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    The Big Noise is a lost 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Chester Conklin, Alice White and Bodil Rosing. Chester Conklin...
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  • Big Noise or The Big Noise may refer to: Superman/Batman: Big Noise, a comic book by Joe Casey The Big Noise (1928 film), an American comedy film directed...
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    The Terror is a 1928 American pre-Code horror film written by Harvey Gates and directed by Roy Del Ruth, based on the 1927 play of the same name by Edgar...
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    Lonesome is a 1928 American sound part-talkie comedy drama film directed by Paul Fejös, and starring Barbara Kent and Glenn Tryon. Although containing...
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  • 22, 1928. The first feature film to include a Technicolor insert filmed in sound. Silent version released on the August 29, 1928. Columbia was the last...
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    all short films are two reels in length. All films produced prior to 1928 are silent and all films made after 1929 are sound. Releases from 1928 are silent...
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    Ko-Ko on the Track (1 December 1928) Ko-Ko's Act (17 December 1928) Ko-Ko's Courtship (28 December 1928) No Eyes Today (11 January 1929) Noise Annoys Ko-Ko...
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  • hand." In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "mediocre", writing: "Film mistakes noise and muddle for comedy...
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    Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by Walt Disney Animation...
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    Sam Hardy (actor) (category American male film actors)
    Kearney The Big Noise (1928) - Philip Hurd Diamond Handcuffs (1928) - Spike The Butter and Egg Man (1928) - Joe Lehman The Night Bird (1928) - Gleason...
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    (1922) The Hero (1923) A Noise in Newboro (1923) Poor Men's Wives (1923) Mary of the Movies (1923) (cameo) Desire (1923) Cause for Divorce (1923) The Temple...
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  • at the time of writing the film, and was nearly suicidal. Visually, he was partly inspired by Carl Theodore Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928),...
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  • Patrie (1917 film) Patrie (1946 film) The Patriot (1928 film) Patterns (film) (1956) The Patsy (1928 film) Payment Deferred (film) (1932) The Pay-Off (1930)...
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    called the film "a good gimmick, but that's all it was." Not until May 1928 did the group of four big studios (PDC had dropped out of the alliance), along...
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    Dell Henderson (category Canadian male film actors)
    supporting roles in King Vidor's The Crowd (1928) and as General Marmaduke Pepper in Show People (1928). The advent of sound film damaged Henderson's acting...
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    York with a single singing sequence and crowd noises, using the sound-on-disc system Photokinema. The film was preceded by a program of sound shorts, including...
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  • and Andy Nelson to complete the sequence. The Batmobile's main engine noise came from a Ford big block engine, while the supercharger sound effect was...
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    Baby Esther (section 1928)
    Esther's cabaret act in 1928, in which Esther used interpolated words such as "boo-boo-boo" and "doo-doo-doo". An early test sound film of Baby Esther's performance...
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    Ned Sparks (category Canadian male film actors)
    numerous silent films before making his "talkie" debut in The Big Noise (1928). From 1915 to 1947 he appeared in some 90 pictures. In the 1930s, Sparks...
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    Alice White (category American film actresses)
    1904 – February 19, 1983) was an American film actress. She first came to the public’s attention during the late silent era as a rival to Clara Bow, before...
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  • Love Oil for the Lamps of China Red Hot Tires Shipmates Forever Traveling Saleslady While the Patient Slept The Woman in Red The Big Noise Brides Are Like...
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    Titanus, and Nordisk Film, and is one of the "Big Five" film studios. Universal's most commercially successful film franchises include Fast & Furious, Jurassic...
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  • lyrical writing style. The pace of this film is often rather slow, reflecting Blixen's book, "Natives dislike speed, as we dislike noise..." Klaus Maria Brandauer...
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  • through corridor after corridor on his plastic Big Wheel tricycle. The soundtrack explodes with noise when the wheel is on wooden flooring and is abruptly...
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    Fritz Feld (redirect from Pop noise actor)
    German-American film character actor who appeared in over 140 films in 72 years, both silent and sound. His trademark was to slap his mouth with the palm of his...
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    1914 the Italian Filoteo Alberini invented a panoramic film system utilising a 70 mm wide film called Panoramica. In 1928, William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation...
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    White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). Jackie appeared on all black-and-white MGM films from 1928 to 1956 (replacing Slats), as well as the sepia-tinted...
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    Ramon Novarro (category American male film actors)
    Singapore (1928). He made his first talking film, starring as a singing French soldier, in Devil-May-Care (1929). He starred with Dorothy Janis in The Pagan...
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    Edgar Dearing (category American male film actors)
    Motorcycle Cop A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) as Officer (uncredited) The Big Noise (1944) as Motor Policeman (uncredited) Scarlet Street (1945) as Policeman...
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  • Barker, the horror film Mr. Sardonicus (1961), and the exaggerated grin of Conrad Veidt's Gwynplaine in the silent film The Man Who Laughs (1928). Derrickson...
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