William Kennedy Laurie Dickson was a British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison.
The Big Parade is a 1925 American silent war drama film directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Tom O'Brien, and Karl Dane. Written by World War I veteran Laurence Stallings, the film is about an idle rich boy who joins the U.S. Army's Rainbow Division, is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes a friend of two working-class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl. A sound version of the film was released in 1930. While the sound version of the film has no audible dialog, it featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
The Poor Little Rich Girl is a 1917 American comedy-drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur. Adapted by Frances Marion from the 1913 play by Eleanor Gates. The Broadway play actually starred future screen actress Viola Dana. The film stars Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks and Frank McGlynn Sr.
Davis Hanson Waite was an American politician. He was a member of the Populist Party, and he served as the eighth Governor of Colorado from 1893 to 1895.
Actuality film is a non-fiction film genre that uses footage of real events, places, and things, a predecessor to documentary film. Unlike documentaries, actuality films are not structured into a larger narrative or coherent whole. During the era of early cinema, actualities—usually lasting no more than a minute or two and usually assembled together into a program by an exhibitor—were just as popular and prominent as their fictional counterparts. The line between "fact" and "fiction" was not as prominent in early cinema as it would become once documentaries became the predominant non-fiction filmmaking form. Actuality as a film genre is related to still photography.
Denise Vernac, was a French film actress. She appeared in seventeen films, between 1939 and 1966.
Sponsored film, or ephemeral film, as defined by film archivist Rick Prelinger, is a film made by a particular sponsor for a specific purpose other than as a work of art: the films were designed to serve a specific pragmatic purpose for a limited time. Many of the films are also orphan works since they lack copyright owners or active custodians to guarantee their long-term preservation.
An orphan film photos is a motion picture work that has been abandoned by its owner or copyright holder. The term can also sometimes refer to any film that has suffered neglect.
Nelson McDowell was an American actor. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1917 and 1945.
Gabrielle Claes was the director of the film archive, Cinémathèque royale de Belgique. She is known for her work in the preservation of films on reels.
William Axt was an American composer of nearly two hundred film scores.
L'Illusionniste fin de siècle is an 1899 French silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès. It was released in the United States as An Up-to-Date Conjurer, and in Britain as An Up-to-Date Conjuror. It is also known as L'Impressionniste fin de siècle and The Conjurer.
Harry Hale Buckwalter, sometimes credited as Harry H. Buckwalter or Henry H. Buckwalter, was an American photographer, journalist, photojournalist, and silent film director and producer.
The Hold-Up of the Leadville Stage is a 1904 American short silent Western film directed by Harry Buckwalter.
The Bastard Film Encounter (BFE) is a US-based film festival and conference established in 2013 which encourages the viewing and discussion of films and videos which are "poorly executed, offensive in content, or document the offensive." These films have often been orphaned by their original creators or the institutions in which they are held as well as the archivist(s) charged with the film or video's care-taking. A bastard film is sometimes described as the “terribly-behaved cousin of the orphan film”. The participants and attendees are usually archivists, scholars, librarians, academics, social historians, enthusiasts, film researchers, and collectors in the world of film and video content. Over the weekend event, attendees will be introduced to films, view them, and a discussion will follow." BFE has been described as "Equal parts endurance test, group therapy session, academic conference, and absurdist jamboree..."
The End is a 1953 American short film directed by Christopher Maclaine. It tells the stories of six people on the last day of their lives. It premiered at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as part of Frank Stauffacher's Art in Cinema series. Though the film met audience disapproval at its premiere, it was praised by critics as a "masterpiece" and "a great work of art".
Bluebird Photoplays was an American film production company that filmed at Universal Pictures studios in California and New Jersey, and distributed its films via Universal Pictures during the silent film era. It had a $500,000 studio in New Jersey.
"It was a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and employed Universal stars and used Universal’s facilities but the pictures were marketed independently from Carl Laemmle’s umbrella company."—Anke Brouwers
Maria Adriana Prolo (1908–1991) was a historian of Italian film. She studied pioneering narratives in silent film, founded the National Museum of Cinema in Turin, and was an active member of International Federation of Film Archives. She was one of the first people, with Einar Lauritzen and Henri Langlois, to have the idea of founding a museum dedicated to film and its conservation.
Colin Ross (1885-1945) was a renowned and prolific Austrian travel writer and film-maker. He was a "household name" between the two world wars. Between 1910 and 1945, he published 35 books, six films, and around 1,200 articles.
