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).
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.
Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: Jeanne d'Arc,IPA: [ʒan daʁk]; ca. 1412 – 30 May 1431), is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in what is now eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII of France. She was captured by the Burgundians, transferred to the English in exchange for money, put on trial by the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon for charges of "insubordination and heterodoxy," and was burned at the stake for heresy when she was only 19 years old.
Twenty-five years after her execution, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, pronounced her innocent, and declared her a martyr. Joan of Arc was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She is – along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis IX, and St. Theresa of Lisieux – one of the patron saints of France. Joan said that she had visions from God that instructed her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence when she overcame the dismissive attitude of veteran commanders and lifted the siege in only nine days. Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims and settled the disputed succession to the throne.
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O. Disney, he was co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. The corporation is now known as The Walt Disney Company and had an annual revenue of approximately US$36 billion in the 2010 financial year.
Disney is particularly noted as a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year, giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history. Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.
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!