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Just Around the Corner is an extant 1921 American silent drama film produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film is based on a short story, "Superman," by Fannie Hurst and was directed by Frances Marion, a prolific Hollywood scenarist. Sigrid Holmquist came from Sweden.
The poster for L'Arroseur arrosé has the distinction of being the first poster designed to promote an individual film. Although posters had been used to advertise cinematic projection shows since 1890, early posters were typically devoted to describing the quality of the recordings and touting the technological novelty of these shows. [ 6 ]
Paris is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film written and directed by Edmund Goulding. The film stars Charles Ray , Douglas Gilmore , and Joan Crawford . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
This is a list of plays that have been adapted into feature films.Entries are sorted alphabetically by the title of the play. The title of the play is followed by its first public performance, its playwright, the title of the film adapted from the play, the year of the film and the film's director.
The film received positive reviews and was voted by The New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1926. The paper's film critic, Mordaunt Hall, wrote that "in So This Is Paris, [Lubitsch's] tour de force is an extraordinarily brilliant conception of an eye full of a Charleston contest, with vibrant kaleidoscopic changes from feet and figures to the omnipotent saxophones.
Paris Qui Dort (literally "Paris which sleeps") is a 1924 French science fiction comedy silent feature film (65 minutes) directed by René Clair. [1] Also released as Le rayon de la mort (55 minutes) , its international English-language titles were The Crazy Ray and Paris Asleep (usually 55 minutes) .
Man Walking Around A Corner. Man Walking Around a Corner is an early film/precursor of film, shot by Louis Le Prince in August 1887. [1] It was taken on the corner of Rue Bochart-de-Saron and Avenue Trudaine in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Pictures from the film were sent in a letter dated 18 August 1887 to his wife.
The film was viewed by 1.5 million watchers in the first twelve weeks after its premiere. [ 4 ] Mira and Antonin Liehm wrote that, while still attacking "West Berlin with the same propagandistic undertone of all DEFA films", it also "took into account the shady aspects of life in the East". [ 5 ]