The Golden Age of Comedy
The Golden Age of Comedy( 1957) is a compilation of silent comedy films from the Mack Sennett and Hal Roach studios, written and produced by Robert Youngson.
Youngson had previously produced several award- winning short documentaries beforehand, and this was the first compilation of its kind in feature- length form.
Initially, the film was distributed by a small independent company, Distributors Corporation of America, before being taken up by major Hollywood studio Twentieth Century Fox.
The film's commercial success led Youngson to follow suit with other silent film compilations over the next decade.
The film is often regarded as particularly bringing Laurel and Hardy back into the public's notice after years of obscurity( they are the film's most predominately featured performers), but Oliver Hardy died around the time of the film's release in August 1957.
The film was released( along with several other Youngson compilations) on DVD for the first time in the United States in 2007.
Its main musical theme is derived from Chopin's" Etude Op. 10, No. 3", often known as" Tristesse".
Yakuza exclusion ordinances
Yakuza exclusion ordinances or is the Japanese collective term for ordinances or local laws that aim to cut the citizen – yakuza relationship.
The concept is" The yakuza versus society", shifting from" The yakuza versus the police".
The ordinances prohibit citizens from making or keeping up a relationship with the yakuza.
The targeted acts and treatment for the violators differ between prefectures.
Some prefectures only set an obligation of" endeavor" to citizens, or a penalty in which companies in violation of the law are publicly exposed.
But others impose imprisonment or a fine on their citizens.
Among the prefectures, Fukuoka leads the way in toughening the regulations.
Fukuoka was the first prefecture where the comprehensive ordinance came into force: commencing April 10, 2010.
Once the ordinances of Okinawa and Tokyo went into effect on October 10, 2011, all of Japan's prefectures have had the ordinance.
The ordinances pursue cutting any implicit relationships between citizens and the yakuza.
Some of the prohibitions contain punishment against citizens.
But a few of the definitions and their range of application are blurry.
Especially what acts should be regarded as “ a payoff that assists the yakuza ’s activity or operation ” and “ close association with the yakuza ”; these definitions remain somewhat arbitrary for the authorities.
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Broadway: The Golden Age is a 2003 documentary film by Rick McKay, telling the story of the "golden age" of Broadway by the oral history of the legendary actors of the 1940s and 1950s, incorporating rare lost footage of actual performances and never-before-seen personal home movies and photos.
List of comedy films of the 1960s
A list of comedy films released in the 1960s.
History of comedy
History of comedy may refer to:
List of comedy films of the 1980s
A list of comedy films released in the 1980s.
At the Movies
At the Movies may refer to:
List of comedy films of the 2010s
A list of comedy films in the 2010s.
Golden age of physics
A golden age of physics appears to have been delineated for certain periods of progress in the physics sciences, and this includes the previous and current developments of cosmology and astronomy.
Each" golden age" introduces significant advancements in theoretical and experimental methods.
Discernible time periods marking a" golden age" of advancements are, for example, the development of mechanics under Galileo( 1564 – 1642) and Newton( 1642 – 1727).
Another small epoch seen as a golden age is the unification of electricity, magnetism, and optics because of 19th century notables, including Faraday, Maxwell, and others.
Significant advancements in methods of investigation were introduced for celestial mechanics, which includes realizing a universal gravitational force, with the introduction of the telescope.
Basing mechanics on experimental results was possible with the development of devices that could measure time, and tools for measuring distance.
The advances in electromagnetism in the 19th century enamored physicists, as another golden age closed, and there was a reluctance to perceive further advancement.
Hence, the progress of one era, termed a" golden age" has appeared to mark the completion of physics as a science.
Yet, this perception has turned out to be erroneous.
For example, around 1980, Stephen Hawking predicted the end of theoretical physics within 20 years.
Around 2001, he amended his prediction to twenty years more from that year.
Steven Weinberg predicts a unified physics by 2050.
Tadeusz Lulek, Barbara Lulek, and A. Wal – the authors of a 2001 book – believed themselves to be at the beginning of a new" golden age of physics".
Paul Davies notes that whilst" many elderly scientists" may regard the first 30 years of the 20th century as a golden age of physics, historians may well, instead, regard it to be the dawning days of" the New Physics".
The golden age of physics was the 19th century.
According to Emilio Segrè, in Italy it came to an end in the 18th century, after the time of Alessandro Volta.
He reported in his autobiography that Enrico Fermi felt that it was coming to an end in 1933.
A golden age of physics began with the simultaneous discovery of the principle of the conservation of energy in the mid-19th century.
A golden age of physics was the years 1925 to 1927.
The golden age of nonlinear physics was the period from 1950 to 1970, encompassing the Fermi – Pasta – Ulam – Tsingou problem and others.
This followed the golden age of nuclear physics, which had spanned the two decades from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.
A golden age of physics started at the end of the 1920s.
The golden age of physics cabinets was the 18th century, with the rise of such lecturer- demonstrators as John Keill, John Theophilus Desaguliers, and William Whiston, who all invented new physics apparatus for their lectures.
The Yakuza
The Yakuza is a 1975 neo- noir drama film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura and Brian Keith.
The screenplay by Paul Schrader and Robert Towne is from a story by Leonard Schrader.
The film is about a retired American detective who returns to Japan after several years away in order to rescue his friend's daughter, kidnapped by gangsters.
Following a lackluster initial release, the film has since gained a cult following.

Question: Did the movies The Yakuza and The Golden Age of Comedy, originate from the same country?
Answer: yes