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	Film Terms
		French for "dark film", a term applied by French critics to a type of American film, usually in the detective or thriller genres, with low-key lighting and a sombre - often fatallistic - mood, especially common in the late 40's and early 50's.
		Live action is filmed against a highly reflective screen on which an image from a slide or movie projector is projected by means of mirrors along the axis of the taking lens so that there are no visible shadow cast by the actors.
		in a narrative film, all the events that are directly presented in the film, including their causal relations, chronological order, duration, frequency, and spatial locations; as opposed to story, which is the viewer's imaginary construction of all the events in the narrative.
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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Passage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The passage is a movement seen in dressage in which the horse performs a highly collected and cadenced trot in slow motion.
		A passage, in architecture, is a narrow room, most often called a hall or a corridor, that serves to provide access to other rooms.
		A passage, in geography, is another term for a strait, which is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Passage (277 words)

	1940 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		October 15 - The Great Dictator, a satiric social commentary film by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released.
		November 13 - World premiere of Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first film to be released in a multichannel sound format (see Fantasound).
		The film also marked the first use of the click track while recording the soundtrack, overdubbing of orchestral parts, simultaneous multitrack recording and lead to the development of a multichannel surround system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1940_in_film (302 words)

	100 Greatest Films
		The artistic greatness of films (and other works of art) can never be rated or quantified, although critics, reviewers, and fans still make ten best lists, hundred best lists, all-time greatest lists, favorites lists, awards lists, and generate results of polls.
		These 'Greatest Films' refuse to fade from memory even after the long passage of time - they share the unifying fact of being seen and talked about decades after they were made.
		All film criticism is extremely subjective and there is no such thing as the definitive list of the 100 Greatest (English-language) Films.
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	CBC News In Depth: Northwest Passage
		The Northwest Passage — a water route through the islands of northern Canada connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — was a treasure explorers sought for centuries.
		And the issue of whether the Northwest Passage is an internal waterway, and therefore Canada's, or an international waterway open to all remains murky.
		Michael Byers said the Northwest Passage would be clear of ice during the summer months in 25 years, and he urged the government to take action.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/northwest-passage (2395 words)

	The Last Picture Show (1971)
		The episodic, bleak and mournful film was shot on location over an eleven-week period in northwestern Texas in a dusty, wind-swept, one-horse, declining small-town that was on the verge of being forgotten in the early 1950s.
		The name of the town in the film, Anarene, located 8 miles South of Archer City, was chosen to provide correspondence to the cow-town of Abilene in Hawks' Red River (1948).
		After a stark white-on-fl title, the opening shot, symmetrical to the film's closing shot, there is a pan from right to left down the empty main street of the deserted, desolate, wind-blown, dust-bowl town of Anarene.
	www.filmsite.org /lastp.html (2148 words)

	Spencer Tracy - MSN Encarta
		In 1930 he was cast in the lead of a Broadway production, The Last Mile, as a convicted murderer, and it was this performance that brought him to the attention of the motion-picture industry.
		Tracy thrived at MGM, delivering a succession of notable performances in such films as Fury (1936), San Francisco (1936), Libelled Lady (1936), Captains Courageous (1937), Boys Town (1938), Stanley and Livingstone (1939; as Henry Stanley), Boom Town (1940), Northwest Passage (1940), and Dr.
		In 1942 he began a long collaboration with actor Katharine Hepburn, who became his closest companion for the next 25 years and with whom he made many films.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761577007 (412 words)

	Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Texas included all the area now included in the state of Texas, and additional unoccupied territory to the west and northwest.
		The Texas Film Commission was founded for free services to filmmakers, from location research to traveling.
		Austin's music revolves around the many nightclubs on 6th Street and an annual film, music, and multimedia festival known as South by Southwest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Texas (7596 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Northwest Passage
		Northwest Passage, a terrific adventure film that’s stood the test of time, follows the exploits of a ragtag group of soldiers called Roger’s Rangers during the French and Indian War.
		Passage occurs when an idealistic ex-Harvard man moves from wanting to paint Indians to wanting to kill them.
		Northwest Passage almost prompts knee-jerk comparisons to the Vietnam War and the films that followed it.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1940/northwestpassage.htm (468 words)

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		Murder at the Gallop Film (1963) Margaret Rutherford stars as Miss Marple, who investigates the case of a recluse apparently frightened to death by a cat.
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	Americans.net - Immigration Information
		The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest and the University of Washington Department of History jointly developed this Curriculum Project for Washington State Schools.
		One hundred twenty years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, America continues to grapple with both its image and the stark reality of all that is encompassed by its descriptor, "the land of immigrants." This list includes a glossary and a list of web resources.
		Pacific Northwest Quarterly is the leading scholarly journal devoted to the history and culture of the northwestern United States, Alaska, and Western Canada.
	www.americans.net /Immigration.htm (4704 words)

	Amazon.com: Northwest Passage: Video: Spencer Tracy,Robert Young,Walter Brennan,Ruth Hussey,Nat Pendleton,Louis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Northwest Passage still holds up after 60 years.
		Northwest Passage is a very good account of the attack on St. Francis.
		It was; but this is an historical film and you must view it, or any historical film or book, with the morals of the time in which it is set.
	www.amazon.com /Northwest-Passage-Spencer-Tracy/dp/6301973240 (1560 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - Western Movies: Now Discussing: "The Outlaw" (1943)
		The title is something of a misnomer, since this film is a truncated version of the original story, and only at the end do we find that Rogers and his men are about to go on a search for the Northwest Passage.
		Virginia City", released in 1940, is a film that could have been rated as a western classic, because of the cast members alone.
		Despite being rife with historical inaccuracies, the film was one of the top-grossing films of the year, being the last of eight Flynn-de Havilland collaboration.
	boards.theforce.net /the_amphitheatre/b10382/23716428/r26604864 (4798 words)

	Some interesting films on US television: October 17-October 23
		A quiet, brooding film with beautiful photography of Denmark and Greenland is marred by a conventional melodramatic ending with a conventional corporate villain (overplayed by Richard Harris with evil white hair).
		The power of the novel, however, is 90 percent in its language and rhythms, and no film could be expected to capture that.
		The film, based on a Booth Tarkinson novel, examines the impact of social and economic change on a small town family.
	www.wsws.org /arts/1998/oct1998/tv-o17.shtml (3008 words)

	Film Shorts \| Film \| Film Shorts \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		An island in the postwar Pacific Northwest is the setting for a murder trial that reunites reporter Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke) with Hatsue Miyamoto (Youki Kudoh), the great love of his young life, who was sent to a Japanese American internment camp and now suffers besides her accused husband, Kazuo (Rick Yune).
		One of the wonderful things about the film, which is full of more ordinary virtues, is that it recognizes that children create their own worlds, and that in a story about their parents, they're just strange little visitors—adorable, perhaps, but unreachable and opaque.
		The film is all formless and shallow until the final payoff—known in magic jargon as "the prestige"—when doubles and sacrifice and character all coalesce into one dark metaphysical conceit.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Listings?oid=111750 (3154 words)

	Northwest Passage Movie Review (1940) from Channel 4 Film
		125 minutes, United States (1940), PG Ambitious American period piece about a young man (Young) thrown out of Harvard and then New England, who ends up following Major Rogers and his group of rangers as they head for Fort Wentworth in the untamed West.
		Injuns are shot by the hundreds, plenty of anti-British sentiments are expressed (historically inaccurate, because independence wasn't talked about until years later) and everyone has a thoroughly action-packed, horse-riding time.
		Better films on this subject have been made before and since, and Vidor's plans to direct a sequel came to nothing.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=106571 (149 words)

	Northwest Passage - Moviefone
		Synopsis: Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film adaptation-much less one in Technicolor.
		Northwest Passage, WS Van Dyke, King Vidor, Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Louis Hector, Robert Barrat,...
		Northwest Passage - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/northwest-passage/1025507/main (142 words)

	Idaho Film Collection Catalogue
		The premiere of the film occurred in Boise on February 20, 1940 at the Pinney Theatre.
		The film today is most noted for being one of the earliest films shot in technicolor and its negative portrayal of Native Americans.
		None of the film is based on fact or even remotely deals with a fascinating real life history that certainly would have made a fine film had it not been ignored by the arrogant Cimino.
	www.idbsu.edu /hemingway/ifc/filmcat.html (7668 words)

	Northwest Passage Review \| TVGuide.com
		Set in 1759, the film opens with talented artist Young arriving home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to sheepishly explain to his family that he has been expelled from Harvard because of the snide political comments he has inserted into his cartoons.
		In fact, Vidor, who began working on the film with an incomplete script (new portions of which were flown daily to the production's Idaho location), believed that he was shooting a prologue for a film that would also include Rogers's search for the Northwest Passage.
		However, producer Hunt Stromberg and MGM decided to confine the film to Rogers's adventures during the Indian Wars, bringing Jack Conway in to shoot an ending to the film while Vidor was in New York.
	www.tvguide.com /movies/northwest-passage/review/107809 (426 words)

	Tracing One Discontinuous Line through the Poetry of the Northwest Passage
		The passage thus serves as a venue for the testing of individuals’ physical and spiritual mettle, which is also an incarnation of desire.
		Moreover, James speaks of returning safely from the Northwest Passage; if his failure to discover a passage at lower latitudes convinced the Bristol merchants not to persevere in their search, his book does not leave the impression that one does not exist.
		It may be that the Northwest Passage, the only natural North American transcontinental passage, must be articulated for a southern Canadian on that scale or not at all, as E.J. Pratt found to be the case with the railway.
	www.canadianpoetry.ca /cpjrn/vol39/tracing_one_discontinuous_line.htm (12428 words)

	About Dietrich's
		„Bach, a film producer and author of Final Cut, who studied with von Sternberg, portrays the latter as a megalomaniac whose amorous frustrations with the star he had created drove him to maintain that she was a puppet who danced to his strings.
		Strong on film and stage criticism but less intimately revealing than Donald Spoto's Blue Angel (Forecasts, July 13), this engrossing biography is especially good on Dietrich's early career, her valiant anti-Nazi efforts and her phoenixlike rebirth as a troubadour-actress.“
		William Dietrich's Northwest Passage: The Great Columbia River filled much of my knowledge gap with a fascinating and well-told story.
	www.opencoffee.com /dietrichs.htm (902 words)

	The Fedora Chronicles - The Golden Age of Hollywood: Spencer Tracy
		Tracy was also surprisingly good in period films and Westerns, he is well cast in probably his best Action film Northwest Passage (1940), his best purely serious film is probably Bad Day at Black Rock (1954) which plays more like a thriller than a Western.
		Tracy began his film career at Fox in the early days of Talkies, he can be seen with lifelong friend Humphrey Bogart in the otherwise forgettable Up the River (1930).
		It wasn't though until he moved to MGM that Tracy became a star, he appeared in two excellent but very different films in 1936 : Fritz Lang's Fury (the German director's first American film) and San Francisco (very good as Gable's best friend a priest, two roles he was to return to).
	www.thefedorachronicles.com /hollywood/Actors/SpencerTracy.html (230 words)

	Northwest Passage (1940) - Movie Reviews at TopTenReviews.com
		Northwest Passage (1940) is ranked the #382 best movie of all time.
		King Vidor's Northwest Passage, a terrific adventure film that's stood the test of time, follows the exploits of a ragtag group of soldiers called Roger's Rangers during the French and Indian War.
		The reason Northwest Passage, which is set during the French and Indian War, doesn't have anything to do with finding a northwest passage is revealed in the theatrical trailer that appears at the end of the disc.
	movies.toptenreviews.com /reviews/mr221789.htm (381 words)

	IGN: The Stax Report: A Tribute to Spencer Tracy
		Alternately sad and witty, Ford's beautiful film is a loving tribute to the rascal machine bosses who helped the Irish (and their American-born offspring) rise to prominence in New England politics.
		Northwest Passage is an action-packed classic about a period in American history that would probably be shied away from today.
		Fritz Lang's movie, a precursor to Film Noir, is an ugly expose of a horrific practice that was still happening in America at the time Fury was produced, although the film eliminates the racist motivations that prompted many of those lynchings.
	movies.ign.com /articles/361/361877p1.html (1269 words)

	Northwest Passage Film Review - Time Out Film
		Subtitled 'Rogers' Rangers' and intended as the first instalment in a two-part true-life adventure (the second film was never made because Tracy and Vidor didn't get on), this 18th century frontier saga follows Tracy's Major Rogers and map-maker Young into Canada to quell the Indian tribes who'd been striking across the border at the colonists.
		Vidor certainly plays up the hardships they endure en route, but it's hard for modern viewers to look on in approval as Tracy and his men set fire to a sleeping Indian village, treated as just another testing obstacle like the torrential river bridged by the teamwork of a human chain.
		It's never suggested that his heroes emerge from all this unscathed, but they are certainly made stronger and wiser by the experience.
	www.timeout.com /film/63533.html (183 words)

	1940 Chronicle
		The film, which traces the life of François-Ferdinand Hapsburg was interrupted by the declaration of war.
		Yet there were scenes shot in the actual migrant camps around Los Angeles, and the film's romanticism does not prevent it from also being a trenchant social statement in which the cast, and in particular Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell, become representatives of ordinary, suffering humanity.
		His film is but one of a number of pro-British or anti-German productions that have come out of the US studios during the past year, beginning with Confessions of a Nazi Spy from Warner Bros, while Chaplin's just completed The Great Dictator is due to open shortly.
	theoscarsite.com /chronicle/1940c.htm (3458 words)

	Ruth Hussey, costar of 'Philadelphia Story' - The Boston Globe
		Actress Ruth Hussey, who was best known for her Oscar-nominated role as James Stewart's sassy photographer girlfriend in the classic 1940 film ''The Philadelphia Story," died Tuesday at a convalescent home in Newbury Park.
		Her first film was an uncredited role in ''The Big City" in 1937, starring Spencer Tracy; in 1940, she was Tracy's leading lady in ''Northwest Passage."
		Her last feature film role was in 1960 in ''The Facts of Life," playing Bob Hope's wife.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/04/21/ruth_hussey_costar_of_philadelphia_story (550 words)

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