26 Results for : newsreel
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The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 487min
On July 4, 1939, Gehrig delivered what has been called "baseball's Gettysburg Address" at Yankee Stadium. There is, for now, no known intact film of Gehrig's speech, but instead just a swatch of the newsreel footage has survived, incorporating his opening and closing remarks: "For the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth" - the last line, of course, having become one of the most famous, invoked, and inspiring ever, anywhere. The New York Times account the following day called it "one of the most touching scenes ever witnessed on a ball field", that made even hard-boiled reporters "swallow hard." The scene and the story would likely have been largely lost to history altogether were it not for the film Pride of the Yankees, best known for Gary Cooper, as the dying Lou Gehrig, movingly describing himself as "the luckiest man on the face of the earth", even as his body was being ravaged by the disease that was soon named after him. Here, now, in The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic, by Richard Sandomir, New York Times sports columnist, is, for the first time, the full story behind the pioneering, seminal movie. Filled with larger than life characters and unexpected facts, Sandomir's book tells us how Samuel Goldwyn had no desire to make a baseball film, but he was persuaded to make a quick deal with Lou's widow, Eleanor, not long after Gehrig had passed. Nostalgic, breezy, and fun, The Pride of the Yankees captures a lost time in film and sports history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Stillwell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003242/bk_hach_003242_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 885min
Frederick Russell Burnham's amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener, Burnham was once world famous as "the American scout". His expertise in woodcraft, learned from frontiersmen and Indians, helped inspire another friend, Robert Baden-Powell, to found the Boy Scouts. His adventures encompassed Apache wars and range feuds, booms and busts in mining camps around the globe, explorations in remote regions of Africa, and death-defying military feats that brought him renown and high honors. His skills led to his unusual appointment, as an American, to be chief of scouts for the British during the Boer War, where his daring exploits earned him the Distinguished Service Order from King Edward VII. After a lifetime pursuing golden prospects from the deserts of Mexico and Africa to the tundra of the Klondike, Burnham found wealth, in his 60s, near his childhood home in Southern California. Other men of his era had a few such adventures, but Burnham had them all. His friend H. Rider Haggard, author of many best-selling exotic tales, remarked, "In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance." Among other well-known individuals who figure in Burnham's story are Cecil Rhodes and William Howard Taft as well as some of the wealthiest men of the day, including John Hays Hammond, E. H. Harriman, Harry Payne Whitney, and the Guggenheim brothers. Failure and tragedy streaked his life as well, but Burnham was endlessly willing to set off into the unknown, where the future felt up for grabs and values worth dying for were at stake. Steve Kemper brings a quintessential American story to vivid life in this gripping biography. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/009783/bk_blak_009783_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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1937 films (Film Guide)
1937 films (Film Guide) ab 41.99 € als Taschenbuch: Hindenburg disaster newsreel footage Young and Innocent Spain in Flames The Life of Emile Zola Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Good Earth In Old Chicago Dead End The Awful Truth Grand Illusion Stage Door Lost Horizon. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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1937 in film
1937 in film ab 41.99 € als Taschenbuch: 1937 film awards 1937 films Hindenburg disaster newsreel footage Young and Innocent Spain in Flames The Life of Emile Zola Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Good Earth In Old Chicago Dead End The Awful Truth Grand Illusion. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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Disaster films (Film Guide)
Disaster films (Film Guide) ab 18.49 € als Taschenbuch: Hindenburg disaster newsreel footage Threads The Day After Tomorrow Disaster film Tokyo Magnitude 8. 0 H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds A Night to Remember Flight of the Phoenix Titanic End of the World Tidal Wave. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,- Shop: hugendubel
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Aida's Brothers & Sisters - Black Voices in Opera and Concert
Think of today‘s top operatic voices, and black owners of them are as likely to come into the list as white ones: Willard White, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle to name only three. We know it wasn‘t always thus - Paul Robeson‘s struggles to be recognised as a great singer, instead of a black singer, went on for many decades. But this programme reveals just how hard the journey to acceptance of America‘s black singers has been. It opens with one of the greatest voices of the 20th century: Marian Anderson and a clip of her magnificent performance of ‚Ave Maria‘. The film offers newsreel footage from her landmark 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, which was held after the Daughters of the American Revolution denied her access to their Constitution Hall venue. But the black tradition of classical singing goes back even further: Before Leontye Price, Jessye Norman and even before Marian Anderson, Sissieretta Jones was arguably the greatest black performer of 19th century America and certainly the first great black diva. Sissieretta Jones, the ‚Black Patti‘, an allusion to Italian-American primadonna Adelina Patti, performed before four American presidents, mesmerized critics and audiences alike and was so successful that at one concert in New Jersey 1,000 visitors had to be turned away. The film Aida‘s Brothers and Sisters intends to focus the viewer‘s gaze particularly on the black classic and also on the fascinating mixed forms that have developed from the confrontation of white and black music in the last hundred years. The encounter with the powerful personalities of the singers and their music will reveal the humour, the lust for life, and the spiritual depth of black culture, and will perhaps add a dash of colour to a white fin de siècle culture that is in danger of contracting anaemia. A fascinating documentary with historical and contemporary fi lm and video records of performances by Leontyne Price, Simon Estes, Grace Bumbry, Reri Grist and many others.- Shop: odax
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A Newsreel History of the Third Reich 1-5
Joseph Goebbels was responsible for the Third Reich's spread of propaganda which reinforced the Nazi ideology to the German people. This five-volume collection of archival newsreel footage is a clear indicator of what Hitler used to control Germany and command loyalty. Includes Vol. 1: The Early Days to 1935, Vol. 2: 1936-1939, Vol. 3: 1940-Part One, Vol. 4: 1940-Part Two and Vol. 5: Assault on the Mediterranean. 5 DVDs. 2006/color-b&w/7 hrs., 9 min/NR/fullscreen.- Shop: odax
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Chaliapin the Enchanter: Memories of the Great Russian Bass
Fyodor Chaliapin was one of the greatest opera singers Russia ever produced. His talent was simply colossal. With a naturally beautiful voice, a strong physical presence, and painstaking preparation for all his roles, he created characters of such depth that audiences were spellbound. Shot on location in Paris and Moscow, this biographical film includes fascinating newsreel footage and archive film of Ivan the Terrible and Don Quichotte. It also features interviews with members of Chaliapin's family, and many who were inspired by him including Sergei Leiferkus and Alexei Mochalov.- Shop: odax
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A Walk in the Sun (4K Definitive Restoration)
Terrific WWII drama from director Lewis Milestone follows one infantry platoon in battle from the time they land on an Italian beach to their bloody drive to destroy a bridge and claim an enemy-held farmhouse six miles inland. Dana Andrews stars as one of the outfit's senior NCOs, who finds himself inheriting command of the dangerous mission. Top-notch cast also includes Richard Conte, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, Norman Lloyd, and Huntz Hall. 117 min. Standard, Soundtrack: English, audio commentary, featurette, newsreel footage, theatrical trailer, more. Two-disc set.- Shop: odax
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The Cameraman (Criterion Collection)
Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameraman the first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece. The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most innovative and enduring comedies of all time. Keaton plays a hapless newsreel cameraman desperate to impress both his new employer and his winsome office crush as he zigzags up and down Manhattan hustling for a scoop. Along the way, he goes for a swim (and winds up soaked), becomes embroiled in a Chinatown Tong War, and teams up with a memorable monkey sidekick (the famous Josephine). The marvelously inventive film-within-a-film setup allows Keaton's imagination to run wild, yielding both sly insights into the travails of moviemaking and an emotional payoff of disarming poignancy.- Shop: odax
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