Choosing not to run again, Roosevelt picks William Howard Taft as his successor for the nomination for the presidency. The Democrats again nominate William Jennings Bryan, who loses to Taft.
Unlawful Trust - William H. Taft - November, 1908
The Nobel Prize in Literature was rewarded to the German philosopher, Rudolf Christoph Eucken..gif)
Rainer Maria Rilke's New Poems was published in 1908.
The Shoulders of Atlas by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was published in 1908.The Shoulders of Atlas
Ivanhoe - Two Step
Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, and George Bellows form the "Ashcan School" of painters in Greenwich Village. Protesting the National Academy's conservative tastes and exclusion of their work, these artists hold their own successful exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery on February 3, 1908; the next year they are offered their own gallery at the National Academy's exhibition.
Henry Ford introduces the Model T. It sells for about $850, gets about 25 miles to a gallon of gas, and can, says Ford, be purchased in any color the buyer wishes, as long as the buyer wants black. Colors were added the next year. By 1926, the year before the Model A replaces the Model T, the price drops to $310.
Lucia Sextette, Act II
About 5,000 nickelodeons existed throughout the United States. Many studios were created to keep up with the increased demand for films. In 1907, The Saturday Evening Post reported that daily attendance at nickelodeons exceeded two million. In 1907, the Chicago Daily Tribune denounced nickelodeons as firetraps and tawdry corrupters of children. Nickelodeons spread and numbered between 8,000 to 10,000 by 1908 with 200,000 customers a day, charging five cents for a movie accompanied by a piano.
Movies:
The Adventures of Dollie
After Many Years
The Assassination of the Duke of Guise
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dreams of Toyland
The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays
In the Sultan's Power
MacBeth
Over the Hill to The Poorhouse
The Reprieve: An Episode in the Life of Abraham Lincoln
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The selection of motion pictures featured in this two-disc set traces D. W. Griffith's rapid, unparalleled development as a filmmaker during his five year stint at the Biograph Company -- a development that contributed substantially to the emergence of film as a powerful form of cultural expression.
From the crude humor and melodramatic devices of The Adventures of Dollie (1908) through the remarkably dynamic The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913), one is able to witness Griffith's rapid gains in self-confidence and increasing command over the still new medium of motion pictures.
Griffith was noted for many achievements, but among his most striking was the use of parallel editing, both for purpose of suspense (An Unseen Enemy, The Lesser Evil) and to generate a powerful social commentary (Corner in Wheat, The Usurer). But, as The Unchanging Sea demonstrates, he was also able to harness the technique for more elegiac purposes. In these fifteen films -- plus eight bonus shorts -- one finds Griffith experimenting with (and thus contributing to the development of) various genres, including the Western (The Last Drop of Water), the crime picture (The Musketeers of Pig Alley), and the seafaring drama (Enoch Arden, one of Griffith's earliest two-reel endeavors).
From the crude humor and melodramatic devices of The Adventures of Dollie (1908) through the remarkably dynamic The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913), one is able to witness Griffith's rapid gains in self-confidence and increasing command over the still new medium of motion pictures.
Griffith was noted for many achievements, but among his most striking was the use of parallel editing, both for purpose of suspense (An Unseen Enemy, The Lesser Evil) and to generate a powerful social commentary (Corner in Wheat, The Usurer). But, as The Unchanging Sea demonstrates, he was also able to harness the technique for more elegiac purposes. In these fifteen films -- plus eight bonus shorts -- one finds Griffith experimenting with (and thus contributing to the development of) various genres, including the Western (The Last Drop of Water), the crime picture (The Musketeers of Pig Alley), and the seafaring drama (Enoch Arden, one of Griffith's earliest two-reel endeavors).
Those Awful Hats (1909. 3 mins.)
The Sealed Room (1909. 11 mins.)
Corner in Wheat (1909. 14 mins.)
The Unchanging Sea (1910. 13 mins.)
His Trust (1911. 14 mins.)
The New York Hat (1912. 16 mins.)
An Unseen Enemy (1912. 15 mins.)
The Mothering Heart (1913. 23 mins.)
(bonus short) The Adventures of Dollie (1908. 12 mins.)
(bonus short) The Usurer (1910. 18 mins.)
(bonus short) Enoch Arden (1911. 33 mins.)
(bonus short) The Miser's Heart (1911. 16 mins.)
The Sealed Room (1909. 11 mins.)
Corner in Wheat (1909. 14 mins.)
The Unchanging Sea (1910. 13 mins.)
His Trust (1911. 14 mins.)
The New York Hat (1912. 16 mins.)
An Unseen Enemy (1912. 15 mins.)
The Mothering Heart (1913. 23 mins.)
(bonus short) The Adventures of Dollie (1908. 12 mins.)
(bonus short) The Usurer (1910. 18 mins.)
(bonus short) Enoch Arden (1911. 33 mins.)
(bonus short) The Miser's Heart (1911. 16 mins.)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912. 18 mins.)
The Burglar's Dilemma (1912. 15 mins.)
The Sunbeam (1912. 15 mins.)
The Painted Lady (1912. 12 mins.)
One is Business, The Other Crime (1912. 15 mins.)
Death's Marathon (1913. 15 mins.)
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913. 29 mins.)
(bonus short) The Last Drop of Water (1911. 13 mins.)
(bonus short) Friends (1912. 13 mins.)
(bonus short) The Lesser Evil (1912. 13 mins.)
(bonus short) The Massacre (1912. 30 mins.)
The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
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