Coney Island Baby (film)
Coney Island Baby is a 2003 comedy- drama in which film producer Amy Hobby made her directorial debut.
Karl Geary wrote the film and Tanya Ryno was the film's producer.
The music was composed by Ryan Shore.
The film was shot in Sligo, Ireland, which is known locally as" Coney Island".
The film was screened at the Newport International Film Festival.
Hobby won the Jury Award for" Best First Time Director".
The film made its premiere television broadcast on the Sundance Channel.
Spare the Rod
Spare the Rod is a 1961 British social drama directed by Leslie Norman and starring Max Bygraves, Geoffrey Keen, Donald Pleasence and Richard O'Sullivan.
The film was based on a novel by Michael Croft and deals with an idealistic schoolteacher coming to a tough area of East London to teach in a secondary modern school at a time when such establishments were largely starved of attention and resources from education authorities and were widely regarded as dumping grounds with sub -par teaching standards, for the containment of non-academically inclined children until they reached the school- leaving age.
The film was likened on its release to a British" Blackboard Jungle", and later as a precursor in theme to the better- known" To Sir, with Love"( 1967).
A contemporary reviewer described the film as" a courageous portrayal of the unhappier side of British education ... an honest, honourable piece, which recognises that there are good teachers, discouraged teachers and some that are not fit for the job."
It was Bygraves's last feature film before he decided to channel his career towards light entertainment rather than acting.
O'Sullivan's role as a wayward but promising pupil is a counterpoint to his similar role two years earlier in the comedy" Carry On Teacher".
Single Video Theory
Single Video Theory is a music documentary directed by Mark Pellington that follows the making of "Yield", the fifth album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam.
It was released first on VHS on August 4, 1998, and then on DVD on November 24, 1998.
Empties
Empties is a 2007 film directed by Jan Svěrák and written by his father Zdeněk Svěrák, who also stars in the film.
It was released first in the Czech Republic in March 2007.
The film is a comedy from the same team which made Kolya.
The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
The film was released in Japan on 10 October 2009.
Dancing Pirate
Dancing Pirate is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan.
It is the third film shot in the three strip Technicolor process and the first musical in that format.
Produced by the makers of" Becky Sharp", the film was based on the December 1930" Colliers Magazine" story" Glorious Buccaneer" by Emma- Lindsay Squier a serious and action filled romance that may have been inspired by the story of Joseph Chapman.
The film features the debut of stage star Charles Collins and the cast includes Rita Hayworth as one of The Royal Cansino Dancers.
Other dancers in the film were Pat Nixon and Marjorie Reynolds.
Philadelphia rod
A Philadelphia rod is a level staff used in surveying.
The rod is used in leveling procedures to determine elevations and is read using a level.
A Philadelphia rod consists of two sliding sections graduated in hundredths of a foot.
On the front of the rod the graduation increasing from zero at the bottom.
On the back of the rod the graduation decrease from 13.09 ft at the bottom to 7 ft.
The division of the device in two sliding sections are devised for ease of transport.
Readings of or less, and up to, can be measured.
It has a rear section that slides on the front section.
The rod must be fully extended, when higher measurements are needed to avoid reading errors.
Distances of up to may be read.
The rod may be equipped with a target to increase the readable range of the rod.
When the target is equipped with a Vernier scale measurements to the thousands of a foot are possible.
For readings less than 7 ft the target is attached on the bottom section of the rod and adjust by signals from level operator until the target is inline with the level's horizontal cross hair.
For readings greater than 7 ft the target is attached to top section of the rod and the top section is raised/ lowered until it the target intersects with the cross hair of the level.
The rod is then locked and the zero of Vernier scale on the back of the rod will be aligned with the target's height.
Spare the rod
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Rod (surname)
Rod or Rød is the surname of the following people
Iron rod
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Question: Which film was released first, Spare The Rod or Dancing Pirate?
Answer: Dancing Pirate