Against the backdrop of broadcast journalism (and various debates about journalist ethics), a grown-up romantic comedy plays out in a smart, savvy and fluff-free story whose humor is matched only by its honesty. ", Expanded essay by Patricia R. Zimmermann and Sean Zimmermann Auyash, Expanded essay by the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF), The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention, Expanded essay by Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann, [still photograph of newsreel cameraman testifying to Congressional committee], The film's star Julie Andrews recording a number from the soundtrack, Expanded essay by Michael T. Martin & David C. Wall, Portrait of Will Rogers, the popular star of "State Fair. Lobby card, Author Roald Dahl adapted his own novel, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley wrote a memorable musical score, and producer David Wolper wisely cast Gene Wilder as Wonka in this film musical about a contest put on by an often-sadistic candymaker. "He" appears to be legendary baseball great Shoeless Joe Jackson and his 1919 Black Sox team. Ernest Thesiger as Dr. Pretorious is captivatingly bizarre. One toils as a New Jersey convenience store clerk while his alter-ego video store friend works when the mood strikes him. One-time titan of the silent screen director-actor Erich von Stroheim adds to the gothic creepiness as butler Max. The screenplay, written by Herman Mankiewicz and Welles, was inspired by the biography of real-life newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, and the film's celebrated visual style featuring stunning black and white cinematography was created by director of photography Gregg Toland. The story centers on Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a blue-collar worker from the Watts area of Los Angeles, whose job in a slaughterhouse barely keeps his family above water. When he meets the young daughter (Natalie Wood) of the store's personnel manager (Maureen O'Hara), he endeavors to teach the girl to become a normal, imaginative child instead of the miniature adult raised by her no-nonsense mother. Leading the way in the U.S. was Technicolor in 1912 and Eastman Kodak in 1914. After Columbia Pictures picked it up for distribution, the film helped usher in the independent movie boom of the early 1990s. Wah Ming Chang, a visual- effects artist who specialized in designing fantastic models, characters and props, created the puppets for the stop-motion animation and also produced the film, which reportedly took 20 months to complete. Hilarity ensues when penniless showgirl Colbert impersonates a Hungarian countess, aided by the aristocratic Barrymore, until, despite her best efforts, she falls for a lowly taxi driver (Ameche) —all this amidst a Continental sumptuousness abundant in Paramount pictures of that era. ", Having virtually established animation as a viable medium through films such as "Little Nemo" (1911) and "Gertie the Dinosaur" (1914), newspaper cartoonist Winsor McCay produced this propaganda short (combining animation, editorial cartoon and live-action documentary techniques) to stir Americans into action after a German submarine sank the British liner RMS Lusitania in 1915, killing 1,198 passengers and crew, including 128 Americans. Additional image, Director Richard Donner's treatment of the famous superhero was not the first time the character had been on the big screen. Hawks had writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who penned the original play, craft dialogue scenes in which lines overlapped as in ordinary conversations, but still remained understandable, a style he continued in later films. Aided by comedy stalwarts ZaSu Pitts and Roland Young, Laughton really shows his acting range and pulls off comedy perfectly. Beginning in 1928, Mary Marvin traversed the The service grew and today operates a hospital with one of the few training programs for nurse-midwives in the country. The all-black-cast film "Hallelujah" was a surprising gamble by normally conservative MGM, allowed chiefly because director King Vidor deferred his salary and MGM had proved slow to convert from silent to sound films. The film's intertitles address the audience in English, Italian and Polish. The film has been preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Influenced by German Expressionism, director James Whale applies a unique twist to Mary Shelley's original tragedy of a doctor (Colin Clive) obsessed with restoring life, and the creature (Boris Karloff) he unleashes. Fuji. He and his golden palomino Trigger appeared in nearly 100 films and a long-running television series. Ince's influence on cinema alsosurfaces in the film's less structured, less rigid technique, a counterpoint to the more formal "classical" style employed by directors such as D.W. Griffith. The staggering number of exceptional films released in 1939 has caused this little gem to be overlooked. The Mask takes responsibility, for example, for the death from poisoning of someone who has undergone the sasswood ordeal. When the Queen tricks Snow White with an magic apple, only a kiss from her true love can save her. Selecting as its focus the "Justices Trial" of the post-World War II Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, rather than the more publicized trials of major Nazi war criminals, "Judgment at Nuremberg" broadened its scope beyond the condemnation of German perpetrators to interrogate the concept of justice within any modern society. The films demonstrate tasks as mundane as punching a time clock and as complex as assembling and testing huge turbines. Madeline Anderson’s documentary brings viewers to the front lines of the civil rights movement during the 1969 Charleston hospital workers’ strike, when black female workers marched for fair pay and union recognition. Additional artwork, Perhaps more than any other film comedian in the early days of movies, W.C. Fields is an acquired taste. Tony's class aspirations are reflected in his relationship with his dance partner, Stephanie (Karen Lynn Gorney), a secretary struggling to make it to the dazzling splendor of Manhattan. In what many consider Jerry Lewis's greatest film as actor and director, this film is a twist on the classic "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" story, as translated by Lewis and co-screenwriter Bill Richmond. Mamoulian cleverly cuts in and out of scenes to heighten the drama and action as the film crescendos to a thrilling duel between Rathbone and Power. George Pal created his "Puppetoons" while living in Europe in the 1930s. Nevertheless, "Boulevard Nights" stands out as a pioneering snapshot of East L.A. and enjoys semi-cult status in the lowrider community. "The Ground" uses seemingly simple components — the sunbaked landscape of a Greek island, the blue waters of the Aegean Sea and images of a man chiseling stone — to conjure the fundamental experience of holding something close to one's heart. ", Considered to be one of Buster Keaton's best short films, "Cops" exemplifies the star's popular blending of athleticism and his unique stone-faced comedic style. Considered astonishingly creative even by contemporary standards, "One Week" is rife with hilarious comic, often surrealist, sequences chronicling the ill-fated attempts of a newlywed couple to assemble their new home. Produced at low-budget Columbia studio, "Verbena tragica" was unusual for the multi-version formula in that an English-language version was never made, most likely due to the film's themes of adultery and revenge. Newt's nemesis is Marcus Savage (Alex Clarke), an embittered young man burdened with an absent mother and a negligent, angry father. Expanded essay by Sam Adams (PDF, 633KB), Harriet Beecher Stowe published her great anti-slavery novel in 1852. Expanded essay by Ed Carter and Dale Bell (PDF, 118KB) The dancers strive to preserve their own feminist integrity, while fighting for their place in the spotlight and for the love of male lead Louis Hayward. Paying special attention to the hospital's Emergency Room, Wiseman's film highlights doctors and patients and the legal and ethical decisions both must face. Providing insight into early silent-film production (Williams can be seen applying his blackface makeup), these outtakes or rushes show white and black cast and crew working together, enjoying themselves in unguarded moments. A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of The Hollow Man. Here, that Lubitsch touch seems to hover over each scene, lending a lightness to even the most nefarious of deeds. Wallace Kelly of Lebanon, Kentucky, made this exquisitely crafted amateur film at home in 1938. Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the short story upon which the film was based, described it as "a story of destructive rural homophobia." Roemer said he drew on his experience of growing up as a Jew in Nazi Germany and noted, "If you're unemployed you don't feel like you're a man, at least my generation didn't. "The situation was dramatic in itself. The unscripted footage shows doctors treating emotionally wounded veterans to prepare them for the return to civilian life. 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