14th March 1928
Ten Days that Shook the
World from Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein's October is the stand out production commissioned by the Soviet government to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October revolution. Unfortunately the shooting and editing of Eisenstein's film ran into difficulties : the director was forced to remove all reference to Trotsky. The result is an impressive movie but the history it depicts is more fiction and than fact.
Sergei Eisenstein's October is the stand out production commissioned by the Soviet government to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October revolution. Unfortunately the shooting and editing of Eisenstein's film ran into difficulties : the director was forced to remove all reference to Trotsky. The result is an impressive movie but the history it depicts is more fiction and than fact.
18th March 1954
Howard Hughes gains complete control of RKO
Howard Hughes has become the first individual to completely own a motion picture company with his acquisition of RKO for $23.5 million. The prospects for the studio though look bleak : years ago RKO made the Fred and Ginger musicals and Citizen Kane but since the erratic Hughes gained a controilling interest in 1948 the company has been flirting with bankruptcy.
Howard Hughes gains complete control of RKO
Howard Hughes has become the first individual to completely own a motion picture company with his acquisition of RKO for $23.5 million. The prospects for the studio though look bleak : years ago RKO made the Fred and Ginger musicals and Citizen Kane but since the erratic Hughes gained a controilling interest in 1948 the company has been flirting with bankruptcy.
18th March 1931
Tragic death of a great director
A co-production by F.W. Murnau and documentary film-maker Robert Flaherty, Tabu is a silent movie set and filmed in Tahiti about a young fisherman falling in love with a virgin dedicated to the gods. Sadly it will be Murnau's last work because the director was tragically killed in a car accident on the Santa Barbara highway scarcely a week ago. He was just 42.
Tragic death of a great director
A co-production by F.W. Murnau and documentary film-maker Robert Flaherty, Tabu is a silent movie set and filmed in Tahiti about a young fisherman falling in love with a virgin dedicated to the gods. Sadly it will be Murnau's last work because the director was tragically killed in a car accident on the Santa Barbara highway scarcely a week ago. He was just 42.
Written content copyright Derek McLellan,2006.
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http://www.educahistoria.com/reportajes/octubre/fotos/portada01.jpg
F.W. Murnau image from
http://www.murnau-stiftung.de/img/content/fwmurnau5.jpg
Howard Hughes image from
http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/h/fotos/hughes.jpg
