Biograph may refer to An early form of the cinematograph , made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company , a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active until 1928 Biograph album Biograph album , a 1985 box set compiling music by Bob Dylan Biograph girl , a nickname given to some early silent film actresses Biograph Studios , a studio facility and film laboratory complex built in 1912 by the Biograph Company in the Bronx, New York Biograph Theater , a historic Chicago movie theater disambig fr Biograph homonymie it Biograph ru ... more details
Unreferenced date March 2010 Biograph Records is a record label founded in 1967 by Arnold S. Caplin . It specialized in early American ragtime , jazz , and blues music. Biograph was the first label to issue records made from piano rolls created by Scott Joplin , Jelly Roll Morton and George Gershwin . In 2002, Biograph Records was acquired by Shout Factory . Between 2007 and 2008, Collectables Records reissued forty compact discs worth of Biograph recordings. See also List of record labels External links http www.wirz.de music biograph.htm Illustrated Biograph Records discography Category American record labels Category Blues record labels Category Jazz record labels Category Reissue record labels US record label stub de Biograph Records nl Biograph Records ... more details
Biograph Girl was a phrase associated with two early 20th century actresses, Florence Lawrence and Mary Pickford , who made black and white silent films with Biograph Studios American Mutoscope and Biograph Company . At that time, all studios refused to give actors on screen film credit they did not want them to gain public celebrity status and command higher salaries. This had already happened with stage actors, and the studios did not want to repeat the trend on film. ref http www.midnightpalace.com index.php?option com content&task view&id 125 ref Because the actors were mainly anonymous, the public and news media began to call the popular actress Florence Lawrence the Biograph girl . In 1910, Lawrence was lured away from Biograph by Carl Laemmle when he started his new Independent Motion Picture Company , known as IMP he later founded Universal Studios in 1913 . Laemmle wanted Lawrence to be his star attraction so he offered her more money 250 a week and marquee billing something Biograph did not allow at the time. ref Arthur Knight, The Liveliest Art , New American Library , 1959. Retrieved January 17, 2011. ref She signed on with him Laemmle had rumors of her death circulated in the press and later took out advertisements criticizing the same rumors. This publicity, timed with the release of The Oath her first IMP film , made her a household name. She quickly became the first film star with celebrity status, and the first person to receive billing on the credits of her film. From then on, other actors slowly began to receive billing credit on film. After Lawrence left Biograph, Mary Pickford began gaining in popularity with the studio and was soon nicknamed the new Biograph Girl until she, too, received billing credits in her films. References references External links Category History of film Category Silent film actors ... more details
File Biograph poster2.jpg right thumb Poster for Three Friends film Three Friends , a Biograph Studios release from 1913. Biograph Studios was a studio facility and film laboratory complex built in 1912 by the Biograph Company , formerly American Mutoscope and Biograph Company , at 807 E. 175th Street, in the Bronx, New York . In 1913, the Biograph Company moved its facilities from its location at 11 East 14th Street in Manhattan to the new facilities in the Bronx. The studio property was also leased out to other production companies after Biograph ceased producing new films in 1916. When the Biograph Company fell on financial hard times, the studio facilities were acquired by one of Biograph Company s creditors, the Empire Trust Company , although Biograph Company continued to manage the studio ... accessdate ref Herbert Yates acquired the Biograph Studios properties and Film laboratory facilities in 1928. Biograph Studios facilities in the Bronx was made a subsidiary of his Consolidated Film ... Biograph film collection was donated to the film department of the Museum of Modern Art . ref Iris ... had purchased negatives or prints of most of her Biograph films in the 1920s. Christel Schmidt ... Distributing Corporation filmed at the Biograph Studios in 1944. ref Coinmen You Know , Billboard ... ref Martin Poll who later became New York s Commissioner of Motion Picture Arts restored Biograph ... when it was incorporated into a newer company, Biograph Studios, Inc. in 1961, unrelated to the original Biograph Company corporation. ref State of New York Secretary of State http appsext5.dos.state.ny.us ... and Mary were filmed there. Biograph Studios went dormant again in the 1970s before the studio facilities burned down in 1980. ref Bronx Blaze Damages Old Biograph Studios, The New York Times , July 9, 1980, p. B4. ref The brick building that housed the Biograph studios is now The Loft apartments ... class references small references div Category Defunct American movie studios nl Biograph Studios ... more details
morefootnotes date December 2009 Infobox NRHP name Biograph Theater nrhp type designated other1 name Chicago Landmark designated other1 date March 28, 2001 designated other1 abbr CL designated other1 link Chicago Landmark designated other1 color aaccff image BiographTheater.jpg caption The Biograph Theater in June 2007 location 2433 N Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, Illinois lat degrees 41 lat minutes 55 lat seconds 34.5 lat direction N long degrees 87 long minutes 38 long seconds 59.6 long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin Illinois built 1915 architect Samuel Crowen architecture Classical Revival added May 17, 1984 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref area governing body Private refnum 84000934 The Biograph Theater , at 2433 North Lincoln Avenue Chicago Lincoln Avenue , Lincoln Park, Chicago Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois , was originally a film movie theater but now presents theater live productions . It is notable as the location where bank robber John Dillinger was shot by Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI agents after watching a gangster movie on July 22, 1934. The theater is on the National Register of Historic Places and was designated a Chicago Landmark on March 28, 2001. History Designed by architect Samuel N. Crowen in 1914, the Biograph has many of the distinguishing ... 200px 1934 FBI photograph of the Biograph, soon after the shooting of Dillinger On July 22, 1934 ... Cump na and Polly Hamilton, John Dillinger was shot dead outside the Biograph by Federal Bureau of Investigation ... under various owners, Chicago s Victory Gardens Theater announced it had purchased the Biograph ... for the new theater, styled the Victory Gardens at the Biograph , was completed in the fall of 2006 ... Tribune , October 6, 2006 ref Image Biograph Theater redressed for movie.jpg thumb upright 1.6 The Biograph ... at the BiographBiograph Theater ? References Reflist External links http www.victorygardens.org default.asp?action article&ID 48 Development plans for the Biograph Theater http www.victorygardens.org ... more details
Infobox Musical name The Biograph Girl subtitle image BiographGirlSheetMusic.jpg image size 200px caption Sheet music for the title tune music David Heneker lyrics Warner Brown br David Heneker book Warner Brown basis productions 1980 West End theatre West End Please do not include production specific acting, directing, etc. awards awards The Biograph Girl is a musical theatre musical with a book by Warner Brown, lyrics by Brown and David Heneker, and music by Heneker. Its plot focuses on the silent film era and five pioneers of American cinema actresses Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish , film director directors D.W. Griffith and Mack Sennett , and Paramount Pictures founder Adolph Zukor . Plot When Mary Gish and her daughters Lillian and Dorothy recognize their friend Gladys Smith in a film made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company , they search for her at the studio headquarters in New York City . There they discover she has been rechristened Mary Pickford and is known as the Biograph Girl. Before long Lillian and Dorothy are acting in films directed by D.W. Griffith, and when he decides to relocate to Hollywood, he brings the girls and their mother with him. Lillian is cast in Birth of a Nation , while Mary decides to leave Griffith in order to work for Adolph Zukor at a substantially higher salary. Eventually she finds herself forced to suppress her growing sophistication ... shows b biograph girl.htm The Biograph Girl at Guide to Musical Theatre ref ... http www.musical theatre.net html recordcabinet biographical biograph.html The Biograph Girl at Musical ..., Wally, and Company Gentle Fade ... D.W. Griffith Nineteen Twenty Five ... Company The Biograph ... reflist External links http www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com shows b biograph girl.htm The Biograph Girl ... http www.jayrecords.com recordings biographgirl recording.htm The Biograph Girl at Jay Records DEFAULTSORT Biograph Girl, The Category 1980 musicals Category Plays based on actual events Category ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Biograph Type Box set Artist Bob Dylan Cover Biograph.png Released November 7, 1985 Recorded November 1961 August 1981 Genre Rock music Rock , Folk music folk Length 3 34 50 Label Columbia Records Columbia Producer Jeff Rosen Last album Empire Burlesque br 1985 This album Biograph br 1985 Next album Knocked Out Loaded br 1986 Album ratings rev1 Allmusic rev1score Rating 5 5 ref cite web last Erlewine first Stephen url Allmusic class album id r6446 review pure url yes title Allmusic review publisher Allmusic.com date accessdate 2012 02 07 ref rev2 Rolling Stone rev2score Rating 5 5 ref http www.rollingstone.com artists bobdylan albums album 112743 review 6212284 biograph Rolling Stone review dead link date February 2012 ref Automatically generated by DASHBot Biograph is a 53 track compilation spanning the career of Bob Dylan , from his 1962 Bob Dylan album debut album to the 1981 LP album LP Shot of Love . Released in 1985 by Columbia Records , on both a 5 LP and a 3 CD Box set, it was one of the earliest and most successful examples of the Box Set CD Box set . It reached 33 in the US and went platinum. The recordings on Biograph are a mix of rarities, hit singles, and fan favorite album tracks. They are not presented in chronological order, instead jumping around the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s from song to song. Of the 53 tracks, 22 had not been previously issued on any of Dylan s albums, including Lay Down Your Weary Tune which closes the Martin Scorsese film No Direction Home and Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? . The set comes accompanied with a 42 page booklet, containing rare photos and liner notes by Cameron Crowe ... Box set albums Category Bob Dylan compilation albums de Biograph Album es Biograph fr Biograph album it Biograph album ja no Biograph nn Biograph pl Biograph pt Biograph sv Biograph uk Biograph ... more details
The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company , was a motion picture company founded in 1895 and active ... market. In the summer of 1896 the Biograph projector was released, offering superior image quality ... it changed its name to the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company , and in 1909 to simply the Biograph ... X ref To avoid violating Edison s motion picture patents, Biograph cameras from 1895 to 1902 used ... opcam 06 sp95 mg06 biocam.html title The Biograph Camera journal The Operating Cameraman publisher ... dead link date April 2009 sup http scholar.google.co.uk scholar?hl en&lr &q intitle 3AThe Biograph ... pages 303 313 isbn 0 520 08533 7 ref A patent case victory in March 1902 allowed Biograph and other ..., although Biograph did not completely phase out 68 mm production until autumn of 1903. ref cite ... Picture Catalogs by American Producers and Distributors publisher Rutgers University ref Biograph ... Years at Biograph publisher University of Illinois Press month December 12 year 1993 page 88 ... and Biograph Company patent Accessed via Google Print. ref ref cite book first Siva last Vaidhyanathan ... ?id sGjSY0rRC wC&pg PA88&lpg PA88&dq American Mutoscope and Biograph Company patent page 88 Accessed via Google Print . ref Biograph films before 1903 were mostly actualities documentary footage ... from Edison and British and European producers, Biograph production from 1903 onward was increasingly ... shot without editing. Biograph s production of actualities ended by 1908 in favor of the narrative film. With the increased reliance on narrative films, Biograph moved in 1903 from its rooftop studio ... 14th Street, just west of Union Square New York City Union Square in Manhattan. This was Biograph s first ... http www.tvdays.com images bio lights big.jpg photo . Biograph moved again in 1913, as it entered .... In order to make the theater audience aware that they were watching an American Biograph movie ... Biograph in 1908 as a writer and actor, but within months became their principal director. In 1908 ... more details
The Australian Life Biograph Company was a short lived Australian film production company in the silent era. It funded many of the early films of Gaston Mervale and Louise Lovely . The company was formed in 1911 with capital of 6,000 and was based in Sydney. ref cite news url http nla.gov.au nla.news article15258678 title NOTES AND COMMENTS. newspaper Sydney morning herald The Sydney Morning Herald NSW 1842 1954 location NSW date 6 July 1911 accessdate 25 January 2012 page 11 publisher National Library of Australia ref It produced eight feature films in total, all directed by Mervale, who used a stock company of actors including Lovely then known as Louise Carbasse , Jerome Partick, Godfrey Cass and Harry Beaumont . Movies were shot at Biograph s glass roofed studio in Manly, New South Wales . Most of them were stories set in the colonial era about innocent men going to prison and had a strongly Australian flavour. ref Graham Shirley and Brian Adams, Australian Cinema The First Eighty Years , Currency Press 1989 p41 ref ref cite news url http nla.gov.au nla.news article57735705 title KING S PICTURE HALL. newspaper The Sunday Times Western Australia Sunday Times Perth, WA 1902 1954 location Perth, WA date 27 October 1912 accessdate 26 January 2012 page 16 Section First Section publisher National Library of Australia ref At one stage the company was earning over 300 a week and employing six lecturers to accompany the films. However they had trouble finding a market for their work and the company later wound up and merged into Universal Films Ltd in 1912. ref cite news url http nla.gov.au nla.news article11663650 title Advertising. newspaper The Argus Australia The Argus Melbourne, Vic. 1848 1956 location Melbourne, Vic. date 27 March 1912 accessdate 25 January 2012 page 4 publisher National Library of Australia ref ref cite news url http nla.gov.au nla.news article58185524 ... company co0047127 Australian Life Biograph Company at IMDB Category Companies of Australia ... more details
Arnold S. Caplin May 8, 1929 in Brooklyn , New York City &ndash December 25, 2009 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts Pittsfield , Massachusetts was an American record producer , founder and former owner of Historical Records and Biograph Records . In 1970 he additionally acquired Melodeon Records from Richard K. Spottswood . See also Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Thomasina Winslow External links http www.biograph.com Biograph Records official website http www.wirz.de music biograph.htm Illustrated Biograph Records discography http www.wirz.de music historic.htm Illustrated Historical Records discography http www.wirz.de music melodeon.htm Illustrated Melodeon Records discography Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Caplin, Arnold S. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1929 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2009 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Caplin, Arnold S. Category American record producers Category 1929 births Category 2009 deaths US record producer stub de Arnold S. Caplin ... more details
Infobox film name Arrival of Tongkin Train image image size caption director producer writer American Mutoscope & Biograph films narrator starring music cinematography editing distributor released October 24, 1901 runtime country USA language Silent film br English language English intertitle s budget gross preceded by followed by Arrival of Tongkin Train is documentary silent film showing the arrival of a train in Tianjin , China . The film was made by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company in 1901. See also List of American films of 1901 American Mutoscope and Biograph Company References Reflist External links Imdb title id 0361314 title Arrival of Tongkin Train http easyweb.easynet.co.uk s herbert muto.htm Mutoscope and Biograph DEFAULTSORT Arrival Of Tongkin Train Category 1901 films Category American films Category American silent short films Category English language films intertitles Category American documentary films Category Black and white films Category Documentary films about rail transport Category 1900s documentary films silent film stub fr Arrival of Tongkin Train pl Arrival of Tongkin Train ru ... more details
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Infobox film name Resurrection image image size caption director D.W. Griffith producer writer Leo Tolstoy br Frank E. Woods narrator starring music cinematography G.W. Bitzer br Arthur Marvin editing distributor Biograph Company released start date 1909 5 20 runtime 12 minutes country United States language English budget gross preceded by followed by Resurrection is a 1909 silent short film made by the Biograph Company . It is based on the Leo Tolstoy novel Resurrection novel Resurrection . Adapted for the screen by Frank E. Woods , it was directed by D. W. Griffith and starred several pioneering legends of American cinema such as Arthur V. Johnson , Florence Lawrence , Marion Leonard , Owen Moore , Mack Sennett and Griffith s wife, Linda Arvidson . External links imdb title title Resurrection id 0001016 D.W. Griffith s films silent drama film stub Category 1909 films Category Films based on novels Category American silent short films Category Black and white films Category Biograph Company films Category American films Category Films directed by D. W. Griffith Category 1900s drama films it Resurrection film 1909 la Resurrection 1909 pellicula ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Infobox film name The Dude s Experience with a Girl on a Tandem image image size caption director producer American Mutoscope and Biograph Company writer narrator starring music cinematography editing distributor released August 1898 runtime country United States language Silent film br English language English intertitle s budget gross preceded by followed by The Dude s Experience with a Girl on a Tandem , also known as The Dude and the Bathing Girl , is a Silent film silent , comedy film made in August 1898 by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company . The film location was Far Rockaway, Queens , New York City , New York , USA. The plot revolves around a young man on the beach who is persuaded to join a lady in a bathing costume on a tandem bicycle, during which she drives it into the water, when he is dragged off the tandem into the water by the other girls on the beach. See also American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Tandem bicycle Silent film Comedy film External links imdb title id 0238951 title The Dude s Experience with a Girl on a Tandem http media.www.columbiaspectator.com media storage paper865 news 2001 01 19 UndefinedSection Laughter.In.A.World.Of.Beauty 2041127.shtml www.columbiaspectator.com DEFAULTSORT Dude s Experience with a Girl on a Tandem, The Category 1898 films Category American films Category American silent short films Category Black and white films Category 1890s comedy films silent film stub 1890s film stub nl The Dude s Experience with a Girl on a Tandem tr The Dude s Experience with a Girl on a Tandem ... more details
Infobox film name Band and Battalion of the U.S. Indian School image image size caption director producer American Mutoscope and Biograph Company writer narrator starring music cinematography Arthur Marvin editing distributor released April 30, 1901 runtime country United States language Silent film br English language English intertitle s budget gross preceded by followed by Band and Battalion of the U.S. Indian School is silent film documentary made on April 30, 1901 by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company made in Carlisle, Pennsylvania , USA. The cinematographer was Arthur Marvin . It depicts a parade drill by the cadet corps of the American Indian School which includes many representatives of the Native Americans in the United States Native American tribes in the United States. The head of the parade was the renowned Carlisle Band http home.epix.net landis band.html of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School . See also American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Silent films External links Imdb title id 0348537 title Band and Battalion of the U.S. Indian School DEFAULTSORT Band And Battalion Of The U.S. Indian School Category 1901 films Category Silent short films Category Black and white documentary films Category American documentary films Category Native American documentary films Category Carlisle Indian Industrial School Category 1900s documentary films silent film stub fr Band and Battalion of the U.S. Indian School ... more details
In Old California may refer to In Old California 1910 film , silent film by Biograph Studios and the first film shot in Hollywood, California In Old California 1942 film , film starring John Wayne In Old California may also refer to Donald Duck in Old California , a comic story written and illustrated by Carl Barks disambig it Paperino nel tempo che fu nl In Old California sv Dr mmen om det gamla Kalifornien th In Old California ... more details
wiktionary classmates Classmates may refer to Classmates 1914 film Classmates 1914 film , a 1914 silent film produced by the Biograph Company Classmates 1924 film Classmates 1924 film , a silent drama film starring Richard Barthelmess Classmates 2006 film Classmates 2006 film , a Malayalam film Classmates 2007 film Classmates 2007 film , a Telugu remake of the 2006 film Classmates.com , a website Classmate PC , a personal computer Classmate Stationery , an Indian brand of student stationery products disambiguation ... more details
infobox film name Death s Marathon image imagesize caption director D. W. Griffith producer writer William E. Wing starring Blanche Sweet br Henry B. Walthall br Lionel Barrymore music cinematographer G. W. Bitzer editing distributor Biograph Company released June 14, 1913 runtime 2 reels 17 mins 16fps country Film US language Silent film English intertitles Death s Marathon is a 1913 silent film short directed by D. W. Griffith and distributed by Biograph Company Biograph . It stars Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall and was filmed in the Los Angeles area. This film survives and is available on dvd. ref http www.silentera.com PSFL data D DeathsMarathon1913.html Death s Marathon at silentera.com ref Cast Blanche Sweet The Wife Henry B. Walthall The Husband Walter Miller actor Walter Miller The Friend, The Husband s Partner Lionel Barrymore The Financial Backer Kate Bruce The Nanny Robert Harron The Messenger uncredited William J. Butler Man at Club Harry Hyde A Fried at Club J. Jiquel Lanoe Man at Club Adolph Lestina Man at Club Charles Hill Mailes Alfred Paget A Gambler at Club W. C. Robinson Man at Club References reflist External links http www.imdb.com title tt0002795 Death s Marathon at IMDb.com http www.allrovi.com search movies death 27s marathon allrovi.com synopsis http www.archive.org details DeathsMarathon 303 available for free download archive.org DEFAULTSORT Death s Marathon Category 1913 films Category American silent short films Category Biograph Company films Category Films directed by D. W. Griffith ... more details
Patrick William Marony 1858 1939 , also known as P. W. Marony , was a cartoonist, painter and writer. He wrote several films for the Australian Life Biograph Company . Several paintings of his are owned by the National Library of Australia . ref http www.daao.org.au bio patrick william marony Patrick William Marony at Design and Art Australia Online ref References reflist External Links http www.imdb.com name nm1195477 P.W. Marony at IMDB DEFAULTSORT Marony, PW Category Australian painters cartoonist stub ... more details
Infobox film name Pelicans at the Zoo image PelicansattheZoo.jpg image size caption Screenshot from the film director producer writer narrator starring music cinematography editing studio British Mutoscope & Biograph Company distributor released film date 1898 runtime country FilmUK language Silent film Silent budget gross preceded by followed by Pelicans at the Zoo is an 1898 in film 1898 UK British Short subject short black and white silent film silent actuality film , produced by British Mutoscope & Biograph Company , featuring pelicans being released for feeding into their enclosure at London Zoological Gardens . The film was part of a series, with Elephants at the Zoo , which were one of the earliest examples of animal life on film. ref cite web title Pelicans at the Zoo first last coauthors url http www.wildfilmhistory.org film 6 Pelicans at the Zoo.html work WildFilmHistory date accessdate 2011 05 25 ref References reflist External links imdb title 0213991 Pelicans at the Zoo CinemaoftheUK DEFAULTSORT Pelicans at the Zoo Category Black and white films Category British silent short films ... more details
put in infobox Image Marion Leonard1914.jpg thumb Marion Leonard Infobox person See Template Infobox person for more name FULLPAGENAME image Marion Leonard 1.jpg caption The Theater of Science 1914 birth date birth date 1881 6 9 mf y birth place Cincinnati, Ohio , United States U.S. death date death date and age 1956 1 9 1881 6 9 mf y death place Woodland Hills, California , United States U.S. occupation Actress yearsactive 1908 1915 spouse Stanner E.V. Taylor Marion Leonard June 9, 1881 January 9, 1956 was an American theatre stage actress who became one of first motion picture celebrities in the early years of the silent film era. ref The Theater of Science vol. 29 1914 ref Early career Born in Cincinnati, Ohio , Marion Leonard began working in live theatre until the age of twenty seven when she was signed by American Mutoscope and Biograph Company . She made her screen debut in the short film At the Crossroads of Life 1908 directed by Wallace McCutcheon Wallace McCutcheon, Jr. 1884 1928 from a screenplay by D. W. Griffith , who also appeared as an actor in this film. Within a year, she had leading roles, frequently directed by Griffith. At a time when screen credit s were not given to actors, she and Florence Auer were the first star actresses to be billed by the studio as a Biograph Girl . Of her films made at Biograph, thirty two were with an up and coming young actress named Mary Pickford . Marriage and switch to Universal Pictures While working for Biograph, Leonard met screenwriter director Stanner E.V. Taylor and a personal relationship developed that led to marriage. The two would eventually leave Biograph to make films together for Universal Pictures and other studios and sometimes through their own production company. In 1915, after appearing in more than one hundred and fifty films, Marion Leonard retired from film but did return eleven years later at age forty five for one final appearance in a 1926 Mack Sennett comedy. Marion Leonard died in 1956 at t ... more details
. The patent expired in 1913. When Thomas Edison excluded his competitor American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Biograph from licensing Edison s key motion picture patents in 1907, Biograph retaliated by purchasing the patent for the Latham Loop. In a patent infringement suit by Edison against Biograph, a federal court upheld the validity of the Latham patent. ref Edison v. American Mutoscope & Biograph ... more details
Percy s Song is a song written by Bob Dylan . It was an outtake from the 1963 sessions for Dylan s third album, The Times They Are A Changin . It was not officially released until 1985, on the compilation Biograph album Biograph . In the notes to that album, Dylan credits Paul Clayton folksinger Paul Clayton for the song s beautiful melody line. ref name Biograph Bob Dylan, quoted by in the note on Percy s Song , liner notes to Biograph , Columbia Records, 1985. ref ref Keys to the rain the definitive Bob Dylan encyclopedia , Oliver Trager, Billboard Books, 2004, ISBN 9780823079742 ref ref The formative Dylan transmission and stylistic influences, 1961 1963 , Todd Harvey, Scarecrow Press, 2001, ISBN 9780810841154 ref He had played The Wind and the Rain to him, a variant of The Twa Sisters , Child Ballads Child ballad 10. ref If There s an Original Thought Out There, I Could Use It Right Now the Folk Roots of Bob Dylan , Matthew Zuckerman, 1997. http expectingrain.com dok div influences.html , 14 ref Dylan wrote the song from the point of view of a narrating character. ref name Biograph The song relates the story of a fatal car crash and a subsequent manslaughter conviction and 99 year sentence in Joliet Prison that is handed down to the driver a friend of the first person narrator . The narrator goes to ask the sentencing judge to commute his friend s sentence which he considers too harsh. The sentence stands. Joan Baez performs Percy s Song in the film Dont Look Back ref Bob Dylan a descriptive, critical discography and filmography, 1961 1993 , John Nogowski, McFarland, 1994 ISBN 9780899507859 ref . The British folk rock group Fairport Convention recorded Percy s Song on their third album Unhalfbricking. The song is also available on The Genuine Bootleg Series the Third One Now Cover versions Fairport Convention , Unhalfbricking 1969 Arlo Guthrie , Washington County album Washington County 1970 Jade UK band Dave Waite & Marianne Segal , Paper Flowers 1968 Michael M ... more details
Infobox film name McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio image image size caption director producer American Mutoscope and Biograph Company writer narrator starring William McKinley br Ida Saxton McKinley br George Cortelyou music cinematography editing distributor released September 1896 runtime country United States language Silent film br English language English intertitle s budget gross preceded by followed by McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio aka William McKinley at Canton, Ohio is a silent film reenactment of William McKinley receiving the Republican Party United States Republican nomination for President of the United States in September 1896. The actual nomination had been several weeks earlier. McKinley is shown emerging from his house to receive the news from his secretary George Cortelyou . His wife Ida Saxton McKinley Ida can be seen in a rocking chair on the porch. McKinley is seen removing his hat and wiping his forehead with a handkerchief after receiving the news. It was filmed by a two man crew for American Mutoscope and Biograph Company on 68 mm film, 60.02 m in length. McKinley s brother Abner and former US president Benjamin Harrison were stockholders in the film company. See also American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Silent films William McKinley Ida Saxton McKinley George Cortelyou External links imdb title 203681 McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio http www.youtube.com watch?v pRVj3yeTNg0 McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio on Youtube Category 1896 films Category American films Category American silent short films Category Black and white films silent film stub fr McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio ... more details
Infobox Film name Three Friends image Biograph poster2.jpg image size 200px caption Poster for the film. director D. W. Griffith producer Biograph Company writer M. S. Reardon narrator starring Blanche Sweet br Henry B. Walthall music cinematography G. W. Bitzer editing distributor General Film Company released 2 January 1913 runtime 17 minutes 16 Frame rate frame s country Film US language Silent film Silent br English intertitles budget Three Friends is a 1913 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet . ref name silentera cite web url http www.silentera.com PSFL data T ThreeFriends1913.html title Silent Era Three Friends accessdate 2008 07 13 work silentera ref Cast Henry B. Walthall The Husband Blanche Sweet The Wife John T. Dillon actor John T. Dillon First Friend Lionel Barrymore Second Friend Joseph McDermott actor Joseph McDermott Third Friend Clara T. Bracy In First Factory Kathleen Butler In First Factory Harry Carey actor born 1878 Harry Carey In Saloon and In First Factory Frank Evans In First Factory J. Jiquel Lanoe In First Factory Walter P. Lewis Foreman Wilfred Lucas In Second Factory Mae Marsh The Wife s Friend W. C. Robinson In Saloon J. Waltham In Second Factory See also Harry Carey filmography D. W. Griffith filmography Blanche Sweet filmography Lionel Barrymore filmography References reflist External links imdb title id 0003454 title Three Friends Category 1913 films Category Films directed by D. W. Griffith Category American films Category American silent short films Category Black and white films Category 1910s Western films Category 1910s short films Category Biograph Company films silent western film stub fr Three Friends film it Three Friends film ... more details
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