B00000I214.html (797 words)

	Bad Lawyers in the Movies--2000
		This generalization holds whether the film fits the standard lawyer/courtroom genre, whether it involves legal issues, whether the film is a comedy (fl or otherwise) or a drama, or whether it falls into other genres such as romances, mystery stories, or thrillers that just happen to have lawyer roles.
		Thus, of the 71 fictitious lawyer films of the 1990s, the lawyer or lawyers in 37 of the films were bad; in an additional 9 films, there were one or more bad lawyers along with some good ones (the “mixed” category).
		In issue films, at least some of the lawyers must be favorably presented since their words and deeds are the vehicles for transmitting the message that the filmmaker wishes to convey.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/nova/asimow24.htm (12877 words)

	Amazon.com: Bulldog Drummond / Movie (1929) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It marked the sound film debut of Ronald Colman and it was one of two movies in that year for which Colman was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance.
		This was his first such film and a good thing for the public that he made the transition or we would never have known that unique velvet voice of his.
		The film, however, though a talkie, is really plotted and acted as if it were a silent film with sound.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302413664?v=glance (1678 words)

	Film Directing tips
		The perpetual negotiations with the three big guilds (SAG, DGA and WGA), as well as with the IATSE and Teamster crew unions has forced the producing studios to be extremely confidential.
		Believe me, the film school graduate who has a thorough understanding of their Film Studies program, AND understands the basic processes of Film Budgeting, Cost Reporting and Business Plans, is light-years ahead of the pack.
		Film and Video production is one of the biggest industries in THE WORLD (next to weapon manufacturing, of course).
	www.extrasformovies.com /articles/film_financing.asp (1274 words)

	Laurel and Hardy 1928 & 1929
		This funny film starts with the hungry Stan and Ollie knocking on the door of a mad scientist, asking for food.
		The film ends with the wonderful scene of the wives firing shots at the apartment building where Stan and Ollie are in hiding -- which results in dozens of errant men jumping from the windows.
		Needless to say, Kennedy resists and the film has many gags first on how Laurel and Hardy succeed in delivering the summons, and then on how they try to obtain the radio.
	www.radiance.org /lah2829.html (1445 words)

	Big Business (1929) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Trivia: Hal Roach bought a house and its contents from a man, and sent him on his way in his Model T. When it came time to film this short, Roach arrived on location late in the afternoon and found that the actors and crew had actually destroyed the house next door.
		Based on what I'd heard about it, I didn't think I was going to enjoy this part of the programme much; destruction derbies really aren't my thing, and while I used to love Laurel and Hardy as a child, I've been a bit disappointed recently on re-viewing their work.
		Admittedly the funny bits of this film consist almost entirely of smashing things up, but somehow it's the completely childish and almost innocent way in which it's done that raises the laughs: Hardy attempting to dig up the lawn one shovelful at a time, Finlayson rolling vainly on the ground in a Christmas-tree-tantrum.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0019688 (358 words)

	Big Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Another film named Big Business appeared in the 1980s : a comedy starring Lily Tomlin and Bette Midler.
		While I am a single female and thought the cover appealing I almost did what you are not supposed to do, "judge a book by its cover".I read the first section abo...
		I coach an athletic team with high school girls and we have used some of the activities and plan to use many more activities that are in the b...
	www.freeglossary.com /Big_Business (657 words)

	Big Business
		William K. Everson calls Big Business "The apotheosis of all Laurel and Hardy films," and goes on to call it "one of the comedy classics from any star, any country and any period." It is certainly one of the tightest edited films of Laurel and Hardy.
		We're going to tear the place apart anyway." After a few days filming, things were running smoothly, until a man and wife came driving up the road with two kids in the car.
		As it is through, Big Business must certainly rank as one of the boy's best films, along with Helpmates and The Music Box.
	www.onegoodturntent.org /films/big_business.htm (699 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Jazz Exchange - Race Records
		Gradually, the majors began recording their own versions of the whatever hits the independents were lucky enough to have, and by the 50s, race recording labels became superfluous.
		It is important to remember that this segment of the music business was not limited exclusively to white upon fl exploitation.
		But it is indisputable that most of the artists who recorded for the all of the "race" labels were exploited out of performer, composing and publishing royalties, and that the great bulk of exploitation was directed at fl and other minority artists.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/exchange/exchange_race_records.htm (1308 words)

	1920-1929
		April 20, 1929 - Big Business is released.
		October 19, 1929 - Bacon Grabbers is released.
		November 16, 1929 - The Hoose-Gow is released.
	www.wayoutwest.org /timeline/timeline1920.html (489 words)

	Cheap DVDs - Find a cheap DVD, cheapest DVD prices on all titles
		In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house...
		Not a lot happens in this film, which is perfectly in keeping with what the Desert Storm campaign...
		I have just simply rented this film so far, but it is my intention to buy the 2 disc version soon.
	www.find-dvd.co.uk /D881102.htm (396 words)

	Modern America, 1877-1929
		Particular attention will be paid to the rise of big business and big government and to changes in the nature of everyday life, including work, family, school, and leisure.
		MOVIE SCHEDULE: During the course of the semester 5 films will be shown in Busch 100 on Tuesday evenings beginning at 7:00 pm.
		FILM TUESDAY 7 PM: Birth of a Nation.
	www.h-net.org /~shgape/syll/kornbluh.syl.html (920 words)

	Unaccustomed As We Are (1929) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Trivia: Being Laurel and Hardy's first sound film, it introduced two gags which used sound as a major element and became classics which would be re-used.
		This 1929 film short which had a silent as well as a sound version displayed the hints of what Laurel and Hardy could be with a voice.
		Although 1929 was not a year of consistent short classics for them, it did indicate the beginning of their sound era, and the start of their classical period.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0020531 (302 words)

	Amazon.com: Laurel & Hardy: Big Business (Silent) (1929) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"Big Business" has Laurel and Hardy as Christmas tree salesmen in July and is my choice for the duo's best two-reeler.
		The obstinate James Finlayson becomes the test of the boy's salesmanship and the battle is not over until his home and their car are totally destroyed in an escalating game of one-upmanship.
		A definite purchase for those who are interested in the silent film genre and for those many Laurel and Hardy Buffs like me out there.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000I214?v=glance (1311 words)

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