Inauguration of the Commonwealth
Inauguration of the Commonwealth( or Inauguration of the Australian Commonwealth) was a 1901 Australian documentary film made by the Limelight Department of The Salvation Army.
It was commissioned by the Government of New South Wales to record the Commonwealth Celebration Day.
It was Australia's first feature- length documentary film, going for 35 minutes.
According to the Salvation Army's website," it was five times the length of any earlier Australian film and was the first Australian film to use simultaneous multiple- camera coverage; it was the most widely distributed Australian film of its time."
Much of the footage still survives today.
Amit Gupta
Amit Gupta( born 29 May 1984) is an Indian cricketer.
Gupta is a right- handed batsman who bowls right- arm medium pace.
He was born in Delhi, India.
Gupta was initially undertook his studies at Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, which is a part of the University of Delhi, before attending Anglia Ruskin University in England.
While studying there, Gupta made his first- class cricket debut for Cambridge MCCU against Surrey in 2011.
In this match, he scored 10 runs in Cambridge MCCU's first- innings, before being dismissed by Freddie van den Bergh, while in their second- innings he was not required to bat.
Let the Game Begin
Let the Game Begin is a 2010 American romantic comedy from Twisted Light Productions, directed by Amit Gupta.
The film stars actor Adam Rodriguez and Stephen Baldwin.
The film was released in Australia on May 5, 2010, and was released in other countries in 2010 and 2011.
Pleasuredome
Pleasuredome or Pleasure Dome may refer to:
The Pleasure
The Pleasure is an Italian erotic drama film directed by Joe D'Amato.
Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger( born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author.
Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost forty works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped together as the" Magick Lantern Cycle".
His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing" elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle".
Anger himself has been described as" one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self- implicating manner", and his" role in rendering gay culture visible within American cinema, commercial or otherwise, is impossible to overestimate", with several being released prior to the legalization of homosexual acts between consenting adults in the United States.
He has also focused upon occult themes in many of his films, being fascinated by the English gnostic mage and poet Aleister Crowley, and is an adherent of Thelema, the religion Crowley founded.
Born to a middle- class family in Santa Monica, California, Anger would later claim to have been a child actor who appeared in the film" A Midsummer Night's Dream"( 1935); the accuracy of this claim has come under dispute.
He began making short films when he was ten years old, although his first film to gain any recognition, the homoerotic" Fireworks"( 1947), would only be produced a decade later.
The controversial nature of the work led to him being put on trial on obscenity charges, but he was acquitted.
A friendship and working relationship began subsequently with pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinsey.
Moving to Europe, Anger produced a number of other shorts inspired by the artistic avant- garde scene on the continent, such as" Rabbit's Moon"( released 1970) and" Eaux d' Artifice"( 1953).
Returning to the United States in 1953, he set about working on several new projects, including the films" Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome"( 1954)," Scorpio Rising"( 1964)," Kustom Kar Kommandos"( 1965), and the gossip book" Hollywood Babylon"( 1965).
The latter would become infamous for its many dubious and sensationalist claims, many of which were later disproven, though some do remain as urban legends.
Getting to know several notable countercultural figures of the time, including Tennessee Williams, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Marianne Faithfull and Anton LaVey, Anger involved them in his subsequent Thelemite- themed works," Invocation of My Demon Brother"( 1969) and" Lucifer Rising"( 1972).
Following his failure to produce a sequel to" Lucifer Rising", which he attempted through the mid-1980s, Anger retired from filmmaking, instead focusing on" Hollywood Babylon II"( 1984).
At the dawn of the 21st century he once more returned to filmmaking, producing shorts for various film festivals and events.
Anger has described filmmakers such as Auguste and Louis Lumière, Georges Méliès, and Maya Deren as influences, and has been cited as an important influence on later film directors like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and John Waters.
He has also been described as having" a profound impact on the work of many other filmmakers and artists, as well as on music video as an emergent art form using dream sequence, dance, fantasy, and narrative".
Samson De Brier
Samson De Brier( March 18, 1909 – April 1, 1995) was an actor and occultist, best known for hosting a popular Hollywood salon during the fifties and sixties, and for appearing in the 1954 underground film" Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome".
Born in China, De Brier grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
In 1922, while visiting Hollywood, he was given a bit part in the silent film" Salomé".
He also visited Paris as a teenager, and claimed to have met André Gide and Gertrude Stein, among others.
He later claimed to have been a lover of Gide, but this has not been substantiated.
De Brier moved to Los Angeles in 1941.
In the fifties he began hosting a regular salon at his Barton Avenue home.
It flourished for many years and was frequented by artists, writers, actors, filmmakers, and occultists.
Visitors were attracted by De Brier's knowledge of the occult( he is said to have practiced witchcraft), his store of Hollywood lore, and his collections of movie memorabilia and objets d'art.
Among those who attended De Brier's salon were author Anaïs Nin, filmmakers Kenneth Anger and Curtis Harrington, actors Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper, and occultists Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron and Anton LaVey.
In 1954 De Brier played several roles, including the principal role, in Anger's" Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome", which was filmed at his home.
Harrington, Nin and Cameron also appeared in the film.
He died in Los Angeles, California.
His papers are housed at the ONE National Gay& Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries.
Begin (surname)
Begin or Bégin is a surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
Begin
Begin or Bégin may refer to:
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome is a 38- minute short film by Kenneth Anger, filmed in 1954.
Anger created two other versions of this film in 1966 and the late 1970s.
According to him, the film takes the name" pleasure dome" from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's atmospheric poem" Kubla Khan".
Anger was inspired to make the film after attending a Halloween party called" Come as your Madness".
The film has gained cult film status.
Earlier prints of the film had sequences that were meant to be projected on three different screens, an idea inspired in part by Abel Gance's Napoléon( 1927 film).
The three- screen version was shown at the Brussels World's Fair.
Anger subsequently re-edited the film to layer the images.
The film( primarily in the second or third version) was often shown in American universities and art galleries during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The original edition soundtrack is a complete performance of" Glagolitic Mass" by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček( 1854 – 1928).
In 1966, a re-edited version known as' The Sacred Mushroom Edition' was made available.
In the late 1970s, a third revision was made, which was' The Sacred Mushroom Edition' re-edited to fit the Electric Light Orchestra album" Eldorado", omitting only" Illusions in G Major", a blues- rock tune that Anger felt did not fit the mood of the film.
The differences in the visuals of the 1954 original and the two revisions are minor.
An early version —shown only once on German television in the early 1980s, and held to this day by NDR—includes an additional three minutes at the beginning, including a reading of the poem" Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The film reflects Anger's deep interest in Thelema, the philosophy of Aleister Crowley and his followers, as indicated by Marjorie Cameron's role as" The Scarlet Woman"( an honorific Crowley bestowed on certain of his important magical partners).
Crowley's concept of a ritual masquerade party where attendees dress as gods and goddesses served as a direct inspiration for the film.
The film uses some footage of the Hell sequence from the 1911 Italian silent film" L'Inferno".
Near the end, scenes from Anger's earlier film" Puce Moment" are interpolated into the layered images and faces.

Question: Which film whose director is younger, Let The Game Begin or Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome?
Answer: Let The Game Begin