Cinema Of Germany - Other notable works of Expressionism are Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), and Carl Boese and Paul Wegener's The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920)... The outbreak of World War I and the subsequent boycott of, for example, French films left a noticeable gap in the market... In the period immediately following World War I, the film industry boomed, helped by the 1920s German inflation...
National Film Board Of Canada - The success of Canada Carries On led to the creation of The World in Action, which was more geared to international audiences...
Cinema of Germany: 1918–1933 Weimar Republic - In the period immediately following World War I, the film industry boomed, helped by the 1920s German inflation... Other notable works of Expressionism are Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Nosferatu (1922), and Carl Boese and Paul Wegener's The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920)... The Expressionist movement died down during the mid-1920s, but it continued to influence world cinema for years afterward...
History of Film: The Silent Era - In France, the Lumière company sent cameramen all round the world from 1896 onwards to shoot films, which were exhibited locally by the cameramen, and then sent back to the company factory in Lyon to make prints for sale to whoever wanted them... However, it was clear that Edison originally intended to create a sound film system, which would not gain worldwide recognition until the release of "The Jazz Singer" in 1927...
United Artists - In 1963 United Artists released two Stanley Kramer films, the epic comedy It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and the drama A Child is Waiting...
History Of Television - Constantin Perskyi had coined the word television in a paper read to the International Electricity Congress at the International World Fair in Paris on August 25, 1900... Then on January 26, 1926 at his laboratory in London, Baird gave what is widely recognized as being the world's first demonstration of a working television system to members of the Royal Institution and a newspaper reporter...
Cinema of Germany: 1945-1989 West Germany - 1945-1960 Reconstruction The occupation and reconstruction of Germany by the Four Powers in the period immediately after the end of World War II brought a major and long-lasting change to the economic conditions under which the industry in Germany had previously operated... For the first time in many years, German audiences had free access to cinema from around the world and in this period the films of Charlie Chaplin remained popular, as were melodramas from the United States...
Nazism And Cinema - The main goal of the Nazi film policy was to promote escapism, which was designed to distract the population and to keep everybody in good spirits; Goebbels indeed blamed defeat in World War I on the failure to sustain the morale of the people... The censorship that had already been established during World War I and the Weimar Republic was increased, with a National Film Dramaturgist (Reichsfilmdramaturg) pre-censoring all manuscripts and screenplays at the very first stages of production...
History of The People's Republic of China (1949–1976): Lin Biao and The Gang of Four - His overtures were initially ignored and he was denounced in Peking as a feudal chieftain whom the capitalist world turned to out of desperation... Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was referred to as "the new Hitler" and during the late '60s, both nations accused each other of neglecting their people's living standards in favor of defense spending, being a tool of American imperialism, pursuing a false form of socialism, and of trying to get the world blown up in a nuclear war...
Nazi Plunder: The Führermuseum - Hitler wanted to fill his museum with the greatest art treasures in the world, and believed that most of the world’s finest art belonged to Germany after having been looted during the Napoleonic and First World wars...
Volksgemeinschaft - In the aftermath of World War I, the volksgemeinschaft returned as interpreting economic catastrophes and hardship facing Germans during the Weimar Republic era as a common experience of Germans and perceived the need for German unity to bring about renewal to end the crisis... Volksgemeinschaft refers to the concept of German national identity and social solidarity that became popular during World War I as Germans initially rallied together in 1914 to support the war... Originally appearing during World War I as Germans rallied behind the war, it derived its popularity as a means to break down elitism and class divides...
Fascism: Tenets - The best governments in the world cannot succeed in pulling a country out of the quagmire, out of apathy, if they do not express themselves as national energies. Strong governments cannot result either from conspiracies or from military coups, just as they cannot come out of the machinations of parties or the Machiavellian game of political lobbying... It enables us to see at once why democracy and Bolshevism, which in the eyes of the world are irrevocably opposed to one another, meet again and again on common ground in their joint hatred of and attacks on authoritarian nationalist concepts of State and State systems...
History of Television: Broadcast Television - On November 2, 1936 the BBC began broadcasting a dual-system service, alternating between Marconi-EMI's 405-line standard and Baird's improved 240-line standard, from Alexandra Palace in London, making the BBC Television Service (now BBC One) the world's first regular high-definition television service... "In six months we may have television for the public, but so far we have not got it." Gernsback also published Television, the world's first magazine about the medium... Some sets in restaurants or bars might have 100 viewers for sport events (Dunlap, p56). The outbreak of the Second World War caused the BBC service to be abruptly suspended on September 1, 1939, immediately after announcing the afternoon's programmes, so that transmissions could not be used as a beacon to guide enemy aircraft to London...
History of Anime: During The Second World War - More animated films were commissioned by the military, showing the sly, quick Japanese people winning against enemy forces. In 1943, Geijutsu Eigasha produced Mitsuyo Seo's Momotaro's Sea Eagles with help from the Navy...
Samuel Adams (beer) - However, it is no longer the strongest in the world, since several beers have surpassed Utopias in alcoholic content, the record currently being held by Schorsbrau Schorschbock (57.5% abv)... The company followed this up in 2002 with Utopias; at 24% abv, it was marketed as the strongest commercial beer in the world... This series contains, for now 3 beers: Sam Adams New Tripel World, Sam Adams American Kriek and Sam Adams Stoney Brook Red...
Thomas Edison: Tributes - Life magazine (USA), in a special double issue in 1997, placed Edison first in the list of the "100 Most Important People in the Last 1000 Years", noting that the light bulb he promoted "lit up the world"... He was named an Honorable Consulting Engineer at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's fair in 1904...
Propaganda: History - World War II saw continued use of propaganda as a weapon of war, both by Hitler's propagandist Joseph Goebbels and the British Political Warfare Executive, as well as the United States Office of War Information... During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson hired Lippmann and Bernays to participate in the Creel Commission, which was to sway popular opinion in favor of entering the war on the side of the United Kingdom...
History of Television: Electromechanical Television - Then on January 26, 1926 at his laboratory in London, Baird gave what is widely recognized as being the world's first demonstration of a working television system to members of the Royal Institution and a newspaper reporter... Constantin Perskyi had coined the word television in a paper read to the International Electricity Congress at the International World Fair in Paris on August 25, 1900...
Culture of Europe: Science - CERN ( /ˈsɜrn/; ) : The European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the birthplace of the World Wide Web and home of the world's largest machine : the Large Hadron Collider... It is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border, established in 1954...
1970s In Film - In cinema all over the world, the 1970s brought about vigor in adventurous, cool and realistic complex narratives with rich cinematography and elaborate scores...
Nazi Plunder: Post War Recovery Effort - Art dealers, galleries and museums world-wide have been compelled to research their collection's provenance in order to investigate claims that some of the work was acquired after it had been stolen from its original owners... The National Gallery of Art in Washington identified more than 400 European paintings with gaps in their provenance during World War II era... Already in 1985, years before American museums recognized the issue and before the international conference on Nazi-looted assets of Holocaust victims, European countries released inventory lists of works of art, coins and medals "that were confiscated from Jews by the Nazis during World War II, and announced the details of a process for returning the works to their owners and rightful heirs." In 1998 an Austrian advisory panel recommended the return of 6,292 objets d'art to their legal owners (most of whom are Jews), under the terms of a 1998 restitution law...
Precursors Of Film - Shadow dancing, using projected light in combination with acting or dancing, is an ancient art in many world cultures, and includes projection from a light source... Peter Mark Roget presents the persistence of vision to the world in his paper Explanation of an optical deception in the appearance of the spokes of a wheel when seen through vertical apertures... 500 BC – Mo-Ti, a Chinese philosopher, ponders the phenomenology of inverted light from the outside world beaming through a small hole in the opposite wall in a darkened room...
Volksgemeinschaft: Nazi Volksgemeinschaft - Part of a series on Nazism Organizations Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (NSRL) National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) Sturmabteilung (SA) Schutzstaffel (SS) Hitler Youth (HJ) League of German Girls (BDM) National Socialist Women's League (NSF) History Early timeline Hitler's rise to power Machtergreifung German re-armament Nazi Germany Religion in Nazi Germany Night of the Long Knives Nuremberg Rally Anti-Comintern Pact Kristallnacht World War II Tripartite Pact The Holocaust Nuremberg Trials Neo-Nazism Ideology (non-racial) Fascism Anti-democratic thought Gleichschaltung Hitler's political views Mein Kampf Militarism National Socialist Program New Order Propaganda Proletarian nation Religious aspects Syncretic Politics Women in the Third Reich Racial ideology Aryan race Blood and soil Eugenics G...
Culture Of Europe - Orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra are considered to be amongst the finest ensembles in the world... The Salzburg Festival, the Bayreuth Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival and the BBC Proms are major European classical music festivals, and International Chopin Piano Competition is the world's oldest monographic music competition... The Venice Film Festival (Italy) or Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia, is the oldest film festival in the world...
Propaganda - In post–World War II usage the word "propaganda" more typically refers to political or nationalist uses of these techniques or to the promotion of a set of ideas, since the term had gained a pejorative meaning...