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	Comedy Films
		Film entrepreneur Mack Sennett, soon nicknamed "The King of Comedy" and "The Master of Slapstick Comedy," formed the Keystone Company (and Studios) in 1912 - it soon was the leading producer of slapstick and comic characters.
		Their dozens of short films and twenty-seven feature-length films were produced over three decades (the 20s to the 40s), including such film classics as Sons of the Desert (1933) - arguably their best film, Way Out West (1937), The Flying Deuces (1939), and A Chump At Oxford (1940).
		Plots of their hilarious films used situational mishaps or incidents to trigger chaos and personal jeopardy, usually with the dignified, superior-acting, pompous Ollie trying to succeed and boast, only to be frustrated, exasperated and sabotaged by the simple-mindedness, childishness and brainlessness of Stan.
	www.filmsite.org /comedyfilms2.html (2246 words)

	Metropolis (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Released in 1927, it is a fl and white silent film created by the famed Austrian director Fritz Lang and was the most expensive silent film of that time, costing approximately 7 million Marks (equivalent to around $200 million in 2005).
		The film is set in the year 2026, in the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title.
		In the underworld, he experiences first-hand the toiling lifestyle of the workers, and observes the casual attitude of their employers (he is disgusted after seeing an explosion at the "M-Machine", when the employers bring in new workers to keep the machine running before taking care of the men wounded or killed in the accident).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metropolis_(1927_movie) (3399 words)

	Crime and Gangster Films
		Gangster/crime films are usually set in large, crowded cities, to provide a view of the secret world of the criminal: dark nightclubs or streets with lurid neon signs, fast cars, piles of cash, sleazy bars, contraband, seedy living quarters or rooming houses.
		It wasn't until the sound era and the 1930s that gangster films truly became an entertaining, popular way to attract viewers to the theatres, who were interested in the lawlessness and violence on-screen.
		The lead role in each film (a gangster/criminal or bootleg racketeer of the Prohibition Era) was glorified, but each one ultimately met his doom in the final scenes of these films, due to censors' demands that they receive moral retribution for their crimes.
	www.filmsite.org /crimefilms.html (2177 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1927 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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)

	NeoNoir
		Silver and Ward, for example, in their Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, choose as their first film the 1927 Underworld, directed by Josef von Sternberg - 'the first modern gangster film in which the heroes are actually criminals'.
		Even during the 60s there had been a number of films - some of which Silver and Ward group with canonical film noir, some with neo-noir - that drew on the films and novels of earlier decades, and by the early 70s the phenomenon was attracting considerable critical attention.
		The transformations of the genre in neo-noir have helped to clarify some of the constant, recognisable elements of 'the noir vision', most importantly the moral ambivalence of the protagonist and his (or in neo-noir often her) ill-fated relationship with a wider society that itself is guilty of corruption and criminality.
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/NeoNoir.html (1081 words)

	Film History of the 1920s
		In the early 1920s, three nightmarish, German expressionistic films were to have a strong and significant influence on the coming development of U.S. films in the 30s-40s - notably the horror film cycle of Universal Studios in the 30s, and the advent of film noir in the 1940s:
		The dark films of Josef von Sternberg in the late 1920s ushered in the gangster film: Underworld (1927), The Drag Net (1929), and The Docks of New York (1929).
		This meant that the film had to be shot with three synchronized cameras, and then projected on a gigantic, 3-part screens.
	www.filmsite.org /20sintro2.html (1562 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Underworld
		The souls of most dead Aztecs were thought to enter the underworld and start on a difficult downward journey to the lowest level, where they dwelled in eternal darkness and oblivion.
		This cosmos is usually represented by the symbol of the World Tree; the underworld in its roots, the celestial realms in its branches, and this world where the trunk meets the ground.
		hallucinogenic plants, which enables hir to journey again to the underworld, to battle with the spirits that have caused the illness, and to recover the client's lost soul.
	fusionanomaly.net /underworld.html (2236 words)

	Black Film Center/Archive Film Holdings: "T"
		In the film, famous fl actors and actresses read from these transcripts; the narratives are complemented by photographs of the years 1850-1935.
		The film contains a baptismal scene not heretofore seen and was later reissued (1958) with a prologue by Raymond Massey.
		This film is about the people--from all walks of life--who risked their fortunes and lives to oppose slavery.
	www.indiana.edu /~bfca/collection/films/films_U.html (923 words)

	Cartoons And Cinema Of The 20th Century © ThinkQuest, Inc
		The basic pattern of the film industry (and its economic organization) was established in the 1920s - the studio system was essentially born in the second decade of the century.
		Two German expressionistic films with dark shadows and angled shots in the early 1920s were to have a strong influence on the coming development of US films: the surrealistic fantasy/horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and F. Murnau's classic vampire film (the first of its kind) - Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horrors (1922).
		Lubitsch's first sound film The Love Parade (1929) (with Jeanette MacDonald's debut appearance), however, exhibited the director's creative adaptation to the requirements of sound film, and was one of the first backstage musicals with musical numbers that were integral to the plot.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0118600/index.phtml?menu=en;2;ci2001.html (2936 words)

	Amazon.com: The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: The Gangster Film (Overlook Film Encyclopedia): Books: Phil Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Phil Hardy has been editing encyclopedias devoted to various film genres for years, but this book on the gangster film is perhaps his most impressive.
		Hardy and his team have composed hundreds of words on each of more than 1,500 films, considering the rarities of the genre as seriously as the classics, and focusing on foreign as well as English-language films.
		Joseph Von Sternberg's essay in poetic realism, the silent outing Underworld (1927), was the dominant influence on the gangster film as it emerged during the late 1920s.
	www.amazon.com /Overlook-Film-Encyclopedia-Gangster/dp/0879518995 (1492 words)

	Hard-Boiled Fiction and Other Media, including Film Noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Film noir ("dark film") refers to a genre of movies that employ hard-boiled protagonists, urban settings, dark tones, and a sense of despair.
		As film scholar Barry Salt has shown, sound recording with only one mike was muddy and disorienting for the audience; it gave way to overhead mikes on booms, and then to multi-point recording.
		Early techniques in cutting sound film resulted in dead spots; this was eliminated by slight overlaps, giving the impression of seamless sound and leading to a maxim that “sound leads”: for every visual shift, there must be an auditory shift as well, and it came first.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/engl/marling/hardboiled/OtherMedia.HTM (9447 words)

	Treasures from the HFA: A-D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The second film by the brilliant Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Peter Kubelka, Adebar was produced as an advertisement for a café of the same name.
		Pasolini’s penultimate film and the final installment of his trilogy that includes The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales, this loose adaptation of the classic anthology of love and enchantment features ten tales connected by the story of Mur-el-Din (Merli) and his feverish search for a kidnapped slave girl.
		Jean Marais is touching in his role as the accursed nobleman who is forced to live out his life entombed in the grotesque body of a beast, and Josette Day is radiant as the young daughter who is willing to sacrifice herself to save her father and, ultimately, to save her captor as well.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/00julaug/a-d.htm (1349 words)

	GERMAN FILM
		Autorenfilm (author's film) and were marketed to draw on the popularity of the writer.
		She claimed that her interests on the films were purely "artistic considerations" and she was unaware of the Nazi political agenda even though there are several accounts to the contrary.
		Werner Herzog's films are obsessed with the mythic, the inexplicable and the unobtainable.
	www.calstatela.edu /faculty/abloom/chris/germanfilm.htm (1539 words)

	Celebrating St. Petersburg Film Series
		The University of Michigan St. Petersburg Festival includes a six-part series of films set in St. Petersburg (Petrograd, Leningrad) co-sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies and Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
		Commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the revolution, the film represents socialism's struggle against capitalist influences in the context of political upheaval and the transformation from tsarist St. Petersburg to communist Leningrad.
		This is the second film in the series created to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the revolution, and showcases the talents of one of cinema's most lauded and significant directors.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/crees/stpetersburg/films.html (628 words)

	Underworld (1927) - Moviefone
		Synopsis: Underworld opens with a series of title cards setting its mood, telling of "a great city in the dead of night...streets lonely...moon...
		Underworld (1927) Underworld on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		Underworld preview page featuring casting information, director, trailer links, poster, official site, synopsis, release date, stills and news.
	movies.aol.com /movie/underworld-1927/21849/main (154 words)

	OSCAR'S FIRST YEAR at Film Forum in New York City
		(1927, FRANK BORZAGE) Romance blossoms in a Paris garret, to the Movietone strains of “Diane,” after Parisian sewer worker Charles Farrell rescues waif Janet Gaynor from an abusive sister.
		The film's score had been thought lost, until a private collector found a partial set of disks a few years ago.
		Film Forum is located at 209 W Houston Street, between 6th and 7th Avenue, in New York City.
	www.filmforum.org /films/oscar.html (796 words)

	Underworld Film Review - Time Out Film
		Ex-reporter Ben Hecht drafted the script for Underworld, and clearly saw the project as a reflection of his experiences on the crime beat.
		Sternberg comes into his own with the scene of the gangsters' ball, where emotional and physical violence erupt amid a storm of confetti and streamers.
		Thereafter, the film radiates total confidence in its own means and methods, and the themes are wholly Sternberg's: a woman breaks free of the codes that imprison her, a macho thug discovers the depths of his own feelings, and sexual love proves stronger than hand-guns, prison bars, and the entire police force.
	www.timeout.com /film/81028.html (228 words)

	CULT FILM SITE: International Cinema
		Hitchcock's first suspense film is a turn-of-the-century thriller about a murderer whose beautiful young victims all bear his calling card.
		The amorous liasons of aristocrats and the working class during a holliday in the country are the basis of this classic study in contrasts.
		A unique, experimental film that follows the lives of a man and woman (known only by the initials 'X' and 'A'), who may or may not have had an affair the previous year.
	sepnet.com /rcramer/foreign2.htm (1993 words)

	Fergus Bordewich: Gangs of New York
		Beginning with a bloody gang war in 1846, the film culminates amid the gotterdammerung of the 1863 Draft Riots, the worst mob violence in American history, when between 70,000 and 80,000 armed men and women rampaged through the streets, pillaging, burning, battling and often defeating the outnumbered police, and lynching helpless African-Americans.
		Tim Monich, the film’s voice coach, disdained the use of a generic Irish brogue, and instead trained actors in the distinctive dialects of Cork, Kerry, Dublin, and Liverpool, as well as the Gaelic that was spoken by some immigrants from the far West of Ireland.
		Most of the film’s action takes place around the Five Points—so named because five streets converged there, a few hundred feet west of New York’s present-day criminal courts, and a short walk from Ground Zero—a seething slum that was the paramount symbol of anarchy, violence, and urban hopelessness for the rest of nineteenth century America.
	www.fergusbordewich.com /PAGESjournalism/FBgangs.shtml (3498 words)

	Underworld (1927 film) Summary
		Underworld is a 1927 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg.
		Underworld is just about the best underworld picture that has come along.
		Imaginatively it is frequently of the first rank, a finely visualized selection of touches that reveal not only the fabric of the characters but as well the predicament of their lives, intensified as they are b...
	www.bookrags.com /Underworld_(1927_film) (178 words)

	Silent Film Sources Monthly News
		Each film is introduced by a title which indicates whether the surviving print was l6mm or 35mm (most of them are 35mm), which is a practice we wish all distributors would follow.
		For this film the cameraman seemed satisfied that the image is in focus, and it is that casualness that gives these films much of their charm.
		Each film was available in beautiful quality prints in 35mm and 16mm with scores he composed, with the images adjusted when necessary for proper projection at sound speed and occasional re-editing.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/97_3_mon.htm (14530 words)

	UNCW Film Studies Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Informed by issues of historiography and aesthetics specific to the film medium, my research explores cinema in its cultural, industrial, and social contexts.
		My areas of interest include: the confluence of popular and art cinemas, cinematic representations of gender, film performance in theory and practice, the relationship between film style and technology, and film criticism and analysis.
		I am also at work on a series of articles that frame a new institutional history of the Hollywood Blacklist, drawing on a range of HUAC archival materials to consider the political roles of the Screen Writers’ Guild, the Hollywood trade press, and the West Coast screenwriting community.
	www.uncwil.edu /filmstudies/tPalmer.htm (1629 words)

	Film of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Not the least of the problems explored in the film albeit briefly is the rising power of crime syndicates in various cities to control the flow of illegal booze.
		A film like The Golden Beetle (1907) sees a magician conjure life only to have it destroy him, and the trick films of George Melies often reveal the consequences of a scientist's or magician's misguided experiments.
		In the latter part of the film, a second narrative frames the first and reveals that reality is quite different from what we’ve been watching: Dr. Caligari is actually the benevolent director of the state asylum and Francis, his accuser, is a mad patient under the doctor’s care.
	filmyear.typepad.com /blog (8663 words)

	Latin Music Online - Free MP3 Downloads - Ringtones - Artists - LatinMusic Videos
		Tan-go was the name given to the drums of the African slaves, and the music was influenced by both the Cuban habanera and the local milonga.
		When lyrics were added, they drew from "lunfardo", the lingo of the underworld (the term originally meant "thief").
		Rio is both the capital of the aristocracy, where European culture was imported, and the underworld of the slums, where poor (fl and white) immigrants from the rest of Brazil (including Bahia) lived in miserable conditions.
	latin.music.us (4117 words)

	CULT FILM SITE: Black Artists
		Well-done film about the tribulations of a concert violinist and his son.
		Adapted from the play by Eugene O'Neill, this film chronicles the rise and fall of Brutus Jones (Paul Robeson) - a Pullman porter who becomes an island king before being cut down to size.
		Highly regarded film biography of the legendary boxing champ 'told with a boldness that will rock you.' Starring Coley Wallace as Louis, with Paul Stewart, James Edwards, John Marley and Dotts Johnson.
	sepnet.com /rcramer/black.htm (1472 words)

	Celebrating St. Petersburg - Visual Arts - Films
		A film by director Alexander Sokurov; Russia, 2002, 96 min.
		A film by director Yuri Mamin; Russia and France, 1994, 87 min.
		A film by director Aleksei Balabanov; Russia, 1997, 96 min.
	www.umich.edu /stpetersburg/visual/film.html (485 words)

	Underworld (1927) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The film was predicted to be a flop, was shelved by Paramount and eventually released in only one theater in New York.
		But while the initial premise may benefit from join-the-dots attraction, it is the performances and execution of the film that give it its power.
		It's no wonder that it was a smash hit by word of mouth, nor that it still stands up today, where the use of cruder sentiment or melodrama might long since have reduced it to the status of mere historical curiosity.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0018526 (651 words)

	Mexican Dog Tales -- Amores Perros
		In 1927 Thornton Wilder won a Pulitzer Prize for The Bridge Over San Luis Rey, which becomes a meditation on Fate as it begins with the collapse of a footbridge in Peru and then delves into the lives of the people who perish.
		Amores Perros looks very gritty, filmed with a sepia filter (like Traffic) with a lot of hand held cameras to give us a feeling that we are truly experiencing the rough street life of Mexico City.
		If you see someone enter the film after those opening credits, do them a favor - tell them that the actual dogs are all ok. Otherwise, those pitiful people will NOT have a chance to enjoy what's on screen if they like dogs at all.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/foreign_films/66566 (458 words)

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