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  The Toll of the Sea (1922)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
IMDb > The Toll of the Sea (1922)
Unlike some two colour films (The Viking, Show of Shows and King of Jazz) where colour correction is used to bring out blue's which originally photographed as silver grey, "Toll of the Sea" is authentic and unretouched, aside from the final lost sequence which had to be reshot in 1985.
Since the process wasn't yet refined for filming in artificial light, the "interiors" in "Toll" are filmed in daylight.
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  Robert Parsons, Vignettes of a Small Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Toll of the Sea: Stories from the Forgotten Coast, by Robert C. Parsons, is different from the author's first three books.
Again Toll of the Sea has many crew lists, community pioneers and stories as told by people within the town.
Toll of the Sea, published by Creative Publishers, St. John's in 1995, has 260 pages, over eighty photos.
www.shipwrecks.nf.ca /toll.shtml   (157 words)

  
 Economic Development and the Sea
It relies on inflow from irrigation runoff as its primary replenishment source, and the agriculture industry relies on the Sea as a repository for this runoff.
Research is underway to determine the feasibility of this endeavor which would contribute to the region's economy and, at the same time, reduce the fish overloads in the lake.
The Salton Sea Authority and its partners have been working hard to get the truth out about the Salton Sea and at the same time address the causes of fish die offs and the avian diseases that cause bird deaths.
www.saltonsea.ca.gov /ltnav/why_economics.html   (597 words)

  
 The Toll of the Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Toll of the Sea is a motion picture produced by the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, and released by Metro Pictures in 1922, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
It was the seventh color feature, the second Technicolor feature, the first color feature made in Hollywood, and the first color feature anywhere that did not require a special projector to be shown.
The Toll of the Sea was written by Frances Marion and directed by Chester M. Franklin, with the lead roles played by Anna May Wong and Kenneth Harlan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toll_of_the_Sea   (352 words)

  
 Newfoundland Books - Between Sea and Sky - Tide's Point
Ever subject to the elements of weather, wind and sea, these individuals, particularly in times past, survived through their skill and knowledge, coupled with a propensity for hard work under trying circumstances.
Several tales are related from a first person point of view and are first-hand experiences of wrecks, fire at sea, survival in war and on the water.
If you have an ancestor that went to sea on the Atlantic there's a good chance his name is in one of Parsons' books and articles.
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 Toll The Bell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Toll the bell, you submariners, for your brethren of the deep
Toll the bell for Shark and Grunion, gallant warriors of the sea,
Toll the bell for brave Pompano, Grenadier, and Tullibee.
www.ussvi.org /mem/tollbell.htm   (193 words)

  
 08/27/89 - SPILL WORK'S TOLL ... SEA LIFE DIES ON BLASTED BEACHES
Biologists returning to the treated beach a week after the work found a rotting mess of dead sea life, said David Hall, who observed the test for the Department of Environmental Conservation.
He said the smell of decomposing sea life was "almost nauseating."
Evidence exists that life below the low tide line and in the green zone is damaged even if it isn't subjected to a direct hit from the spray.
www.adn.com /evos/stories/EV244.html   (1334 words)

  
 Portsmouth Herald Local News: Come luxuriate by the sea, the beautiful sea
NEW CASTLE - When the Wentworth by the Sea, Marriott Hotel & Spa opens this spring with a full complement of resort-style facilities, a special feature will be the 10,000-square-foot spa.
Jeraldine Hoffman is the new director of the state-of-the-art spa and its staff of 40.
Wentworth By the Sea, A Marriott Hotel & Spa, incorporates 161 luxurious guest rooms and suites (including two bi-level suites and a tri-level suite in the original Victorian towers), a wide veranda with its view of the sea, historic gardens, an outdoor pool terrace, casual marina restaurant, the dining room, spa, and 11,500-square-foot conference center.
www.seacoastonline.com /2003news/03032003/news/15629.htm   (931 words)

  
 Economic Development and the Salton Sea
The Salton Sea State Recreation Area at one time was the second most popular state park in California.
In the future, when its water quality is improved, the Sea's beaches may all be as popular as Mecca Beach, shown above in a 1998 photo.
The Sea has longstanding and inextricable ties with agricultural community; it relies on inflow from irrigation runoff as its primary replenishment source, and the agriculture industry relies on the Sea as a repository for this runoff.
www.saltonsea.ca.gov /econdev.htm   (678 words)

  
 Ene Land Group Inc v Fonsen Logging (PNG) Pty Ltd [1998] PGNC 9; N1689 (10 February 1998)
Being the owners of this sea area along the coast it is claiming rental fees for the passage of shipping through the area.
The Plaintiff is claiming its ownership of these coastal waters or sea by virtue of the fact that various members of the Plaintiff Land group are coastal people of that area who have since time immemorial exercised rights to gather and fish in and over those waters.
It may be suggested that the Land Act also enables rights to the sea or underwater land to be registered or recognised under the Lands Registration Act however there is nothing in that or any other legislation which overrides the fundamental common law principle of the State’s dominion over the Sea.
www.worldlii.org /pg/cases/PGNC/1998/9.html   (1636 words)

  
 The Toll of the Sea (1922) - Moviefone
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 Amazon.frĀ : The Sea: Livres en anglais: John Banville   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The adjectives to describe the writing of John Banville are all affirmative, and The Sea is a ringing affirmation of all his best qualities.
His publishers are claiming that this novel by the Booker-shortlisted author is his finest yet, and while that claim may have an element of hyperbole, there is no denying that this perfectly balanced book is among the writer’s most accomplished work.
A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with.
www.amazon.fr /Sea-John-Banville/dp/0330436252   (679 words)

  
 Possible Toll on the Sea to Sky - Page 2 - bcsportbikes.com
If they want to toll the Sea to Sky, go ahead...just one more disuasion for me to go to Whstler anyway.
Regardless of whether there is a toll or not, one issue that no one appears to have mentioned is what the highway improvements will do to one of our favourite twisty roads.
Privateizing roads and creating 'toll lanes' is all good with me. I saw it all over the states, and it looks to be very successful.
www.bcsportbikes.com /forum/showthread.php?p=32655   (2229 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In The Toll of the Sea, a 1922 silent film, 17-year-old Wong played her first starring role as Lotus Flower.
After The Toll of the Sea, Wong was offered some supporting roles and lost leading Asian roles to white actresses in yellowface.
The Toll of the Sea (1922) is an early Technicolor feature melodrama starring Anna May Wong.
www.lycos.com /info/anna-may-wong--sea.html   (536 words)

  
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Excerpt from "Toll of the Sea" Chapter 25
Rencontre West and the Story of Effie May Often localized and intense, the lashing tails of fall hurricanes devastated areas within a hundred miles or so; yet occasionally their effects were felt all over Newfoundland.
The inshore fishing areas were once prolific and the residents of Rencontre West had the best of two grounds at their doorstep with the shoal grounds fifteen miles out to sea and the waters of Rencontre Bay close at hand.
members.cox.net /durnford/effie.htm   (756 words)

  
 The Toll of the Sea
3 So when the Sea laid a strange gift at the feet of the little Chinese girl, Lotus Flower, she was afraid -- and yet intrigued.
7 Often and often Lotus Flower came to the rocks with a new hope in her heart -- yet a fear of the Siren Sea.
At the foot of the garden waited the restless sea.
www.geocities.com /emruf5/tollofthesea.html   (932 words)

  
 [minstrels] The Sea -- Barry Cornwall
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more, And backward flew to her billowy breast, Like a bird that seeketh its mother's nest; And a mother she was, and is, to me; For I was born on the open sea!
The waves were white, and red the morn, In the noisy hour when I was born; And the whale it whistled, the porpoise rolled, And the dolphins bared their backs of gold; And never was heard such an outcry wild As welcomed to life the ocean-child!
Oil tankers and whalers have since taken their toll of the sea, but Nature has a way of having the last word.
www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1352.html   (359 words)

  
 The Toll of the Sea, how asiaphilia started - Yellowworld Forums
By today's standards, THE TOLL OF THE SEA is disappointing because Anna May is compelled to affirm the pervasive stereotype of the "lotus blossom": the self-sacrificial Asian woman who gives her life for the love of a white man -- never a man of any other race.
THE TOLL OF THE SEA also holds the historical distinction of being the very first Technicolor feature film ever released.
THE TOLL OF THE SEA was the first feature film to be shot, beginning to end, in Technicolor.
forums.yellowworld.org /showthread.php?t=7233   (1159 words)

  
 Hurricane Emily takes toll on sea turtles | csmonitor.com
During the nesting season between April and September, loggerhead (r.) and green turtles will emerge from the sea at night to lay their eggs.
Alejandro Arenas Martinez, director of the Xcacel sea turtle conservation program, estimates that more than 84,000 eggs were swept away.
From April to September, hundreds dark-olive green and reddish-brown loggerhead sea turtles emerge from the ocean at night to dig nests in the sand and lay an average of 120 eggs each.
www.csmonitor.com /2005/0722/p04s02-woam.html   (624 words)

  
 S.F. International Asian American Film Festival 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Purchase a ticket to THE TOLL OF THE SEA for admission to the panel.
Many of her roles were formative in establishing on-screen stereotypes of the Asian female (as Lotus Flower in TOLL OF THE SEA), even though Wong was an outspoken critic of Hollywood's treatment of Asian women.
Throughout her life and on screen, she wore disguises and mastered a dual identity that allowed her to navigate the period's restrictive racial and gender codes.
www.asianamericanmedia.org /festival/2004/html/anna_panel.html   (276 words)

  
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She starred in the Madam Butterfly-ish The Toll of the Sea, the first 2-color Technicolor feature, when she was only 16 years old.
She worked steadily in small roles, playing a bit in Sessue Hayakawa’s The First Born (1921) and earned her first credit as Lon Chaney’s abused wife in Bits of Life (1921) before starring in The Toll of the Sea (1922), a Chinese variation of the Madame Butterfly tale and an early Technicolor film.
Likewise, at least two other Wong films, The Toll of the Sea (1922) and The Thief of Bagdad (1924) can now be seen on DVD.
www.lycos.com /info/anna-may-wong.html   (611 words)

  
 The Sea Cottage Inn Bed & Breakfast in Ocean City, New Jersey
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This lovingly restored and redecorated inn is situated only a half block from Ocean City's magnificent white sandy beaches and sparkling blue crested ocean.
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 The Toll of the Sea | MTV MOVIES
The sailor, Allen Carver (Kenneth Harlan), professes to love her and they marry.
He goes back out to the sea and Lotus Flower has a baby.
She hands the baby over to Barbara and then "pays her debt to the sea" by throwing herself into it and drowning.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/77128/moviemain.jhtml   (471 words)

  
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The sea vegetation in Seasilver is superior to even the best organic foods grown on land.
It is as if you were eating raw sea vegetables.
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 Anna May Wong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Her first starring role was in Hollywood's first color movie The Toll of the Sea (1921).
Anna May travelled throughout Europe, and was one of the leads in the British film Piccadilly (1929).
The Toll of the Sea (1921) as Lotus Flower
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anna_May_Wong   (678 words)

  
 Red Sea Fish pHarm: Order Toll Free 1-888-59-ONLINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
With Coral Reef Red Sea Salt you don't have to be a magician to give your aquarium the ambience of the Red Sea.
It is the most natural artificial sea salt on the market, with at least 87% of the raw materials being reclaimed from natural water sources using solar evaporation techniques.
Coming fresh from the Red Sea, the salt used to produce Coral Reef Red Sea Salt already contains trace elements in the same ratio that is found in natural sea water.
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 Sea-Friendly Eating
Lest individuals feel helpless to reverse the downward slide of fisheries, those who consume seafood at home or in restaurants can dine selectively to ease catches' toll on the sea - and support fisheries that sustain fish stocks.
The lists discourage consumers from purchasing bluefin tuna, cod, farm-raised (Atlantic) salmon, orange roughy, swordfish, toothfish (Chilean sea bass), wild caviar, King crab, and imported shrimp.
Alaskan halibut, Alaskan salmon, sardines, white sea bass, and many farm-raised species, including tilapia, are better choices, according to the lists.
www.eurocbc.org /ecological_soundness_of_seafod_26july2003page1149.html   (201 words)

  
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 The Toll of the Sea (1922) - Merchandise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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