clifford 's really big movie is an american animated epic adventure comedy-drama family film , loosely based on the book series clifford the big red dog by norman bridwell , and more closely based on the classic pbs kids tv series adapted from it .

this film was directed by robert ramirez , produced by scholastic entertainment and big red dog productions , and originally released to theaters by warner bros. on february 20 , 2004 .

the film depicts a labrador retriever named clifford ( john ritter ) running away and joining a travelling animal show known as " larry 's amazing animals " with his best friends .

larry gablegobble ( judge reinhold ) , the presenter of the animal show , does n't allow animals who have owners , so they pretend their dog tags are fake .

the film takes place in the fictional island of " birdwell island " , which is the name is inspired by norman bridwell , the author of the books .

this was john ritter 's final film role as he died of aortic dissection on september 11 , 2003 .

the film was dedicated to his memory , and it serves as the series finale .

clifford ' s really big movie

big damn movie : clifford ' s really big movie . this trope came here just to see a big red dog .
so , how big is clifford ' s really big movie ? maybe too big for a toddler ' s britches .
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clifford’s really big movie ( * * . 5 , ramirez , warner bros )
the trailers for clifford ' s really big movie featured music by and gregor narholz .
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clifford ' s really big movie is easily consumed and disposed of entertainment for the small fry . . .
big , noisy , harmless , and a little clumsy - - yep , that ' s clifford , the big red dog . and it ' s
clifford ' s really big movie ,
too .
the movie : both clifford ' s really big movie and an announced live - action / animated movie that doesn ' t have anything to do with the 2000 tv series .
clifford ' s really big movie is a great movie from a very big red dog ! i saw this in theaters and i couldn ' t wait to get it on dvd . this movie is great . . . continue reading
no antagonist : unless you count george wolfsbottom from clifford ' s really big movie , the wealthy ceo of tummy yummies who kidnaps clifford for his spoiled daughter madison .
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clifford ' s really big movie
read - along of
the star of the show
and
amazing animals .
emily eizabeth howard ' s sad song of how she remembers clifford before he went to go really big on the mainland .
plays like a two - part episode of clifford ' s really small tv show .
' ' clifford ' s really big movie ' ' opens today in new york , atlanta , minneapolis , phoenix and austin , tex . a . o . scott
if you are reading this review , you are probably not part of the intended audience for ' ' clifford ' s really big movie , ' ' an oppressively innocuous animated feature .
this movie was released just five days after clifford ' s official
birthday .
black bead eyes : everyone except for clifford , who is the only character to have normal eyes ; this trope is played straight with his puppy counterpart . averted with the character designs in clifford ' s really big movie .
based on the beloved character from the clifford ' s really big . . . book series , clifford ' s really big movie tells the story of clifford the big red dog , a lovable canine who joins a traveling carnival when he mistakenly believes that he has become a burden to his human family . as he seeks his fortune in food , clifford helps his new animal buddies overcome their fears , saves the carnival from going bust , and finds his way home to his real family .
clifford ' s really big movie
will be available for sell - through pricing at $ 26 . 98 srp / $ 19 . 95 map on dvd and $ 19 . 96 srp on vhs .
great movie . shipped fast and the quality was good on the movie . my kids watch this movie over and over again .
the movie , titled clifford ' s really big movie , actually had a budget . so the animators decided to play around with cell shading . it worked ok for clifford and the other animals . unfortunately emily - elizabeth and the other regular human characters got dumped somewhere in the uncanny valley .
families are invited to bring a snack or picnic lunch and enjoy a free screening of
clifford’s really big movie
at noon wednesday as part of the family lunchtime movie matinee series at the summerlin library , 1771 inner circle drive . call 507 - 3863 .
clifford the big red dog sets off on his biggest adventure yet in clifford ' s really big movie ! fearing that he costs too much to feed , clifford decides to join a traveling carnival so he can enter a talent contest in hopes of winning a lifetime supply of tummy yummies treats . joined by his friends , cleo and t - bone , clifford meets up with shackleford the high - flying ferret and rodrigo chihuahua of steel , as they work together to turn a broken - down act into a record - breaking show . as always , clifford ' s big love makes everyone a winner ! ( original title - clifford ' s really big movie ) - 2004 universal studios . all rights reserved .
clifford ' s really big movie was released in the year 2004 , some songs of the official soundtrack are big time by jody gray , i ' m not scared anymore by jody gray , larry ' s amazing animals by jody gray , party time by jody gray . listen the soundtrack online !
lyrics to ' until i go ' by kyle gordon . originally in the film , ' clifford ' s really big movie ' , and despite it being from a kids movie , it is really beautiful song . : ) i don ' t own this song . i upload it for entertainment purposes only . i hope you enjoy xxx
clifford ' s really big movie is a 2004 american animated film loosely based on the series of children ' s books drawn and written by norman bridwell and more based on its tv series . it was released in theaters on february 20 , 2004 .
when clapping broke out close to the end of clifford ' s really big movie - - the clapping of little hands , i might add , and not big ones - - it felt as spontaneous and as heartfelt an expression of youthful joy as i have heard in a long time .
his final films , bad santa and clifford & apos ; s really big movie were dedicated in memory of the actor . on june 6 , 2008 , a mural of ritter painted by eloy torrez was dedicated at hollywood high school .
clifford is a favorite of my granddaughters , and this movie is no less loved .
my little granddaughter just loves clifford and she loves this movie . the movie teaches important life lessons as do the clifford books and shows do . i would recommend any of the clifford series to anyone with children .
my four year old daughter is hooked on the clifford tv series and was overjoyed when she realized there was a movie . this is a feel - good movie with a lot of big names .
this marks john ritter ' s final movie appearance in any form . his last on - screen movie appearance was in 2003 ' s bad santa .
we bought this movie without seeing it first thinking that it ' s clifford and can ' t be too harmful ! there is a part in the movie where clifford and th . . . continue reading
who is one of clifford ' s friends who joins
larry ' s amazing animals
along with clifford and t - bone .
thick - line animation : this is the standard for both clifford the big red dog and clifford ' s puppy days - thick black lines with generally bright coloring inside .
clifford ' s really big movie is an american animated epic adventure comedy film based on the classic pbs kids tv series clifford the big red dog , itself an adaptation of the book series of the same name by norman bridwell . this film was directed by robert ramirez , produced by scholastic entertainment and big red dog productions , [ 1 ] and originally released to theaters by warner bros . on february 20 , 2004 .
clifford the big red dog gets bigger than ever in “clifford’s really big movie , ” a take - no - chances transfer of the money - printing franchise from page and tube to the bigscreen . harmless tale of the giant pooch helping out some itinerant performing animals while longing for home will go down smoothly with the preschool faithful , but anyone over [ … ]
clifford the big red dog™ sets off on his biggest adventure yet in clifford’s really big movie ! fearing that he costs too much to feed , clifford decides to join a traveling carnival so he can enter a talent contest in hopes of winning a lifetime supply of tummy yummies treats . joined by his friends , cleo and t - bone , clifford meets up with shackleford the high - flying ferret and rodrigo chihuahua of steel , as they work together to turn a broken - down act into a record - breaking show . as always , clifford’s big love makes everyone a winner !
for information , please visit scholastic’s media room at urltoken or clifford’s official facebook page at urltoken .
we track hollywood ' s upcoming movie releases through all stages of production . more
shout out : in the clifford ' s puppy days book the little red sled , clifford ' s sled is named
rosebud .
non - standard character design : clifford is the only character without black bead eyes until the movie . or clifford ' s puppy days , if you count that .
clifford ' s really big movie is an american animated musical epic adventure comedy - drama family film , loosely based on the book series clifford the big red dog by norman bridwell , and more closely based on the classic pbs kids tv series adapted from it . this film was directed by robert ramirez , produced by scholastic entertainment and big red dog productions , and originally released to theaters by warner bros . on february 20 , 2004 .
november 19 , 2012 - scholastic media , a division of scholastic inc . , the global children’s publishing , education and media company , announced today that animated film ‘clifford’s really big movie’ will debut on pbs kids ( check local listings ) on friday , december 14 as part of its year long celebration of the beloved character’s 50th anniversary .
i always loved clifford growing up and i absolutely loved this movie . a great movie for families . you should define fly watch this ! ! ! ! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😜
clifford ' s big screen debut is now on dvd and vhs ! the movie that was released summer 2004 follows clifford , cleo and t - bone on a fantastic voyage as they join larry ' s amazing animal show and go on a quest for a life - time supply of tummie yummy dog treats . with delightful characters , fun musical numbers , and a big adventure with everyone ' s favorite big red dog , this video is a hit !
big friendly dog : clifford of course - extra emphasis on big . he may not be the trope namer but he is certainly one of the strongest examples of this trope . he is literally as big as a house and is a such a lovable sweetheart .
did you ever wonder how emily elizabeth’s parents manage to feed clifford , the biggest , reddest dog of all time , year in and year out ? apparently , clifford himself never really thought about it before .
a really big yawn . . . no one whose age is into double digits will find much to enjoy in this gentle , innocuous and very dull feature .
due to john ritter ' s death in 2003 , the film and getting to know you serves as the series finale to clifford the big red dog .
according to wiki , the only other film nominated in the animation category in 2004 apart from incredibles and shark tale was shrek 2 . other hollywood animated films that year were the spongebob movie , polar express , home on the range and clifford ' s really big movie so there wasn ' t many great ones that year ( not sure about foreign ones though )
on august 24 , america ' s beloved
big red dog
takes audiences on a new adventure in
clifford ' s really big movie ,
arriving on dvd and vhs from warner home video ( whv ) . based on the classic children ' s book and television series , the film features the voice talents of the late john ritter (
three ' s company ,
8 simple rules
) as the voice of clifford , wayne brady (
the wayne brady show
) , jenna elfman (
dharma & greg
) , john goodman (
roseanne ,
monsters , inc .
) , judge reinhold (
the santa clause 2
) , wilmer valderrama (
that 70 ' s show
) and more .
clifford ' s really big movie
debuted in theaters in february 2004 .
young children will snuggle up in the movie ' s cozy good cheer .
a . o . scott , new york times
will make millions of children happy for a very long time .
michael clark , gwinnett daily post
brings the big red dog . . . to the screen with style and charm .
kevin thomas , los angeles times
clifford ' s really big movie will charm his small tv fans .
louise kennedy , boston globe
title theme tune : for the original pbs television animated series , though not the clifford ' s puppy days spin - off , which manages to avoid it . *
clifford ' s so much fun , he ' s a friend to us all ! i love clifford the big red dog ! ( woof ! )
exactly what it says on the tin : the books and cartoon are about a dog named clifford who is big and red .
as emily elizabeth howard , clifford ' s kind owner who loves him very much .
what a cute movie ! john ritter makes a wonderful clifford and and am so happy they had the tv series and movie completed be fore he passed . i loved the clifford books as a kid and i am so happy i can relive them with my son - he loves clifford too ! he especially loves the music in this movie - great work !
kel mitchell as t - bone , a yellow bulldog who is one of clifford ' s friends and joins
larry ' s amazing animals
along with clifford and cleo .
cree summer as cleo , a purple poodle who is one of clifford ' s friends who joins
larry ' s amazing animals
along with clifford and t - bone .
trailers looked really fun . animation looked gorgeous . easy to market concept . ( furries ? )
unlike television cartoons that sell their souls to make the leap to the big screen , this animated g - rated film is faithful to norman bridwell ' s beloved book series about the big red dog .
clifford is not just a big red dog ; he ' s a big , red phenomenon , hero of a series of books by norman bridwell , an animated pbs series , a live road show , and now this film . clifford is a really , really big red dog , which is part of his appeal to toddlers , who live among giants and are thus drawn to huge , powerful but kind creatures who love children ( like barney ) . children also like the way that clifford explores the world around him , learning gentle lessons about getting along with others and solving problems like finding lost toys and not being afraid of a storm .
then there’s the polar express . i really really love it , and it has become a holiday tradition in my household . even so , it’s motion capture , so it really had no business being in the running . ( this opinion will come back to haunt me in my 2006 write - up when i defend the inclusion of the motion capture nominee ) .
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i liked how the animals work together with all their show tricks to help clifford at the end . and i liked how at one point in the movie big t - bone’s owner , sheriff lewis , hears the phone ring and answers his sandwich !
lyrical dissonance : the really big tribute cd . jody gray loves this trope . they got jody gray to write the score and lyrics to the cd . cue emily singing about how great clifford is - to a tune that sounded bitter . this also happens to some extent in the movie , who ' s music and lyrics are , unsurprisingly , scored and written by jody gray . although the movie leans towards mood whiplash instead .
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cleo ' s crafts
- learn how to make clifford puppets and crafts .
grey delisle as emily elizabeth howard , clifford ' s kind owner who loves him very much .
for 50 years , clifford the big red dog has been entertaining children , parents and teachers with his big adventures . in his beloved dog , norman bridwell created a literary classic embraced by generations around the world . since the first clifford® book was published in 1963 , the property has grown to include 126 million books in print and an emmy® award - winning television series – currently in its twelfth consecutive season on pbs kids . scholastic is currently celebrating the property’s 50th anniversary ; kids , parents and teachers can send clifford a birthday card and learn more about ‘clifford’s big birthday sweepstakes’ at urltoken .
urltoken clifford ' s really big movie : john ritter , cree summer , kel mitchell , wayne brady , grey delisle , jenna elfman , john goodman , jess harnell , judge reinhold , kath soucie , wilmer valderrama , earl boen , robert c . ramirez , bill schultz , chris henderson , deborah forte , jef kaminsky , norman bridwell , rhett reese : movies & tv
the last film produced by warner bros . feature animation was clifford ' s really big movie ( 2004 ) . the film was based on the scholastic book series clifford the big red dog and the pbs kids series with the same name . the film suffered a limited release of 500 screens and only made $ 3 million at the box office . despite this failure , production for new episodes of the show was cancelled and the feature animation unit shut down . however , the show garned more audiences and positive ratings in the later years .
the spongebob squarepants movie is basically a feature - length episode of the show , and that’s all i ever wanted .
it ' s a disney movie , it received positive reception , and the concept is so easy to market well .
clifford ' s really big movie is a 2004 american children ' s animated comedy film loosely based on the book series , clifford the big red dog by norman bridwell and more based on the classic pbs kids tv series adapted from it . this film was directed by robert c . ramirez , produced by scholastic corporation ' s film division , scholastic films in association with big red dog productions , and originally released to theaters by warner bros . on february 20 , 2004 . this was john ritter ' s final film role as he had died of aortic dissection on september 11 , 2003 , after completing voice work for the film as clifford . the film was dedicated to his memory and also serves as the series finale to the show as no new episodes were produced to continue from where it had left off .
clifford ' s really big movie is a 2004 american children ' s animated comedy film loosely based on the book series , clifford the big red dog by norman bridwell and more based on the classic pbs kids tv series adapted from it . this film was directed by robert c . ramirez , produced by scholastic corporation ' s film division , scholastic films in association with big red dog productions , and originally released to theaters by warner bros . on february 20 , 2004 . this was john ritter ' s final film role as he had died of aortic dissection on september 11 , 2003 , after completing voice work for the film as clifford . the film was dedicated to his memory and also serves as the series finale to the show as no new episodes were produced to continue from where it had left off .
scholastic and logos are trademarks of scholastic inc . © 2004 scholastic entertainment inc . clifford , emily elizabeth , clifford the big red dog and logos are trademarks and or registered trademarks of norman bridwell . all rights reserved .
canis major : again , when they say
big
, they aren ' t kidding .
review : released hot on the heels of disney ' s talking - pup picture teacher ' s pet , this feature - film version of a popular children ' s cartoon revolves around everyone ' s favorite big red dog . clifford ( voice of john ritter ) lives the good life on idyllic birdwell isla… ( more )
clifford the big red dog gets bigger than ever in “clifford’s really big movie , ” a take - no - chances transfer of the money - printing franchise from page and tube to the bigscreen . harmless tale of the giant pooch helping out some itinerant performing animals while longing for home will go down smoothly with the preschool faithful , but anyone over 5 will feel antsy even given the brief running time , indicating modest theatrical returns before ancillary cash - in . as a point of comparison , “barney’s great adventure , ” with its similar demographic , grossed $ 12 . 2 million domestically in 1998 .
clifford ( voiced by john ritter ) , the big red dog of children ' s books and the tv series , hits the big screen for his great adventure . clifford lives on birdwell island with emily elizabeth . clifford hears the next - door neighbor talking to emily ' s father about how much it cost to feed clifford . clifford is worried that the family might lose their house just feeding him . clifford sees a poster announcing a contest for the best animal act with the winner getting a lifetime supply of dog food . clifford , and his two dog friends , cleo , and t - bone , leave the island and join a traveling carnival show . they become friends with other animals in one of the sideshows , and soon , they become stars . douglas young ( the - movie - guy )
the popular clifford the big red dog children ' s television series gets a slick makeover , without losing any of its charm or soulfulness , in the feature adaptation clifford ' s really big movie . more elaborate background animation and updated computer effects turn this clifford adventure into a visual treat , perfect for a story in which gigantic clifford ( warmly voiced by the late john ritter ) , plus poodle - pal cleo ( cree summer ) and loyal mutt t - bone ( kel mitchell ) , run off to join a failing animal circus and win ( hopefully ) a lifetime ' s supply of dog food . ( clifford is worried his beloved human family is spending too much on his care and feeding . ) a guest vocal cast that includes john goodman , wayne brady , and jenna elfman turns up the juice as clifford offers his services to a big top spectacular featuring a rollerblading dog , a cow on a high wire , and a juggling ferret . a sweet comedy for the whole family . - - tom keogh
clifford the big red dog ( tm ) , cleo and t - bone star in their first movie adventure ! clifford and his pals set off on a cross - country road trip when they enter a talent contest to win a lifetime supply of tummy yummies . teamed with new friends , including shackelford the high - flying ferret and rodrigo chihuahua of steel , this funny menagerie work together to turn a broken - down act into a record breaking show ! as always , clifford ' s big love makes everyone a winner .
so , who is this film really made for ? yes , it made enough money , but does that really say anything ? do kids like this film about a fish that owes five thousand clams ( really ? the loan shark thing wasn’t enough ? ) and manages to be there when a shark accidentally dies and so he parlays that into a reputation as a shark killer , but of course , he’s really a fake . how much would kids enjoy that ? at least they might not see how obviously he will end up with the fish that really loves him rather than the “attractive” one who is just using him .
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after awhile , clifford starts being the star of the show . and shackelford the ferret , who’s always been the star of the show , is jealous and says some mean things to clifford…
cuteness proximity : on clifford ' s puppy days , clifford is extremely small , extremely cute , and tends to evoke this reaction , particularly in anyone seeming him for the first time .
unfortunately we don ' t have any information about this movie yet . if you have any information about this movie , it would be great if you could submit it to us .
the limited animation style looks static on the big screen and the movie is too long for its age group even at 75 minutes . ( it was too long for my age group , too . )
come on , rapscallions , live a little ! this movie is good , not boring ! that barney movie ( barney ' s great adventure ) isn ' t lame , also good ! ! ! live a lit . . . continue reading
on february 7 , 2014 , the same day the lego movie was released , jared stern and michelle morgan were hired to write warner animation group ' s first sequel the lego movie 2 which will be released on may 26 , 2017 .
hotel transylvania 3 : summer vacation stars plan their dream summer getaways to some memorable movie settings .
canon foreigner : all the characters except emily , clifford , and emily ' s parents were created specifically for the two shows .
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young children will snuggle up in the movie ' s cozy good cheer .
- a . o . scott , new york times
songwriter , lyricist / composer , librettist , television writer & producer , music lover songs written for / performed by : elaine stritch , lea delaria , megan mullally , bobbie eakes , debra barsha , mary cleere haran , michael winther , the cat in the hat , alf , soundtrack songs , including :
clifford ' s really big movie
,
the wubbulous world of dr . seuss
,
courage the cowardly dog
,
arthur
,
peg + cat
my son began watching all the clifford episodes on netflix , so this was naturally the next step . he loves this movie and has watched it multiple times . they leave out max , but i guess that ' s ok .
animated adaptation : three television series , a series of videos from the eighties , and one movie .
yu - gi - oh : the movie ( * * . 5 , tsuji , warner bros )
according to ben small , he played a character named george in
clifford ' s puppy days
, which is probably jorge .
free range pets : the dogs all walk around town on their own , even clifford despite the fact he ' s a hazard .
talking in your sleep : in
paw print picasso
from clifford ' s puppy days , after clifford gets paint paw prints all over emily elizabeth ' s painting and his friends suggest he tell her the next day , daffodil discovers him alone the next morning on emily elizabeth ' s bed , tossing and turning in his sleep and muttering
it ' s my fault , it ' s my fault . . .
: pretty much everyone on birdwell island loves clifford . even the bleakmans have moments where they admit they care about clifford and like him . the 80s theme song even
that wasn ' t too bad . just not a super creative format to pitch a movie is all .
released hot on the heels of disney ' s talking - pup picture teacher ' s pet , this feature - film version of a popular children ' s cartoon revolves around everyone ' s favorite big red dog . clifford ( voice of john ritter ) lives the good life on idyllic birdwell island , adored by his beloved owner , emily elizabeth ( grey delisle ) , and his best canine pals cleo ( cree . . . read more
of course , in a clifford story , people who are mean or annoying are always sorry in the end , so i’m sure shackelford comes around . so , did you like the movie ?
covers always lie : the cover of the warner home video live action movie had a black girl hugging clifford . not that there ' s anything wrong with that , but fans are used to seeing emily elizabeth hugging clifford and not some random kid . hence said fans were understandably worried that warner had given emily elizabeth a race lift .
larry ' s amazing animals finally receives entry for the tummy yummies contest , and shackleford tells clifford how much he despises him , causing clifford to get angry and leave , although cleo and t - bone convince him to return . larry ' s amazing animals wins the contest , but the ceo of tummy yummies , george wolfsbottom , steals clifford for his spoiled daughter madison .
pity about the punk cat in space ; sounds like the title of a movie that could have been fun .
opaque nerd glasses : mr . bleakman doesn ' t have pupils from his glasses , though averted in the movie when he ' s given the same eyes as everyone .
i didn’t really mind this , but i’m just going to warn you that some of the characters looked different than the way they look on the tv show .
imagine spot : these very frequently take place , courtesy of clifford most of the time .
parents need to know that in this full - length animated movie meant for very young kids , there are a few incidents in which misunderstanding , jealousy , and lying result in mild suspense and jeopardy to the main characters . little kids may feel sad when clifford the big red dog and his buddies leave home , when emily elizabeth realizes that clifford is missing , and when clifford is captured and taken away . but worrisome events resolve quickly ; the film has a happy ending ; and characters who ' ve misbehaved learn important lessons .
never really took to the incredibles ; too long , too loud , plus i also generally don’t have much use for the type of superhero films that it salutes . btw , the character is edna mode . not kylie mole’s mother , sadly . ( that’s an australian inside joke . )
the reason it was lukewarm in the uk was because tintin ' s something of an icon there , and some people were really touchy about it . here , while having no name recognition cuts into its box office , it helps in terms of general reception because there ' s almost nobody that ' s going to be up in arms about it raping their childhood . it ' s going to get near - stellar reviews once it ' s widely screened for american critics .
when junior asparagus breaks his dad ' s bowling plate , junior lies about it , then junior lies more until he can ' t stop . and his friend fib , grows big and takes over bumblyburg !
unlike so many questionable cartoons nowadays that feature overly mature content , violence , or sarcastic humor , all the clifford cartoons are truly child friendly and feature wonderful stories about family and friendship and teach great life lessons . this movie was no different and kept the kids entertained on a long trip . go clifford !
the next day , clifford overhears the howard ' s conversation with their neighbor . he mistakenly believes he ' s a financial burden on the family and decides to join the amazing animals , with t - bone and cleo joining him . after escaping a town afraid of clifford , the group finds larry ' s animals . since larry cannot accept animals with owners , they dispose their tags , claiming they ' re to trick dogcatchers . clifford helps the others improve their acts and immediately becomes the star of the show , much to shackleford ' s annoyance . meanwhile , emily elizabeth searches for clifford and finds out he ran away .
some children might find clifford ' s tale on the tame side , but at least as many parents will be happily surprised by the warm and cuddly tone .
this marks the first feature film collaboration of grey griffin and wayne brady . they would not star together in another movie until
finally , there was the one ocean - set adventure that didn’t make it in : the spongebob squarepants movie . i get that it probably it didn’t get nominated because of its tv roots , but it’s a genuinely great movie . it has wall - to - wall comedy that hits more than it misses , a very cinematic plot and look , and it’s surprisingly emotional .
uh huh . they used more elaborate animation for the big screen than on the tv show , which i think is good , but somehow the character designs weren’t really quite right . clifford looked like himself , but sheriff lewis and mr . bleakman and some of the others looked kind of wrong , didn’t they ? i think they should have tried harder to make the characters look the same , despite the fancy animation technique .
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the incredibles is a great movie about work . that if you aren’t doing what you are called to do you will be miserable
waking non sequitur : in
helping paws
from clifford ' s puppy days , clifford shouts
not it !
upon being woken up by daffodil after she relives him from babysitting so he can take a nap , as if he thought they were playing tag .
if your kid loves clifford , you ' re going to see this movie . we might wish for something a little more ambitious in our children ' s entertainment , but at least there ' s nothing more offensive than a burp joke here - - something you can ' t say for most movies aimed at kids these days , even in the realm of g .
this was john ritter ' s final theatrical film role as he died of aortic dissection on september 11 , 2003 . the film was dedicated to his memory , and it serves as the series finale , as no episodes aired after the film ' s release , though the show ' s spin - off clifford ' s puppy days continued to air before concluding in 2006 .
america ' s beloved big red dog stars in this really big adventure ! after overhearing that he costs a lot to feed , and mistakenly thinking that he ' s a burden to his friends , clifford runs away to join a carnival contest that ' s giving away a lifetime supply of tummy yummies . soon , clifford is the star of the show , and shackleford the ferret , who ' d always been the star , gets jealous . clifford just wants to help and win the contest - but getting back home may not be as easy as he thinks , even after the contest is over . starring the voices of golden globe - winner john ritter (
bad santa ,
tv ' s
eight simple rules
) , emmy - winner wayne brady ( tv ' s
the wayne brady show ,
who ' s line is it anyway ?
) , golden globe - winner jenna elfman (
edtv ,
tv ' s
dharma & greg
) , golden globe - winner john goodman (
monsters , inc . ,
the emperor ' s new groove
) , emmy - nominee judge reinhold (
the santa clause 2 : the mrs . clause
) and wilmer valderrama (
summer catch ,
tv ' s
that ' 70s show
) . mpaa rating : g © 2004 warner bros . entertainment inc . all rights reserved # trailer # wb
the reason it was lukewarm in the uk was because tintin ' s something of an icon there , and some people were really touchy about it . here , while having no name recognition cuts into its box office , it helps in terms of general reception because there ' s almost nobody that ' s going to be up in arms about it raping their childhood . it ' s going to get near - stellar reviews once it ' s widely screened for american critics . still , i think rango has a fighting chance .
mood whiplash : the music from the movie . for something that ' s supposed to be fun , they have extremely depressing songs about how you gotta hit the lows before you can find the highs .
they finally catch up with the carnival and start traveling around with them . but meanwhile , emily elizabeth notices that clifford is gone and figures out that he’s left the island .
the animated movie takes children and their families on clifford’s biggest adventure yet , a rollicking cross - country road trip starring everyone’s favorite big red dog and his best friends cleo , t - bone and an entirely new cast of characters . the animated film was originally released in 2004 by warner brothers and features the late john ritter as the voice of clifford as well as wayne brady , jenna elfman and john goodman . a scholastic entertainment production , the cast also includes grey delisle ( what’s new scooby - doo ) , jess harnell ( lilo and stitch ) , kel mitchell ( adventures of rocky & bullwinkle ) , judge reinhold ( beverly hills cop iii ) , kath soucie ( rugrats go wild ) , cree summer ( a different world ) , and wilmer valderrama ( that 70’s show ) .
i took my 4 year old daughter to see clifford . she loved it . i would recommend the film to anyone with pre - school children . no scary parts , kept her attention , nothing offensive . when we got home all she wanted to do was play her clifford game on the computer . older children would be bored ( obviously ) . i take my kids to see movies about once a month , and there are times that i am uncomfortable with the content of the film . so often any more the movies are marketed towards kids of all age groups and contain bathroom humor and suggestive material . clifford ' s really big movie was marketed properly and the delivered product was predictable . i felt it was well worth the money and will purchase the dvd when it is released . i got a lump in my throat after the last scene . the words
for john
.
i remember that i found it ironic that will smith’s character in “shark tale” was named oscar , because that is also the name of an award that i thought the movie should never have been nominated for .
continuity reboot : between the nelvana videos and the scholastic self - produced tv series . the former made no mention of birdwell island and / or any of clifford ' s or emily ' s friends that the latter is much more commonly known for .
families can talk about how clifford got the wrong idea by hearing only part of what emily elizabeth ' s parents said about him . what should he have done instead of leaving ?
a teaser trailer that made it look like the most generic , uninspired cg - animated movie since early - 2000s dreamworks with shark tales .
clifford , t - bone , and cleo after eating a lot of dog treats in
tummy trouble
.
larry ' s amazing animals finally receives entry for the tummy yummies contest , and shackleford tells clifford how much he despises him , causing him to get angry and leave , although cleo and t - bone convince him to return . larry ' s amazing animals wins the contest , but the ceo of tummy yummies , george wolfsbottom , steals clifford for his spoiled daughter madison .
another good example is when clifford volunteers to watch t - bone ' s pile of leaves while he ' s away from the group , intending to jump on them later . clifford however gives into temptation and takes the jump without t - bone ' s permission , resulting in his entire pile being blown away . clifford resolves to collect every single leaf he can from the pile , as in the exact same leaves that have now been blown all across the island , even rejecting every other leaf he can sense was not from t - bone ' s pile . naturally , cleo thinks he ' s being ridiculous , and yet somehow he manages to pull it off all before t - bone gets back .
the next day , clifford overhears the howards ' conversation with their neighbor . he mistakenly believes he is a financial burden on the family and decides to join the amazing animals , with t - bone and cleo joining him . after escaping a town afraid of clifford , the group finds larry ' s animals . since larry cannot accept animals with owners , they dispose their dog tags , claiming they are to trick dogcatchers . clifford helps the others improve their acts and immediately becomes the star of the show , much to shackleford ' s annoyance . meanwhile , emily elizabeth searches for clifford and finds out he ran away .
the next day , clifford overhears the howards ' conversation with their neighbor . he mistakenly believes he is a financial burden on the family and decides to join the amazing animals , with t - bone and cleo joining him . after escaping a town afraid of clifford , the group finds larry ' s animals . since larry cannot accept animals with owners , they dispose their dog tags , claiming they are to trick dogcatchers . clifford helps the others improve their acts and immediately becomes the star of the show , much to shackleford ' s annoyance . meanwhile , emily elizabeth searches for clifford and finds out he ran away .
the movie was released by warner brothers rather than by artisan entertainment . the cast was limited to a few regular characters and assortment of guest characters .
clifford and his friends always have good intentions but make mistakes ( even lie when they pretend to be strays ) as they set out to win a contest and help clifford ' s family . everyone in the story , even the most selfish and / or resentful characters , learns a valuable lesson . most grown - ups and parental figures are portrayed positively . there ' s ethnic diversity throughout .
shun : ( holding his hand to his ear ) sorry . can ' t hear ya ' . these birds are too loud . ( clifford barks from inside emily elizabeth ' s backpack . )
lovable alpha bitch : jetta might be a snotty rich bitch in training , but she ' s still part of the group ( and clifford likes her ) . machiavelli is a rare male example .
a labrador retriever named clifford visits a carnival with his owner , emily elizabeth and her friends , charley and jetta , and clifford ' s friends , cleo and t - bone . clifford , cleo , and t - bone are amazed by an animal act known as larry ' s amazing animals , consisting of shackleford the ferret , dorothy the cow , dirk the dachshund , and rodrigo the chihuahua . after the show , shackleford discovers that the only way for their performances to continue is to win a tummy yummies animal talent contest , promising fame , fortune , and a lifetime supply of tummy yummies . when clifford and his friends go to collect their autographs , shackleford attempts to convince them to join the act , believing clifford ' s appearance would help them improve , but none of them agree because they do not want to leave their owners .
in the u . k . , the show was redubbed with british actors with tom eastwood being the voice of clifford .
supporting protagonist : for being the main character , clifford isn ' t the focus a ton in the 2000 animated series .
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a giant red labrador retriever named clifford visits a carnival with his owner , emily elizabeth and her friends , charley and jetta , and clifford ' s friends , cleo and t - bone . clifford , cleo , and t - bone are amazed by an animal act known as larry ' s amazing animals , consisting of shackleford the ferret , dorothy the cow , dirk the dachshund , and rodrigo the chihuahua . after the show , shackleford discovers that the only way for their performances to continue is to win a tummy yummies animal talent contest , promising fame , fortune , and a lifetime supply of tummy yummies . when clifford and his friends go to collect their autographs , shackleford attempts to convince them to join the act , believing clifford ' s appearance would help them improve , but none of them agree because they do not want to leave their owners .
despite the movie ' s rather unoriginal story - - that age - old plot about running off to the join the circus - - at least the filmmakers have created something which , though a little bland , is never crass or vulgar .
doubtless the filmmakers felt as if they had to open things up , making it bigger and wider and louder for the big screen . and the pressure to do something more is probably what made them include a few mediocre soft - rock tunes and give the animation a more rounded , shadowed look . but the changes don ' t make the movie any better , and they do make it feel less like the clifford that toddlers know and love . when you ' re 3 , familiarity breeds content , and it ' s an odd move to mess with that .
with over $ 697 million dollars in box office revenue . zootopia is a bonafide box office smash who would have thought at the beginning of the year that zootopia would be such a big hit .
the film : animated films don’t just have to be aimed towards kids . the pixar films and the shrek films had made that quite clear . but kids films should be primarily aimed towards kids . when a film like shrek 2 has a joke about how you might find starbucks across the street from each other , it’s a joke for the parents , but it’s just a little joke . it’s not the whole film . but when a film that’s supposedly for kids has a plot about loan sharking ( literally in this case , since we’re dealing with anthropomorphic sharks ) and about gangsters and it makes references to films like the godfather and goodfellas and you have to get an idea of that to be able to really understand the film , well then you’re not making a film for kids , you’re making a film that’s pandering to adults . and you can’t claim it’s really for adults when you have garish animation , a movie about talking fish and a lot of silliness along the way ( in finding nemo , the fish act human , but in this ridiculous movie , they basically are human but with fins ) . what you’ve simply done is botched the job on every level and you should be glad to come out of with a profit , let alone somehow earn an oscar nomination .
also , there ' s a major art shift between the 80s specials ( which were much more faithful to norman bridwell ' s illustrations ) and the 2000s tv series .
jess harnell as dirk , a dachshund in
larry ' s amazing animals
.
earl boen as horace bleakman , emily elizabeth ' s neighbor who is often grumpy .
the gang’s all here . and hey , look , frozone found his super suit !
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a limited release , this movie opened in seventy theaters on february 20 . the release was expanded on april 23 , 2004 , but it was still rather limited .
the story takes clifford and his regular - size canine pals , cleo and t - bone , away from the rustic calm of birdwell island , a pleasant , bone - shaped , martha ' s vineyard - like spot , on a journey across various unimaginatively animated american landscapes . because of a misunderstanding on clifford ' s part - - he thinks his huge appetite threatens his owners ' financial well - being - - the three dogs join a traveling carnival . their goal is to enter a contest that will guarantee clifford a lifetime supply of his favorite doggy snacks .


the shock is a 1923 american silent drama film directed by lambert hillyer and starring lon chaney as a cripple named wilse dilling .

the film was based on a story by william dudley pelley .

this is one of the rare lon chaney films where he gets the girl .

the shock ( 1923 film )

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the shock ( 1923 ) , black & white , 64 minutes , not rated .
regular contributor joshua hammer is the author of yokohama burning , about the great kanto earthquake of 1923 .
a print of the film is maintained in the film preservation associates , incorporated archive .
“ bradley king and her story , ” the silver sheet ( may 1923 ) : 19 . ↩
there are no critic reviews yet for the shock . keep checking rotten tomatoes for updates !
julie crawford ivers ( w / d / p / o ) the white flower ( 1923 ) . pcvv
nomads of the north ( 1920 ) , black & white , 78 minutes , not rated , with the shock ( 1923 ) , color - toned black & white , 69 minutes , not rated .
a print of the film is maintained in the film preservation associates , incorporated archive . [ 1 ]
, 1918 . stills courtesy of danish film institute and austrian film museum , vienna .
overall , this is the best home video edition of the shock ( 1923 ) available and remains the best value for the quality of its picture and its musical accompaniment , and for its pairing with a lesser - known chaney northwoods drama , nomads of the north ( 1920 ) .
survival status : prints exist in the film holdings of film preservation associates ; also [ 35mm positive ] .
lambert hillyer , henry a . barrows , william dudley pelley , william welsh ( actor ) , shock
note : this review is of the alpha video dvd release of the shock , with a 2003 musical score . this film can also be found on the internet archive , though i’m not sure of the print quality or score for that version . the dvd is pretty nice quality for a nearly - forgotten film from 1923 — there’s a fair bit of grain , but no major flaws to the picture .
the shock is notable for being one of the few times in chaney’s films that he appears to win the affections of the woman of his dreams . — carl bennett
the film features music by film composer franz waxman . many of the sets and sound effects were later used in the flash gordon movie serials .
the shock is based on a story by william d . pelley ( the fog ) and was directed by lambert hillyer ( dracula’s daughter ) .
“e . leslie gilliams , “will women’s leadership change movies ? ” illustrated world ( february 1923 ) : 38 , 860 , 956 . ↩
notes : the working title of the film was bittersweet . some sources credit the scenario to arthur statter . at a production cost of $ 90 , 220 , the shock was a relatively modest film , but it earned $ 257 , 327 in revenue , giving universal a respectable profit of $ 46 , 965 .
the shock is a film that offers many moods . the story jumps from the ominous aura of queen ann , to the sweetness of watching wilse’s life improve , to the heartbreak wilse feels when he learns the woman he loves is engaged to another man . and , yes , there are a few genuine moments of “shock , ” too , when wilse’s past comes back to bite him . a whole lot of emotion is packed into these 64 minutes !
note : the shock is from a good sepia - toned print and has a fine score by robert israel for small ensemble with piano . nomads is also from a good print and is accompanied by israel on an instrument called the fotoplayer ; the accompaniment treats the film with the level of seriousness it warrants .
sam kula , “up from the permafrost : the dawson city collection , ” in this film is dangerous : a celebration of nitrate film , ed . roger smither ( london : fédération internationale des archives du film , 2002 ) . ↩
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can you imagine being so type casted as a villain that the one time you play a good person that’s what the movie is known for ? with surprisingly sincere and tender acting from lon chaney , the shock is a story of a gangster that switches sides after falling in love with the daughter of the man he is helping to ruin . gripping and well acted , the shock is something pleasantly different to most of chaney’s films
by 1946 , the woman in distress and the femme fatale were frequently appearing in film noirs . shock , however , is distinctive for having both together . in an unusual triangle , elaine , the femme fatale , is not only responsible for richard’s downfall but also for making janet the woman in distress .
the working title of the film was bittersweet . the screenplay was based on william dudley pelley ' s magazine story ,
the pit of the golden dragon
. although mainly shot in the universal studios , the climactic earthquake scenes were a mix of model and archival film footage , mixed in with live action . principal photography on the shock took place in june 1922 , after chaney finished work as fagin on oliver twist ( 1922 ) in late may 1922 .
the film is accompanied by a canned score compiled from a number of preexisting orchestral recordings .
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the film was originally budgeted at $ 166 , 785 but went $ 68 , 000 over budget .
the issues held by the austrian film museum can be viewed online in full length and with german and english translation : urltoken .
the next step was my work on the agit - trains of the all - russian central executive committee . comrade lenin attached great significance to the use of film in the work of the agitational trains and steamers . and so on january 6 , 1920 , i leave with comrade kalinin for the southeast front . i take films with me . including the anniversary of the revolution . 10 we study the new viewer . we screen that film at all the train stops and carry it to urban movie theatres . at the same time , we shoot . the result is a film about the journey of the all - russian senior leader , kalinin . the period of my work concludes with the big film a history of the civil war ( vertov 1984a : 151 ) .
universal pictures corporation production ; distributed by universal pictures corporation [ universal - jewel ] . / scenario by [ ? ] arthur statter and / or charles kenyon ? , from a screen story by william dudley pelley . cinematography by dwight warren . presented by carl laemmle . / © 27 april 1923 by universal pictures corporation [ lp18917 ] . released 10 june 1923 . / standard 35mm spherical 1 . 33 : 1 format . / working title : bittersweet . de vere’s final film .
clara kimball young film corporation — 1916–1917 with lewis j . selznick ( producer )
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raynauld , 578 , says that sargent’s 1911 the technique of the photoplay laid out rules that defined what was and was not cinematic . between 1912 to 1923 , she says , one hundred and nine manuals were published in english . see azlant 1997 , 228–256 . ↩
widdis , emma . 2003 . visions of a new land . soviet film from the revolution to the second world war . new haven .
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 .
( dziga vertov , 1918 , ussr ) can be considered vertov’s first film , and it exists in parts in the russian state documentary film & photo archive ( rgakfd ) in krasnogorsk near moscow .
signal film corporation — 1915 helen holmes with j . p . mcgowan ( producer )
the film is excellently accompanied by a piano and ensemble performance arranged and directed by the always - reliable robert israel . the quality of his work continues to impress us .
da vinci ' s the last supper plays a key role in the 2006 blockbuster hit the da vinci code . although the film ' s claims are more fiction than fact , could the painting actually contain a message from leonardo ?
myrtle gebhart , “business women in film studios , ” the business woman ( december 1923 ) : 67–68 . “the girls who do not act , ” picture - play magazine ( december 1924 ) : 102 , 119 , gives more detail about this work , explaining that a film joiner is a “splicer , ” that in addition to working as a librarian a woman might be employed as a researcher ( “research worker” ) , and that they were numerous not only in the millinery but in the drapery department . ↩
propaganda in motion . dziga vertov ` s and aleksandr medvedkin ` s film trains and agit steamers of the 1920s and 1930s | heftberger | apparatus . film , media and digital cultures of central and eastern europe
österreichisches filmmuseum , thomas tode , and barbara wurm , eds . 2006 . dziga vertov . the vertov collection at the austrian film museum . vienna .
micheaux film company — alice b . russell ( actress ) with oscar micheaux ( director )
the shock and nomads of the north are two minor lon chaney films released as a dvd double feature by image entertainment . as a window on chaney’s career , the films fall at either end of the transition period between his early years playing supporting roles and his later years of superstardom . as entertainment , they illustrate the compensations and limitations of star power .
see giovanna fossati , from grain to pixel : the archival life of film in transition ( amsterdam : amsterdam university press , 2009 ) , on the restoration of beyond the rocks . ↩
the ten canoes agreement recognizes the ramingining community’s property rights for all artefacts and sets made for the film . these materials were included in a recent multi - media art / cultural exhibition .
with so much going on , and in such a short run - time , the shock could easily have been a confused mess of a film , with underdeveloped characters and predictable plot developments . that fate is avoided through a wonderful lead performance by lon chaney , and a nicely - crafted script . the viewer’s interest is effortlessly held by this engrossing tale . the score : 5 / 5 !
blaney - spooner feature film company — 1913 cecil spooner with charles e . blaney ( producer )
i had to provide explanations of the films for nearly every audience . most of the films were made crudely and carelessly , and an average viewer seeing them for the first time cannot understand them completely . solving the riddles with the glosses made the film understandable even to the nearly illiterate ( ibid . ) . 11
but the sheer number of creative opportunities was eventually reversed when the more expensive multireel feature film became the standard , and it became more difficult to secure financing for larger production budgets . as karen mahar has pointed out , although feature films originally provided opportunity for independent companies outside the mppc distribution and exhibition system , as the multireel feature presentation became the standard , the competitive strategy behind the feature film business involved eliminating small companies by raising the capital investment required ( 2006 ) .
the young dziga vertov was enlisted by the vtsik in order to manage the film and photo division of the trains in january 1920 . this can be proven by several documents held in the vertov - collection in the austrian film museum , for example the document “confirmation ( of the all - russian committee of the deputies of the soviet of workers , cossacks and red army soldiers ) ” 7 or “confirmation no . 11001” 8 . he had been head of cinema on some of the journeys of the agit - train october revolution , and of red east in 1920 . 9
nomads is typical of curwood’s work . it has the positives of the strong frontierswoman and the superficial realism of the unusual setting . it also has the negatives of broad melodrama and sentimental depictions of animals ; the challoners’ dog is best of friends with their domesticated bear , and the film includes tiresome , overlong scenes of both the pets and forest animals .
the western film producing company and booking exchange – maria p . williams ( writer - producer – jesse l . williams ( producer )
monopol film company – 1912 marion leonard with stanner e . v . taylor ( writer - director )
josephine rector ( a / w ) in scene from unidentified production . essanay film manufacturing company . ampas
film preservation 1993 : a study of the current state of american film preservation , vol . 1 , report , june 1993 ( report of the librarian of congress , 3–4 ) ; david pierce , “the legion of the condemned—why american silent films perished , ” film history 9 ( 1977 ) , 17 , note # 1 , notes that the figures might be larger if films held by private collectors were added . note also that features but not shorts are counted . ↩
the first “film factory on reels” left the station in the night in january 18 / 19 , 1932 , and was in existence for three years without a definitive end date . the destination of this first expedition was the ukrainian mining region dnepropetrovsk , with the aim of improving the efficiency of the industrial transportation systems and looking into problems with the poor organisation in the factories responsible for servicing railway engines ( widdis 2005 : 24 ) .
for more detail see max alvarez , “the motion picture distributing and sales company , ” film history 19 ( 2007 ) : 247–70 . ↩
see jane gaines , “pink - slipped : what happened to women in the silent film industry ? ” the wiley - blackwell history of american film , ed . cynthia a . lucia , roy grundmann , and art simon ( london : wiley - blackwell , 2011 ) . ↩
lowell film productions — 1925 lillian case russell with john lowell [ john l . russell ] ( writer )
vertov , dziga . 1922 . kinopravda no . 9 / film - truth no . 9 . goskino .
when a crippled man is transformed , many strange events ( including the 1906 san francisco earthquake ) follow . a silent film starring lon chaney .
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see e . ann kaplan , women and film : both sides of the camera ( new york : methuen , 1979 ) , 50–59 . ↩
taylor , richard , and ian christie , eds . 1988 . the film factory : russian and soviet cinema in documents . cambridge , ma .
effectively , the october 15 , 1915 , court order broke up the motion picture patents company , and the patents company vs . the universal film manufacturing co . was not decided until april 9 , 1917 , but the hold began to loosen even before the first of the lawsuits challenging the patent pool monopoly in 1912 . see bowser 1990 , ch . 5 ; ramsaye 1986 , 715–16 . ↩
as it turns out , wilse is not the only one in fallbrook who has a past with queen anne . i won’t spoil just who else is involved with that mob matriarch , but i will say that the shock presents an intriguing crime drama . along with the less - dramatic story of a man finding redemption through the kindness and friendship of others , the tale of blackmail and corruption makes for an interesting watch .
heftberger , adelheid 2015 . “‘propaganda in motion . dziga vertov , aleksandr medvedkin , soviet agitation on agit - trains , agit - steamers , and the film train in the 1920s and 1930s . ” apparatus . film , media and digital cultures in central and eastern europe 1 . doi : urltoken
but not only was the filmmaker intensely involved with the film exhibition , he was actually a film presenter too . this meant offering oral explanations and commentary , although it is not clear at what point this aid to the audience was provided ( ibid . ) . vertov took these tasks very seriously and he was not happy with the selection of prints at his disposal :
unique film company — 1915 mrs . m . webb ( writer ) — miles m . webb ( producer )
marion , frances . how to write and sell film stories . new york : covici - friede , 1937 .
vertov , dziga . 1918 . kinonedelia no . 3 / film - week no . 3 . kinokomitet narkomprosa .
vertov , dziga . 1918 . kinonedelia no . 17 / film - week no . 17 . kinokomitet narkomprosa .
vertov , dziga . 1918 . kinonedelia no . 22 / film - week no . 22 . kinokomitet narkomprosa .
vertov , dziga . 1918 . kinonedelia no . 23 / film - week no . 23 . kinokomitet narkomprosa .
throughout march 1922 vertov became more involved with the administration of mobile cinema , until he started working on the kinopravda newsreels that spring . vertov struggled to create a mobile cinema and keep it going , stating his ideas about the dissemination of film in cities , along water routes , along railway lines , through special film wagons and automobiles .
smallwood film corporation – 1913 – ethel grandin with ray c . smallwood ( director ) , arthur smallwood ( brother )
see jane gaines , “pink - slipped : what happened to women in the silent film industry ? ” in the wiley - blackwell history of american film , ed . cynthia a . lucia , roy grundmann , and art simon ( london : wiley - blackwell , 2012 ) , for the argument that given recent research , the story has changed from the idea that there were “no women in 1925” to the idea that opportunities for women were “over by 1925 . ” ↩
ten canoes ( rolf de heer , 2006 ) is australia’s most ambitious and most expensive cross - cultural film project to date . the balanda and the bark canoes ( molly reynolds , tania nehme and rolf de heer , 2006 ) that takes us behind the scenes of this film to provide invaluable insight into the extraordinary processes of collaboration between balanda ( “white - fella” ) , director rolf de heer and the yolngu people of ramingining .
this text was printed from the women film pioneers project at columbia university . to promote readability and conserve consumable resources , images and interactive elements in the digital version do not appear in print format .
there are other instances in shock , however , when the person with higher rank has the advantage , for good or ill . janet arrives at the hotel , and the clerk tells her no room is available . the hotel manager comes out and arranges a room for her . the hotel doctor can only give a non - specialist’s evaluation of janet , so she’s turned over to richard . due to his position at the sanatorium , richard can get away with administering an overdose to janet . dr . harvey , under whom richard studied , has the prestige and confidence to barge into the sanatorium to save janet .
a criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost .
at about 43 : 05 , wilse is crossing a room in anne ' s house . he moves his bad right foot which is paralyzed throughout the film .
a magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician ' s wife .
gaines , jane ; radha vatsal .
how women worked in the us silent film industry .
in jane gaines , radha vatsal , and monica dall’asta , eds .
epes w . sargent , “the literary side of the motion picture world , ” moving picture world 21 ( 11 july 1914 ) : 199 , rpt . in film history 9 ( 1997 ) : 269–274 . ↩
one of the explanations for this has to do with the lawsuit filed against the kalem company by the estate of author lew wallace after the release of ben hur ( 1907 ) . in the years before copyright in the motion picture was established , adaptation and other kinds of borrowing were common practice . the search for “original” stories was seen as a way around the problem . ↩
the idea to use film to correct “everything that was wrong” has been one of the things which clearly distinguished medvedkin’s approach and method from the agit - trains ten years earlier . the population should neither be entertained nor supported morally , but actually see their own crimes against the soviet state and their fellow man , and be punished in public :
films with a revolutionary character will also be widely used at the front . the committee is organizing ten special trains , named after comrade lenin , three of which will be leaving for the fronts at the beginning of november . the trains will have a mobile camera , set up in a car . film material will also be sent to the provinces ( anonymous 2004 : 38 ) .
what ' s the difference between england , britain and the u . k . ?
this argument was first made in michael wood , america at the movies . new york : basic books , 1975 . it is developed in christine gledhill , “the melodramatic field : an introduction , ” in home is where the heart is : studies in melodrama and the woman’s film , ed . christine gledhill ( london : british film institute , 1987 ) , 13 , 34 , and again in linda williams , “melodrama revisited , ” in refiguring american film genres : history and theory , ed . nick browne ( berkeley : university of california press , 2001 ) . ↩
hitting the earth , thousands of years ago at a spot in africa . amazed by the demonstration , the pair invite rukh to go on an expedition to find the meteor .
the “familial mode” or system might possibly be seen in what charles musser has called the “collaborative system” he sees dominant until 1907–08 ( “pre - classical american cinema : its changing modes of film production , ” in silent film , ed . richard abel [ new brunswick : rutgers university press , 1996 , 86 ] . the “camera - system , ” followed by the “director - unit system , ” and finally the “central producer system” have been described most fully by janet staiger in david bordwell , kristin thompson , and janet staiger , the classical hollywood cinema : film style & mode of production to 1960 ( new york : columbia university press , 1985 ) , 113–41 . ↩
in affording lon chaney one of the spectacular characterizations for which he has shown an aptitude , universal has achieved a striking success in the shock . . . for his followers the production will most likely have an intense appeal . . . at times his extreme physical deformity and resulting contortion are rather harrowing . he gives a vivid performance , but sometimes it is too intense to be pleasant .
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both vertov and medvedkin were preoccupied with trying to find new forms of engaging the audience in the cinematic experience and both claimed that there was no existing film language they could use . their genre of choice was initially the documentary , a form medvedkin would eventually leave in order to make feature films and to develop his comic approach further . both stressed the involvement of the local community ( in medvedkin’s case ) or the viewer generally ( in vertov’s case ) in the production of films . perhaps we can see vertov here as the more radical thinker , who not only wanted to show his audience on the screen , but envisioned a system of film–reporters who would produce their own images and share them with the world .
in europe the war began between july 28 and august 4 , 1914 , and the us entered the war in july 1917 . ↩
in fifteenth century paris , the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt . meanwhile , a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen .
- okay , this was a good one - more melodrama and tears packed into one movie than you might ever desire - lillian gish is absolutely fantastic in this film . a long , involving silent film that i found very entertaining and nicely photographed . the scene where lillian as angela takes her final vows to become a nun is beautifully done . this film , as screened on tcm , featured a quite nice orchestral score done by garth neustadter . the film was tinted in some scenes , and looked reasonably good except for some scenes with a bit of decomposition . for gish fans ( like me ! ) this is a can ' t miss .
rick altman , film / genre ( bloomington : indiana university press , 1999 ) , 33–35 . see also tom gunning , “non - continuity , continuity , discontinuity : a theory of genres in early film , ” iris 2 , no . 1 ( 1983 ) : 101–112 . ↩
in the us , women had the right to vote in 1911 in the state of california , but not until 1920 was it granted at the federal level . scholars concur that despite the benefit from a change in the political climate that accrued to women who worked in the new industry , there is no evidence of any direct hollywood association with the suffrage movement . ↩
vertov , dziga . 2006 . “dziga vertov : tvorčeskaja kartočka ( 1917 - 1947 ) . ” in the vertov collection at the austrian film museum , edited by österreichisches filmmuseum , thomas tode , and barbara wurm , 79–158 . vienna .
austrian film museum , vienna digital formalism ( 2007 - 2010 ) . she holds a phd in slavic studies as well as a ma in comparative studies from the university of innsbruck , and has published about the visualization of filmic structure in the work of dziga vertov and archival topics .
“m . e . w . chinese film producer” [ marion e . wong ] , moving picture world , 7 july 1917 , 63 . ↩
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political leaders would frequently travel to the front lines , conducting agitation and help to support the morale of the red army . the following two images are taken from different issues of the kinonedelia , kinonedelia no . 3 / film - week no . 3 ( dziga vertov , 1918 , ussr ) and kinonedelia no . 22 / film - week no . 22 ( dziga vertov , 1918 , ussr ) , which show the head commander of the soviet army in the northern caucasus , comrade avtonomov ( fig . 8 ) , and lev trotskii’s meeting czech troops in penza ( fig . 9 ) . david king’s book does not only include great images of the agit - trains , but he also writes about trotskii’s way of using the trains for his goals :
the invisible ray is a 1936 american science fiction film starring boris karloff ( credited as '
karloff
) and béla lugosi as dr . felix benet that was released by universal pictures .
one of the most influential texts in this debate is marcia langton’s well , i heard it on the radio and i saw it on the television : an essay for the australian film commission on the politics and aesthetics of filmmaking by and about aboriginal people and things ( sydney : australian film commission , 1993 ) . also see eric michaels’ groundbreaking essays on cross - cultural media , including “for a culture future” , which have been edited by paul foss and published as bad aboriginal art ( university of minnesota press , 1994 ) .
florence lawrence , in her “growing up with the movies” recalls that the first production in which she appeared for the edison manufacturing company , daniel boone ; or , pioneer days in america ( 1907 ) sold outright for $ 150 , which was 15 cents per foot ( 41 ) . within the next two years , however , the mppc , of which edison was the controlling member , put in place a system of film print rental as opposed to purchase , an attempt to control the 35mm print duplication considered a copyright violation . thus we understand the 1909–1912 years of the mppc as the period of rented shorts and the all - shorts mixed - genre exhibition program .
vertov , dziga . 1918 . godovshchina revoliutsii / the anniversary of the revolution . kinokomitet narkomprosa .
the skull of the first animal to set foot on land is found at miguasha national park .
in this sense vertov and medvedkin can be seen as predecessors of tv or online - journalism – to shoot , process and project the images as fast as possible : “12 minutes - project of mobile film projection unit . only 12 minutes transpire from the arrival time at the show location to the beginning of the screening . ” ( österreichisches filmmuseum , tode and wurm 2006 : 84 ) .
for an excellent overview of this history and a provocative contribution to the debates on protocols , see frances peters - little , “ the impossibility of pleasing everybody : a legitimate role for white filmmakers making black film ” , in australian humanities review .
this begins with edgar morin , the stars ( 1960 ; rpt . minneapolis : university of minnesota press , 2005 ) , richard dyer , stars ( london : british film institute , 1979 ) . the most comprehensive coverage of the silent star is richard decordova , picture personalitie : the emergence of the star system in america ( champaign - urbana : university of illinois press , 1990 ) . ↩
the wave of good feeling between the two countries would soon dissipate , however , in mutual accusations . japanese expressed resentment toward western rescuers ; demagogues in the united states charged that the japanese had been “ungrateful” for the outpouring of help they received .
as a company job , the scenario writer was sometimes also responsible for titling , or intertitle writing , and within this labor of writing there might have been another breakdown : continuity writer , film editor , and scenario editor ( mcgilligan 1986 , 2 ) . some women established themselves as both film editor and scenario editor , the latter of which required more writing , as , for example , beta breuil and hettie gray baker , who emerged from the editing department to head up departments as scenario editors . in her 1914 art of photoplay writing , catherine carr describes the responsibilities of the scenario editor in what she calls the “maiden trip” of the manuscript :
sydney valentine , “the girl producer , ” photoplay ( july 1923 ) : 55 , 110 . all that we know about twenty - two year old grace haskins is from this article that , as it admits , takes a “horatio alger , ” obscurity - to - fame approach . grace begins in a hollywood hotel and moves up to a job answering fan letters , and from there to a job cutting and then writing continuity . ↩
see paper document with the title “project of a scenario , intended for the shoot during the time of the agit - train ‘soviet caucasus’” , dated may 2 , 1920 ( deriabin 2004 : 44 - 47 ) . deriabin points out that vertov possibly edited footage into film soviet caucasus , made by his friend and collaborator at that time , anatolii lemberg .
picture is an underworld story , with chaney cast as a cripple , and the effort apparently was to give it some touch of the atmosphere of the miracle man , in which chaney came into fame almost overnight in the part of the
frog .
the subject misses by a wide margin the high aim of the other vehicle and degenerates into a cheap shocker .
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everything is changing , everything is going , going , gone now . the only thing the children know is some ceremony [ … ] they not even normal kids anymore . maybe they gonna keep this film with them so they can put it in their head .
carr was among the group of women who saw scenario writing as a profession and wrote manuals published in the silent as well as in the sound era .
christine gledhill , “rethinking genre , ” in reinventing film studies , ed . christine gledhill and linda williams ( london : arnold , 2000 ) , 240 . ↩
there are a few bright spots aside from chaney . the queen is an excellent villainess . it is a part that needed only a name change to be re - cast as a villain , a gender reversal i enjoyed for its own sake and for the queen’s costume changes ; her every scene brought a marvelous new dress and accessories . the film also offers one of the few chances to see chaney get the girl .
hi ni oware mizu ni oboru
( chased by the fire , drowned in the water ) , by artist nyosen hamada . at the time , the great kanto earthquake was considered to be the worst natural disaster ever to strike quake - prone japan .
a bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him .
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king , david . 2009 . red star over russia . a visual history of the soviet union from the revolution to the death of stalin . new york .
while the political section drew up itineraries and organized the work , the information section was responsible for organizing lectures , distributing brochures , and it also controlled the film projector ( kenez 1985 : 60 ) . cinema was considered a very powerful instrument in agitational work and films were even produced just to be shown in agit - trains . the soviet people’s commissar of enlightenment responsible for culture and education , anatolii lunacharskii , wrote in 1919 :
vertov told me lately in a conversation that ideally he would have in mind a kind of sculptural film , which is no longer localised on the flat cinema screen , but whose protagonists seem to run – or literally do run - into the audience ( arnheim 1931 ) .
• artist and broadcaster bill reid , whose mother was haida , was one of the members of the crew . as reid explains in this report , the team was comprised of
four anthropologists , three haida fishermen - the skipper of the boat , his brother and the cook - two cameramen , an enthusiastic amateur authority on haida houses and villages , and me : a descendant of the haidas and representative of the cbc .
the earthquake also exposed the darker side of humanity . within hours of the catastrophe , rumors spread that korean immigrants were poisoning wells and using the breakdown of authority to plot the overthrow of the japanese government . ( japan had occupied korea in 1905 , annexed it five years later and ruled the territory with an iron grip . ) roving bands of japanese prowled the ruins of yokohama and tokyo , setting up makeshift roadblocks and massacring koreans across the earthquake zone . according to some estimates , the death toll was as high as 6 , 000 .
chaney gets the girl in nomads of the north too , although it’s the only point of resemblance between the two films . nomads is a northwoods melodrama adapted from a novel by james oliver curwood , a popular author of the day whose stories inspired many movies . chaney plays a french - canadian trapper named raoul challoner whose fiancee nanette ( betty blythe ) is also the object of desire of the scurrilous son of the manager of the company settlement and an honorable mountie ( lewis stone ) .
in the hall of the railway station – in every train station hall , even in the smallest village – the door of a wooden shed is open , and above this shed one can read the word agitpunkt . in this shed a man sells and distributes agitation brochures , leaflets and the official newspapers . the hall is , like the walls of all cities , plastered all over with posters and newspapers ( holitscher 2012 : 55 ) .
meanwhile , a wall of water surged from the fault zone toward the coast of honshu . three hundred people died in kamakura , the ancient capital , when a 20 - foot - high wave washed over the town . “the tidal wave swept out a great section of the village near the beach , ” wrote henry w . kinney , a tokyo - based editor for trans - pacific magazine . “i saw a thirty - foot sampan [ boat ] that had been lifted neatly on top of the roof of a prostrated house . vast portions of the hills facing the ocean had slid into the sea . ”
it spoke of a world of long ago , where things were different , life as different to anything that could be imagined by almost any balanda anywhere . to enter that world would be the essence of real cinema [ … ] the film had started to form . ( 4 )
he wanted the newsreels to be “live” , so how he perceived the idea of shooting and showing film was intrinsically connected with speed and movement , but also to working with limited possibilities . for this reason special cinema trucks were developed by the mechanic john yolk in 1920 / 1921 for service on the western front and in the villages around petersburg , novgorod and kiev . they were projector and camera all - in - one and far more mobile than the trains or steamers ( tode 2008 : 152 ) .
perhaps because it was considered a purely mechanical and tedious undertaking , requiring only attention to detail , keen eyesight , and nimble hands , film editing in the first decade was often carried out by anonymous , young working - class women . their duties were considered to be no more creative than cutting and pasting hundreds of feet of negative and positive film , and , as such , cutters and joiners were not mentioned in the trade presses , which the first century of us motion picture history relied upon so exclusively .
references : film credits , film viewing : edmonds - bigu pp . 120 - 121 ; everson - american p . 113 ; hirschhorn - universal p . 41 ; lahue - gentlemen pp . 48 , 52 ; limbacher - feature p . 221 ; weaver - twenty p . 77 : clasim - 223 p . 47 : website - afi .
medvedkin had started in theatre , where he used the grotesque , clowning , burlesque , comedy , circus or farce to educate the illiterate audience . he then went on to making one reelers , which were soon criticised by the party officials , but lunacharskii spoke up for him and made sure he could continue making films . medvedkin did not like to use musical accompaniment and produced newsreels from documentary materials . finally the director developed his concept of the film train :
for colour images of the trains see vladimir tolstoi ( 2006 ) . a very useful publication is also the book by david king ( 2009 ) . king informs us about some details connected to the decoration of the trains , for example that the first agit - trains were laminated with posters ; the following ones instead were painted with oil - based paint . he draws our attention to the publication by viacheslav polonskii ( 1925 ) and argues that the language and style used are very similar to the russian petrushka theatre .
furthermore , the main task of cinema in both its scientific and feature divisions is that of propaganda . generally speaking , every art , as tolstoy once remarked , is above all a means of instilling the artist’s emotions into the masses . education in the wider sense of the word consists in the dissemination of ideas among minds that would otherwise remain a stranger to them . cinema can accomplish both these things with particular force : it constitutes , on the one hand , a visual clarion for the dissemination of ideas and , on the other hand , if we introduce elements of the refined , the poetic , the pathetic etc . , it is capable of touching the emotions and thus becomes an apparatus of agitation ( taylor and christie 1988 : 47 ) .
macpherson , jeanie . the necessity and value of theme in the photoplay . los angeles : palmer photoplay , 1920 .
see don crafton , “the pie and the chase , ” in wanda strauven , ed . the cinema of attractions reloaded ( amsterdam : amsterdam university press , 2006 ) . also see nöel carroll , “notes on the sight gag , ” in the slapstick symposium , ed . eileen bowser . ↩
on the significance of boucicault for the american stage see daniel gerould , american melodrama ( 1983 ; 2001 ) . ↩
starewicz , władisław . 1913 . strekoza i muravei / the grasshopper and the ant . a . khanzhonkov and co .
i think that is the issue . it is about appropriation in some respects , because the western notion of the artist as hero goes right up against indigenous cultural paradigms of cultural material belonging to the community from whence it comes from .
• the totem poles were moved to the royal british columbia museum in victoria and the university of british columbia ( ubc ) in vancouver . according to maria tippett , author of
the film began when i showed a photograph from donald doctor thomson to rolf de heer and said what do you think ? rolf de heer started to write that story with ramingining people , my people , and we started to work together .
in both scenes where richard and elaine are at his house , he regrets “listening” to her and not calling the police after he killed his wife . in the first scene , he resists when she urges him not to allow janet’s shock “to wear off . ” he wants “to think” about it . but when she takes his arms and comes close to him , it is understood that she will get her way . in the second scene , elaine says they should “take care of” janet so she can’t be interviewed by the police . richard is unwilling to give janet a lethal injection , and elaine criticizes him for being weak . then , with the gentlest of manner , she tries seduction .
the 1907 to 1920 period is characterized by the professionalization and institutionalization of writing for the screen , although in the first half of this period , when the demand for stories was so high , many actresses also wrote their own scenarios . epes w . sargent even reported in moving picture world that at the edison company everyone on the set was writing scenarios . ( 46 ) around 1909 , companies also began to advertise to the public for original stories . ( 47 ) according to scholars , departments appeared around 1911 , the first year that sargent published the first screenwriting manual and the edison company began to give some writers screen credit . ( 48 )
to the exerting of influence and the showing of life we should add demonstration which transforms daily life , a kind of laboratory , passed through film montage , of new forms which are being invented now ( clothes , architecture , furniture , gestures , and so forth ) ( arvatov 2004 : 132 ) .
first it is delivered to the scenario department , where it is duly opened and catalogued by an under clerk . it then reaches the professional reader ( if the company is a large one ) , and if thought to contain merit , it is finally placed upon the editor’s desk , where it has its final reading and the decision is made to either retain it or return it… when the manuscript has been purchased , and the author has signed the necessary release slip , stating that it is original and not an adapted theme , the work of making the picture begins ( 21 ) . ( 50 )
marker was not the only one to point out how medvedkin’s life story ( 1900 - 1989 ) echoes the story of the “soviet dream itself” . emma widdis explores this thought further :
bowser , 1990 , 186 , was early to note a connection between the serial heroine and the new woman , mentioning female “writer - directors” alice guy , gene gauntier , and lois weber in the same paragraph as the “brave heroine . ” ↩
mevedkin’s career , and his life , run in parallel with the life and death of the ussr , and mirror the complexities and moral ambiguities of that ill - fated experiment . his major works stand as testament to the tensions and creativity of the years between 1917 and 1940 , at once conforming to the political imperatives of the age and subverting them . his creative life is emblematic of the difficult trajectory of an artist committed to that most capricious of regimes ( widdis 2005 : 1 ) .
next to the train october revolution ( that travelled to the central regions and nearly all of the front lines of the civil war , as well as the ukraine , don , cuban , northern caucasus and siberia ) the best known trains are red east ( to turkestan in march 1920 ) , soviet caucasus ( northern caucasus and azerbaijan in october 1920 ) and red cossack ( don and cuban area from april to july 1920 ) . the most famous agit - steamer is without doubt the red star , which travelled along the river volga and river kama between july 1919 and the fall of 1921 ( fig . 10 ) .
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in the silent era , european exoticism was also faked . welsh immigrant muriel harding styled herself as polish countess olga petrova and as a move for artistic control , started petrova pictures corporation in 1917 , outside the studio system ( mcmahan 2002 , 180 ) . valda valkyrien , the danish actress born in reykjavik , iceland , adopted the aristocratic persona of mademoiselle valkyrien to help her career when she immigrated to the us . she found work at the thanhouser company and later announced the valda valkyrien production company , although the evidence that the company produced any films has yet to be found .
as a warrior , a soldier in a victorious army and a political activist who was used to dealing with the education of red army soldiers , i entered cinema in order to attack this kind of film , to defeat it and to arm cinema with the new , rich political genre of satire ( ibid . : 167 ) .
it is now well established that the phasing out of women paralleled the development of the motion picture business into the corporate studio system , in place by the mid - 1920s . yet the exceptions to the “over by 1925” rule are important . ( 6 ) many writers and most editors continued to work within the studio system , and a few companies started by hollywood insiders remained , such as the dorothy davenport reid company , mrs . wallace reid productions , operating from 1924 to 1929 , and leah baird productions , started with cool producer arthur beck , and lasting from 1921 to 1927 .
two thieves , the blackbird and west end bertie , fall in love with the same girl , a french nightclub performer named fifi . each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart .