After my very mixed feelings about the DW Griffith’s beautiful, appalling racist epic The Birth of a Nation, I was keen to check out the next film he made, Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages. I’d heard that it was made to address the divisions caused by the controversial release of The Birth of a …
January 8 — Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech January 27 — The Finnish Civil War begins with the Battle of Kämärä February 1 — Austrian sailors in the Gulf of Cattaro, led by two Czech Socialists, mutiny February 6 — The Representation of the People Act gives most women over 30 the vote …
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Marcel Duchamp — Fountain L. S. Lowry — Coming from the Mill C. R. W. Nevinson – Paths of Glory Félix Vallotton – The Church of Souain in Silhouette George Luks — Houston Street George Grosz – Explosion Hans Larwin — Soldat und Tod Margaret Lindsay Williams – The Devil’s Daughter Amedeo Modigliani – Nu …
The Immigrant Oh Doctor! The Dying Swan Satan Triumphant Thaïs The Cure Bucking Broadway A Little Princess The Torture of Silence (Mater Dolorosa) The Woman God Forgot His Wedding Night Cleopatra All Aboard Fear The Adventurer Bestia (aka The Polish Dancer) A Man There Was (Terje Vigen) The Butcher Boy Wild and Woolly Teddy at …
January 9 — At the Battle of Rafa, the last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force January 11 — Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion, one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI January 19 — A blast at a munitions factory …
“The music is a matter of the ear and not of technique. None of us knows music. One carries the melody and others do what they please. Some play counter melodies, some play freak noises, and some just play. I can’t tell you how. You “got to feel” Jass. The time is syncopated. Jass I …
Glyn Warren Philpot – The Skyscraper Paul Gustav Fischer — Sunbathing in the Dunes Richard Jack — The Return to the Front- Victoria Railway Station C. R. W. Nevinson – French Troops Resting George Grosz — Suicide Jean Metzinger – Femme au miroir (Femme à sa toilette, Lady at her Dressing Table) Matthew Smith — …
Intolerance The Floorwalker Sherlock Holmes Fatty and Mabel Adrift The Rink 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Cenere The Mystery of the Leaping Fish Judex: L’ombre mystérieuse (The Mysterious Shadow), Episode 1 Farmer Alfalfa Sees New York Joan The Woman Snow White Hell’s Hinges East Is East The Danger Girl Behind the Screen Civilization One …
January 1 — The British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. January 10 — In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia inflicts a defeat on the Ottoman Empire. January 13 – Ottoman Empire forces defeat the Allied British in the Battle of Wadi. February …
