McCay: The Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics, more commonly known as Little Nemo, is a 1911 silent animated short film by American...
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Lady Godiva is a 1911 American silent historical drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and produced by Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, New York. Its...
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The Battle is a 1911 American silent war film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film was set during the American Civil War. It was shot in Fort Lee, New...
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Tollens' reagent (redirect from Tollens' test)
named after its discoverer, the German chemist Bernhard Tollens. A positive test with Tollens' reagent is indicated by the precipitation of elemental silver...
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Essay (redirect from Film essay)
examinations during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. The eight-legged essay was needed for those test takers in these civil service tests to show their...
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The history of film technology traces the development of techniques for the recording, construction and presentation of motion pictures. When the film...
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productions, erotic films were provided by the Pathé brothers from French produced sources. In 1911, Saturn was dissolved by the censorship authorities...
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biographical drama film directed by Marjane Satrapi, written by Jack Thorne, and starring Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie. The film is based on the 2010 graphic...
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Wright Glider (redirect from 1911 glider)
preliminary tests with a kite in 1899. In 1911 Orville conducted tests with a much more sophisticated glider. Neither the kite nor any of the gliders were...
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Franz Reichelt (category Filmed deaths from falls)
dummies from the courtyard of his building at rue Gaillon. None of his tests proved successful. In 1911, a Colonel Lalance wrote to the Aéro-Club de France...
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Cannabis drug testing describes various drug test methodologies for the use of cannabis in medicine, sport, and law. Cannabis use is highly detectable...
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Silent Film List: The Test of Honor at silentera.com The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films:1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988 The Library...
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film as an art-form began in 1911 with Ricciotto Canudo's manifest The Birth of the Sixth Art. The Moscow Film School, the oldest film school in the world...
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Maureen O'Sullivan (category 1911 births)
Paula O'Sullivan (May 17, 1911 – June 23, 1998) was an Irish actress who played Jane in the Tarzan series of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller...
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in 2017. The film shows the life of Marie Curie from 1904 to 1911. Together with her husband Pierre Curie, she researches the isolation of the element...
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established using domestic dog breeds, test results must be considered in the context of what is "normal" for the breed, not what is normal across all breeds...
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Marathon (disambiguation) (redirect from Marathon (film))
Marathon Motor Works, producers of the Marathon automobile Marathon (automobile), vehicles manufactured by Marathon 1911–1914 Marathon Oil, a US-based oil...
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Ned Kelly is a 2003 bushranger film based on Robert Drewe's 1991 novel Our Sunshine. Directed by Gregor Jordan, the film's adapted screenplay was written...
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Léon Foucault (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
curvature of the mirror and reflected back to a knife edge. The test enables the tester to quantify the conic section of the mirror, thereby allowing the tester...
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Enoch Arden is a two-part 1911 short silent drama film, based on the 1864 Tennyson poem of the same name. It was directed by D. W. Griffith, starred Wilfred...
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The Ashes is a men's Test cricket series played biennially between England and Australia. The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British...
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positive, the Ham's acid hemolysis test (after Dr Thomas Ham, who described the test in 1937) was performed for confirmation. The Ham test involves placing...
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Nitrocellulose (redirect from Nitrate film)
as support in diagnostic tests where antigen-antibody binding occurs; e.g., pregnancy tests, U-albumin tests, and CRP tests. Glycine and chloride ions...
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The following is an overview of the events of 2014 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released...
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Berlyn Brixner (category 1911 births)
B. Brixner (May 21, 1911 – August 1, 2009) was an American photographer. He was the head photographer for the Trinity test, the first detonation of a...
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Locusta (category People executed by the Roman Empire)
subcultures. The film is thought to be among the lost films from its era. A silent short film, Les fils de Locuste, was produced in France in 1911. Locusta...
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Annie Murphy (category Canadian film actresses)
my very first screen test—like blown it, blown it, blown it… I found myself crying in the Pacific Ocean, a very snotty cry, and the universe was like, 'Don't...
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drama film directed by George P. Cosmatos and written by Sylvester Stallone, who stars in the titular role. The film, which is loosely based on the novel...
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Kaffir (racial term) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
writings. For example, the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford originally labeled many African artifacts as "Kaffir" in origin. The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica...
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Elmer McCurdy (category 1911 deaths)
October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. Dubbed "The Bandit Who...
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