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On the wall outside the entrance to the Color in Motion Exhibit there is this large image of James Stewart as seen in the Dream Sequence from Hitchcock's "Vertigo." Whoever decided this singular image as the quintessential example of color in cinema deserved a bonus. "Vertigo" is a masterpiece of visual storytelling, accentuated by Bernard Herrmann's haunting, often melancholy score, which draws the viewer further into Stewart's psychological state as he tries to unravel the mystery behind Kim Novak's character and her own apparent obsession with a woman who may have existed only in a painting.

And that's just the first half of the movie.

The film was shot in VistaVision, and it may have been one of the old cannibalized Technicolor cameras to photograph it. However, Paramount had cameras built to shoot VistaVision, where the film magazine was in a horizontal position. I have yet to see any production stills from "Vertigo" that shows which type of VistaVision camera was utilized. Nevertheless, the film benefited from being printed in Technicolor, using the dye-transfer (IB) method, which brought out the colors in an even more vivid, if not lurid, manner.

I had the opportunity to see a restored print of "Vertigo" in Westwood, in October of 1996. It was a 70mm print, and the blowup didn't harm the picture quality of the equally large VistaVision negative.

Dutch postcard by S. & v. H., A. Photo: M.P.E.A. James Stewart and Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946). Collection: Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.

American actor James Stewart (1908-1997) is among the most honoured and popular stars in film history. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart had a film career that spanned over 55 years and 80 films.

Donna Reed (1921-1986) was an American film and television actress and producer. Her career spanned more than 40 years, with performances in more than 40 films. She is well known for her role as Mary Hatch Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946). She received the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lorene Burke in the war drama From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953). Reed is also known as Donna Stone, a middle-class American mother and housewife in the sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958–1966).

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Greenwich Village built in Los Angeles

Author: Theodore H. White.
Publisher: Pan Books.
Date: 1958.
Artist:

American postcard in The Ludlow Collection by Classico San Francisco, no. 136-308. James Stewart, Donna Reed, Beulah Bondi, Carol Coombs, Karolyn Grimes and Thomas Mitchell in It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946).

Frank Capra (1897-1991) was one of the most important Hollywood directors of the 1930s and 1940s. He often made tragicomedies in the context of the Great Depression, which - always on the side of the ‘little man’ - took a stand on social and societal issues. His name lives on through four classics: It Happened One Night (1934), Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and It's a Wonderful Life (1947). Columbia became a major production company in the 1930s due to the success of Capra's films. When later films could no longer build on his earlier successes, he retired in 1964 after 54 films.

Francesco Rosario ‘Frank’ Capra was born in 1897 in Bisacquino, a village near Palermo in Sicily, Italy. He was the youngest of seven - surviving - children of the fruit picker Salvatore Capra and his wife Rosaria ‘Sara’ née Nicolosi. In 1903, his family moved to Los Angeles, California, when he was five years old. The family had to spend the thirteen-day voyage across the Atlantic in cheap steerage because of a lack of money, and Capra later described the misery there as one of his worst life experiences. His father worked as a fruit picker, as he had done in Italy. While attending school, Frank had to earn money on the side as a paperboy for ten years. Capra finished high school after ten years and studied chemical engineering at the Throop Institute, later the California Institute for Technology. During World War I, he served in the army, but contracted Spanish flu and was discharged. After the war, he began working as an extra in films, after which he gained experience editing and directing short films. At the age of 24, Capra made the 32-minute documentary La Visita Dell'Incrociatore Italiano Libya a San Francisco. It documents the visit of the Italian naval vessel Libya to San Francisco and the reception given to the ship's crew by San Francisco's L'Italia Virtus Club. This was his first contact with film, although the short documentary did not bring him any attention or success. In 1923, he married Helen Howell. The following year, he was hired by Hal Roach as a screenwriter for Our Gang films. Frank Capra wanted to be a director, but Hal Roach refused, after which Capra resigned. He started working for Mack Sennett in 1925. Sennett had him write screenplays for films starring Harry Langdon. Langdon's comic character was characterised by boundless slowness, naivety and innocence, which is why he was usually unable to cope with the big, hard world. Capra, who was developing into a comedy specialist, played a part in Langdon's rise to become one of Hollywood's most successful comedians in the mid-1920s. After Landon left Sennett and moved to First National to make feature films, Capora was also sacked by Sennett. He was hired as a gag writer by Harry Langdon, working on Langdon's first First National feature-length film, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (Harry Edwards,1926). It did well at the box office, but the film had run over budget, and Harry Edwards was sacked. For his next picture, The Strong Man (1926), Langdon promoted Capra to director, boosting his salary to $750 per week. The film was a hit, but trouble was brewing because Langdon was increasingly believing his own press Langdon was compared to Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. After the shooting of Long Pants (1927), Capra and Langdon had a falling out and the successful duo parted ways. Capra made another silent comedy film for First National, For the Love of Mike (1927), about three bickering godfathers—a German, a Jew, and an Irishman— in which Claudette Colbert, who was still virtually unknown at the time, also had a role. This now-lost film was met with poor reviews and Capra did not receive another contract with First National.

In 1928, Frank Capra was hired by producer Harry Cohn to help his film studio Columbia Pictures produce new, full-length feature films, to compete with the major studios. At the time, Columbia was one of the so-called Poverty Row film studios in Hollywood, but Columbia wanted to gain in importance and size and catch up. Capra made a total of twenty films for Columbia Pictures, nine of them in his first year. Most of Capra's nine films turned out to be very successful, so Cohn increased his salary from USD 1,000 per film to an annual salary of USD 25,000. Cohn also put Capra's name above the title of his films, a first for the movie industry. Capra's first sound film was the drama The Younger Generation (Frank Capra, 1929), a part-talkie starring Ricardo Cortez. In this drama, Cortez plays the son of a Jewish family in New York who denies his Jewish roots to remain in favour with his girlfriend. At the end of the 1920s, sound film arrived in Hollywood. Capra welcomed this. In the production of his first sound films, his engineering studies were an advantage. He quickly became accustomed to the technical innovations of sound film. He started to work with cameraman Joseph Walker and they worked together on a total of 18 films, Capra also regularly hired screenwriter Robert Riskin who wrote the witty and sharp dialogue in many of Capra's films. The two became Hollywood's most acclaimed director/writer team. After notable successes such as the adventure film The Airship (1931) and above all the comedy Platinum Blonde (1931), which significantly advanced Jean Harlow's career, Capra made the comedy Lady for a Day (1933). The 75-year-old May Robson plays a poor apple seller who disguises herself as a lady. Despite the rather unusual leading actress, the film was nominated for four Oscars, including in the Best Director category for Capra. Although he did not win, Lady for a Day is considered Capra's first big hit, and it was also Columbia's first film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Film. The following year saw his first major milestone. The romantic comedy It Happened One Night (1934), starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, was a huge success. It Happened One Night was the first film to win the five major Oscars, namely Best Picture, Best Direction (for Capra), Best Male Lead (for Gable), Best Female Lead (for Colbert) and Best Screenplay (for Riskin). Claudette Colbert plays a spoilt millionaire heiress who flees from her father to a snobbish lover. Along the way, she gets to know the misery of ordinary people in the Great Depression but also falls in love with a down-to-earth reporter (Clark Gable). Despite this comic plot, Capra also shows the problems of the average American citizen during the Great Depression. It Happened One Night is now regarded as the founding film of the screwball comedy par excellence and propelled Columbia Pictures into the ranks of the major Hollywood studios. In the following years, Frank Capra made a series of comedies with moral and serious dramas, such as Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), You Can't Take It with You (1938) and Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939). All these films were nominated for several Oscars, including for Best Picture. Many of these films were about ‘the little man who fought against the system’. In Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Gary Cooper plays a fortune-card poet, a kindly, naïve country bumpkin who inherits a million-dollar fortune. He does a lot of good with his money before his money-grubbing and fraudulent lawyers try to declare him insane. Capra won his second Oscar for Best Director for Mr Deeds Goes to Town. The adventure film Lost Horizon (1937) with Ronald Colman, was based on a utopian novel by James Hilton. Lost Horizon differed from Capra's previous films and was shot for the then-high sum of 1.5 million US dollars. The film was set in an exotic, beautifully utopian valley in the Himalayas and the film's sets were therefore extremely elaborate. On 5 May 1936, Capra, now the highest-paid director in Hollywood, hosted the 1936 Academy Awards. Capra was honoured with his third Oscar for Best Director in five years for the comedy You Can’t Take It With You, which also won the Oscar for Best Film of the Year. Jean Arthur and James Stewart star as a pair of young lovers whose very different families - one tough businessmen, the other alternative eccentrics - get to know each other. Capra also cast Stewart in many of his later films. In 1939, Capra made one of his best-known films, the political satire Mr Smith Goes to Washington, again starring Arthur and Stewart. Capra made Stewart a Hollywood star with his films. In Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Capra's patriotism is evident, showing the individual in the democratic system fighting against rampant corruption in politics. Upon its release, the film was popular with critics and audiences, but the US ambassador to Great Britain at the time, Joseph P. Kennedy, asked Columbia boss Harry Cohn that the film should not be shown in Europe. Capra and Cohn ignored the criticism.

Frank Capra left Columbia and made his next two films at Warner Bros. His first film there was Meet John Doe (1941). Gary Cooper plays a former baseball player who wanders the country without work or money before he is proclaimed "John Doe" by news reporters and mutates into a hero of the masses. Released shortly before the USA entered the Second World War, Here is John Doe again shows patriotic traits and also contains a message against fascism: an unscrupulous and fascist industrialist with dictatorial intentions uses John Doe for his purposes and wants to become president. He also made the comedy Arsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant, which was not released until 1944. The black comedy then received excellent reviews and was also successful with audiences. Just four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Capra joined the US Army with the rank of major and gave up his Hollywood career for the time being. Over the next few years, he was involved in shooting numerous war documentaries for America in the service of the United States Army Pictorial Service. His seven-part, award-winning documentary film series Why We Fight (1942-1945) explained why the US soldiers went to war for their country and what their goals were. For the first film in the series, Prelude to War (1942), Capra received an Oscar. Capra saw the series as a response to Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will and it was a great success. With Walt Disney's help, he also produced a total of 28 three- to five-minute black-and-white cartoons about ‘Private Snafu’, which were used for educational purposes in the armed forces. Colonel Frank Capra was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal. After the war, he started Liberty Pictures with William Wyler and George Stevens. His best-known film, the Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946) with James Stewart and Donna Reed, was a big flop in cinemas, but later found its audience on television. Except for It's a Wonderful Life, other post-war films could not reach the level of his pre-war films, and the filmmaker struggled to reach new audiences. In 1961, he made his last film, Pocketful of Miracles with Glenn Ford and Bette Davis. In 1971, he published his autobiography ‘The Name Above the Title’. He was also involved in documentaries. In 1991, Frank Capra died in his sleep of a heart attack in La Quinta, California. He was 94 years old. He was interred at Coachella Valley Public Cemetery in Coachella, California. Frank Capra married the actress Helen Howell in 1923 and divorced in 1928. In the same year, he married Lucille Warner. The marriage, which ended in 1984 with Warner's death, produced one daughter and three sons - one son died as an infant. One son was the film producer Frank Capra Junior, whose son is the assistant director Frank Capra III. Frank Capra was nominated six times for the Oscar for Best Direction, eventually winning it three times, for It Happened One Night (in 1935), Mr Deeds Goes to Town (in 1937) and You Can't Take It with You (in 1939). For the first and last, he also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1947, he won a Golden Globe for directing It's a Wonderful Life.

Sources: Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch, German and English) and IMDb.

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Nome: James
Cognome: Stewart

James Maitland Stewart (Indiana, 20 maggio 1908 – Beverly Hills, 2 luglio 1997) è stato un attore statunitense. Nato a Indiana, vicino a Pittsburgh, intraprese gli studi di Architettura alla Princeton University, prima di essere attratto dal teatro. Il suo primo successo arrivò a Broadway, prima di esordire a Hollywood nel 1935. La sua carriera prese slancio grazie ai film di Frank Capra: il ruolo in Mister Smith va a Washington (1939) gli valse una candidatura all'Oscar. Dimostrò la sua versatilità in un ampio numero di generi cinematografici: dalla commedia al western, al thriller e ai film per famiglie, interpretando classici come Scandalo a Filadelfia (1940), con cui riuscì a ottenere l'ambita statuetta, La vita è meravigliosa (1946), Nodo alla gola (1948), Harvey (1950), La finestra sul cortile (1954), L'uomo che sapeva troppo (1956), La donna che visse due volte (1958). Lavorò per i registi più importanti dell'epoca, fra cui Alfred Hitchcock (con cui ebbe un forte sodalizio artistico), John Ford, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Anthony Mann, George Cukor. Tra le icone del cinema statunitense, è stato candidato per cinque Oscar, vincendone uno, più un altro alla carriera. L'American Film Institute lo ha inserito al terzo posto tra le più grandi star della storia del cinema. Come da tradizione familiare, ebbe anche una notevole carriera militare: nella United States Army Air Force e poi nella United States Air Force, totalizzando venti missioni di guerra durante la seconda guerra mondiale, venendo insignito della terza decorazione militare statunitense in ordine di importanza, e raggiungendo il grado di Generale di Brigata.

Tipo autografo: Fotografia vintage in bianco e nero con finitura opaca 3,5x4,5 firmata con inchiostro nero

The story of dissatisfied businessman George Bailey, played by James Stewart, who has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all. It’s Christmas, and George is visited by his guardian angel, Clarence, played by Henry Travers, who shows him what life would be like if he’d never been born.

Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLR3gZrU2Xo

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Mr Smith Goes To Washington - Alternative Movie Poster
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SNOWSHOE - a Post Office in Fort George Provincial Electoral District in British Columbia. It is located 3 miles east of LOOS on the Canadian National Railway, 35 miles north west of McBRIDE and 100 miles east of PRINCE GEORGE. The Swanson Lumber Mill was located there. The population in 1931 was 100 and by 1940 had dropped to 60.

A lumber mill camp cook at Snowshoe, B.C. stated in 1927 - he said, there was nothing at Snowshoe until the mill camp was established. There was at Snowshoe a Post Office and Store. The storekeeper had his meals at the boarding house. Trainmen also got their meals there. There was no obligation for the logging camp workers to eat there. LINK - www.newspapers.com/clip/118820303/times-colonist/

The SNOWSHOE Post Office was established - 15 December 1924 and closed - 30 September 1944.

Mail route - Snowshoe - Railway Station
Nature of premises - Store

LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the SNOWSHOE Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...

(first Postmaster at SNOWSHOE, B.C.) - Fred Gordon Thrasher served from - 15 December 1924 to - 10 July 1928

Frederick Gordon Thrasher - Postmaster and was a pioneer lumberman of the B.C. Interior. He worked with his brother - H.G. Thrasher Lumber Company Ltd.
(b. 6 October 1888 / 1890 in Pembroke, Renfrew County, Ontario - d. 17 January 1967 at age 76 in Vancouver, B.C.) - occupation - saw-mill foreman / lumberman / H.G. Thrasher Lumber Co. Ltd. - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/c5... LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/118923134/obituary-for-frederick-...

His first wife - Ella Pauline (nee Channell) Thrasher
(b. 1903 Kansas City, Clay, Missouri, USA - d. Apr 1979) - they were married - 19 July 1921 in Prince George, B.C. - LINK to their marriage certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/17... They were divorced - c. 1925

His second wife - Marjorie (nee Duncan) Thrasher
(b. 29 October 1903 in Stockton-on-Tees, England - d. 8 October 1988 at age 84 in Vancouver, B.C.) - occupation - public school teacher - they were married - 6 August 1929 in Vancouver, B.C. - LINK to their marriage certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/03... LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/d5...

(second Postmaster at Snowshoe, B.C.) - James Stewart served from - 12 December 1928 to - 2 November 1943

(third Postmistress at Snowshoe, B.C.) - Mrs Margaret Sophia Hegan served from - 1 December 1943 to - 6 July 1944

Margaret Sophia "Sophie" (nee Peel) Hegan
(b. 18 March 1900 in Alberta - d. 26 September 1966 at age 66 in Prince George, British Columbia) - occupation - Postmistress - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/71...

Her husband - John Hegan
(b. 12 May 1892 in Ireland - d. 2 February 1987 at age 94 in Kamloops, B.C.) - occupation - forestry industry - LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/54...

Registered letter was sent by Frederic J. Shearer / Agent / Prince George, B.C. (handstamp in purple ink)

Frederick James Shearer
(b. 9 March 1887 in Longlaketon, Assiniboia, Northwest Territories, Canada (Saskatchewan) - d. 28 May 1957 in Vancouver, British Columbia / Prince George, B.C.) - he never married. His occupation - real estate agent / insurance & decorating & notary public. LINK to his Find a Grave site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/110441333/frederick-james-she... LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/33...

Addressed to: Joseph Thomas, Esq., / Snowshoe / B.C.

Joseph Thomas
(b. - d. ) - occupation - farmer - he only stayed in Snowshoe, B.C. for a couple of years. (once the 1931 census is released I should be able add more information about him)

- sent from - / PRINCE GEORGE / JUN 22 / 31 / B.C. / - cds cancel

- sent by registered mail - / R / PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. / ORIGINAL No. / (5853) / - boxed registered marking in blue ink

- via / EDM. & PR. GEORGE R.P.O. / 6 / JUN 23 / No. 7 / - rpo transit backstamp

- arrived at - / SNOWSHOE / JUN 23 / 31 / B.C. / - split ring arrival backstamp - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 15 November 1924 - (RF D) - tough!

An American Tail: Fievel Goes West is an 1991 American animated film from Universal City Studios and Amblination. This is definitely an animated sequel film right after an 1986 Don Bluth film, An American Tail. If you like Don Bluth animated films, you'll like An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. This is perfect for the whole family especially with young and old alike.

From the back cover:

Presented by Steven Spielberg, this delightful animated feature continues the adventures of Fievel, the brave young mouse who captured the hearts and imagination of audiences in An American Tail.

The Mousekewitz family discovers the streets of America are not all paved with cheese, and living in a mouse tenement does not offer the life they hoped for. Young Tanya dreams of becoming a famous singer, and Fievel wants to become a tough law-dog like his hero Wylie Burp.

Lured out west by the crafty entrepreneur Cat R. Waul, Fievel discovers the evil gentleman's true plans to turn the settlers into mouse-burgers. Enlisting the aid of his cat friend Tiger, the two team up with the legendary Wylie Burp to stop the feline gang's dastardly plot.

Thrills and laughs come together in this heartwarming family film featuring the voices of James Stewart, John Cleese, Dom DeLuise, Amy Irving and an engaging original score including the unforgettable "Dreams to Dream" sung by Linda Ronstadt.

"Tip-top-terrific and full-of-fun! A rollicking and endearing delight. It's a winner!" -- Gene Shalit, The Today Show.

Color/1 Hr. 15 Mins.
Rated G
Closed Captioned
Digitally Recorded

Universal City Studios and Amblin Entertainment