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Donna and I were having lunch in Downtown Boston, the West End near Boston Garden at Jersey Mike's Sub Shop and I looked up and noticed they originated in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Donna is from Tom's River, New Jersey where she went to highschool but her father was the principal at the high school in Point Pleasant. She thinks she would have been more popular had she gone to highschool there. Mike's Jersey Sub shop just opened recently in Downtown Boston and we hadn't been there before.
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Donna and I just celebrated our fourteenth anniversary and have lived together for fourteen years, near the West End of Boston, just over the River, in Cambridge, Massachusetts where we can see the Boston Garden and Boston Science Museum from the thirteenth floor.
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Notably, Mary Pickford and James Kirkwood, who would later become her director, appear under the direction of D. W. Griffith in the one reeler "The Cardinal's Conspiracy", along with Mack Sennet as well as Griffith's wife Linda Ardvidson and actress Kate Bruce. The film was photographed by G.W. Bitzer for the Biograph Film Company.
The periodical Moving Picture World reviewed the film with an early description approaching genre theory. "The picture is of the costume kind. In other words, one, when looking at it, has gone to the pages of Stanely Weyman, Henry Harland or Morris Hewitt for his inspiration. We breathe the atmosphere of court life and are taken back, as it were, into a far more romantic period than the present." The periodical continued by regretting that they had viewed the film in "cold monochrome" rather than a more vibrant spectrum of pageant. Biograph Films had advertised the film in the previous issue of Moving Picture World, sharing the full page with Selig, Independent and Kalem studios. Paired with the film "Friend of the Family", Biograph proclaimed that in the film "The Cardinal's Conspiracy", "The subject is elaborately staged, comprising some of the most beautiful exterior scenes ever shown."In her autobiography When The Movies Were Young, Griffith's wife Linda Arvidson sees the film as the first important screen characterization for actor Frank Powell, adding him to the "remarkable trio" at Biograph of actors Frank Powell, James Kirkwood and Henry B. Walthall. Tom Gunning points to the film belonging to a period when a cinema of narrative integration in fact centered on characterization and accordingly developed film technique with that in mind. To accomadate that narrative integration and its movement to a versimilar acting rather than the florid, histrionic gestures of a filmed theater, Griffith would bring the camera into the story. Gunning writes, "Pickford surpasses any other Biograph actress in the mastery of the new versimilar style...Pickford generally employs a slower pace and her guestures appear intended to reveal psychological traits through behavior."
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Notably, Mary Pickford and James Kirkwood, who would later become her director, appear under the direction of D. W. Griffith in the one reeler "The Cardinal's Conspiracy", along with Mack Sennet as well as Griffith's wife Linda Ardvidson and actress Kate Bruce. The film was photographed by G.W. Bitzer for the Biograph Film Company.
The periodical Moving Picture World reviewed the film with an early description approaching genre theory. "The picture is of the costume kind. In other words, one, when looking at it, has gone to the pages of Stanely Weyman, Henry Harland or Morris Hewitt for his inspiration. We breathe the atmosphere of court life and are taken back, as it were, into a far more romantic period than the present." The periodical continued by regretting that they had viewed the film in "cold monochrome" rather than a more vibrant spectrum of pageant. Biograph Films had advertised the film in the previous issue of Moving Picture World, sharing the full page with Selig, Independent and Kalem studios. Paired with the film "Friend of the Family", Biograph proclaimed that in the film "The Cardinal's Conspiracy", "The subject is elaborately staged, comprising some of the most beautiful exterior scenes ever shown."In her autobiography When The Movies Were Young, Griffith's wife Linda Arvidson sees the film as the first important screen characterization for actor Frank Powell, adding him to the "remarkable trio" at Biograph of actors Frank Powell, James Kirkwood and Henry B. Walthall. Tom Gunning points to the film belonging to a period when a cinema of narrative integration in fact centered on characterization and accordingly developed film technique with that in mind. To accomadate that narrative integration and its movement to a versimilar acting rather than the florid, histrionic gestures of a filmed theater, Griffith would bring the camera into the story. Gunning writes, "Pickford surpasses any other Biograph actress in the mastery of the new versimilar style...Pickford generally employs a slower pace and her guestures appear intended to reveal psychological traits through behavior."
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Scott Lord Silent Film: The Copper Beeches (Calliard, 1912)
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"THe Copper Beeches" in which actor Georges Trevilles starred as the detective Sherlock Holmes, was directed by Adrian Calliard during 1912.
At the time when David Stuart Davies published his volume Holmes of the movies, the screen career of Sherlock Holmes, "The Copper Beeches" was the earliest Sherlock Holmes adaptation of which there was a surviving copy, the series itself being the first authentic representation of the Holmes character. Davies gathered that the plots were faithful adaptations of Baker Street cannon owing to their titles and the fact that "alledgedly Conan Doyle was personally involved in their production". His filmography of lost silent films includes "The Speckled Band", "The Beryl Coronet' and "Silver Blaze" from 1912 and "The Mystery of Boscome Vale", "The Stolen Papers" and finally, The Musgrave Ritual of which there is an existing copy. Silent Film Silent Film Sherlock Holmes
At the time when David Stuart Davies published his volume Holmes of the movies, the screen career of Sherlock Holmes, "The Copper Beeches" was the earliest Sherlock Holmes adaptation of which there was a surviving copy, the series itself being the first authentic representation of the Holmes character. Davies gathered that the plots were faithful adaptations of Baker Street cannon owing to their titles and the fact that "alledgedly Conan Doyle was personally involved in their production". His filmography of lost silent films includes "The Speckled Band", "The Beryl Coronet' and "Silver Blaze" from 1912 and "The Mystery of Boscome Vale", "The Stolen Papers" and finally, The Musgrave Ritual of which there is an existing copy. Silent Film Silent Film Sherlock Holmes
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Scott Lord Silent Film: Musgrave Ritual (George Treville, 1912)
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Please note that the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere occurred the day before The Shot Heard Round the World, as was its purpose. During 1772, Paul Revere had made church bells manufactured from copper and tin for several of the churches in Boston.
This is the view of Paul Revere's grave from inside the church, on Brimstone corner, a granary used to store gunpowder during the revolution. Donna is cataloging book donations in the library- I have lunch overlooking the graveyard. Today is Palm Sunday.
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Silent Film This New England Primer bridged the "Gap" during the shift from Ecclesiastical Puritan to Patriotic Colonial.
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Please note that the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere occurred the day before The Shot Heard Round the World, as was its purpose. During 1772, Paul Revere had made church bells manufactured from copper and tin for several of the churches in Boston.
This is the view of Paul Revere's grave from inside the church, on Brimstone corner, a granary used to store gunpowder during the revolution. Donna is cataloging book donations in the library- I have lunch overlooking the graveyard. Today is Palm Sunday.
Silent Film This New England Primer bridged the "Gap" during the shift from Ecclesiastical Puritan to Patriotic Colonial.
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Motion Picture News during 1921 readily boasted that more than seven different types of "exploitations" were used to advertise the film "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" starring Rudolph Valentino. Motion Picture Directing, published in 1922, showed a director Rex Ingram using a white, square canvass reflector to exploit sunlight during the filming of exterior scenes.
Author Benjamin B Hampton, in his volume A History of Movies, discusses the rise of screenwriter June Mathis to producer with the film "The Fourhorseman of the Apocalypse" and her effort to "plan the details of camerawork before photography began. This process of planning had been shared by Tucker and a few other directors who called it 'shooting the story on paper before shooting it on film'. 'Shooting on paper'...requires highly trained technical knowledge, clear thinking, a power of visualization and a rounded conception of the picture before camerawork begins. Its advantages are low cost production."
The film was based on the novel writtenby Vincente Ibanez.
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Author Benjamin B Hampton, in his volume A History of Movies, discusses the rise of screenwriter June Mathis to producer with the film "The Fourhorseman of the Apocalypse" and her effort to "plan the details of camerawork before photography began. This process of planning had been shared by Tucker and a few other directors who called it 'shooting the story on paper before shooting it on film'. 'Shooting on paper'...requires highly trained technical knowledge, clear thinking, a power of visualization and a rounded conception of the picture before camerawork begins. Its advantages are low cost production."
The film was based on the novel writtenby Vincente Ibanez.
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