"The 1952 movie Bwana Devil that had on its poster the lines ""A lion is in your lap!"" and ""A lover is in your arms!"" is known for sparking what craze?"
"Bwana Devil Bwana Devil is a 1952 U.S. adventure B movie written, directed, and produced by Arch Oboler and stars Robert Stack, Barbara Britton, and Nigel Bruce. ""Bwana Devil"" is based on the true story of the Tsavo maneaters and filmed with the Natural Vision 3D system. The film is notable for sparking the first 3D film craze in the motion picture industry, as well as for being the first feature-length 3D film in color and the first 3D sound feature in English. The advertising tagline was: ""The Miracle of the Age!!! A LION in your lap! A LOVER in"
"very small. Cardboard glasses with earpieces and larger filters were used to watch ""Bwana Devil"", the feature-length color 3-D film that premiered on 26 November 1952 and ignited the brief but intense 3-D fad of the 1950s. The well-known ""Life"" magazine photo of an audience wearing 3-D glasses was one of a series taken at the premiere. The film's title, imprinted on the earpieces, is plainly visible in high-resolution copies of those images. Imaginatively colorized versions have helped to spread the myth that the 3-D movies of the 1950s were projected by the anaglyph color filter method. In fact, during"
"your arms!"" The film is set in British East Africa in the early 20th century. Thousands of workers are building the Uganda Railway, Africa's first railroad, and intense heat and sickness make it a formidable task. Two men in charge of the mission are Jack Hayward and Dr. Angus Ross. A pair of man-eating lions are on the loose and completely disrupt the undertaking. Hayward desperately attempts to overcome the situation, but the slaughter continues. Britain sends three big-game hunters to kill the lions. With them comes Jack's wife. After the game hunters are killed by the lions, Jack sets"
"as ""Godzilla, King of the Monsters!"". The adaptation featured new footage with Raymond Burr edited together with the original Japanese footage. Toho was inspired to make the original ""Godzilla"" after the commercial success of the 1952 re-release of ""King Kong"" and success of ""The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"" (1953). The success of the ""Godzilla"" series itself would go on to inspire other monster films worldwide. The popularity of the films has led to Godzilla being featured in other media, such as television, music, literature, and video games. Godzilla has been one of the most recognizable symbols in Japanese pop culture"
"by M. L. Gunzberg. Gunzberg, who built the rig with his brother, Julian, and two other associates, shopped it without success to various studios before Oboler used it for this feature, which went into production with the title, ""The Lions of Gulu"". The critically panned film was nevertheless highly successful with audiences due to the novelty of 3D, which increased Hollywood interest in 3D during a period that had seen declining box-office admissions. As with practically all of the features made during this boom, ""Bwana Devil"" was projected dual-strip, with Polaroid filters. During the 1950s, the familiar disposable anaglyph glasses"
"paternalistic attitude to Africans; he made the animated cartoons because he thought that Africans were too immature to appreciate feature films. The series was very popular. In 1965 it was censored by the President of Zaire, General Mobutu Sese Seko, who used the leopard as his emblem and who did not want people to watch films where the leopard was treated as a fool. By 1980 the cartoons had again become popular on television. They have been called the first ""African"" films, despite being made by Europeans, because they incorporated elements of African folklore and music. The movies have been"
"to make ""Goona Goona"" (also known as ""The Kriss""), a compilation of authentic expedition footage with a dramatic plotline involving a romance between a Balinese prince and a servant girl. The movie was first released in 1930 and in a version called ""Love Powder"", edited to conform to American censorship restrictions, in 1932. It started a craze for all things Balinese, and ""Goona-goona"", originally a Javanese term for love magic, became a slang expression for ""sexually exciting"". The film’s success brought Denis to the attention of the cinema industry, and in 1934 he directed ""Wild Cargo"", starring adventurer and animal"
"of a foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for best actress. It came to be said of him that he ""nursed"" ""Two Women"" towards its ultimate popularity and success. Levine became famous in the industry for his massive advertising campaigns, starting with ""Hercules"" in 1959. He is also responsible for having brought the Japanese movie ""Gojira"" to the American general public under the title ""Godzilla, King Of The Monsters!"" in 1956. Levine had hired Terry Turner, who had been a former RKO Pictures exploitation expert of the late 1920s and 1930s, where he had exploited ""King Kong"" amongst other"
"Vende Cristo [MC] 1949 - Parola [LVN] 1949 - Maria Beles [LVN] 1949 - Tambol Mayor [LVN] 1949 - Kuba sa Quiapo [LVN] 1949 - Sagur [X'Otic] 1949 - Dasalang Ginto [Filcudoma] 1949 - Biglang Yaman [LVN] 1950 - Florante at Laura [LVN] 1950 - Nuno sa Punso [LVN] 1950 - Doble Cara [Premiere] 1951 - Ang Tapis mo Inday [LVN] 1951 - Reyna Elena [LVN] 1951 - Sigfredo [Lebran] 1951 - Bohemyo [LVN] 1951 - Dalawang Prinsipeng Kambal [LVN] 1951 - Romeo at Julieta [Lebran] 1952 - Kambal-Tuko [LVN] 1952 - Taong Paniki [LVN] 1953 - Philippine Navy [LVN]"
"going sadly to waste.'"" He appears in the 1949 film ""The Hasty Heart"" (starring Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal) playing the African warrior Blossom, which role Martins also undertook in the stage production. In the 1950s he made other appearances on the London stage, including in adaptations of ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" (Trafalgar Square Theatre, 1954), and ""The Member of the Wedding"" (Royal Court Theatre, 1957), before returning to Lagos in 1959. He subsequently took roles in such films as ""Killers of Kilimanjaro"" (1960), ""Call Me Bwana"" (1963), ""Mister Moses"" (1965), and ""Kongi's Harvest"" (1970, Wole Soyinka's adaptation of his"
"artists, like Art Sims who specialized in specifically marketing black films. He created controversial posters, like the film poster of ""Jungle Fever"", a movie about an interracial love affair. The first version of the film poster had the actresses, Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra sucking each other's fingers. This image was rejected because it was seen as too sexual and was replaced by the image of the couple interlocking fingers while holding hands. Another Lee film, ""Bamboozled"" was promoted with a poster of a graphical satire. When the film released in 2000, the advertising was thought of as too offensive"
"paperbacks, locally known as Tagalog pocketbooks. Among Patron’s novels that had been adapted into films included ""Lord, Give Me a Lover"", ""Adult Kid"", ""Ako si Emma, Babae"" (I am Emma, a Woman), ""Isinilang Ko ang Anak ng Ibang Babae"" (I Gave Birth to the Child of Another Woman), ""Pompa"", ""Dalawa ang Nagdalantao sa Akin"" (There Were Two Who Became Pregnant for Me), ""Padre, si Eba"" (Father, This is Eve), ""Bago N’yo Ako Sumpain"" (Before You Curse Me), ""Ligaw-Tingin, Halik-Hangin"" (Courtship Through Gazing, Kissing in the Wind [undemonstrated desire to court and kiss a person admired; the suitor can only look"
"the political dominance of Xhosa-speaking people on national level militates against this. (The predominant language in the Western Cape and Northern Cape is Afrikaans – see the map below.) In the 1994 film ""The Lion King"", in the ""Circle of Life"" song, the phrases ""Ingonyama nengw' enamabala"" (English: ""A lion and a leopard spots""), ""Nans' ingonyama bakithi Baba"" (English: ""Here comes a lion, Father"") and ""Siyonqoba"" (English: ""We will conquer"") were used. In some movie songs, like ""This Land"", the voice says ""Busa leli zwe bo"" (""Rule this land"") and ""Busa ngothando bo"" (""Rule with love"") were used too. The"
"Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson and others lead to a group of realistic and innovative dramas including ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"", ""A Kind of Loving"" and ""This Sporting Life"". Other British films such as ""Repulsion"", ""Darling"", ""Alfie"", ""Blowup"" and ""Georgy Girl"" (all in 1965–1966) helped to reduce prohibitions sex and nudity on screen, while the casual sex and violence of the James Bond films, beginning with ""Dr. No"" in 1962 would render the series popular worldwide. During the 1960s, Ousmane Sembène produced several French- and Wolof-language films and became the ""father"" of African Cinema. In Latin America, the dominance of"
"into a zombie. In films like ""Ladies They Talk About"", lesbians were portrayed as rough, burly characters, but in DeMille's ""The Sign of the Cross"", a female Christian slave is brought to a Roman prefect and seduced in dance by a statuesque lesbian dancer. Fox nearly became the first American studio to use the word ""gay"" to refer to homosexuality, but the SRC made the studio muffle the word in the soundtrack of all footage that reached theaters. Bisexual actress Marlene Dietrich cultivated a cross-gender fan base and started a trend when she began wearing men's suits. She caused a"
"seduction of presumably heterosexual women or girls by lesbian vampires. ""Dracula's Daughter"" (1936) gave the first hints of lesbian attraction in a vampire film, in the scene in which the title character, portrayed by Gloria Holden, preys upon an attractive girl she has invited to her house to pose for her. Universal highlighted Countess Zaleska's attraction to women in some of its original advertising for the film, using the tag line ""Save the women of London from Dracula's Daughter!"" Le Fanu's ""Carmilla"" was adapted by Roger Vadim as ""Blood and Roses"" in 1960. More explicit lesbian content was provided in"
"canvas of film"" (from dust jacket). . Publisher Helion and Company and co-authored by David Truesdale and Allan Esler Smith. Simba (1955 film) Simba is a 1955 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, and starring Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna, and Basil Sydney. The screenplay concerns a British family living in East Africa, who become embroiled in the Mau Mau Uprising. Alan Howard (Dirk Bogarde) visits Kenya to see his brother, whom he discovers has been murdered by Mau Mau. The box-office success of ""The Planter's Wife"" (1952) saw Rank become interested in making films about other"
"be held, with the victor to marry Miro. Rangi, a vicious warrior wins by trickery. Miro is by tapu forbidden from seeing her true love Patiti. But Patiti rows across the lake to see her nightly, until the suspicious Rangi finds them. In a deadly struggle on the edge of the volcano, Patiti forces Rangi into the volcano. War resumes, but love brings a compromise and Miro and Patiti marry. Under the Southern Cross (1929 film) Under the Southern Cross also known as The Devil’s Pit or Taranga, is a 1929 American drama film set in New Zealand, directed by"
"The Tale of Tiffany Lust The Tale of Tiffany Lust, also known as Body Lust, is a 1979 American adult erotic film. The film was directed by Radley Metzger (as ""Henry Paris"", uncredited) and filmed in several elaborate locations in New York City. The film was released during the Golden Age of Porn (inaugurated by the 1969 release of Andy Warhol ""Blue Movie"") in the United States, at a time of ""porno chic"", in which adult erotic films were just beginning to be widely released, publicly discussed by celebrities (like Johnny Carson and Bob Hope) and taken seriously by film"
"Manding Claro Manding Claro (born 1938) is a Filipino Matinee idol of LVN Pictures of the 1950s paired with another matinee idol Nenita Vidal. Their teaming was very popular during the mid 1950s for movie hits such as Dalagita't Binatilyo and Banda Uno in 1955; Puppy Love in 1956; Medalyong Perlas, a Musical film in 1956; Phone Pal, Lelong Mong Panot and Troop 11, both in 1957. He later transferred to Sampaguita Pictures, where he made several more movies and ended his career as an actor to pursue a career as a singer. He was very successful as a singer"
"less than $100,000. The Americanized version, ""Godzilla, King of the Monsters!"", was distributed on the East Coast by Levine's Embassy Pictures. Levine himself came up with a string of taglines: ""Fantastic beyond comprehension, beyond compare—Astounding beyond belief!"", ""Terror staggers the mind as the gargantuan creature of the sea surges up on a tidal wave of destruction to wreak vengeance on the Earth!"", and many more. ""Godzilla, King of the Monsters!"" was a B-market hit, grossing over $2 million in its original run. In 1959, Embassy acquired the worldwide rights to a cheaply made movie starring an American-born bodybuilder as one"
"The film helped inaugurate the ""porno chic"" phenomenon in modern American culture. According to Warhol, ""Blue Movie"" was a major influence in the making of ""Last Tango in Paris"", starring Marlon Brando, and released a few years after ""Blue Movie"" was made. In 1970, ""Mona the Virgin Nymph"" became the second film to gain wide release. The third, ""Deep Throat"", despite being rudimentary by the standards of mainstream filmmaking, achieved major box office success, following mentions by Johnny Carson on ""The Tonight Show"", and Bob Hope on television as well. In 1973, the far-more-accomplished (though still low-budget) ""The Devil in"
"new decree. In 1922, Revel engaged the famous Italian poster art designer Leonetto Cappiello to create the famous ad representing three people with umbrellas, it was published by the fine parisian printer's firm, Devambez, in the name of ""Les Nouvelles Affiches Leonetto Cappiello"". In 1929, Revel diversified into silk stockings and engaged once again Leonetto Cappiello to promote its new products. The artist was inspired by the previous one (with three with umbrellas) and created a poster with three women with silk stockings. In 1992, the producer of the drama film The Lover (film) (an illicit affair between a teenage"
"""Last Tango in Paris"", an internationally controversial erotic drama film, starring Marlon Brando, and released a few years after ""Blue Movie"" was made. In 1970, ""Mona"", the second adult erotic film, after ""Blue Movie"", depicting explicit sex that received a wide theatrical release in the United States, was shown. Later, other adult films, such as ""Boys in the Sand"", ""Deep Throat"", ""Behind the Green Door"" and ""The Devil in Miss Jones"" were released, continuing the Golden Age of Porn begun with ""Blue Movie"". In 1973, the phenomenon of porn being publicly discussed by celebrities (like Johnny Carson and Bob Hope)"
"which featured leading child stars was the hit. LVN Pictures, under the leadership of the Doña Sisang de León, not only specialized in super productions, rural comedies and musicals, but also produced socially-relevant films such as Avellana's ""Anak Dalita"" (1956), Tony Santos's ""Badjao"" (1957) and Manuel Silos's ""Biyaya ng Lupa"" (1959). Sampaguita Pictures mainly produced high-gloss, glamorous pictures such as ""Maalaala Mo Kaya"" (1954). On the other hand, Premiere Productions released most of the action films of the decade, such as ""Sawa sa Lumang Simboryo"" (1952), ""Salabusab"" (1954) and ""Huwag Mo Akong Limutin"" (1960). High production values on the motion"
"In the West, kung fu imports, dubbed and often recut and retitled, shown as ""B"" films in urban theaters and on television, made Hong Kong film widely noticed, although not widely respected, for the first time. African-Americans particularly embraced the genre (as exemplified by the popular hip-hop group, the Wu-Tang Clan) perhaps as an almost unprecedented source of adventure stories with non-white heroes, who furthermore often displayed a strong streak of racial and/or nationalistic pride. The popularity of these movies in North America would continue into the 1980s when ninja movies were introduced. In popular culture, the films of this"
"1920s. There have been several prior ""waves"" of 3D movie distribution, most notably in the 1950s when they were promoted as a way to offer audiences something that they could not see at home on television. Still the process faded quickly and as yet has never been more than a periodic novelty in movie presentation. The ""golden era"" of 3D film began in the early 1950s with the release of the first color stereoscopic feature, ""Bwana Devil"". The film starred Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and Nigel Bruce. James Mage was an early pioneer in the 3D craze. Using his 16"
"U.S. market. In 1956, distributor Joseph E. Levine financed the shooting of new footage with American actor Raymond Burr that was edited into the Japanese sci-fi horror film ""Godzilla"". The British Hammer Film Productions made the successful ""The Curse of Frankenstein"" (1957) and ""Dracula"" (1958), major influences on future horror film style. In 1959, Levine's Embassy Pictures bought the worldwide rights to ""Hercules"", a cheaply made Italian movie starring American-born bodybuilder Steve Reeves. On top of a $125,000 purchase price, Levine then spent on advertising and publicity, a virtually unprecedented amount. ""The New York Times"" was not impressed, claiming that"
"the local's fight against Imperialism. The Lion Has Seven Heads The Lion Has Seven Heads (original title:Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças) is a 1970 French-Italian-Brazilian film directed by Glauber Rocha. It was shot on location in Brazzaville, the Congo during the time Rocha was exiled. In the late 1960s, a white preacher in Africa announces the world is due to end soon as he has captured an emissary of the devil. Rather than an emissary, the man is a Latin American revolutionary who supports the local liberation movement. The man escapes from the preacher and contacts a local liberation leader"
"(and its derivative, ""My Fair Lady""), which was considered, according to award-winning author Toni Bentley, to be the ""crown jewel"" of the Golden Age of Porn, an era in modern American culture that was inaugurated by the release of Andy Warhol's ""Blue Movie"" (1969) and featured the phenomenon of ""porno chic"" in which adult erotic films began to obtain wide release, were publicly discussed by celebrities (such as Johnny Carson and Bob Hope) and taken seriously by film critics (such as Roger Ebert). In 1980, director Martin Scorsese shocked audiences, who had become used to the escapist blockbuster adventures of"
"""The Letter"", in which tissues were actually handed out at the cinemas. Childhood romance was a hit with 2003's ""Fan Chan"", which was made by six directors. One of the six, Komgrit Treewimol, went on to make the college-age romance, ""Dear Dakanda"", a hit in 2005, but took three years to completely write, cast, film, and tweak. As a genre, teen films arose in the 1970s, with director Piak Poster's ""Wai Ounlawon"", about a young man whose courtship of a teenaged girl puts him at odds with the girl's irascible father. That young couple, portrayed by the original actors, were"
"screened in the early 1970s (provoking much public controversy, and in some states, legal prosecution) include ""Deep Throat"", ""The Devil in Miss Jones"", and ""Last Tango in Paris"", starring Marlon Brando, whose performance was nominated for an Academy Award. A new wave of raunchier adult magazines such as ""Hustler"" and ""Penthouse"" arrived, making ""Playboy"" seem dull and old-fashioned. Due in large part to the dramatic reduction in the risk of unwanted pregnancy engendered by the introduction of the Pill in 1960, not to mention the legalization of contraception nationwide by the Supreme Court decision in ""Griswold v. Connecticut"" in 1965,"
"set about working on several new projects, including the films ""Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome"" (1954), ""Scorpio Rising"" (1964), ""Kustom Kar Kommandos"" (1965), and the gossip book ""Hollywood Babylon"" (1965). The latter would become infamous for its many dubious and sensationalist claims, many of which were later disproven, though some do remain as urban legends. Getting to know several notable countercultural figures of the time, including Tennessee Williams, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Marianne Faithfull and Anton LaVey, Anger involved them in his subsequent Thelemite-themed works, ""Invocation of My Demon Brother"" (1969) and ""Lucifer Rising"" (1972). Following his failure"