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Independently produced motion picture recordings of famous boxing contests were a leading factor in establishingthe commercial success of movies in the late 19th century. Championship boxing matches were the most widelypopular sporting contests in America in that era, even though the sport was banned in many states in the 1890s.Soon after Nevada legalized boxing in 1897, the Corbett-Fitzsimmons title fight was held in that state in CarsonCity on St. Patrick's Day of that year. The film recorded the introductions of famous personalities inattendance and all 14 of the fight's three-minute rounds, plus the one-minute breaks between rounds. With arunning time of approximately 100 minutes, "The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight" was the longest movie produced atthat time. Films of championship matches before 1897 had been unsuccessful because they ended too quickly withknockouts, leaving movie audiences unwilling to pay high-ticket prices to see such short films."Corbett-Fitzsimmons" was a tremendous commercial success for the producers and contestants James J. Corbett andBob Fitzsimmons (the victor), generating an estimated $750,000 in income during the several years that itremained in distribution. This film also is deserving of a footnote in the technical history of motion pictures.Producers of early boxing films protected their films from piracy by engineering film printers and projectorsthat could only accept film stock of a proprietary size. The film prints of the fight were manufactured in aunique 63mm format that could only be run on a special projector advertised as "The Veriscope."
Photographof the fight
One of the earliest film recordings and the oldest surviving copyrighted motion picture, Edison KinetoscopicRecord of a Sneeze (Jan. 7, 1894) is commonly known as "Fred Ott's Sneeze" or simply "The Sneeze." W. K. L.Dickson, who led Thomas Edison's team of inventors, took the images of fellow engineer Ott enacting asnuff-induced sneeze. In March 1894, Harper's Weekly magazine, which requested the pictures, published asequence of still images taken from the film. "The Sneeze" became synonymous with the invention of moviesalthough it was not seen as a moving picture until 1953 when 45 frames were re-animated on 16 mm film. The full81 frames published in Harper's Weekly were never seen as a movie until 2013 when the Library of Congress made a35 mm film version. In this new complete version, Fred Ott sneezes twice. Video clip from the Library of Congress InventingEntertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies.
In what may be his most memorable film, Buster Keaton plays a Southern railway engineer who has "only two lovesin his life" -- his locomotive ("The General") and the beautiful Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack). One of the mostexpensive films of its time, including an accurate historical recreation of a true-life Civil War episode inwhich a train is stolen by the enemy, hundreds of extras, dangerous stunt sequences, which Keaton performedhimself, and an actual locomotive falling from a burning bridge into a gorge far below. A commercial failure atthe time of release -- audiences felt it lacked the humor of Keaton's other films -- "The General" is nowconsidered a classic of comedic understatement by film historians and audiences.
Portrait of Buster Keaton in "The General"
Produced by Westinghouse for the 1939 World's Fair, this industrial film is a striking hour-long time capsulethat documents that historic event within a moralistic narrative. Shot in Technicolor, the film follows afictional Indiana family of five (mom, dad, son, daughter and grandma) as they venture from grandma's quainthouse in Long Island to the fair's popular pavilions. The whole family enjoys the gleaming sights, especiallythe futuristic technologies located in the Westinghouse Pavilion (including something called "television").While the entire family is affected by the visit, none are changed so much as daughter Babs (played by a youngMarjorie Lord), who eventually sours on her foreign-born, anti-capitalistic boyfriend in favor of a hometownelectrical engineer who works at the fair. Both charming and heavy-handed, "The Middleton Family" provideslatter-day audiences with a vibrant documentary record of the fair's technological achievements and theheartland values of the age.
Expanded essay byAndrew Wood (PDF, 404KB)
Cinema's first pairing of sensational singing duo Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, who captivated audienceswith songs such as "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life." In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a beautiful andrebellious French princess (MacDonald) swaps identities with her maid and escapes to colonial New Orleans, whereshe finds true love with a gallant sea captain (Eddy). Directed by W.S. Van Dyke and based on a popular 1910operetta by Victor Herbert, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture, and sound engineerDouglas Shearer won an Academy Award for his work.
Some Norscan tribes, such as the Vargs, have also tamed the titanic mammoths of the northern Chaos Wastes, using them as gargantuan beasts of war and living siege engines. Most terrible of these creatures are those who have been twisted and mutated by the influences of Chaos, transforming them into insane, hate-filled beasts that await the chance to vent their suffering upon others.[2g][48][2i][9][30][31][25b]
Flora Gill Jacobs, The Dollhouse Mystery. Was the cover predominantly red with a picture of a black cat? If so, this is "The Dollhouse Mystery"---Jacobs owns the Washington (DC) Dollhouse and Toy Museum and this was her first children's book. The museum still sells the book though I don't know if it's available anywhere else.
Possibly - Fun With Mrs. Thumb by Jan Mark and Nicola Bayley, Candlewich Press, 1993. "A cat taunts the inhabitant of a dollhouse until a human comes to offer him his dinner."
Mary Emett, Anthony and Antimacassar.Not sure if it's the one (haven't read it in many years) but it's probably the only book for young children with 'antimacassar' in the title!
D97 It's possible that it AMONG THE DOLLS by William Sleator. Definitely creepy! Can't remember the cat, but I'll check. from a librarian
D97 Doublechecked AMONG THE DOLLS. There wasn't a cat in any of the illustrations. Sorry about the false lead. from a librarian
D97 I think you can eliminate Sleator. None of the b & w sketches inside.
I contributed the first clue, although I went back and re-read it and I don't see "antimacassar" in there. The cat definitely fits. Definitely not Among the Dolls. There are so many doll books out there!!
Unfortunately, I don't know the answer, but I got here through a search engine when I was looking for the exact same book! The only extra thing that I can remember is that the girl thought that the antimacassar was a scary "Antie Macassar." I remember the black and white pictures, and it always reminded me of the Madeline books. I recall the book from about 30-35 years ago.
Joan M. Lexau, Millicent's Cat, 1962. This is definitely Millicent's Cat by Joan M. Lexau. "A little girl goes to visit her great-aunt who lives in a haunted house, full of ghosts and goblins and witches."
Saw the blurb below on Millicent's Cat - Title is actually Millicent's Ghost by Joan Lexau, illustrated by Ben Shecter. I have a copy of the book from when I was a child - mostly
black and white illustrations with some touches of pink and flesh tones here and there. There is a dollhouse, a cat named Clementine, antimacassars, a ghost that is
not really a ghost - Millicent goes to visit her Great Aunt Agatha and scares herself while looking around the old house.
M183 A shot in the dark - could this be THE WITCH NEXT DOOR or one of the other witch books by Norman Bridwell? They did come out in the 60s. However, I don't know if she had a name. from a librarian
M183 Can poster think harder about the witch's naem? I put Grimsby and witch into search engine Google and got more than 400 matches. I quit after 400. The British town of Grimsby is associated with wiches, but I found no ref to a book.
Weales, Gerald, Miss Grimsbee Is a Witch, 1957.
Gerald Weales, Miss Grimsbee Takes A Vacation, Atlantic-Little Brown, 1965. Miss Grimsbee Is A Witch, Atlantic-LittleBrown, 1957. Sponge rubber streets in town?
S84 ss midshipman: maybe True Tall Tales of Stormalong, Sailor of the Seven Seas, by Harold Felton, illustrated by Joan Sandin, published Prentice-Hall 1968, 64 pages. The cover appears to show a giant sailor picking up an anchor in one hand. "Some people said that the new arrival in the Stormalong family had been created out of thunder and waves, that he was the result of rain and wind and rocks. This unusual baby was eventually to becomet he greatest sailor of all times, Alfred Bulltop Stormalong." It may be too recent, though. The Giant Alexander went to sea once, but I believe that was just a single episode.
S84 ss midshipman: an earlier version is Mister Stormalong, by Anne Malcolmson and Dell McCormick, illustrated by Joshua Tolford, published Houghton 1952, 136 pages. "Freshly humorous version of the Stormalong legends, in which Alfred Bulltop enters as a boyish giant of 13 years ... Here are his fabulous tussles with the giant octopus and the great white whale, the advanced discoveries and inventions engineered for his giant windjammer the Tuscarora, and her record-breaking contests with the Flying Cloud and the Liverpool Packet. Rich in salty language and sea lore and with a generous provision of vigorous pictures."(HB Apr/52 p.108) The Kraken is sometimes represented as a giant squid or octopus.
Anne Malcolmson and Dell J. McCormick (authors), Joshua Tolford (illustrator), Mister Stormalong, 1952. This is the one you're looking for! According to Anne Malcomson's Acknowledgements in the first three pages of this book, Dell McCormick was the first author to envision an entire volume devoted to Alfred Bulltop Stormalong. (All previously published Stormalong stories were in general collections of tall tales.) He completed his research for the book, but died before he finished his final draft. In a letter to his publisher, McCormick wrote, "The story of...the dreaded Giant Kraken [was] told to me by a Swedish habor pilot." In other words, this was the first time that particular tale was ever published. It's in the chapter called "The White Cliffs of Dover" and the Giant Kraken is described as "...related to the octopus...In shape he vaguely resembles a crab, with...great tentacles, like giant lobster claws, [that] extend from the sides of the shell." (Please note that there is another chapter in the same book called "The Fight With the Octopus" which has nothing to do with the Giant Kraken.) The book True Tales of Stormalong: Sailor of the Seven Seas (by Harold W. Felton, illustrated by Joan Sandin) does not contain the story of the Giant Kraken and was published too late to be the one sought.