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- As the program revealed, 1898 was the year that symbolized the taming of the western frontier, the growth of the nation into an industrial giant and, following victory in the Spanish-American war, the emergence of the U.S. as a world power.
- A typical farmer is shown leading a white horse into his barn. Two bunco-steerers steal it, one distracting the farmer's attention while the other leads the animal away past his elbow. The "sharps" paint the animal black and sell it back to the former owner. One makes love to the farmer's daughter. The father discovers the affair, and disguising himself in the girl's clothes drives with a company of neighbors to the appointed trysting place, where the "Rubes" merrily thrash the strangers.
- In this tawdry drama, an attractive youth counselor must resort to murder in order to be free from her sordid past.
- Snowballs roll uphill, and men also turn somersaults up the same incline. The opinion that the film is being reversed in the running is dissipated by some attending circumstances. Most of the picture is a "chaser," a gouty old man, walking with a stick, following two young people on skates. During the early moments, an extremely skillful exhibition of fancy skating young man is shown upon a frozen pond. The old man is at all times quite too suspiciously near the skaters to give the given by a picture the realism of a chase, his halting footsteps and physical condition making that apparent at first sight.
- Blanca and José are a lonely old couple, whose routine of watching television is affected by an astronomical phenomenon. Blanca suffers from a degenerative disease and depends on José in everyday situations.
- "Attempted Suicide" is a travesty on the "red tape" of the French police service; at least the characters seem French and the uniforms worn are of that nation. A young man disappointed in love wanders to the woods, where he hangs himself to the limb of a tree. A boy discovering him, runs in alarm to tell the gardener, who is conveniently at hand; the gardener views the death struggles, but, although having a scythe in his hand, dares not cut the rope without the presence of an officer and hurries after one. A mounted policeman is secured, who rides up, looks at the hanging person and returns to the station house to report, without attempting to retrieve the young man from his sure death position. The policeman with his sergeant returns once more, watches the last feeble struggles and, ignoring the fate about to arrive, ride off to inform the young fellow's father. That personage, while alarmed, declines to hasten until his necktie and scarf have been properly adjusted, when all run to the woods, and the presumed suicide (by this time) is laid upon the ground. Upon his sweetheart arriving he embraces her madly, having been playing "possum," which may be detected by the audience through seeing a hook attached to the end of the rope in his coat. This relieves what would be otherwise a gruesome sight, and for real pure fun, with the burlesque on the idiotic police system always to the fore, "Attempted Suicide" will be difficult to beat.
- Former musician and stand-up comedian Troy Dillinger hosts the best comedy, music and burlesque from Austin, Texas and closes the show with an audience participation game show. In season 3, the show includes a behind-the-scenes drama about the trials and tribulations of making a live television show, as well as the shortcomings of it's host and producer Troy Dillinger. Dillinger is on a mission to share the best entertainment from Austin with the rest of the world on The Austin Variety Show, both in its variety and reality formats. With no experience and no budget, he's the show's biggest supporter - and it's biggest liability. See great live music, comedy, burlesque, and a wild game show from "The Live Music Capital of the World" in a raw, raunchy stage show which is shot in Austin Variety Show's studios.
- Bull sharks are invading in a big way. Their bullish behavior in oceans worldwide has made them famous from coast to coast. The seven seas aren't enough; they're taking over brackish waters and rivers too. Warmer waters due to climate change mean bull sharks can expand their range even further ... so the more we learn about them now, the better.
- A country lass is betrayed by a wayward lad and left stranded in the big city. The scoundrel's twin brother, a minister, marries the girl to give her child a name, while his villainous twin stumbles downstairs and kills himself during an attempt to abduct the infant.
- Cliff, a traveling salesman drowning under the weight of providing for his family and the myth of the American dream, finds himself on a dangerous path after a chance encounter with Ricky, a colleague from a dark past.
- David Lawrence, a wealthy and powerful stockbroker, was quite content with his life until he discovered the allure, risk and challenge of the boxing world. At 44, Lawrence was not young, but with the assistance of a great trainer - and obsessive urge to succeed in a milieu totally different from his own - he mastered the necessary skills and even excelled at the brutal sport.
- A woman in her 30s who has seen better days tries to turn her life around without a real sense of introspection.
- A hypnotised gymnast walks around the world.
- Claude Lanzmann discusses the long and difficult process of researching, shooting, editing and presenting his groundbreaking and influential documentary Shoah (1985).
- High school students are forced to face their darkest fears in order to overcome a supernatural force that feeds on chaos and the misery of mankind.
- High school outcast Josh is searching for his missing girlfriend in post apocalyptic Glendale. He's joined by a group of misfits Angelica and his former bully Wesley. On the way they'll face many weird things.
- Scenes of war throughout history as argument for American preparedness in WWI. In between scenes of war and speeches, there are moments where the focus shifts to the average civilian. A wife waiting for the return of her husband from war.
- A down-on-his-luck Welshman travels across Europe with one crazy goal: to get himself arrested and sent to a Danish prison where the beds are warm and the water is hot.
- Told by leading climate scientists, Earth Emergency examines four of the major warming feedback loops threatening our planet: Forests, Permafrost, Albedo and Atmosphere.
- In Paris in full German occupation in 1942, a Jewish child Isaac escapes a raid organized by the SS. He then took refuge in the Great Mosque of Paris. The imam decides to protect him by passing him off as a Muslim, as well as the other Jewish children that he manages to free with the help of the resistance networks. The French militia and the Gestapo have suspicions... This fiction film is based on the true story of the rector of the Paris mosque, Si Kaddour Benghabrit, who saved several Jews from deportation during the Second World War.
- The top stories were about the return home of the people of Enewetak Atoll, who had been displaced 25 years ago so the site could be used as an atomic bomb test site. Another segment dealt with the by now well-publicized "Joseph's Disease", traced back to a single Portugese immigrant to the U.S. about 100 years ago. The third part was an interview with a young man who manages a Connecticut theatre, dedicated to preserving American musical comedy in performance.
- Croncite prepared to descend into the ocean of the California coast to look at bioluminesence displays from marine life on the ocean floor, Osgood then chipped in with the results of scientific methods used to probe the authenticity of art works including some Picasso paintings.
- Show featured a family on Kodak Island, Alaska, whit the hobby of shooting bear - with a movie camera.
- The preem show outing included a giggling soprano Maureen Forrester who sang from the Harry Warren songbook; Quebec cabinet minister Lise Payette (former TV talk show hostess); scientist David Suzuki, and writer Alex Haley who plugged his "Roots".
- About Fred Baker (1932-2011) filmmaker, actor, director, screenwriter and jazz musician, born in Los Angeles, passed away in New York. Baker was among the subversive, experimental, underground filmmakers of the 1960s and '70s, turning out films such as "Events," "The Murder of Fred Hampton" and 1992's "White Trash." He was an uncredited exec producer on Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 classic "The Battle of Algiers." Also a longtime friend of comedian Lenny Bruce and creator/producer of the 1972 documentary "Lenny Bruce Without Tears." In this short film student Daoud Abu-Bakr sets out to find Fred Baker. And he did.
- Allen teed off with a monolog, good for some chuckles, in which he lampooned Ed Sullivan's deadpanning on the latter's video programming. Then, in sympathizing with an Italian restaurateur's beefs about TV shows, he presented a series of skits showing what actually should happen on TV. The "I Remember Father" takeoff was overdone, but the others, including the satire on shampoo commercials, were good. This led into Allen's "City Billy" song, done with a male quartet, as a parody of the hillbilly numbers. Finale sketch, about the new gamblers' licensing, was fair. Show, incidentally, ran overtime and Allen cut into that last skit to parry with the unseen stage manager about the trimming required. It broke the mood of the show, and while it might be considered a part of TV's informality, even that informality can be carried too far.
- After the first round the action is rapid, the men fighting fast, with Herman making wild swings and rushes, losing his head often. Gans is careful and alert, punishing his smaller opponent unmercifully in the sixth and seventh rounds. In the eighth the "knock out" occurs. This takes place in Gans' corners, caused by a right-hand blow to Herman's jaw, and when notified in advance by Humphreys of what was coming no one missed it. The after scenes, with Herman insensible, the crowd surging in the ring and the sheriff ordering the building cleared ended the exhibition.
- By underhand methods Al Hart gets possession of a rich mine belonging to Peggy O'Day and her father. Not knowing Hart to be a crook, Farnum accepts a position with him, and is sent to take charge of the mine. There he meets Peggy O'Day, and has a strenuous time attempting to control the tough gang which infests the vicinity. Finally he quits Hart's employ, and the latter, realizing the wrong he has done, gives Peggy a half interest in the mine, and she and Farnum end the film in each other's embrace.
- Sam Corwin, stage line owner and camp bully, makes unwelcome love to Polly, daughter of an old prospector. The old man drives him off the place at gunpoint and Sam conspires to have the old man sent to prison. He stages a fake hold-up, leaving the old man's hat on the scene. This is managed with the connivance of one of Sam's stage drivers. By one of those far-fetched coincidences of the screen the whole plot is unfolded to a stranger in those parts, and he impersonates the hold-up artist, double-crossing the plotters, vindicating the old man, overthrowing the villains, and in the end winning the girl.
- Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in a visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.
- The castle of a baron well conveys the life lived In a luxurious place in the past. The love of the old baron for the grandchild, to succeed him is displayed. An adventurer, posing as an ambassador, is royally entertained. A feast scene is particularly good. At night the adventurer and his men capture the castle, the baron is brought before the impostor and efforts made to secure knowledge of the treasure. The child has been killed in the melee. He Is brought before the old baron on a cot. A dissolving effect shows an angel punishing the adventurer, and the baron's reconciliation to the dispensation of Providence. Religious subtitles at two points aid in giving the picture strength.
- Depicts an interesting story of Bill Kenare, a cracksman and kidnapper. The cashier of a large manufacturing concerning brings the funds of the firm to the home of the proprietor. He is watched by the cracksman's accomplice, disguised as a detective, who changes the satchel of the manufacturer while the latter's back is turned, leaving the premises with the money. The merchant telephones to police headquarters. The senior robber is caught and convicted, the witness against him being the owner, who adopts the only child of the culprit. Seven years elapse. The child is at the rich man's home and a contrasting view shows the father in convict garb. The convict escapes, going to his former home, which he finds deserted. His child passes him on a lonely road and later he joins a band of gypsies, planning with them to kidnap the child, not knowing it is his own. A fight for the possession of the boy with the gypsies ensues. The manufacturer, looking for his adopted son, discovers him, and after several well-conceived situations, the convict returns the satchel with the money which he had concealed, and everything ends happily.
- The picture commences at a point in the woods. A band of brigands is plotting to rob the next coach which passes. The audience is carried to a colonial home, where a four-in-hand leaves with the family and two trunks. Scouts are sent out by the robbers to warn pf the first approach, and a short glimpse of the robber band's den, with dancing and gambling going on, is seen. When the hold-up occurs, an overdose of brutality is in evidence, the father being struck down for no apparent cause, while two women and a boy are roughly hauled into the house of the thieves. A servant who secretes himself behind the coach goes free, and carries his master to safety, departing for assistance. Ten mounted militiamen return with him, having a running chase with the highwaymen, whom they finally drive back to the den, when it is set on fire by the officers to smoke the robbers out. During this process a rescue is made of the women and boy, locked in an interior room.
- A teenager living with her working-class family on a council estate in Wolverhampton, England, grows up to become a popular but conflicted music journalist.
- A newly married man finds it impossible to get along with his wife's mother, who lives with the couple, and plans to get rid of her. He receives an advertisement from a hypnotic school, which informs him he can learn to hypnotize by mail. He has an idea that he can hypnotize his mother-in-law, thereby making her leave his home. He receives the lessons and proceeds to learn the art. He practices continually wherever he goes. In the street car he scares passengers with funny antics; runs into a man carrying a sack of flour; makes his mother-in-law pack her belongings and leave his home. The amateur hypnotist meets his Waterloo when the indignant old lady finds him later.
- "A Mosow electrician (Vladimir Steklov) lives in a crowded apartment house where he suspects that the heating stoves are poisoning the tenants, but can't convince some clueless bureaucrats to do anything about it. He fantasizes about an elegant lady (Kristina Orbakaite) he barely knows, but finally gets around to inviting her to a near-disastrous night at the opera, which leads to his seeming death,"
- Set during the final days of the admired photo development system known as Kodachrome, a father and son hit the road in order to reach the Kansas photo lab before it closes its doors for good.
- Durian is an unconventional 30-year-old single woman whose life is shattered by the unexpected death of her mother. Unsure of how to cope with this sudden change, Durian takes a short vacation.
- A short comedy depicting very amusing scenes in a seacoast town where an object afloat on the water causes consternation to the populace, owing to its semblance to a sea serpent.
- An 11-year-old boy befriends three aliens after they crash their spaceship onto the grounds of an closed gas station by his house.
- Fifteen years from its inception, YouTube retains the power to shock and disorient - particularly when wielded by children who have lived their whole lives in its era. A found-footage documentary composed entirely of social media videos by teenagers weathering hostile education and a climate of terror in contemporary Russia, "Manifesto" contains one vignette after another to make viewers wince with discomfort and even outright horror. One's first impulse might be to ask whether any documentary should show such material at all - yet of course, it has been freely available for public viewing all along. As such, "Manifesto" invites uneasy consideration of the differing responsibilities of creating, consuming and externally curating candid video, and provides no guidance. In selecting and assembling several years' worth of amateur video into a constructed, collective life-in-a-day feature, the presumably pseudonymous filmmaker Angie Vinchito takes considerable risks of decontextualization. There's no narration to bind or editorialize these disparate but symphonically despairing mini-narratives of physical abuse and psychological oppression, and "Manifesto" counts on viewers' knowledge of recent Russian politics and social norms to determine which videos present uncompromised reality, which may be documenting pranks or performance, and which have been alarmingly coerced.
- A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.
- It narrates in a near-future Tokyo the wild love affair between Dirka, a Japanese-Brazilian girl who works as a nightclub hostess to pay for her ailing Japanese father's debts, and Vadim, a young Russian drug delivery driver. Dirka yearns to return to the vaguely remembered Brazil of her youth. Vadim is sunk by remorse at having got his brother killed back in Russia.
- Legendary composer John Williams has written an original theme for ESPN's College Football Playoff National Championship. Titled "Of Grit and Glory," it runs three and a half minutes and will score a specially created series of visuals that convey "the feeling behind the night, fear and anticipation, triumph and failure," ESPN co-director and producer Martin Khodabakhshian tells Variety.
- Mishaps of a cameraman trying to film a cross-country race.
- Paul must confront his white boy realness after arriving in New York and getting involved with explosively divisive groups: the queer ballroom scene and some straight debt collectors, while falling in love with a trans woman.
- A spruce young business man buys an automobile: Without knowing anything about its handling, he attempts to take his best girl for a ride. The machine breaks down and a rival for the fair one's hand arrives and snatches her away while he is absorbed in repairing the machine. He has to be towed home. While he is not looking, the same rival starts the machine up again, and it proceeds to drag the horse through a number of misadventures. Amateur chauffeur and his machine finally topple over into an ash pit and the victim is carried home in the last degree of dilapidation. The final view shows the auto owner in the act of dancing ghoulishly around a bonfire made from his wrecked whiz-wagon.
- In making the reproduction it is evident that the newspaper reports of the fight have been taken as a guide for the work of the bogus contestants. The arena and ring are poorly contrived, and at a first glance the film shows upon its face that it is a "fake" pure and simple. About a dozen tiers of benches hold a gathering of observers who have been very poorly rehearsed in their duties, and their enthusiasm over the "fake" is vastly greater than that of the audience which witnesses the picture. There are knock downs galore, many times when no blow is shown to have been delivered, and the final knockout is a ridiculous piece of fakery. Palmer, the defeated Englishman, who almost takes the count many times throughout the film, is shown to sprawl prone upon his face without a blow having been delivered- at least in the instant preceding his fall there is no sign of a knockout blow having been given him.