Silent Gig

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite". (Jules 199) This part of a Quote written by Jules Verne himself can be found in one of Verne's most famous book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. it Gives a clue to his fascination with world travel adventures and the knowledge he was inspired by. Jules Verne is a globally

The St Andrean film poster for Twinkletoes (Charles Brabin, USA, 1926), My Best Girl (Sam Taylor, USA, 1927), and Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Germany, 1927) signifies the rise of the star system and film production companies. Furthermore, it touches on the broadening of the local theatrical audience, the decline of the internationality of film, the popularity of female sexualization, the continued interest in spectacle, and the growing interest in the modern and futuristic. Additionally, the poster

almost all movies had synchronized sound, which also led to a rise in competition of sound systems. “So what caused the great public reaction to The Jazz Singer, giving it the privilege to be regarded as the first talking picture? It was made as a silent film, but intended to have a recorded musical score and several synch songs sung by Al Jolson. It was never intended to be a talking picture” (Allen). Hollywood producers during the time when The Jazz Singer made its way to the box office were against

The adaptation of novels to film has occurred since the start of cinema. Many popular novels have been transformed for the film industry, some sticking true to the story, others, a more creative interpretation of the original text. Victor Flemming’s 1941 adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde brings two new female characters to the screen, adding to the duality of the story. The women, Beatrix an Ivy, are opposing figures: Beatrix being Jekyll’s pure and loyal fiancée, and

Abortions effect on a person John and Sophia met a few weeks before New Year’s, at a party that John was hosting at his house. When, John saw Sophia there was something different about her, it seemed almost unreal that someone as pretty as her would show up at his party. While John was away from his iPad, John’s cousin and Sophia went through his iPad adding Sophia to his snap chat. The next day John noticed the new person on his snap chat and he started to message Sophia. Things seemed to get

in cinema- indicated by the intertitle of the film as being 1927-1931- from the era of silent movies to the advent of sound. The film displayed the process of Hollywood silent movie star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) failing in his previously successful acting career, resulting from negatively confronting the emergence and subsequent popularity of the talkies[footnoteRef:2]. He attempts to revive the silent movie enterprise through the assistance of Peppy Miller (enacted by B?r?nice Bejo, Hazanavicius

The Obligation to Endure is taken from the book Silent Spring by the author Rachel Carson. This piece was written in 1962. It is a very richly worded excerpt, written with the intention of grabbing hold of the reader and opening their eyes to what she sees as a problem within the rise of humanity. The main focus of the topic is that the overuse of insecticides and chemicals which are not only a problem but also a detriment to man as well as nature. Carson makes a very effective argument, bringing

The official website of the Association of Moving Image Archivists features a statement made by the Committee for Film Preservation and Public Access before the National Film Preservation Board in 1993. “Preservation without access is pointless,” the quote says. Film is one area where preservation requires presentation after the fact. The mention of certain films being given a new restoration or a new print scan excites cinema lovers and researchers alike, due to the fact that film has not been as

The Public Enemy by William Wellman (1931) is a renowned gangster film that paved the way for an emerging genre whilst maximizing the use of sound technology of which the effects were still reverberating around Hollywood in the 1930’s to amplify and exaggerate the narrative as well as other elements such as mise-en-scene but also to assault audience with a new experience. The emergence of an all-talking gangster film that capitalized upon and left a lasting impression on the audience and on society

he became the Vice President of academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin. Someone who has these achievements must be highly respected in their field. As many public issues began to arise over the use of pesticides, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring. Ira Baldwin reviewed the book revealing that it is one sided and only tells the negative side of using pesticides. She did significant research on the issues that go along with the use of pesticides but left out the entirety of the benefits