Flooding in Niles, MI
Wonderland Cinema is the blue building in the center.
Many people out taking pics of the flooding.
I haven't felt like I need to post pictures everyday, but thought it would be wise to get the flyer up to have a look around.
Flooding in Niles, MI
Wonderland Cinema is the blue building in the center.
Many people out taking pics of the flooding.
I haven't felt like I need to post pictures everyday, but thought it would be wise to get the flyer up to have a look around.
Berrien County Health Department Safe Sleep - theatre ad
A 15-second spot for the Berrien County(MI) Health Department, shown at the Loma Theatre in Coloma, MI and the Wonderland Cinema in Niles, MI.
Chapin Mansion Holiday Lights - Niles, Michigan December 2014
The Chapin Mansion is lit for the Holidays by TPC Technologies. The Chapin Mansion is located in downtown Niles, Michigan.
The display is programmed to run daily between 6:00p to 10:00p, from Thanksgiving through New Years. Observers are encouraged to tune their FM radios to 88.3 to hear the audio simulcast.
The Lighting and Programming is ©2014 by TPC Technologies. The song Wizards in Winter is ©2004 by Paul O'Niell and Robert Kinkel. The video capture is ©2014 by Mark Alstott.
I make no claim of copyright to the the display, lighting or music being performed in my video. All rights belong to the artists that wrote, performed and developed the original material.
Capture using a D7000 and a 10mm/f2.8 Nikkor lens. Titles and effects added in Apple Final Cut.
Local AMC says theater treated for bedbugs
Is it possible to take bedbugs home with you from a movie theater?
Poor old orchard mall Benton harbor Michigan
A sad tour of the orchard mall i wish they would get more stores i remember back in the day this place was popping
Howland House
clips from the new howland house video
Suspense: Tree of Life / The Will to Power / Overture in Two Keys
Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller was his third silent film The Lodger (1926), a suspenseful Jack the Ripper story. His next thriller was Blackmail (1929), his and Britain's first sound film. Of Hitchcock's fifteen major features made between 1925 and 1935, only six were suspense films, the two mentioned above plus Murder!, Number Seventeen, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and The 39 Steps. From 1935 on, however, most of his output was thrillers.
One of the earliest spy films was Fritz Lang's Spies (1928), the director's first independent production, with an anarchist international conspirator and criminal spy character named Haghi (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), who was pursued by good-guy Agent No. 326 (Willy Fritsch) (aka Det. Donald Tremaine, English version) -- this film anticipated the James Bond films of the future. Another was Greta Garbo's portrayal of the real-life, notorious, seductive German double agent code-named Mata Hari (Gertrud Zelle) in World War I in Mata Hari (1932), who performed a pearl-draped dance to entice French officers to divulge their secrets.
The chilling German film M (1931) directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre (in his first film role) as a criminal deviant who preys on children. The film's story was based on the life of serial killer Peter Kurten (known as the 'Vampire of Düsseldorf'). Edward Sutherland's crime thriller Murders in the Zoo (1933) from Paramount starred Lionel Atwill as a murderous and jealous zoologist.
Other British directors, such as Walter Forde, Victor Saville, George A. Cooper, and even the young Michael Powell made more thrillers in the same period; Forde made nine, Vorhaus seven between 1932 and 1935, Cooper six in the same period, and Powell the same. Hitchcock was following a strong British trend in his choice of genre.
Notable examples of Hitchcock's early British suspense-thriller films include The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), his first spy-chase/romantic thriller, The 39 Steps (1935) with Robert Donat handcuffed to Madeleine Carroll and The Lady Vanishes (1938).
The Great Gildersleeve: Fishing at Grass Lake / Bronco the Broker / Sadie Hawkins Dance
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.