A Read 'Dish' Miss Gish!
OK maybe it’s an age thing but I struggle to appreciate the special effects and computer animations of modern films. I prefer the simple sincerity of the special effects of old black & white films, especially the silent films.
In one of my ‘senior moments’ I was thinking about a documentary I saw many years ago on the making of silent films with their simple special effects, especially snow storms. It made me think of one of the real ‘darlings’ of the silver screen – Lillian Gish (and indeed also her sister Dorothy Gish) who, along with many other ‘screen virgins’ such as Mary Pickford, started in many of D W Griffith’s great silent movies.
Lillian Diana Gish was born in October 14, 1893 and passed away in February 27, 1993. She had a remarkable 75 year career in films, television and stage from 1921 until 1987. She rightly earned the title as ‘The First Lady of the Silent Screen’ and it was hinted that she had a brief ‘entanglement’ with D W Griffith. Her last film, made in 1987 at the age of 93, was ‘The Whales of August’ staring Vincent Price, Ann Sothern and Betty Davis. However it was for her Griffith films that she was most remembered – such as Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Way Down East and Orphans of the Storm. In this film there was a ‘snow scene’ which like all snow scenes of the silent films, was created by throwing handfuls of artificial snow in front of a large fan on the set. On occasions, the fake snow got clogged onto the fan blades so filming had to be stopped in order to clean the fan.
This Orphans of the Storm film can be seen on a unique web site - http://www.archive.org/details/OrphansoftheStorm. It was considered to be Griffith’s last major commercial success. It centred on the French revolution and the rise of Bolshevism. This lady has her own web site at - http://www.lilliangish.com/
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A tribute to ‘The First Lady of the Silent Screen’ from the Primasonics International – ‘The Innovators in Sonic Horn Cleaning Technologies’.
In one of my ‘senior moments’ I was thinking about a documentary I saw many years ago on the making of silent films with their simple special effects, especially snow storms. It made me think of one of the real ‘darlings’ of the silver screen – Lillian Gish (and indeed also her sister Dorothy Gish) who, along with many other ‘screen virgins’ such as Mary Pickford, started in many of D W Griffith’s great silent movies.
Lillian Diana Gish was born in October 14, 1893 and passed away in February 27, 1993. She had a remarkable 75 year career in films, television and stage from 1921 until 1987. She rightly earned the title as ‘The First Lady of the Silent Screen’ and it was hinted that she had a brief ‘entanglement’ with D W Griffith. Her last film, made in 1987 at the age of 93, was ‘The Whales of August’ staring Vincent Price, Ann Sothern and Betty Davis. However it was for her Griffith films that she was most remembered – such as Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, Way Down East and Orphans of the Storm. In this film there was a ‘snow scene’ which like all snow scenes of the silent films, was created by throwing handfuls of artificial snow in front of a large fan on the set. On occasions, the fake snow got clogged onto the fan blades so filming had to be stopped in order to clean the fan.This Orphans of the Storm film can be seen on a unique web site - http://www.archive.org/details/OrphansoftheStorm. It was considered to be Griffith’s last major commercial success. It centred on the French revolution and the rise of Bolshevism. This lady has her own web site at - http://www.lilliangish.com/
Believe it or not, in most dry processing industries such as cement, metal recovery etc., they can suffer from particulate building up on the blades of ID Fans causing the fan to go off balance which in turn makes it necessary to shut down the plant in order to manually clean the impeller blades. However thanks to Primasonics Acoustic Cleaners such problems are a thing of the past. The acoustic cleaner’s sound waves prevent the build up of particulate on the fan blades thus eliminating the need for unscheduled plant shut downs. Find our more on this innovative, safe and efficient means of preventing fan imbalance by following the following link - http://www.primasonics.com/fan_applications.htmA tribute to ‘The First Lady of the Silent Screen’ from the Primasonics International – ‘The Innovators in Sonic Horn Cleaning Technologies’.
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