pferguson | March 21, 2023
And You Are There With Him For the recent Western Front Association Pacific Branch conference I was asked to include an operational history of the Battle of the Somme. This was to be the lead for two additional presentations by Ian and Casey Williams of the Paradigm Motion Picture Company. Ian spoke directly about Piper […]
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Tags: Battle of the Somme, Captain Henry J. Tryon, Chilliwack, Film, Great War Veterans, John Weaver, Lance Corporal James Stronach, Piper James Cleland Richardson VC, Piper Ricahrdson Statue, Piper Richardson Statue, Private Harry Ayres, Private Henry Anketell Jones, Private James Morton Atkinson, Private Luke Charles Mahone, Private Paul Doutaz, River Somme
pferguson | October 26, 2018
Nosferatu and Westfront 1918 The 1922 German horror film Nosferatu was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. This unauthorized version, now a masterpiece of the Expressionist film movement, was adapted from author Bram Stoker’s book Dracula (1897), a treatise on the fears and anxieties that existed within Victorian society. Murnau was a veteran of the Great […]
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Tags: Albin Grau, Avant-garde, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Expressionist Film, Film History, Florence Stoker, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, George Wilhelm Pabst, German Film, Great War Veterans, Nosferatu, Prana Film, Weimar Republic, Westfront 1918
