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Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL), originally Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company, is an American company famous for producing glass canning jars. Founded in 1880, it is currently headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. The company has expanded into other areas such as avionics, space systems, metal beverage and food containers and aluminum aerosol containers. Ball is the largest producer of recyclable beverage cans in the world. The company exited the home canning business in 1993 by spinning it off into a separate company.[citation needed]
In 1880, Frank C. and Edmund B. Ball, two of the five Ball brothers of fruit jar fame, borrowed $200 from their Uncle George Ball to buy the Wooden Jacket Can Company. The wooden jackets encased tin cans which held kerosene. Because the acid used to refine kerosene caused corrosion in tin, the brothers decided to use glass for the inserts of the wood jacketed cans. Initially, they bought the glass containers from a factory in Poughkeepsie, New York. In 1882, the factory that supplied the glass containers was destroyed by fire. Some of the glassblowers from that factory suggested to the Ball brothers that they build their own factory. They purchased land in East Buffalo and built a two-story brick building for the stamping works and a one-story frame factory for the glass works. Because of the volume of business, a larger furnace was soon needed. In order to use the full capacity of the furnace, it was decided to make other glass products.
Actors: Julian Sands (actor), Arthur Allan Seidelman (director), Andra Hayes (miscellaneous crew), Anthony Zerbe (actor), Ági Margitai (actress), Jacki Weaver (actress), Gena Rowlands (actress), Rita Moreno (actress), Marc Platt (producer), Cheyenne Jackson (actor), Györgyi Szakács (costume designer), Bert Glatstein (editor), Dóra Endrényi (miscellaneous crew), Kathleen Rose Perkins (actress), Jerry Offsay (producer),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Appoline Traoré (writer), Appoline Traoré (producer), Appoline Traoré (director), Noraogo Sawadogo (writer), Salimata Traoré (actress), Adam's Couture (costume designer), Aziz Ouédraogo (actor), Kader Roger Diarra (editor), Mariama Ouédraogo (actress), Sita Traoré (actress), Valérie Traoré (producer), Adama Dembelé (composer),
Plot: Zaphira is young woman who lives with her 7 year old daughter. She hates her environment and wishes a better life for her daugther. One day, she comes across a fashion magazine which illustrates many young beautiful fashion models. She has a revelation: her daughter will be a model. In a village where this profession is unknown, Zaphira will do everything for her dream to come true.
Genres: ,Actors: Jira Maligool (producer), Yongyoot Thongkongtoon (writer), Yongyoot Thongkongtoon (producer), Yongyoot Thongkongtoon (director), Visute Poolvoralaks (producer), Apinya Sakuljaroensuk (actress), Vanridee Pongsittisak (writer), Vanridee Pongsittisak (writer), Paiboon Damrongchaitham (producer), Banjong Pisanthanakun (director), Chenchonnanee Soonthonsaratul (producer), Banjong Pisanthanakun (writer), Pison Santawanpas (miscellaneous crew), Laila Boonyasak (actress), Boosaba Daoruang (producer),
Plot: 4BIA is a Horror Anthology. The first segment, "Happiness" is about a lonely girl who corresponded with a stranger over hand phone text messaging and soon discovered something strange about this new stranger that she is attracted to. "Tit For Tat" spun a tale of black magic and vengeance for a school kid that had been bullied by a school gang. "In The Middle" - a group of friends faced one of their worst camping trip after water kayaking accident. The final segment "Last Fright" takes horror to new heights with a psychological thriller that involves a stewardess flying solo in a cabin with a dead body.
Keywords: 4-stories, airplane, airplane-pilot, airport, allergy, anthology, axe, back-from-the-dead, beating, black-magicActors: Sasha Dylan Bell (producer), Sasha Dylan Bell (writer), Sasha Dylan Bell (director), Sasha Dylan Bell (editor), Wayne Dixon (actor), Wayne Dixon (actor), Christina Evans (actress), James Connell (writer), James Connell (director), James Connell (producer), Adam McKenzie (actor), Mandi Morison (actress), Hugo Stratmann (actor), Hugo Stratmann (miscellaneous crew), George Morison (actor),
Genres: Short,Actors: April Wade (actress), Chris Anderson (composer), Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Lisa Norcia (costume designer), Gia Franzia (actress), Russ Kingston (actor), James Glenn Dudelson (actor), Luke Guidici (actor), James Glenn Dudelson (director), James Glenn Dudelson (producer), Chris Morrissey (actor), Andre Hyland (actor), Jackeline Olivier (actress), Laszlo Bene (actor), Laszlo Bene (producer),
Plot: In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.
Keywords: creature-feature, digit-in-title, number-in-title, numbered-sequel, prequel, second-part, sequel, sequel-to-cult-favorite, sequel-to-cult-horror, virusActors: Roger Guenveur Smith (actor), Christopher Young (composer), Tom Wright (actor), Charles Bornstein (editor), Wings Hauser (actor), Spike Lee (producer), Joe Torry (actor), Clarence Williams III (actor), Duane Whitaker (actor), Art Evans (actor), Corbin Bernsen (actor), David Alan Grier (actor), Mark Christopher Lawrence (actor), Rick Dean (actor), T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh (actress),
Plot: Four short, moralistic horror vignettes (a la EC Comics) that deal with mostly black characters. The framing story introduces three youths out to pick up a drug shipment at a funeral parlor from the strange director, Mr. Simms. As the three punks wind their way through the parlor, Mr. Simms tells them the last stories of some of his more interesting clients.
Keywords: african-american, american-flag, anthology, bare-chested-male, baton, beaten-to-death, belt-whipping, bitten-in-the-neck, blood, blood-splatterActors: Maggie Cheung (actress), Chingmy Yau (actress), Yuen Chor (actor), Jing Wong (producer), King-Tan Yuen (actress), Aaron Kwok (actor), Aaron Kwok (actor), Dennis Chan (actor), Man Tat Ng (actor), Xin Xin Xiong (actor), Ka Sang Cheung (actor), Yung-chang Ho (actor), Deric Wan (actor), Wing Chun Chan (actor), Ho-Wai Mak (actor),
Plot: Cantonese Pop Star Aaron Kwok stars as a police detective who must pose as the son of a millionaire to catch a kidnaping ring. Trouble starts when the policeman's girlfriend starts working for the businessman.
Keywords: detective, millionaire, police-officer, police-officer-bombed, police-officer-hacked, police-officer-kicked, police-officer-killed, police-officer-shot, police-officer-shot-in-the-chest, police-shootoutActors: Tony Leung Hung-Wah (producer), Jacky Cheung (actor), Tony Leung Hung-Wah (producer), Stephen Shiu (producer), Paul Chun (actor), Siu-Kei Lee (actor), Man Tat Ng (actor), Jacky Cheung (actor), Herman Yau (director), Karen Mok (actress), Carrie Ng (actress), John Ching (actor), Victor Hon (actor), Wing-ming Wong (editor), Sammi Cheng (actress),
Genres: ,Actors: Jamie Uys (miscellaneous crew), Barry Wong (writer), Jimmy Heung (producer), Lowell Lo (composer), Billy Chan (director), Charles Heung (miscellaneous crew), Charles Heung (producer), Ching-Ying Lam (actor), Bruce Lee (actor), Stephen Chow (actor), Lung Chan (actor), Barry Wong (producer), Man Tat Ng (actor), Graham Armitage (actor), Jonathan Pienaar (actor),
Plot: Two guys, one of them a magician, are transporting an ancient chinese vampire who can only be controlled by a series of yellow tapes, and is the ancestor of the other guy. On the way, while flying over Africa, their plane stalls. And of all places, where do they land? That's right, in the village of the tribe of "The Gods Must Be Crazy".
Keywords: chinese-vampire, keung-si, sequel, taoist-priest, third-part, vampireActors: Russell Napier (actor), Michael Craig (writer), Geoffrey Keen (actor), Bernard Lee (actor), Richard Attenborough (producer), Bryan Forbes (producer), Oliver Reed (actor), Norman Bird (actor), Richard Attenborough (actor), Bryan Forbes (actor), Marianne Stone (actress), Michael Craig (actor), Laurence Naismith (actor), Malcolm Arnold (composer), Bryan Forbes (writer),
Plot: The right of every individual to be different from his fellow men is the theme behind this internationally-hailed, British production. The story tells of a man's dilemma when he refused to participate in an unofficial strike, where he works. While vicious, calculated violence brings the other dissenters into line, he goes it alone and is sent to Coventry (given the silent treatment) by his fellow workers. A stirring, thought-provoking film that portrays the human problems and high emotions generated when a man dares to act on the courage of his convictions and dares fight to keep his individual freedom.
Keywords: agitator, blackmail, canteen, factory, husband-wife-relationship, independent-film, industrial-relations, kitchen-sink-realism, labor-relations, shop-steward