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A lowboy (low-loader in British English, low-bed in western Canada and South Africa or float in Australia and eastern Canada) is a semi-trailer with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels. This allows the deck to be extremely low compared with other trailers. It offers the ability to carry legal ...
Tank transporter. A tank transporter is a combination of a heavy tractor unit or a ballast tractor and a mating full trailer, hydraulic modular trailer or semi-trailer (typically of the "lowboy" type), used for transporting tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles. Some also function as tank recovery vehicles, the tractors of which may be ...
Sesto Continente, directed by Folco Quilici, was the first full-length, full-color underwater documentary. [64] [65] The much more famous The Silent World, released in 1956, is frequently erroneously claimed as such. Dragnet is the first theatrical film based on a television series.
Contents. List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926 and 1929. [ 1 ] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone ...
Box office. $1.3 million [1] In Old Arizona is a 1928 American pre-Code Western film directed by Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings, [2] nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film, which was based on the character of the Cisco Kid in the 1907 story "The Caballero's Way" by O. Henry, was a major innovation in Hollywood.
In North America, the length is commonly 48 or 53 feet (14.63 or 16.15 m), and the width is either 96 or 192 inches (2.44 or 4.88 m) (including rub rails and stake pockets on the sides, which generally placed every 2 feet or 61 cm). Some older trailers still in service are only 45 feet (13.72 m) or shorter if used in sets of doubles or triples ...
Excerpt from the surviving fragment of With Our King and Queen Through India (1912), the first feature-length film in natural colour, filmed in Kinemacolor. This is a list of early feature-length colour films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major ...
A lowboy is an American collectors term for one type of dressing table. [1] It is a small table with one or two rows of drawers , so called in contradistinction to (and designed to match [ 2 ] ) the tallboy or highboy chest of drawers.