Mese: febbraio 2013

BFI From the Sea to the Land Beyond + DVD Competition

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Under a month ago a fantastic new BFI DVD was released which celebrates the British coastline. From the Sea to the Land Beyond is a film by award winning director Penny Woolcock and is a lyrical portrait of Britain’s coastline, created through an exquisite combination of evocative archive footage (all drawn from the BFI National Archive) and not only celebrates our identity with the British sea and coastline, but celebrates the superb archive which is held at the BFI.

Travelling from 1901 through both World Wars, into peacetime and the modern age, From the Sea to the Land Beyond shows our coast as a place of leisure, industry and wild nature. With an emphasis on the romantic and the ritualistic, the archive footage used in the film’s assembly is rich and varied. Both film and music incorporate themes of work, play, childhood, romance, melancholy, hope, transportation, wilderness, the power…

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About Ben-Hur 1920

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Ben-Hur (1907)
Ben-Hur (1907)

February 19, 1920. Officials of both the United Artists — the Big Four — and the First National denied yesterday knowing anything about certain information which, according to report, developed in the litigation between Harper Bros. and Henry L. Wallace and Klaw & Erlanger.

The value of the picture rights of “Ben Hur” was one of the points developing in the litigation, and correspondence filed showed that Marc Klaw had written Wallace suggesting that the United Artists make the production, and also that First National were ready to produce the picture, guaranteeing the owners $250,000; a figure which Klaw said he believed was the best obtainable. Wallace, who owns a third interest in the picture rights, figures his interest as being worth $400,000, which would make the total value of the rights $1,200,000.

In his decision Judge Hough suggested that the litigants reach an agreement regarding the value of the picture rights.

It has been reported at various times that Griffith wanted to make the picture, and also that the rights were held at $500,000.
(The Film Daily)