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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1927   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar).
April 12 - The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
October 6 - The Jazz Singer opens and becomes a huge success, marking the end of the silent film era.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /1927   (2144 words)

  
 how ghostly were the 1920s in Japan?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Primarily, the advent of cinema imposed this new condition upon its audience by isolating the origin (the projecting equipment) in a separate booth and making its audience far less conscious of the fact that the image was projected.
Lacking any incentive to turn their heads and to look behind themselves for the source of their entertainment, audiences grew accustomed[3] to watching films in movie theaters without paying attention to the source of the projection or to the physical frame of the screen.
[36] In 1926 and 1927, there was a boom of mass-produced books, which covered a broad range of paperbacks including a number of translations of both classical and contemporary European literature and philosophy.
www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/5-supp/text/ishii.html   (11467 words)

  
 Time [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
This arrow becomes less and less apparent to us viewers as the film subject gets smaller and smaller and the time interval gets shorter and shorter until finally we are viewing processes that could just as easily go the other way, at which point the arrow of time has disappeared.
The propositions that are expressed at each particular time, such as "It is raining at midnight on Jan. 1, 2000 in Chicago," do not change their truth values through time, but are timelessly true; and so the flow of time cannot be explained in terms of them.
Assuming it did rain in Chicago then, this latter tenseless sentence can be used to express a proposition that is true when uttered on Jan. 1, 2000, but is not true in 1950.
www.iep.utm.edu /t/time.htm   (16669 words)

  
 Tom Lord - The Jazz Discography - Catalog of Jazz Music
As the film started I heard a woman singing “Snatch and Grab It”, backed by a group which I suspected was jazz.
It breaks off from Getz-Brookmeyer to include The Benny Goodman Story film recordings and, when Stan sat in with Basie at Birdland, it gives the full personnel of Basie's band, with appropriate dates.
The answer is more than 50, from the original performance in 1927 with the Hot Five to a 1967 date with his All-Stars.
www.lordisco.com /reviews.html   (2646 words)

  
 chicago - Ask.com Search
Chicago White Sox (61-42) at Kansas City Royals (37-67), 8:10 p.m.
Arizona Diamondbacks (53-51) at Chicago Cubs (43-61), 8:05 p.m.
Welcome to Chicago, the convention capital of the world and the nation's busiest meeting place.
www.ask.com /web?q=chicago&qsrc=0&o=0   (261 words)

  
 Musical Calendar for March 1
While he has led his own group ("Baker's Dozen"), Kenny has basically been a freelancer in TV and Film studios.
Mostly working around Chicago, backing up visiting performers.
He has played at the Chicago Jazz Festival with his own big band.
www.nfo.net /calendar/mar01.htm   (1504 words)

  
 ALLEGRO MUSIC - Children's Music
Their holiday CD was just nominated for a Grammy for Best Musical Album for Children.
Out of this came a 25-song CD and a 60-page booklet that includes lyrics, chords, some of Sandburg's writing, Zanes' own thoughts, and a few dozen historical photos of American musicians.
Written for a planned, animated feature film targeting the 5-10 year old audience, the songs teach kids the value of honesty, integrity, loyalty and perseverance.
www.allegro-music.com /childrens.asp   (4411 words)

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