haunted mansion ( formerly retreat house and originally titled as rest house ) is a 2015 filipino supernatural , horror film directed and written by jun lana , starring janella salvador , marlo mortel , jerome ponce , janice de belen and iza calzado .

it was the debut film of janella salvador after their successful stints on television .

it was an official entry to the 41st metro manila film festival .

it was released on december 25 , 2015 .

the film follows a group of high school kids who are spending the night in a retreat house.when they learn that the retreat house is haunted , they set out to look for the ghosts just for fun , but find out soon enough that the urban legends are real .

the film received generally positive reviews from film critics praising its cinematography , visual effects , production design and musical score .

the film 's cast was also praised for its good performances .

haunted mansion ( 2015 film )

' haunted mansion . ' one of the horror flicks in mmff 2015 is ' haunted mansion . ' photo courtesy of regal films
the haunted mansion soundtrack review : this is a review of the film score the haunted mansion by mark mancina .
manila , philippines - 2015 is a critical year for the metro manila film festival ( mmff ) .
haunted mansion . the metro manila film festival entry stars janella salvador . photo courtesy of regal films
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here are the first day figures of the 2015 metro manila film festival ( mmff ) . read more »
regal films has released the official trailer of the upcoming horror film
haunted mansion .
read more »
the holiday version of haunted mansion has returned the fourth quarter of every year—always with clever , new enhancements . in 2015 , when disneyland celebrated its 60 anniversary , it was the 15th year for haunted mansion holiday .
but watching jun’s haunted mansion kept one awake for an hour and a half .
pirates is still totally fresh ; the haunted mansion could use more new ghosts .
a story of the mysterious mansion . they ' re many all the 999 happy haunts a friendly ghosts into the darkness mansion . there are great new spooky songs . and don ' t miss watch the disneyland movie the haunted mansion this fall 2015 ! ! !
haunted mansion ( formerly retreat house ) is an upcoming 2015 filipino supernatural horror film . the film was directed and written by jun lana , starring janella salvador , marlo mortel and jerome ponce . the film serve as the debut film of marnella ( marlo mortel and janella salvador ) love team . [ 1 ] it is an official entry to the metro manila festival and will be shown on december 25 , 2015 . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
disneyland ' s haunted mansion is
the start of the haunted attraction industry ,
according to halloween expert lisa morton .
young actors marlo mortel and jerome ponce , who are both part of the horror film ,
the haunted mansion ,
share they scary experiences while shooting the film . read more »
manila , philippines – for followers of horror movies , the film one can easily recommend is jun lana’s haunted mansion produced by regal films .
as a general note , the haunted mansion has its own nightmare fuel page for the ride , the film , and the video game .
there are no critic reviews yet for the haunted mansion . keep checking rotten tomatoes for updates !
it’s 2001 in yesterland . for the first time ever , the haunted mansion has been transformed .
the
hatbox ghost
is one of the most beloved attractions in disneyland ' s haunted mansion .
janella salvador feels overwhelmed that her debut movie “haunted mansion” is among the top - grossers at this year’s metro manila film festival ( mmff ) . read more »
stalk it : the evers’ house from the haunted mansion is located at 1480 north michigan avenue in pasadena .
haunted mansion holiday remains through the christmas season , which ends january 6 , 2016 at the disneyland resort .
the entries to the 41st metro manila film festival ( mmff ) closed out 2015 with a combined p640 million box - office gross earnings , organizers announced on friday . read more »
pia and marlon “unfollowed” each other merely days after the miss universe 2015 met her crush siwon at the latter’s . . .
he ' s been attached to the project in some capacity since 2015 , as the film ' s screenplay has gone under numerous rewrites , with the search now on for a director .
the collective box office earnings of the eight entries to the 2015 metro manila film festival ( mmff ) is expected to cross the p1 billion mark , according to organizers . read more »
the winchester mystery house , built in san jose , california , greatly inspired walt disney ' s haunted mansion .
a few months ago , i was talking with [ marvel pr’s ] chris d’lando about the haunted mansion . he knows i have a bunch of haunted mansion merchandise in my office . and so we started to talk about how rad it would be to make a haunted mansion comic . little did i know , it was already in the works .
a film student who is obsessed with the movie grave encounters sets out with his friends to visit the psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film .
manila , philippines – there are absolutely no unnecessary pretensions here . jun lana’s haunted mansion is as original as its title is imaginative .
a must for the haunted mansion fan . detailed photos and backstories . the book takes you back to the ride from your home .
ryan gosling is in talks to star in disney ’s supernatural family movie “ the haunted mansion ” with guillermo del toro directing and producing .
which i think have much better story , performance , and overall feel to it that haunted mansion , but that ' s just me .
film traffic coordinator : imaginary friends studio ( as cris ryan m . mendez )
the interior of the home made an appearance in the film , as well .
shaquille o’neal to open a las vegas restaurant , film a show . . .
public support to the film is overwhelming and mother lily couldn’t be any grateful .
if you take the children they will scream ,
the outlet quoted him as saying at 2010 san diego comic - con .
we ' re making the haunted mansion the most haunted place on earth .
zak bagans discusses the background of the haunted museum he is set to open in a historic downtown las vegas mansion . benjamin hager las vegas review - journal
“the really weird thing is , i had been looking for a historic haunted place in las vegas for eight years , and never had luck of finding something , ” bagans says . he bought the mansion in 2015 and has converted its rooms into exhibit spaces — or , as he puts it , “habitats” — for his treasures .
it’s been pointed out that it was especially appropriate for there to be a tiki bar at the beginning of the film because at disneyland you walk by the enchanted tiki room in adventureland before you get to the haunted mansion in new orleans square .
foolish mortals : a haunted mansion documentary is an examination of the fan culture surrounding disney’s haunted mansion attraction . director james h carter ii will be digging into the lives , creative work and experiences of the countless masses who have reached out to share their love of this attraction , while unearthing the ghostly materials within .
this is a chronological list of mmff film entries every year since its inception in 1975 .
having watched the film on a midnight screening after a busy day , one was prepared to doze off and indeed the film might just look like a backdrop from a recurring nightmare .
haunted mansion
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haunted mansion subverts and shatters religious expectations , with characters begging for salvation from religious artifacts only to be betrayed . despite all the overt depictions of religion , the film is indisputably secular , with only the characters’ acts and the palpable evil of the mansion as true and definite . that all this cynicism is draped in a story that is all too mundane and commonplace to be of real merit is the film’s greatest conceit . – urltoken
ryan gosling is in talks to star in disney’s supernatural family movie “the haunted mansion” with guillermo del toro directing and producing . “the haunted mansion” has been in works at disney for the past five years and is based on the popular attraction at the disneyland theme park . del toro unveiled the project at comic - con [ … ]
“the haunted mansion” had its share of groanworthy gags and jokes , but it wasn’t the abomination it was made out to be . it’s probably worth watching once for the random tiki sighting , gorgeous mansion set and costume designs , and cameos by wallace shawn .
with the addition of jerry smith to the production team , the filmmakers are more confident than ever that they can make a film that honors the rich history of the haunted mansion while celebrating its loyal and passionate fanbase , including disney fans and hardcore horror fans .
this year , one of the horror movies in the lineup is haunted mansion , directed by jun lana , and starring marlo mortel , jerome ponce , and janella salvador .
2 . haunted mansion is regal films ' horror entry to the mmff this year , as opposed to the usual new installment of the shake , rattle & roll series .
load up your doombuggy and don’t forget your death certificate , foolish mortals , as marvel teams up with disney’s imagineers to bring the haunted mansion to the world of comics .
for a horror film , it isn ' t scary , just funny . eddie murphy rocks !
hollywood may be home to the modern horror film , but when it comes to actual haunted houses australia certainly has its fair share of things that go bump in the night .
at california ' s disneyland , the haunted mansion holiday has returned . disney today released a time - lapse video of its culinary professionals assembling the 10 - foot
house of cards
gingerbread replica of the mansion facade that dominates the ballroom scene in the ride .
guillermo del toro has obviously achieved something monumental ( literally ) with the house he built for crimson peak , and it ' s hard to argue against its construction once you see it in the film . a flimsy set or a full cgi rendering just wouldn ' t offer the same atmosphere as a real mansion , and this haunted house film definitely benefits from having an actual house . now the only question left is : was it actually haunted ?
del toro announced his new haunted mansion movie seven years about after disney released a first movie adaptation . the 2003 film , a comedy starring eddie murphy , flopped at the domestic box office but was more successful abroad and made a total of $ 182 million worldwide . unlike that movie , the new haunted mansion will feature del doro ' s favorite characters from the ride , according to bloomberg . it will also be a lot darker than its predecessor .
i actually think the mansion looks quite fake in the faraway shots that appeared in the movie .
the script for the film , originally entitled
rest house
, took five years to make .
what you can ' t tell from the video is the overwhelming gingerbread aroma you will smell as your doom buggy turns the corner from the seance into the ballroom . just imagine that as you watch our ride - through video of haunted mansion holiday . remember that this year features the addition of the hatbox ghost , which debuted at the regular haunted mansion last may .
zak bagans , host of travel channel’s “ghost adventures , ” is opening a haunted museum in a thirty - room , historic downtown las vegas mansion . benjamin hager las vegas review - journal
even when i was a kid , i was amazed by the haunted mansion ride . it’s always been my favorite . i became a bit more obsessed with it when i was in my teens ; [ i was ] a little more into horror , macabre , and black humor . it’s where my obsession with haunted houses started . but really the haunted mansion is the best . what other [ theme ] park ride has a dead body hanging from the ceiling ?
haunted mansion opens with a sequence that has a boy enter a mansion only to be spooked by the traditional frights that is to be expected from a low - rent horror flick . as it turns out , the introduction is but an urban legend straight out of the immature minds of one of the characters . the actual film has markedly different feel from its aptly lousy introduction . in fact , the film is strangely elegant , a rarity for films like this , which is of supposedly meager ambitions .
welcome , foolish mortals , to the haunted mansion , one of the most popular attractions in the history of disney theme parks . the haunted mansion : imagineering a disney classic explores how the attraction ' s
999 happy haunts
were brought to life . rare early concept sketches , detailed architectural drawings , and stunning still photography illustrate the mansion ' s evolution as it was designed and built at each magic kingdom park around the world - including mystic manor at hong kong disneyland .
in this year’s imminent edition of the new york asian film festival ( june 19th – july 5th ) .
haunted mansion is most pleasurable in its 3rd half , where the world that lana has painstakingly created fittingly explodes and crumbles in a masterful move of supernatural violence where salvation is a farfetched fantasy .
the two also appeared on stage together at the 2015 sxsw festival last month in austin , texas to discuss the making of lost river , gosling ' s directorial and screenwriting debut , which hit theaters on friday .
good news ! it sounds like there’s finally some forward motion on one of guillermo del toro ‘s longtime passion projects – his disney collaboration , haunted mansion . per the wrap , ryan gosling is in talks to join del toro’s long - gestating film based on the beloved disney ride of the same name .
in fact it was my interest in it that lead to me writing ghosted , which is also a haunted house book , and then that lead to nailbiter , then birthright , and those jobs lead to me getting marvel work , which put me in the place to do haunted mansion .
fandom heresy : the haunted mansion is not under a curse , and the ghosts are not trying to move on . this is one of the things the fans never forgave the movie for changing .
haunted mansion was not a big favorite when the eight entries were announced early this year considering that lead teen stars janella salvador , marlo mortel and jerome ponce have yet to prove their drawing power .
a film crew moves into an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a shadowy past to shoot a low budget horror movie .
i thoroughly enjoyed learning more about the history behind this magical ride . i especially enjoyed learning about all of the ways the ride differs at the different parks around the world . having never been to the haunted mansion anywhere other than magic kingdom in orlando it was nice to learn more about the other rides ! i cannot wait to visit all the other haunted mansion ' s around the world now !
the latest version of this staple in my library includes long - anticipated information about the mansion ' s latest iteration , mystic manor , but sacrifices the chapters relating to the regrettable 2003 film interpretation of the haunted mansion . this book is absolutely essential reading for fans of the venerable disney parks attraction and theme park aficionados , full of history , concept art , and photographs , much of which has never been seen before . highly recommended .
first off , one star ? that ' s it ? i think this film deserves four ! second , common sense media says this film is a thriller , which is completely wrong ! haunted mansion is a comedy . and three , common sense says that there is no bad language in it . they use h * ll , * ss , crap , and d * mn muiltible times . i thought the movie was very good , it was a little bit scary , but mostly funny . there is one scene with spiders crawling all over a character for a breif moment that may be disturbing , and there is a scene with zombies that is frightining for young viewers . overrall , haunted mansion is a frightfully fun film that will delight fans of the ride .
the script for the film , originally entitled
rest house
, took five years to make . see more »
haunted mansion is — thus far — one of my candidates for best picture and best director for jun who — in his latest outputs — has proven he is at his best doing both indie and mainstream projects .
“tim burton’s the nightmare before christmas” teams up with disneyland® park’s haunted mansion on october 5 , to kick off a fantastically fun holiday event and a whole new reason to make the resort your holiday haunt this season .
urltoken finally , what sort of research are you two doing to capture the sights and ambiance of the haunted mansion ? this seems like the perfect opportunity for a trip to a disney park for “research purposes . ”
already scheduled to appear in the film is disney imagineer terri harden , artist nora see , special effects creator robert kurtzman , artist topher adam , and ‘skin wars’ contestant butch bihary . foolish mortals has already launched a kickstarter campaign to raise the funds needed to produce the film . in exchange for fan support , they are offering many unique backer rewards , including a limited edition haunted mansion mystery box plus one - of - a - kind sculptures from terri harden .
on top of it , this horror film has outstanding cinematography , an excellent musical scoring and a fairly commendable production design .
a group of young people on retreat in a remote house find themselves haunted by a restless spirit .
the telluride horror show film festival hosted a special screening of the nightmare before christmas yesterday , with selick himself in attendance . devin faraci of birth movies death moderated the post - film q & a and bore witness when a young girl in the audience asked if the film was a christmas movie or a halloween movie . selick then made the cold , hard truth known :
a blonde maid in white robes carrying a chandelier in the dark , things that creep upon the corridors , a mysterious attic in a haunted mansion . . . these are very cliche elements of the subgenre haunted - house movie , but also very promising in the hands of director guillermo del toro . the creator of the masterpiece
zak bagans , host of travel channel ' s
ghost adventures ,
is opening a haunted museum in a thirty - room , historic downtown las vegas mansion . photo taken on monday , september 11 , 2017 , at zak bagans ' haunted museum , in las vegas . benjamin hager las vegas review - journal @ benjaminhphoto
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
as it is , jun re - emerged a fine and sharp storyteller in this film and the solid , if , unerring craftsmanship will surely make him a top contender in the best director category in this coming metro manila film festival ( mmff ) .
mix mischievous teens and a house brimming with vengeful ghosts and things will eventually get messy . haunted mansion follows its formula religiously , except that its manner of doing so raises suspicions that are grander than what is readily seen .
to reiterate the points made above , haunted mansion holiday helps sell halloween party tickets and is a major selling point in marketing materials during halloween time and the holiday season . and , well , it ' s very popular .
eight years after hitting movie theaters , the nightmare before christmas moved into disneyland’s haunted mansion on october 5 , 2001 . it was a holiday overlay in the tradition of country bear christmas special and “it’s a small world” holiday .
it is now no longer disney’s illegitimate child but their proverbial favorite son . the reissues have proudly reclaimed the walt disney pictures banner , while the film itself is now a cornerstone of disney’s marketing efforts during a key shopping season . it is now considered not a potentially dangerous horror film to traumatize young children , but rather an ideal first horror film for a generation of youngsters .
the film follows the life of miggy ( john lloyd cruz ) and laida ( sarah geronimo ) after their break - up which occurred after the events in the second film . miggy , is now in a relationship with . . . see full summary »
is it true they started shooting haunted mansion as early as april ? it’s direk jun who replies : “yes , we didn’t rush it para mapaganda nang husto . this is one of regal’s biggest budgeted horror films . we shot this on location in a mansion owned by the marcoses in cabuyao , laguna . mrs . marcos herself signed the permit to allow us to shoot there . maganda yung location and according to the caretakers , there are ghost sightings at the mansion . ”
“tim burton’s the nightmare before christmas” star jack skellington brings his vision of the holidays to the world - famous haunted mansion , transforming the attraction into a festival of the wild and wacky , the kooky and creepy . complete with its own unique soundtrack , the haunted mansion holiday features jack’s new take on the old favorites , from new décor on the mansion’s exterior and the transformation of the famous ballroom scene into the ultimate christmas ball , to the finale scene through the mansion’s graveyard , now covered in ghostly white snow , where playful ghosts are making their own unique christmas trees . see for yourself what happens when two holidays collide , but be warned , the results are somewhat ho - ho - horrific !
ryan gosling may return to his disney roots again . the actor is in talks to star in the studio giant ' s new movie the haunted mansion , the hollywood reporter and variety reported this week . gosling , director guillermo del toro and disney have not commented . the film is based on the fan favorite theme park ride and was announced in 2010 .
the gate to the compound where the mansion and an outbuilding , also said to be haunted , are situated had previously been left open for much of the day . but to deal with the sudden surge in interest following the film’s premiere , the owners , the beijing catholic diocese , have decided to keep it closed to help control the flow of visitors .
one of hundreds of artifacts on display at zak bagans’ haunted museum . benjamin hager las vegas review - journal
a costumed performer stands at the gate of shanghai nightmare , china ' s first halloween haunted house attraction .
the haunted mansion ride , popular in the us parks in both california and florida , changed its title to mystic manor for the hong kong park and dropped the ghosts . superstitious chinese culture wasn’t ready to consider ghosts as jolly entertainment .
this year i hesitantly added disney’s notorious “haunted mansion” movie from 2003 to our viewing list . ( it was not nearly as well - received as their other theme - park - attraction - turned - film from that year : “pirates of the caribbean . ” ) at any rate , i’m 10 years late to the party of discovering that there’s a tiki bar scene !
zak bagans , host of travel channel ' s & quot ; ghost adventures , & quot ; is opening a haunted museum in a thirty - room , historic downtown las vegas mansion . photo taken on monday , september 11 , 2017 , at zak bagans ' haunted museum , in las vegas . benjamin hager las vegas review - journal @ benjaminhphoto
not a very good film . really dumb . a scary part were there are zombies that really scared my little brother as a kid
here ' s a look at the colorful floats in the annual metro manila film festival parade of stars held wednesday . read more »
do you have any idea what song was playing in the tiki bar scene of the haunted mansion ? i think i hear the phrase “go man go” in the song , but it’s really hard to identify due to the talking and other noises .
zak bagans , host of travel channel ' s & quot ; ghost adventures , & quot ; discusses the background of the haunted museum he is set to open in a historic downtown las vegas mansion . photo taken on monday , september 11 , 2017 , at zak bagans ' haunted museum , in las vegas . benjamin hager las vegas review - journal @ benjaminhphoto
the interior of the gracey estate was an elaborate set constructed at barwick studios where the haunted mansion was lensed . you can read a fabulous blog post written by a few lucky souls who were able to visit the set on the doombuggies website here .
in addition to joining the foolish mortals team , jerry is currently raising funds for his own short film and directorial debut , love is dead , starring indie horror queen tristan risk and aaron “small hands” thompson . click here to visit the film’s indiegogo page to help support indie horror .
a trend , of course , all started with the monumental success of the pirates of the caribbean franchise , continuing with the upcoming pirates of the caribbean 5 : salazar ' s revenge , though we ' ve also seen a pretty cringeworthy adaptation of the haunted mansion , alongside the under - performing tomorrowland film , which took on an entire section of the park as opposed to a singular ride .
disney resurrects its haunted museum property with this spooky production headed up by producer and co - writer guillermo del toro .
a group of high school students who are spending the night in a old mansion . when they learn that the house is haunted they set to look out for ghosts just for fun , but they find out soon enough that the urban legends are real .
another classic paranormal investigation story , richard matheson’s 1971 novel hell house sees a physicist , his wife , and two mediums temporarily move into the famous belasco house , an impossibly terrifying haunted mansion , with the goal to determine whether there is life after death . matheson adapted the book for the screen as the legend of hell house in 1973 ; john hough directed and roddy mcdowall starred in the film .
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as hollywood began to embrace slasher movies like halloween , a nightmare on elm street , and friday the 13th , the haunted house industry reaped the benefits . the horror boom fueled a demand for scary attractions , not to mention cross - promotional advertisements .
if you went to a haunted house in the 1980s and 1990s , you would ' ve seen a lot of freddy krueger , jason , pinhead . the haunted house industry really followed the movie industry at that time ,
larry kirchner , president of haunted house association , a trade group for haunted house operators , tells smithsonian . com .
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the haunted house didn ' t become a cultural icon , though , until walt disney decided to build one . disneyland’s haunted mansion opened in 1969 , nearly two decades after disney first approved the beleaguered project . the attraction , which was designed in the style of the evergreen house and the winchester mystery house , quickly became a success . in a single day shortly after its debut , more than 82 , 000 people passed through the haunted mansion . the attraction ' s centerpiece is the grand hall , a 90 - foot - long ballroom sequence of dancing ghouls at a birthday party . disney brought to scene to life through an exceptionally complex series of illusions known as pepper ' s ghost , which use refracted light to project and shape ethereal images .
a lot of the professional haunters will point to one thing , and that ' s disneyland ' s haunted mansion . it ' s the start of the haunted attraction industry ,
morton says . the attraction was revolutionary , as she explains in trick or treat :
dirty little secrets are exposed when five friends become stranded at an abandoned motel haunted by a dark secret of its own .
one of hundreds of artifacts on display at zak bagans’ haunted museum in las vegas . benjamin hager las vegas review - journal
evil spirits , creaky stairs , ominous music . . . . here are some of the most haunted houses of hollywood .
can ' t un hear it : jennifer tilly ' s distinct voice for leota works out evenly , when compared to the rest of the film .
) , dir . nobuhiko obayashi , special screening at the 2009 new york asian film festival ( june 25 , 10 p . m . at the
“this history is very difficult to get straight , ” said mr . xu , who has taken an active interest in unearthing the mansion’s history .
during the press conference for the movie on december 9 , producer lily monteverde ( aka mother lily ) explained ,
it ' s because i believe so much in haunted mansion . i believe so much in my newest babies , janella , marlo , and jerome .
the filmmakers are now asking for fan help to create the documentary and support the gigantic efforts of the production . for more information on foolish mortals : a haunted mansion documentary , please visit their kickstarter page to donate and share , as well as their website at urltoken .
a movie about the much - debated war on drugs is officially serving as re - launch pad for a local film outfit that last produced . . .
this is basically a reprint of 2003 ' s
the haunted mansion : from the magic kingdom to the movies
, completely scrubbed of any references to the underwhelming eddie murphy film , and with a new chapter on hong kong disneyland ' s mystic manor ( informative with lots of illustrations and photos ) and a few new spreads on recent additions to the anaheim and orlando attractions ( the attic bride and hatbox ghost for disneyland , the new elaborate queue and gift shop at wdw ) . even though the film was a letdown , its a shame to completely omit it from this new version - - it is part of the attraction ' s history and produced some interesting design work that is worthy of inclusion . also , too bad they didn ' t include a section on mansion collectibles - - a glaring omission from the first edition that they could have corrected here . that said , this is still the tops book for haunted mansion fans and there ' s enough new material here to warrant a repurchase .
urltoken josh , i understand you’re a pretty big fan of this ride . do you remember your first time riding the haunted mansion , and if so , what did you think at the time ? also , which park were you visiting when you were first exposed to it ?
an official entry to the 2015 metro manila film festival starring : janella salvador , marlo mortel , jerome ponce janice de belen and iza calzado also starring : dominic ochoa , lj reyes , joem bascon , sharlene san pedro ingrid dela paz , devon seron , eliza pineda , phytos ramirez , paolo gumabao directed by jun robles lana follow @ regalfilms on twitter and like the official facebook page of regal entertainment inc . for more updates ! urltoken . . . urltoken urltoken
slow writing : thom andersen on cinema is the first collection of writings by a filmmaker who is known and much respected for his celebrated documentary essays including red hollywood ( 1996 , made with noël burch ) , los angeles plays itself ( 2003 ) , and the thoughts that once we had ( 2015 ) .
this is what a haunted house is supposed to do . they exist to scare people . the idea behind haunted houses is not new , of course— people have entertained themselves with spooky stories for centuries — but haunted houses are different because they are inseparable from the holiday that vaulted them to cultural prominence . the tradition could not exist without halloween ; halloween would not be the same without it .
recently , the team behind the project just announced the addition of jerry smith as associate producer of foolish mortals : a haunted mansion documentary . jerry is an active member of the horror community and has worked for several years as a popular film journalist and critic . he’s also the editor in chief for the long running and well respected icons of fright and a freelance writer for blumhouse . com , shock till you drop , fangoria and delirium magazine .
the titular mansion here is a retreat house where ella and her classmates are to spend a few days for prayerful reflection . as it turns out , the ornate mansion has an ominous past involving upper crust sisters ( iza calzado and lj reyes ) and their illicit entanglements with a commoner ( joem bascon ) .
we were there last week , and i can assure you , the seasonal overlay is a smash . on friday evening the stand - by line was 125 minutes . over two hours for haunted mansion , a ride with a continuous loading system . i still can ' t believe it .
and the mansion wasn ' t just physically real — it could practically be lived in , too . the scary elevator actually worked as a functional elevator . the fireplaces were also real . in fact , the only thing fake about the mansion was the hole in the ceiling . since the mansion wasn ' t built outside , they couldn ' t very well look up and see the sky , so cgi was used to achieve this effect . and in case you couldn ' t tell already , the mansion is huge . both del toro and hiddleston have said it ' s the largest set they ' ve ever worked on .
don’t make the mistake of belittling the film though , since it’s quite something . set in the same high school world where bullies roam to torment the weak and men inexplicably find themselves fighting over girls who don’t seem to know how beautiful they are , lana’s film takes a lot of time to explore what’s already old and familiar .
alvin yapans gaydar is one of the three featured films at this years q cinema : the 2013 quezon city film festival that will run from october 3 - 5 at trinoma cinemas . there was actually a short comedy film of the same title written and produced by terry ray and larry lafond in 2002 but it seems [ … ]
the gross earnings of the eight entries to the 41st metro manila film festival ( mmff ) have reached p834 million after nine days in the cinemas . read more »
what made the haunted mansion so successful and so influential , however , was not its similarity to haunted houses and
dark rides
( that is , tawdry carnival haunted houses ) of the past , but its use of startling new technologies and effects . ghosts were no longer simply sheets hung in a tree , but were instead actual shimmering translucent figures that moved , spoke and sang . a witch wasn ' t just a rubber - masked figure bent over a fake cauldron , but a completely realistic bodiless head floating in a crystal ball , conducting a complex séance .
tristan thompson goes house hunting alone as he checks out $ 2m property in la with its own basketball court . . . just minutes from khloe ' s mansion
prescription pill bottles found at the scene of truman capote’s death on display at zak bagans’ haunted museum . benjamin hager las vegas review - journal
chaonei no . 81 , arguably beijing’s most celebrated “haunted house , ” has seen a steady stream of visitors over the years . until recently , they were a niche assortment — mostly thrill - seekers , urban explorers and history buffs — looking to experience firsthand the lurid tales of the once - grand french baroque - style mansion , which has long sat dilapidated and abandoned . foremost among the many legends associated with chaonei no . 81 is that the mansion is haunted by the ghost of the mistress of a kuomintang official who hanged herself there after her lover abandoned her following the communist victory in 1949 .
that’s eight versus one : my bebe love , walang forever , haunted mansion , all you need is pag - ibig , beauty and the bestie , nilalang , buy now , die later and honor thy father in all 300 - plus 2d cinemas nationwide as against the force awakens in eight imax theaters .
josh williamson : wow , well , i had actually talked to disney years ago about doing a haunted mansion all - ages book , or a picture book , and a little bit about a comic book . so they knew i was interested . it’s been a dream of mine for a long time .
previously , disney has hedged their bets with labeling the nightmare before christmas as belonging to one holiday or the other . the various 3d re - releases of the film have generally been timed to take advantage of both holidays , as has the elaborate annual re - theming of disneyland’s haunted mansion attraction . why make it one or the other when you stand to profit from both seasons ? you just know that at least one disney accountant has a selick - induced headache this morning .
here , at no cost to you , are three unofficial tips for visiting zak bagans’ soon - to - open haunted museum on charleston boulevard .
' this video evidence is real and more difficult for us to disprove than people believing they have had paranormal experiences from other haunted dolls . '
the eight entries to the 41st metro manila film festival have surpassed last year ' s record box office haul of p1 . 014 billion , according to organizers . read more »
the collective box office earnings of the movies in the 41st metro manila film festival ( mmff ) have passed the p1 billion mark , organizers said late thursday . read more »
ben affleck ' s $ 19m la mansion is surrounded by moving trucks . . . as it ' s revealed girlfriend lindsay shookus plans to spend more time on west coast
in haunted mansion , she attends a retreat with her classmates without knowing that their venue is haunted . she later gets possessed by an evil spirit . “it’s really scary that’s why don’t miss it if you want to have a good scare . my co - stars here are jerome ponce and marlo mortel and we ourselves , we got scared while shooting our frightening scenes kasi ang husay - husay ni direk jun lana in cooking up scenes na nenerbiyusin ka talaga . ”
crimson peak is the latest film from writer / director guillermo del toro , a man known for blending his creepy monster creations with the breathtaking beauty of his sets . and his new movie seems to show off the author at the top of his game in both respects . master of horror stephen king said the film was
gorgeous and just f * * * ing terrifying ,
while del toro himself has referred to it as the most beautiful film he ' s ever made . and anyone who has even viewed the trailer can clearly see what they ' re talking about . crimson peak , about a haunted mansion in turn - of - the century england , features visuals that are so breathtaking they often end up stealing the spotlight from the movie ' s notable stars ( jessica chastain and tom hiddleston chief among them ) , and the most stunning visual of all has to be the house itself , a creepy and opulent mansion . so trust me , you ' re not alone in wondering where crimson peak was filmed .
shirley jackson’s 1959 novel is one of the most celebrated haunted house fiction books of all time , and provided the basis for robert wise’s 1963 film the haunting . when a paranormal investigator invites a small group of people , including a psychic and a troubled young woman , to the potentially haunted hill house , they end up wishing they had never sought out the supernatural in the first place . you may find yourself going to sleep with the lights on after reading this one .
manila , philippines – december 25 is fast approaching , and with christmas day comes the release of the 8 entries for this year ' s metro manila film festival ( mmff ) .
the seasoned actors , however , make a strong presence in the film namely , vangie labalan , janice de belen , archie adamos , joem bascon and iza calzado , among others .
the suspicions seemed confirmed when , just before the 1979 film came out , local lawyer william weber claimed he had dreamt up the story with the lutzes ‘over many bottles of wine’ .
such was the case with the haunted mansion – only the interior of the property was used in the filming . the exterior of the evers’ house was never shown , not even in an establishing shot , which i found a bit weird . you can check out some photographs of the inside of the home here and here .
“ crimson peak ” fared less well . the gothic romance from guillermo del toro proved too niche for mainstream crowds , falling flat with a $ 12 . 6 million debut . the story about a virginal bride ( mia wasikowska ) who moves into a haunted mansion cost $ 55 million to bring to the screen . legendary pictures fully financed the picture and universal is distributing the film . the studio believes that “ crimson peak ” struggled to break out in part because of the wealth of fare such as “bridge of spies” and “sicario” aimed at older crowds . it also was more of a romance than a straight scare machine , which may have disappointed ticket buyers looking for a more traditional horror film .
chris hemsworth kicks off filming for the star - studded men in black spin - off as he cuts a sharp figure in london . . . 21 years after the first film hit screens
the entries to the 41st metro manila film festival ( mmff ) have outgrossed last year ' s pool of movies by more than p28 million , organizers announced on thursday . read more »
the gross earnings of the eight entries to the 41st metro manila film festival ( mmff ) stand at p737 million , beating last year ' s record by p36 million . read more »
an amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $ 1 , 000 , 000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past .
ryan gosling is circling a lead role in the haunted mansion , guillermo del toro’s long - gestating film based on the disneyland attraction . del toro electrified the crowd when he announced the project during disney’s panel at comic - con in 2010 . it has been in development since . gosling’s recent credits include only god forgives , gangster squad and the place beyond the pines . he next appears in terrence malick’s weightless . gosling made his writing and directing debut on lost river , which premiered at cannes and opens friday via warner bros .
the haunted mansion is a 2003 american fantasy horror comedy film directed by rob minkoff and starring eddie murphy , marsha thomason & jennifer tilly . it is based on the disney theme park attraction of the same name . married realtors jim and sara with their children go to gracey manor and mr . gracey is enamored with sara and they discover that sara looks like mr . gracey’s old girlfriend , elizabeth , who died young and they think it was a suicide but discover something more sinister . the score is composed by mark mancina .
during the next two decades , the number of professional haunted houses erupted . kirchner estimates that roughly 2 , 700 of them operated nationwide last year . a large haunted house attraction can reportedly earn $ 3 million during the halloween season , and the industry is worth $ 300 million , according to an nbc report .
his side of the story would probably have remained secret had a friend not contacted a young film - maker , eric walter , who had set up a website devoted to the amityville saga .
the film’s creators are veteran producers of content , director james h . carter ii ( host of the creepy kingdom podcast ) and producer ryan grulich bring a wealth of production value and a true affinity for the subject matter to the table . the filmmakers stress that this isn’t an expose . they aren’t shooting on disney property , out of respect for the parks , and there’s no attempt to dig up old corpses or expose trade secrets . they love the haunted mansion and want to preserve and protect its intimacy within the rabid fan culture .
bagans hosts the travel channel’s “ghost adventures” series , in which he and his team investigate the paranormal . for the past several years , he’s been working on his latest project : the haunted museum , opening oct . 2 , where aficionados of the otherwordly can see his extensive collection of bizarre , macabre and haunted objects .
you ain ' t afraid of no ghost ? see if you can keep from getting spooked as urltoken counts down the 13 most haunted hotels in the world .
in my opinion , haunted mansion holiday is still the best seasonal attraction ever created . in fact , i would say it is superior to the original version of the attraction . seriously , except for first - time visitors i would absolutely suggest visiting during the october - december window if you can only go once per year just for this ride .
instead of filming on location , the team is creating an amazing photo realistic 3d render of the mansion and plan to feature it in a way never before seen . they are collaborating with industry partners and creatives associated with the mansion worldwide to craft a one - of - a - kind experience that will bring fans deeper into the appeal of the attraction than ever before .
while lana still employs shock tactics to keep the film’s audience at the edge of their seats , the film is nevertheless deliberate in its pacing . it creeps meaningfully , initially concentrating on the banal concerns of its characters before thrusting its purpose of betraying innocent beliefs with a climax that haphazardly has the lives of all the characters , whether they are good or bad , endangered with explicit savagery .


paris is a 1929 american pre-code musical comedy , featuring irene bordoni .

it was filmed with technicolor sequences : four of ten reels were originally photographed in technicolor .

paris was the fourth color movie released by warner bros. ; the first three were the desert song , on with the show and gold diggers of broadway , all released in 1929 .

( song of the west was actually completed by june 1929 but had its release delayed until march 1930 ) .

the film was adapted from the cole porter broadway musical of the same name .

the musical was porter 's first broadway hit .

no film elements of paris are known to exist , although the complete soundtrack survives on vitaphone disks .

the sound tape reels for this film survives at ucla film and television archive .

paris was the fourth movie warner brothers had made with their technicolor contract .

the filmmakers used a color ( technicolor ) process of red and green , at the time it was the third process of technicolor .

paris ( 1929 film )

paris bound ( 1929 ) directed by edward h . griffith • reviews , film + cast • letterboxd
1929 during 1929 , popular recordings and salon - jazz arrangements of songs from die dreigroschenoper are issued .
matrimony - in the 1929 manner ! ( print ad - the daily news , ( ( ludington , mich . ) ) 24 october 1929 )
françois albera , albatros , des russes à paris , cinémathèque française , paris ; mazzotta , milan , 1995 .
* the first academy awards ceremony of 1929 recognized movies from the 1927 / 1928 movie season , while the second ceremony was for 1928 / 1929 movies .
in november 1929 , the thirty - one - year - old sergei mikhailovich eisenstein was the world’s most notorious film director . four years earlier ,
september 1929 universal edition publishes the song album , which contains six previously unpublished songs .
jeanne , rené , and charles ford . histoire encyclopédique du cinéma : i , le cinéma français 1895 - 1929 . paris : robert laffont , 1947 .
7 february 1929 kleine dreigroschenmusik für blasorchester ( december 1928 - january 1929 ) . staatsoper am platz der republik ( kroll ) , berlin , preussische staatskapelle ; otto klemperer , conductor .
went into general release with a return engagement at new york’s roxy on september 7 , 1929 .
meusy , jean - jacques . paris - palaces ou le temps des cinémas ( 1894 - 1918 ) . paris : cnrs éditions , 2002 .
5 december 1929 der lindberghflug / der ozeanflug ( september - november 1929 , second version with music entirely by weill ) . staatsoper am platz der republik ( krolloper ) ; otto klemperer , conductor .
doctors ' wives is a 1931 american pre - code romantic drama film made by fox film corporation , directed by frank borzage . the film stars warner baxter and joan bennett . the screenplay was . . . see full summary »
6 march 1929 supervises the first production of die dreigroschenoper in vienna . in 1929 , the work has 46 premieres in germany as well as productions in italy , switzerland , poland , hungary , finland , and the ussr .
boris bilinsky , ' le costume ' , [ le décor , le costume , le maquillage , la technique ] , l ' art cinématographique , volume 6 , librairie félix alcan , paris , 1929 .
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boris bilinsky , metropolis [ pressbook ] , ufa and ace ( l ' alliance cinématographique européenne ) , paris , 1927 . copy held at musée d ' histoire contemporaine , paris .
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“nos confrères . . . ” le film ( december 1919 ) : n . p .
22 may 1929 das berliner requiem ( november - december 1928 , bertolt brecht ) . frankfurt radio ; ludwig rottenberg , conductor .
hidden histories and forgotten stories of people and places from the uk’s key film and tv archives .
portrait of christiane mendelys ( a / w / o ) in le film , 1919 . frc
nozière . “la critique cinématographique . ” le film ( december 1919 ) : n . p .
may - june 1929 vacations at hostellerie de la plage , st . cyr sur mer , france , and works on happy end .
april - may 1929 composes the first version of der lindberghflug . weill and paul hindemith each set roughly half of brecht ' s text .
carefree , but struggling and penniless young artist , ex - gi jerry mulligan ( gene kelly ) has remained in paris following world war ii to paint and study art . he explains the lure of paris :
( 1945 ) at poverty row’s republic studios . he returned to europe in 1951 , working in germany as a co - writer on a pabst film as well as writing and directing his final film ,
19 february 1931 premiere of die dreigroschenoper film directed by g . w . pabst , in berlin .
november 1929
die legende vom toten soldaten
and
zu potsdam unter den eichen
( 1929 , bertolt brecht ) . berliner schubertchor ; karl rankl , conductor . (
zu potsdam unter den eichen
is arranged from the orginal version written for das berliner requiem . )
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maitres chayette et calmels , [ auction catalogue ] , drouot - richelieu , paris , 8 december 1989 .
abel , richard . french cinema : the first wave , 1915 - 1929 . princeton , n . j : princeton university press , 1984 .
picard , alfred . exposition universelle internationale de 1900 à paris . rapport général administratif et technique . vol . 7 . paris : ministère du commerce , de l’industrie des postes et des télégraphes ; imprimerie nationale , 1903 .
an american in paris was only the third musical to win best picture . the two previous winners were : the broadway melody ( 1929 ) and the great ziegfeld ( 1936 ) . the film was also the first to win a golden globe award for best motion picture ( comedy or musical ) - a newly - created category - in the 1952 awards ceremony .
27 july 1929 der lindberghflug ( 1929 , original version with paul hindemith , text by bertolt brecht ) . kurhaus , baden - baden , frankfurt radio orchestra ; hermann scherchen , conductor . neither weill nor hindemith is pleased with the result . weill had already decided to set the entire text himself .
colette . lettres de la vagabonde . eds . claude pichois and roberte forbin . paris : flammarion , 1989 .
as a talkie , he tapped stalling to score the film . disney was excited when stalling suggested the idea for
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george gershwin wrote an american in paris after visiting paris in 1928 . the orchestral piece tells the story of an american swept up in the energy of paris , but thinking of the jazz back home . it ' s still such a popular piece that old - timey taxi horns gershwin calls for in the score are rented by orchestras all over the country .
( 1929 ) , writing to his brother and business partner roy : “carl’s idea of the ‘skeleton dance’ for a musical novelty has been growing on me . ”
23 november 1933 writes to lenya from his new apartment : 9 bis place dreux , louveciennes ( outside of paris ) .
coissac , georges michel . histoire du cinématographe de ses origines à nos jours . paris : éditions du cinéopse , 1925 .
[ trans . : …a very bad film made with all the ignorance of a beginner ] ( coissac 405 ) and this assertion that the film was “unsuccessful” has been absorbed into contemporary film history , perhaps partially contributing to the erasure of mendelys’ name ( sirois - trahan 337 ) . yet primary sources from the trade press reveal the centrality of mendelys , wague , and other mimes in the transition to theatrical film . edmond claris , in his november 1 , 1909 article in
caused a sensation at the second venice film festival in 1934 but was denied a prize when the vatican objected . when an american distributor tried to import the film , u . s . customs refused to allow it . as frank miller writes in
26 july 1930 travels to unterschondorf ( ammersee ) to work with brecht , possibly on the film version of die dreigroschenoper .
de rovera , jean . “et nous n’avons pas oublié . ” le film ( december 1919 ) : n . p .
borzage’s first sound picture , they had to see paris ( 1929 ) , starred popular entertainer will rogers and became one of fox’s biggest hits of the year . song o’ my heart ( 1930 ) starred irish tenor john mccormack as a great singer who retires to a small irish village after the woman…
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movie poster of the week : metropolis and the posters of boris bilinsky . english language article on film posters by boris bilinsky .
24 december 1933 travels to rome for a production of the
paris version
of mahagonny and der jasager ( december 29 ) .
shimmy from paris , 1922 : marek weber ' s orch . - ca c ' est une chose ( that ' s one thing )
7 november 1932 writes to universal edition that he has received a commission from the princesse de polignac in paris to compose an orchestral work .
31 october 1933 signs a new publishing agreement with heugel , paris , which guarantees an advance of 4 , 000 french francs per month .
george gershwin , whose well - known composition “an american in paris” has a french taxi horn effect that may have been misinterpreted for decades .
hollywood revue of 1929 , the * * - mgm ' s all - star revue includes a few good songs (
singin ' in therain
) , but is uneven entertainment .
let america ' s foremost humorist show you the wide open spaces of montmarte ( print ad - the chehalis bee - nugget , ( ( chehalis , wash . ) ) 6 december 1929 )
26 november 1933 in paris , weill is subjected to a pro - hitler , anti - semitic demonstration , led by composer florent schmitt at a concert of three songs from der silbersee , conducted by maurice abravanel . lenya sells the house in berlin and sends weill some furniture in paris .
mendelys’ film career took off immediately . it was louis feuillade who spotted her talents on the set of l’enfant prodigue and asked that she , wague , and jeanne marie - laurent come to work with him at gaumont . at the time feuillade had just taken over from alice guy as head of film production and was producing one chronophone film per week . in an interview with the cinémathèque française’s historical commission on december 15 , 1945 , wague recounted the couple’s beginnings in film and remembered that mendelys appeared in “an enormous amount” of feuillade’s chronophone films ( 12 ) .
' ' besides the nine principle character characters , forty one actors and actresses speak and folies bergeres sequences show a chorus and belle of sixty ' ' . ( extract from sun news pictorial 1929 ,
it’s probably in the editing and overall structure of the film that it falls short of that elusive city symphony member’s club badge . if there is an aspirational , symphonic structure to the film , it’s not obvious . the montage from shot to shot largely seems to simply take us from a to b rather than elicit any particular insight . the film is neither avant - garde nor experimental , and while this is a debatable check box for city symphony branding , it suggests that the film is as much about the vision of its sponsor as it is of its artist .
mid - april 1933 brecht arrives in paris from carona , switzerland ; together he and weill write die sieben todsünden on a scenario by edward james .
clague spoke to npr about how these different horns affect the overall sound of an american in paris . you can hear more at the audio link .
stilted early talkie ( that was once though lost ) based on a phillip barry play is basically filmed with a static camera as most films were at the time . a newly wed couple face problems when the husband is chased by an old flame on his business trip to paris . the wife contemplates a fling of her own in retaliation . broadway star ann harding ( in her film debut ) and fredric march ( in one of his very early film roles ) are both very natural in front of the camera but the talky subject is pretty dated and the film is a bore .
2 september 1929 happy end ( june - august 1929 , lyrics by bertolt brecht ; play by elisabeth hauptmann and brecht ) . theater am schiffbauerdamm , berlin ; theo mackeben , conductor , erich engel , director . the success of die dreigroschenoper is not repeated , and the play closes after a handful of performances . universal edition does not publish a vocal score . the work is not revived until 1958 .
the names of the movie costumers as were as well known as the paris couturiers . gilbert adrian , orry kelly , travis banton , edith head and later – walter plunkett , whose wonderful costumes for the 1953 film singin’ in the rain , brilliantly parodied the over the top exuberance of 1920s hollywood .
plot :
three friends struggle to find work in paris . things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman .
3 november 1933 la grand complainte de fantômas ( robert desnos ) . radio paris ; alejo carpentier , conductor ; antonin artaud , director . largely missing .
george gershwin ' s beloved an american in paris features the sounds of taxi horns — but a musicologist argues we ' ve been using the wrong ones .
early october 1929 weill considers writing songs for
apollo - brunnenstrasse ,
a play by stefan grossmann with lyrics by franz hessel . hans heinsheimer of universal edition discourages him , and weill drops the project .
june 1929 hindemith ' s neues vom tage is played at the krolloper . throughout the summer and fall , weill and universal edition attempt to convince klemperer and the kroll to produce aufstieg und fall der stadt mahagonny .
11 december 1932 acclaimed performance at the salle gaveau in paris of mahagonny songspiel ( with four additional numbers from aufstieg ) and der jasager conducted by maurice abravanel with lenya and pasetti performing . the concert is sponsored by vicomte charles de noailles and vicomtesse marie - laure de noailles . weill investigates further commissions while in paris .
7 june 1933 die sieben todsünden ( bertolt brecht ) . théâtre des champs - elysées , paris , and june 30 - july 15 , 1933 , savoy theatre , london ; maurice abravanel , conductor , george balanchine , choreographer . this is the first work by weill to be produced in england . weill left paris for italy a week after the opening . a concert of the
paris version
of mahagonny and kleine dreigroschenmusik is presented on 20 june at the salle gaveau .
it would seem that a period of financial hardship brought mendelys to seek work as a film critic . her first port of call was henri - diamant berger’s le film where her good friend colette had previously worked as a critic . in september 1917 , wague wrote to colette on mendelys’ behalf to ask whether diamant - berger had given his answer and to identify their current film critic who was writing under the name la femme de nulle part ( it was the wife of delluc , ève françis ) . colette replied that she had not heard from berger , did not know the mystery critic’s name , and advised against such work since it did not pay ( colette 126 - 127 ) . from these uncertain beginnings mendelys soon became one of the most influential film critics in paris .
dietrich neumann ( ed . ) , film architecture : set design from metropolis to blade runner , prestel , münchen and new york , 1997 , 207p .
innocents of paris * * - maurice chevalier in his american screen debut as a junk man rescuing a child . corny tale . highlight - -
louise .
the hairdressers retaliated with the ‘crop’ , the ‘ bob hair cut ‘ , the ‘ finger wave ‘ and the ‘shingle ‘ popularized by polish born antoine ‘de paris’ .
machatý was born in prague in 1901 . as a teenager , he played piano in movie houses , worked as an actor , and directed his first film ,
leatrice joy in new film ;
a most immoral lady
at the hippodrome is based on stage play . other photoplays . william hain , tenor , sings .
anon . , metropolis - le film le plus fantastique , filmstar edition no . 16 ,
patria
, anvers , belgique , 1 november 1927 , 16p .
mr . clague said that between the 1929 recording that gershwin supervised and the 1945 toscanini recording , which seemed to help establish a new performance tradition , there was great variation in how the taxi horns were played . but he said that his musical analysis gave weight to the idea that the pitches used in the 1929 victor recording work best . “george was thinking harmonically and melodically with the taxi horns , ” he said . “it’s not just a sound effect . ”
george gershwin ' s beloved an american in paris features the sounds of taxi horns — but a musicologist argues we ' ve been using the wrong ones . creative commons hide caption
9 ' metropolis technology montage # 2 ' , cover of the magazine metropolis - de meest fantastische film , [ belgian ] 1927 . for sale in belgium and holland .
the film brought eight academy award nominations and won six of them - none of which were for acting : best picture ( arthur freed , producer ) , best story and screenplay ( alan jay lerner ) , best color cinematography , best color art direction / set decoration , best musical score , and best color costume design . its nominations for director ( vincente minnelli ) and film editing were unrewarded . gene kelly received an honorary award from the academy the same year , presumably for his contributions to this film - it was presented
in appreciation of his versatility as an actor , singer , director and dancer , and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film .
nineteen year - old leslie caron made her film debut as the young parisian mademoiselle . it was one of only a few best picture winners with no acting nominations .
an american in paris ( 1951 ) is one of the greatest , most elegant , and most celebrated of mgm ' s 50 ' s musicals , with gershwin lyrics and musical score ( lyrics by ira and music by composer george from some of their compositions of the 20s and 30s ) , lavish sets and costumes , tremendous technicolor cinematography , and a romantic love story set to music and dance . gene kelly served as the film ' s principal star , singer , athletically - exuberant dancer and energetic choreographer - he even directed the sequence surrounding
embraceable you .
the entire film glorifies the joie de vivre of paris , but it was shot on mgm ' s sound stages in california , except for a few opening , establishing shots of the scenic city . nonetheless , it remains one of the most optimistic american films of the post - war period - with paris at its center .
fortunately , one can also find sparse references to her screenwriting work in the cinema press . in an adulatory summary of mendelys’ career for cinémagazine in 1921 we learn that her acting and screenwriting contributions reach beyond gaumont to three other major companies : lux , pathé , and film d’art . according to lucien doublon , “puis elle tourna ensuite chez pathé , chez lux et pour quelques autres firmes disparues à présent . faut - il ajouter que l’excellente artiste est l’auteur de nombreux scenarios qui furent tournés chez pathé , chez lux et au film d’art ? ” [ trans . : she then acted for pathé , lux and for several companies that no longer exist . might one add that the excellent actress is the author of many scenarios for films made by pathé , lux and film d’art ? ] ( 20 ) . another rare allusion to her screenwriting work appears in the christmas 1919 issue of le film . in an overview of french film industry figures , a section called “…and we haven’t forgotten” lists mendelys as one of cinema’s first scenario auteurs ( de rovera n . p . ) , and she again appears in the film critics section as a contributor to the daily newspaper le victoire . here , the film critic and scenarist nozière wrote ,
sirois - trahan , jean - pierre . “film d’art . ” encyclopedia of early cinema . ed . richard abel . new york : routledge , 2005 . 337 - 339 .
october - november 1930 weill and brecht take legal action against the nero - tobis company for breach of contract arising from unauthorized changes made to die dreigroschenoper in the film version to be directed by g . w . pabst . weill ' s complaint is upheld ; brecht ' s is rejected but the film company settles with him anyway ; both collect damages .
back during the roaring 20s , there was a trend for dynamic cinematic odes to the great cities of the modern world . newly available to watch for free online , a 33 - minute short from 1929 shows how liverpool got its own shining example .
glorifying the american girl * - ziegfeld ' s only film is downright terrible , the story of a girl seeking stardom in the follies . only of interest as a historical oddity .
is that the musical score and the animated action were planned , designed , and executed in unison . stalling composed the score first , then iwerks animated the film to match the meter and melody . stalling , an accomplished film accompanist , was accustomed to playing his organ in time with motion pictures ; now he was able to make the movies match his music .
with the headline : leatrice joy in new film ;
a most immoral lady
at the hippodrome is based on stage play . other photoplays . william hain , tenor , sings .
radio drew the nation together by bringing news , entertainment , and advertisements to more than 10 million households by 1929 . radio blunted regional differences and imposed similar tastes and lifestyles . no other media had the power to create heroes and villains so quickly . when charles lindbergh became the first person to fly nonstop across the atlantic from new york to paris in 1928 , the radio brought this incredible feat into american homes , transforming him into a celebrity overnight .
i wish i could see this film . it is based on a play written by my grandmother ' s brother , clarence edward andrews , not charles andrews . this is not . . .
leatrice joy in new film ;
a most immoral lady
at the hippodrome is based on stage play . other photoplays . william hain , tenor , sings . - the new york times
august - november 1931 lenya travels to russia to act in a film directed by erwin piscator . by this time weill is romantically involved with erika neher ( caspar neher ' s wife ) .
december 1929 weill attempts to get the rights to jaroslav hasek ' s novel good soldier schweik to set as an opera with a libretto by brecht . difficulties in dealing with hasek ' s heirs doom the project ; by june 1930 weill has given up the idea .
film had flourished in the region even before there was a czech republic . the first films were shown in prague and karlovy vary in 1896 , just months after the lumières’ first screening in france . that same year , amateur photographer jan křízenecky took a movie camera from paris to prague , and two years later made the first czech feature and documentary films , which were also the first in the austro - hungarian empire . prague’s first permanent movie theater opened in 1907 , and the city’s first production companies began the following decade . after the establishment of the independent czech republic in 1918 , cinema took off . but according to film historian pavel taussig , most of the producers and directors were “crafts and trade persons” and had few artistic ambitions . intellectuals rejected film as an art form , preferring american films . writer and painter josef capek even warned , “garbage is garbaging garbage . ” but by the end of the silent era , intellectuals and artists had begun to embrace film’s possibilities .
christiane mendelys’ career as a mime , actress , film critic , and acting teacher mirrored the major developments in french cinema culture , from the early days of cinema as a music - hall attraction , through the first attempts at “theatrical cinema” for middle - class audiences in the mid - 1900s and the emergence of newspaper film criticism in the mid - 1910s , to , finally , the height of cinema popularity in 1920s paris . however , unlike fellow critics such as louis delluc , émile vuillermoz , and léon moussinac , her contribution to the development of cinema culture in france has been all but overlooked . while their work circulates in edited volumes , accessing the film criticism of mendelys requires entering the ornate corridors of the palais garnier opera house , where newspaper clippings of her writings are archived .
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jazz singer , the * * - mostly silent , but the brief sound sequences changed film forever thanks to al jolson ' s charismatic performance . not solidly entertaining , but the musical sequences are fascinating .
( 1931 ) . it also had a sexual theme , the story of a one - night stand and its consequences . according to taussig , “ [ t ] he films nezval made in collaboration with machatý are the pinnacle of his film work . machatý … managed to make films with a simple plot but an exciting external expression that reflected the internationalism of film , especially during the silent era . ” in
2 . ' metropolis ' , 4 sheet poster , ( 240 x 320 cm ) 224 x 303 . 5 cm / 96 x 120 inches [ approximate size ] . the large 4 - sheet metropolis poster shown in this photograph is a version of poster # 4 described below . it is only known from this photograph taken from mario von bucovich , paris - the face of the city , paris , 1928 , 277p .
but the new critical edition will argue that gershwin’s circled letters were merely labels specifying which horns to play , not which notes . mr . clague , an associate professor of musicology at the university of michigan , mentioned that gershwin handpicked taxi horns to buy during his 1928 trip to paris , and that friends and colleagues recalled that he had been particular about which notes they played . mr . clague also pointed to the evidence of a victor recording of “an american in paris” that was made in 1929 , under gershwin’s supervision and presumably using his horns : the taxi horns on that recording sound a more atmospheric , more dissonant set of notes : a flat , b flat , a much higher d , and lower a .
4 . ' metropolis - mise en scène de fritz lang - scénario de thea von harbou . ace - ufa . présenté par alliance cinématographique européenne . 11 bis rue volney , paris ' , 1 sheet poster , 120 x 160 cm / 47 x 63 inches , farblithografie , bédos et cie , paris , 1927 . signed ' boris bilinsky ' , lower right . collection bibliothèque nationale de france , paris . rené clémenti - bilinsky cat . no . 1032 . this simple , yet effective design presents one of the defining images of fritz lang ' s film - the stark , monolithic apartment block of the workers underground city , rising ever skyward and devoid of decoration or ornament , in turn overwhelming its residents and those on the street below . the skyscraper came to represent the progress and modernism of the 1920s , and cities such as new york and berlin sought to outdo each other in building ever bigger and taller structures . the skyscraper represented both progress and isolation , and was therefore a somewhat menacing element of the film . this image was also used for the design of the cover of the french metropolis pressbook of 1927 , a copy of which is preserved in the musée d ' histoire contemporaine , paris . see item # 5 below for a description of that item .
( 1956 ) . according to critic elliott stein , machatý’s “attempts to arrange further projects in his native czechoslovakia led nowhere . ” he ended his career teaching at the munich film school and died in 1963 .
at milo ' s party , jerry appears to be the only guest . he admires the would - be patron ' s one - shouldered white gown in one of the film ' s most famous lines :
22 february 1933 the nazis demonstrate at the second performance of der silbersee in magdeburg , and weill is subjected to anti - semitic attacks . he is also asked to resign from a film project for tobis .
, harmonica - playing animator wilfred jackson had developed a mathematical system of animating to a timed rhythm . disney made marks—a bouncing ball—on a work print of the film to provide a visual representation of the rhythm .
the players in the opening credits are set out in the form of a theatre programme . however , notwithstanding the film takes place in england , the spelling on the programme is the american ' program ' .
at the start of the decade the couture designs from paris drew mostly from historical lines , with nipped waists and billowing skirts – called robe de style ( a trend that was to be repeated in the 1950s ) .
, the camera is on her face as she simulates orgasm . the worldwide uproar over the film got hedy a contract with mgm and a new name , hedy lamarr . it got machatý a lot of trouble .
september 1933
es regnet
( after a german text by jean cocteau ) and
der abschiedsbrief
( erich kästner ) , paris . written for marlene dietrich in response to a request for revue and recording material .
watching a day in liverpool it’s clear to see that it was inspired by the city symphony phenomenon , and it shares many of the key characteristics of the form . like berlin : symphony of a city and others , a day in liverpool is structured as a day in the life of the city . the film is bookended by the arrival and departure of a ‘ferry cross the mersey’ , as workers pour into ( and , later , home from ) the city by tram , boat and rail . the film was sponsored by the liverpool organisation , established in 1923 as a partnership between local businesses and the city council to promote liverpool as a prosperous centre of commerce and industry . so it’s not surprising that the ‘day’ of the film is a working one , or that much of the film is given over to the range of economic activities in the area .
it is an integrated musical , meaning that the songs and dances blend perfectly with the story . as in many musicals , the plot of this film is not its most important element . one of the film ' s highlights is its impressive finale - an ambitious , colorful , imaginative , 13 minute avante - garde
dream ballet
costing a half million dollars to produce . the pretentious sequence , featuring an impressionistic period daydream in the style of various painters , is one of the longest uninterrupted dance sequences of any hollywood film , and features the music of george gershwin . [ the success of the balletic themes in michael powell and emeric pressburger ' s british film the red shoes ( 1948 ) inspired minnelli to follow suit - he had experimented with shorter ballet sequences in his earlier films yolanda and the thief ( 1945 ) and ziegfeld follies ( 1946 ) . ]
a small group of companies consolidated their control over the film industry and created the
studio system
that would dominate film production for the next 30 years . paramount , 20th century fox , mgm , and other studios owned their own production facilities , ran their own worldwide distribution networks , and controlled theater chains committed to showing their companies ' products . in addition , they kept stables of actors , directors , and screenwriters under contract .
june 1932 proposes four projects to impresario and director erik charell for a series of international productions intended for vienna , paris , london , and berlin . the plan , which eventually involved caspar neher and georg kaiser , never materialized .
7 . metropolis press book , 24 . 5 x 32cm , ace , paris , 1927 , 28p . designed and composed by boris bilinsky . colour cover , similar in design to poster # 3 , though with signature ' boris bilinsky ' upper right , as opposed to centre right . the text of the press book includes a detailed synopsis of the film , plus an item on brigitte helm . it is illustrated throughout with images from the film and original graphics by bilinsky . it also includes a copy of the technology montage # 2 as the centrepiece . this montage later featured on the cover of the magazine issued in belgium for the release of metropolis at the end of 1927 .
singing fool , the * - a show biz vocalist is torn between his career and his beloved
sonny boy .
the top - grossing film of the 1920 ' s , this cornball tripe is hard to swallow today .
references : illustrated in lucie derain , ' les affiches de cinéma - polychromie pour blancs et noirs ' [ cinema posters - polychrome for black and whites ] , arts et métiers graphiques , no . 22 , paris , 15 march 1931 .
lucie derain , ' les affiches de cinéma - polychromie pour blancs et noirs ' [ cinema posters - polychrome for black and whites ] , arts et métiers graphiques , no . 22 , paris , 15 march 1931 , 201 - 5 .
during the late teens and 1920s , the film industry took on its modern form . in cinema ' s earliest days , the film industry was based in the nation ' s theatrical center - - new york . by the 1920s , the industry had relocated to hollywood , drawn by its cheap land and labor , the varied scenery that was readily accessible , and a suitable climate ideal for year - round filming ( some filmmakers moved to avoid lawsuits from individuals like thomas edison who owned patent rights over the filmmaking process ) . each year , hollywood released nearly 700 movies , dominating worldwide film production . by 1926 , hollywood had captured 95 of the british market and 70 percent of the french market .
oklahoma mechanic pike peters finds himself part owner of an oil field . his wife idy , hitherto content , decides the family must go to paris to get
culture
and meet
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the inspirational paris based travelling ballet company ballet russes also came to an end after a 20 year run which had helped revolutionize fashion . its founder serge diaghilev died with substantial debts , forcing the closure of the company and dispersal of its dancers .
pre - code early - talkie film version of philip barry ' s broadway hit chronicles the first five years of marriage between james and mary hutton , and the two paramours they deserted who wait patiently - and manipulatively - in the wings .
ultimately , this is what makes the film so appealing today , particularly to the people of liverpool . it is no landmark of film history , nor is it a key example of a filmic genre , or complex vision of an auteur filmmaker . it is a time capsule of a thriving city , unearthed many decades later and filled with remnants of a life that is familiar yet distant . take a look at a diverse , cosmopolitan metropolis that deserves its place in the spotlight .
references : a copy of this poster was sold at the chayette et calmels auction , paris , 8 december 1989 , realising 122 , 000 francs ( us $ 16 , 600 ) . the poster was reproduced on the cover of the auction catalogue .
the post 1918 evolution of women’s lingerie in the 1920’s was equally dramatic . by the end of the 1920’s , gone was the cupboard full of billowing snow white linen – layers of day and night chemises , drawers , knickerbockers and petticoats . a young woman by 1929 had but a few sets of cami - knickers and princess slips .
applause * * - helen morgan stars as a burlesque star plagued by tragedy . alternately fascinating and flat , and not much singing , but amazing manhattan location shots and a surprisingly dark plot make this is a must see for dedicated film buffs .
après avoir joué la comédie et la pantomime , christiane wague , qui tourna dans la première bande de 1500m [ sic ] ( l’enfant prodigue ) le rôle du pierrot fils , fut engagée à la maison gaumont , où elle fut pendant plusieurs années la protagoniste de films nombreux . douée d’une vive imagination , elle écrivit des scénarios pour les maisons gaumont , lux , le film d’art . sous le pseudonyme le rat du moulin [ … ] elle lutte courageusement pour la défense du film artistique , contre tous les philistins , qui veulent en entraver l’essor . sa grande compétence dans le métier cinématographique rend sa critique fort intéressante [ trans . : after acting in theater and pantomime , christiane wague , who played the role of pierrot’s son in the first 1500m [ sic ] film ( l’enfant prodigue ) , signed to the gaumont company where for several years she played the lead role in many films . gifted with a lively imagination , she wrote scenarios for gaumont , lux and film d’art . under the pseudonym le rat du moulin [ … ] she courageously defends artistic film from all the philistines who seek to hinder its development . her great expertise in the cinema industry renders her criticism extremely interesting ] ( n . p . ) .
the single most significant new instrument of mass entertainment was the movies . movie attendance soared , from 50 million a week in 1920 to 90 million weekly in 1929 . according to one estimate , americans spent 83 cents of every entertainment dollar going to the movies , and three - fourths of the population went to a movie theater every week .
in 1926 wall street journal reported that hole - proofs annual sales had increased from $ 2 , 037 , 000 in 1916 to $ 9 , 220 , 000 by 1925 . a fascinating study of women’s hosiery advertising in the 1920s by jean elizabeth harrison revealed the following graph study of leg exposure in women’s hosiery advertising from 1920 to 1929 .
had a fashionable edwardian lady of 1909 hopped on to hg well’s time machine and zoomed forward just 20 years , she would have thought she was on an alien planet . compared to her ruffles and curves and un - powdered face , the girls around her as she strolled down paris’s rue de la paix , would have seemed emaciated and in desperate need of clothing cover . she would have been amazed by the sheer legs of the 1929 woman , her painted face , her cropped hair , and above all her independent demeanour as she motored about in the amazing horseless carriage – the auto - mobile .
6 . ' metropolis ' , 1 sheet poster , 120 x 160 cm / 47 x 63 inches , farblithografie , bédos et cie , paris , 1927 . collection bibliothèque nationale de france , paris . design based upon the original release german poster by heinz schulz - neudamm . boris bilinsky did not design this poster . it is likely that this poster was part of the original french release campaign by ace , though this has not been confirmed . it may have been the fourth poster issued with the press book .
plot :
acting under the cover of a hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film , a cia agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six americans in tehran during the u . s . hostage crisis in iran in 1980 .
art deco style was the dominant feature , not only in fashion , but in all creative arts right on up to 1939 . hollywood enthusiastically endorsed this new demure style from the late 1920’s , with imaginative film sets and stunning gowns adorning their female stars .
ann harding movie debut and also one of fredric march ' s earliest talkie roles . it ' s a product of the quirky year of 1929 . they stumble along saying their lines trying their best to sound natural over the mic . but nobody knew what normal was at the time so it ' s charming to watch them almost improvise how to communicate their parts . but that ' s all . paris bound is among the films that instantly feels dated and doesn ' t have much to offer except for a weak attempt at a ' modern marriage ' story and watch to ann harding be a young unpolished ann harding .
, his euphorically reviewed , highly influential tour de force about mutiny on the eponymous naval vessel , had brought him both acclaim and infamy . infected with wanderlust , eisenstein won permission from stalin to leave russia on a short research trip . he took off in august 1929 , with twenty - five dollars in his pocket . he returned home , reluctantly , just under
during the ensuing whirlwind—to berlin , paris , london , then on to hollywood—eisenstein met with the world’s leading intellectuals , actors , and avant - garde artists : james joyce , jean cocteau and robert desnos in france , george bancroft in germany , charlie chaplin , marlene dietrich and gary cooper in the united states . his grand tour often gets overshadowed by his disastrous film collaboration in mexico with the novelist upton sinclair—framed in peter greenaway’s 2015 movie eisenstein in guanajuato— but british culture was a significant and often neglected long - term source of interest .
this classic film poster presents the three incarnations of the film ' s heroine maria - firstly , as the innocent , madonna - like maria ( bottom - right ) who is captured , stripped naked and placed in rotwang ' s transformation machine ; secondly , as the steely - cold female robot ( centre ) , crafted by the mad scientist rotwang in the image of his beloved hel ; and thirdly , as the evil , false maria ( top left ) who brings death and destruction down upon joh fredersen ' s metropolis . the bottom left of the image features a chaotic collage of technological artefacts , a modernistic rubbish dump reflecting the second half of the film during which the robot takes control of the workers and the machines of the city are left to run themselves to the point of destruction .
has ' an american in paris ' been honking up the wrong key ? : deceptive cadence the composition is so popular that old - timey taxi horns gershwin called for are rented by orchestras all over the country . but a musicologist says they ' ve been using the wrong ones .
of all the new appliances to enter the nation ' s homes during the 1920s , none had a more revolutionary impact than the radio . sales of radios soared from $ 60 million in 1922 to $ 426 million in 1929 . the first commercial radio station began broadcasting in 1919 , and during the 1920s , the nation ' s airwaves were filled with musical variety shows and comedies .
technicolor’s 1932 answer to this decline was even more expensive . the new three - strip process provided much more accurate color representation but also demanded more exacting mechanics and processing . it was a desperate move . technicolor’s annual revenue had fallen to $ 500 , 000 , from a high of $ 5 million in 1929 . only the disney studio was willing to experiment with the new process .
it appeared in the weeks following the wall street crash in october 1929 that the hemline index theory by economist george taylor in 1926 was coming to pass with the unveiling of the chatillon - mouly - rousse autumn collection , where some outfits ( not the entire collection ) by designer jean patou presented a dramatic drop in hemlines to the ankle and skirts hanging on the natural waist again .
it ' s not a pretty face , i grant you , but underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character . i like paris . it ' s a place where you don ' t run into old friends , although that ' s never been one of my problems .
rob fisher , the musical score adapter and supervisor of the new staging of “an american in paris” currently on broadway , said that he agreed that the a , b , c and d labels were names and not pitches , but that the show had ended up using the standard horns .
russ knutson , the owner of chicago percussion rental in illinois , who rents out tuned horns for “an american in paris” and has played them on occasion , said in an interview that he thought that the currently accepted a , b , c and d pitches “fit exactly in the score . ”
his first book of poems , wand and quadrant , was published in 1953 by collection merlin in paris . three years later a . a . m . stols of the hague published devil , maggot and son . he moved back to london in 1958 , and in the years that followed he went on to produce poetry , translations of villon and neruda , plays , film scripts , songs , and sketches . he has been a contributor to the satirical magazine private eye since 1960 , and has published two collections from his column “true stories” in books of the same title .
robert rousseau de beauplan , ' metropolis ' , la petite illustration , paris , 372 , 3 march 1928 , 12p . special issue dedicated to metropolis . includes a copy of the bilinsky metropolis photomontage # 1 , similar to the ciné - miroir version of 16 april 1927 , but without inscriptions .
love parade , the * * * * - the first truly delightful original screen musical has jeanette macdonald as a queen who makes rakish guardsman maurice chevalier her consort . director ernst lubitsch enriched this , his first sound film , with his signature
touch
of sexy , sophisticated wit .
recent digitizations of trade newspapers and magazines do help to shed light on such historical oversights , yet the relative anonymity of pre - 1910 films means that in publications such as ciné - journal ( created in 1908 ) , films are listed by title , genre , and length without names of cast members or filmmakers . although the gaumont troupe of the immediate prewar years are familiar to film historians , it seems by then mendelys was no longer with gaumont as her name does not appear in the luxurious gaumont palace programmes of the early teens . furthermore mendelys was not in attendance the day her husband attended an interview at the cinémathèque française to discuss the career of feuillade , although actresses alice tissot , renée carl , and yvette andréyor all were . nor is she named by carré in his interview with the historical committee the same year . however , mendelys was consistently at the heart of the french cinema industry , from prewar filmed pantomime and gaumont sound experiments to the emergence of newspaper film criticism and the vogue for film acting in the 1920s . though largely forgotten , her career cannot in fact be untangled from the major transitions in french film culture during the silent era .
21 march 1933 potsdam day . weill flees berlin by car with caspar and erika neher , arriving in paris on 23 march . he stays first at the hôtel jacob and the hôtel splendide , and soon moves to the home of charles and marie - laure de noailles , 11 place des etats - unis .
new york , berlin , paris , nice , são paulo , prague , amsterdam… all had their symphonies of sorts in the late 1920s . but what about britain ? is there a british city symphony ? you be the judge , as perhaps the closest example of the form from these isles comes onto the bfi player as part of our britain on film collections . the city in question is not london or birmingham , nor edinburgh , glasgow , cardiff or belfast , but liverpool – a keystone of the british empire through its historic dockyards and feted by the bankers’ magazine in 1851 as the ‘new york of europe’ .
musicologist mark clague of the university of michigan is editing a critical edition of george and ira gershwin ' s music . when clague looked back at the original score and a very early recording of an american in paris , he made a discovery : we ' ve been using the wrong taxi horns for 70 years .
as a teenager my view of the world was bleak . i was the only one of my small group of misfit friends to leave home to go away to college . not long before i did , i saw agnès varda’s film , vagabond . i can’t remember if i saw it at the local art ho…