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A motor hotel, or motel for short, (also known as motor inn, motor court, motor lodge, tourist lodge, cottage court, auto camps, tourist home, tourist cabins, auto cabins, cabin camps, cabin court, or auto court) is a hotel designed for motorists, and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles. Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, coined in 1925 as a portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists' hotel, referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and, in some circumstances, a common area; or a series of small cabins with common parking.
As the provincial highways and the United States highway system began to develop in the 1920s, long distance road journeys became more common and the need for inexpensive, easily accessible overnight accommodation sited close to the main routes, led to the growth of the motel concept. Motels peaked in popularity in the 1960s with rising car travel, only to decline in response to competition from the newer chain hotels which became commonplace at highway interchanges as traffic was bypassed onto newly constructed freeways.
Actors: Leigh Simons (producer), Leigh Simons (writer), Leigh Simons (director), Nick Orfanella (actor),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Jeff Rose (actor), Michael Beasley (actor), Daniel Burnley (actor), Daniel Burnley (actor), Elliott Grey (actor), Adam Dukes (writer), Adam Dukes (editor), Daniel Montgomery (writer), Carrie L. Walrond (director), Michele Grey (actress), Josh McKague (editor), Josh McKague (writer), Jennifer Van Horn (actress), David Blakeslee (producer), Naomi Lavette (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Shimen Ruskin (actor), Norman Jewison (producer), Robert Stevenson (actor), Ray Lovelock (actor), Vladimir Medar (actor), Louis Zorich (actor), Roger Lloyd-Pack (actor), Tutte Lemkow (actor), Arnold Diamond (actor), Paul Michael Glaser (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Carl Jaffe (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), John Williams (composer), Walter Mirisch (producer),
Plot: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five daughters. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. When Perchik is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her family and homeland and travel to Siberia to be with her beloved Perchik. When his third daughter Chava decides to get married with the Christian Fyedka, Tevye does not accept and considers that Chava has died. Meanwhile the Czar troops evict the Jewish community from Anatevka.
Keywords: 1900s, anti-semitism, arranged-marriage, barn, based-on-book, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-book, beggar, blessing, blockbuster