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The oldest preserved Swedish broadside ballad, printed in 1583. A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. They were one of the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries ...
The Wandering Prince of Troy. The Wandering Virgin. The Woeful Lamentation of Jane Shore. Categories: 17th-century ballads. English broadside ballads.
United Kingdom. Language. Silent. Roundhay Garden Scene is a short silent motion picture filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, in Northern England on 14 October 1888. [1] It is believed to be the oldest surviving film. The camera used was patented in the United Kingdom on 16 November 1888.
Sveriges Medeltida Ballader. Sveriges Medeltida Ballader ( SMB) is a scholarly edition which compiles, in principle, all of the known Swedish medieval (traditional) ballads in existence, including those from Swedish-speaking parts of Finland. [1] The collection was published between 1983 and 2001 by the Svenskt visarkiv, and edited by Bengt R ...
His name has been recorded as "Squball", "Sku-ball", or "Stewball". [1] He won many races in England and was sent to Ireland. [2] The Irish turf calendar states that he won six races worth £508 in 1752, when he was eleven years old, and was the top-earning runner of that year in Ireland. [3] His most famous race took place on the plains of ...
A broadside is a large sheet of paper printed on one side only. [1] Historically in Europe, broadsides were used as posters, announcing events or proclamations, giving political views, commentary in the form of ballads, or simply advertisements. In Japan, chromoxylographic broadsheets featuring artistic prints were common.
Street literature. Street literature is any of several different types of publication sold on the streets, at fairs and other public gatherings, by travelling hawkers, pedlars or chapmen, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Robert Collison's account of the subject describes street literature as the "forerunner of the popular press".
A Man There Was (Swedish: Terje Vigen) is a 1917 silent Swedish drama co-written and directed by Victor Sjöström, [1] based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen.With a budget of SEK 60,000, it was the most expensive Swedish film made up to that point, [2] marking a new direction in Swedish cinema with more funding to fewer films, resulting in better overall quality.