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    Open Range is a lost 1927 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and written by Roy Briant, Zane Grey, J. Walter Ruben and John Stone...
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  • States Open Range Communications, a Colorado-based (now bankrupt) telecommunications business Open-range zoo Open Range (1927 film), a lost silent film from...
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    Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang...
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  • puzzles leave things." The Economist described the film as "tightrope-walking the fine line between open-ended, mind-expanding mystery and lethargic, pretentious...
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  • Francis Ford Coppola was fascinated by science fiction films, such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) and William Cameron Menzies's Things to Come (1936)...
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    Michael Jeter (category American male film actors)
    Man Upstairs". His last two appearances were in the films Open Range and The Polar Express. Both films were in post-production at the time of his death and...
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    In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama...
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  • government permission to film at White Sands Missile Range, but only at highly inconvenient hours, and therefore chose to film the scene elsewhere in the...
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  • 1927. "Gambler Alive, Police Assert," The Detroit Free Press, March 30, 1927. "Kill Drucci in Drive on Ballot Thugs," Chicago Tribune, April 5, 1927....
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    developments. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were variously referred to as the "talkies", "sound films", or "talking pictures"...
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    This is a list of American films released in 1927, All films on this list are in the Public Domain since 2023. The 1st Academy Awards were presented in...
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  • isolation from human society in an otherwise uninhabited upland of Abakan Range, in Tashtypsky District of Khakassia (southern Siberia). Since 1988, only...
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    Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen is a major German film archive located in Berlin. The Deutsche Kinemathek opened in 1963. Until the opening...
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    used for 1927's Napoléon. With regard to exhibition, 70 mm film was always considered a specialty format reserved for epics and spectacle films shot on...
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    foot. Their baggage was transported by horse-drawn sleighs. From 1925 to 1927, the so-called Tauern races for cars and motorcycles took place, attracting...
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  • 2023, with Branagh once again directing and starring as Poirot. The film opens in Belgium at the Yser Bridge on October 31, 1914, in the hellish landscape...
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    Oasis at Death Valley (category Hotels established in 1927)
    Borax Company and opened on February 1, 1927, with twelve rooms. Richard C. Baker – then president of Pacific Coast Borax – sought to open Death Valley to...
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    feature film originally presented as a talkie (although it had only limited sound sequences) was The Jazz Singer, which premiered on October 6, 1927. A major...
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    soon became aware of India's film industry. In 1927, the British government, to promote the market in India for British films over American ones, formed...
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  • (2013) Open Heart (2012) An Open Heart (2012) Open Hearts (2002) Open House (1987, 2004 & 2010) The Open House (2018) Open Range: (1927 & 2003) Open Season...
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  • acceptance with movies like Don Juan (1926) and The Jazz Singer (1927). American film studios, while Europe standardized on Tobis-Klangfilm and Tri-Ergon...
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    short film The Flat Charleston recorded with the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film system, and released in December 1926. 1927: The 15 March 1927 film footage...
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    million in today's money). Another notable omission is Metropolis, the 1927 German film directed by Fritz Lang, often erroneously reported as having cost $200...
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    consisted of films from the Uitkijk archive, compiled by members of the Dutch Filmliga (1927–1933). After joining the International Federation of Film archives...
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  • List of Jewish American entertainers (category CS1: abbreviated year range)
    Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal, 1927), theater, film, and TV actress, and film director James Gray (born 1969), film writer and director Joseph Green...
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    George Macready (category American male film actors)
    Ado About Nothing (1927), Malcolm in Macbeth (1928), and Paris in Romeo and Juliet (1934). On film, he played Marallus in the 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's...
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    a cinematic context in the short film To Build a Fire (based on the 1908 Jack London story of the same name) in 1927 by Claude Autant-Lara. In the 1920s...
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    W. S. Van Dyke (category Film directors from California)
    he directed five other films: The Range Boss, Open Places, Men of the Desert, Gift O' Gab, and Sadie Goes to Heaven. In 1927, he traveled to Tacoma to...
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  • This is a list of early feature-length colour films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about...
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  • Sam Warner (category 1927 deaths)
    Louis Warner (born Szmuel Wonsal, August 10, 1887 – October 5, 1927) was an American film producer who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of...
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