Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. This was the last year that the Julian calendar was used and by 1 January 1929, every state in the entire world had adopted the Gregorian calendar.
Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema. Composed of thin Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and fat American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957), they became well known during the late 1920s to the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy and childlike friend of the pompous Hardy. They made over 100 films together, initially two-reelers (short films) before expanding into feature length films in the 1930s. Their films include Sons of the Desert (1933), the Academy Award winning short film The Music Box (1932), Babes in Toyland (1934), and Way Out West (1937). Hardy's catchphrase "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" is still widely recognized.
Prior to the double act both were established actors with Laurel appearing in over 50 films and Hardy in over 250 films. Although the two comedians first worked together on the film The Lucky Dog (1921), this was a chance pairing and it was not until 1926, when both separately signed contracts with the Hal Roach film studio, that they began appearing in movie shorts together. Laurel and Hardy officially became a team the following year in the silent short film Putting Pants on Philip (1927). The pair remained with the Roach studio until 1940, then appeared in eight "B" comedies for 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1941 to 1945. After finishing their movie commitments at the end of 1944, they concentrated on stage shows, embarking on a music hall tour of England, Ireland, and Scotland. In 1950 they made their last film, a French/Italian co-production called Atoll K, before retiring from the screen. In total they appeared together in 107 films. They starred in 40 short sound films, 32 short silent films and 23 full-length feature films, and made 12 guest or cameo appearances, including the recently discovered Galaxy of Stars promotional film (1936).
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. On 19 April 1955, he became an American citizen while remaining a British subject.
Over a career spanning more than half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a distinctive and recognisable directorial style. He pioneered the use of a camera made to move in a way that mimics a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. He framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing. His stories frequently feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder, and crime, although many of the mysteries function as decoys or "MacGuffins" meant only to serve thematic elements in the film and the extremely complex psychological examinations of the characters. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and feature strong sexual undertones. Through his cameo appearances in his own films, interviews, film trailers, and the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, he became a cultural icon. Hitchocks reputation as a filmmaker is offset by claims that he engaged in obsessive and controlling behaviour towards many of his leading ladies, and that in some cases this extended to physical abuse and sexual harrassment.
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. (3 February 1889 – 20 March 1968) was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema.
Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark. His birth mother was an unmarried Scanian maid named Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson, and he was put up for adoption by his birth father, Jens Christian Torp, a married Danish farmer living in Sweden who was his mother's employer. He spent the first two years of his life in orphanages until his adoption by a typographer named Carl Theodor Dreyer, Sr., and his wife, Inger Marie (née Olsen). His adoptive parents were emotionally distant and his childhood was largely unhappy. He later recalled that his parents "constantly let me know that I should be grateful for the food I was given and that I strictly had no claim on anything, since my mother got out of paying by lying down to die." But he was a highly intelligent school student, who left home and formal education at the age of sixteen. He dissociated himself from his adoptive family, but their teachings were to influence the themes of many of his films.
birds escape from bayonet scars/ movie skin stealing
pills
-nineteen twenty eight dies so sure
-the last firefly strikes the last light
animal courage won't make you/ eyes grow wild caged
manner fade
-horse's heart burst throws rider
-race run/ this room/ planets freeze
whale bone frame come new eyes/ froze planets hung from a
whalebone frame.
-lemon stung kiss/ gone voice gone
-we bend like trees toward the last light
(toward the last light)
Eines Abends setzte sich ein alter Mann zu mir und erzaehlte:
"Weisst Du, mein Sohn, irgendwann einmal,
kurz nach diesem gewaltigen, allerletzten Knall,
wenn's auf der Erde nur mehr grosse, nackte Steine gibt,
mit einer fettigen, schwarzen Russschicht bedeckt,
wird ein grosses, weisses, strahlendes Raumschiff landen.
Irgendwo zwischen dem ehemaligen Los Angeles
und dem verdampften Schwarzen Meer."
"Und diese fremden, hochgewachsenen Wesen
werden Pillen an Bord haben,
die sie uns Menschen als Geschenk ueberreicht haetten,
so wie man immer, wenn man irgendwelche Wilde besucht,
ihnen kleine Geschenke ueberreicht.
Pillen gegen die Traurigkeit haetten sie uns geschenkt,
wenn wir noch dagewesen waeren.
Stell Dir wor, mein Sohn -"
sagte der alte Mann ganz traurig -
"wunderbare, kleine Pillen gegen die Traurigkeit."
"Und diese fremden, hochgewachsenen Wesen
werden ihr Raumschiff verlassen,
sie werden sich umsehen und sofort wissen,
dass hier vor kurzem ein gewaltiger,
ein allerletzter Knall war.
Und dann werden sie sich kopfschuettelnd
zwischen die grossen, nackten Steine setzen
und schwer durchatmen.
Und jeder von ihnen wird schnell
eine Pille gegen die Traurigkeit schlucken.
Einer von ihnen wird sogar mit dem Finger
in die fettige, schwarze Russschicht an einem
grossen, nackten Steine schreiben:
"Wir haetten so gerne gewusst, wie Du bist!
Wie Du aussiehst! Wie Du sprichst!
Mensch!"
"Und dann ploetzlich wird einer von ihnen was rufen,
er wird rufen, dass er was gefunden hat.
Und das wird ein alter, verbeulter, kleiner Filmprojektor sein,
mit einem eingespannten Film.
Ja, warum nicht", sagte der alte Mann.
"Und sie werden sich freuen,
die hochgewachsenen fremden Wesen,
sie werden warten, bis es dunkel ist
und den Film auf ihr strahlendes, weisses Raumschiff projizieren.
Und sie werden sehr staunen,
denn sie werden einen Micky Maus-Film sehen.
Einen Micky Maus-Film, mit Donald Duck,
Kater Carlo und Goofy.
"Und diese fremden, hochgewachsenen Wesen
werden in ihr Raumschiff steigen und sagen,
sie waren lustig, diese Menschen.
Sie haben lustig ausgesehen,
sie haben lustig gesprochen,
wir haetten unsere Pillen gegen die Traurigkeit
voellig umsonst ueberreicht."
Diese Geschichte hat mir der alte Mann erzaehlt.
Ich habe nachgedacht und folgende Zeilen aufgeschrieben.
An einem bestimmten Tag, im Jahr 1928,
standen sie ploetzlich links,
der seine Pflicht tuende Mond, und rechts,
die ihre Pflicht tuende Sonne,
am selben Himmel gegenueber.
Erschreckt starrten sie sich an
und in diesem kurzen Schreckensmoment vergassen beide
fuer Bruchteile von Sekunden ihre Pflicht zu tun.
Die Folgen waren verheerend.
Bitte, dieser Tag sei in alle Ewigkeit verflucht!