The National Film Preservation Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive have announced the discovery of the first 30 minutes of a 1923 British film, "The White Shadow," considered to be the earliest feature film in which Alfred Hitchcock has a credit. Hitchcock, who was just 24 at the time, was the writer, assistant director, editor and production designer on the melodrama, starring Betty Compson as twin sisters — one good and one bad — and Clive Brook. "The White Shadow" will have its "re-premiere" Sept. 22 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The silent film will be added to the academy's Hitchcock collection, which also includes the legendary director's papers. Last year, the National Film Preservation Foundation, the nonprofit charitable affiliate of the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, received a grant to send an archivist down to the New Zealand archive to check out the American films in the collection. Some 75 features, shorts, newsreels and fragments were discovered last year and divided up between the academy's archive, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Library of Congress, the George Eastman House and the Museum of Modern Art. The biggest find in that cache was the 1927 John Ford film "Upstream," which was screened at the academy last year.
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From: Jeffrey Wyant Subject: mise en scene Def: 1. The setting of a scene in a play, movie, etc. 2. The setting or background of an event.
While mise en scene is the setting for the scene in a movie, it is also a technique of filmmaking in which the action of scene is designed to take place within a single shot, more like a stage play, rather than the action of a scene being designed to tell the story by editing together different shots in sequence, which would be montage. Sergei Eisentein or Dziga Vertov would be directorial examples of montage, while many scenes of La Regle de Jeu (The Rules of the Game) by Jean Renoir would be examples of mise en scene. The opening scene in Orson Welles Touch of Evil and the opening scene in Robert Altman's The Player are each outstanding examples of mise en scene in which lots of actions tell the story in a single long shot. The French new Wave critique Andre Bazín wrote eloquently on the purpose and effect of these two dialectical techniques. From: Christina Szirmai Subject: Mise en scene Mise en place is a term used in many professional kitchens, means everything you need to cook. It can include everything from utensils to dishes of prepared ingredients and is very important in making sure that a busy kitchen runs smoothly. No one needs to run to the refrigerator for an ingredient, nor pause to chop or dice something.
From: Duncan Hawthorne Subject: Bovine - vaccine Here is another word that refers to cows: vaccine. It comes from vacca, Latin for cow, after inoculation prepared from cows. I became aware of the etymology of this word a few years ago when talking to a student of mine. I teach English in Spain, and she was a doctor, so I thought she might be interested in a story I remembered from my primary school days, about the invention of the smallpox vaccine, by the English doctor Edward Jenner. He realised that dairy farm workers who contracted the non-fatal cowpox never caught the often fatal smallpox, and so decided to infect people with a mild dose of smallpox, in order to inoculate them. My student told me that the Spanish word for cowpox is 'viruela vacuna' -- 'vacuna' being the word for 'vaccination' as well as 'bovine'. That's when the penny dropped; of course, vaccination -- vacca -- vache (in French), vaca (in Spanish)!
From: Kim King Subject: Are donkeys silly? Who are we to say... Donkeys are decidedly not silly, nor are they asinine in the current sense of the word. They are highly intelligent, wise, and noble creatures. Many have a well-developed sense of humor too. They also have a well-developed sense of self-preservation, and are very cautious by nature. They don't panic and bolt, as horses do, but freeze and refuse to move when they feel threatened, which ignorant humans misinterpret as stubborn. I would stubbornly refuse to do something that looks like it might get me killed too, as would you, I am sure, but no one would call us stubborn or asinine. Silly humans...

Q: When the Constitution was submitted to the states for ratification, where did the greatest contests occur?
A: New York's Legislature ratified it by only three votes, 30-27; Virginia, 89-79; and Massachusetts, 187-168 U.S. Archives. http://www.thecourier.com/Opinion/columns/2011/Aug/JU/ar_JU_080111.asp?d=080111,2011,Aug,01&c=c_13

brisket Notes: Northerners like to use the brisket to make corned beef, but Southerners often prefer to barbecue it because they like the way the meat pulls apart into tender, juicy strands. Briskets are usually sold boneless, and often cut into two parts: the flat cut = flat half = first cut = thin cut and the fattier and cheaper point cut = point half = front cut = thick cut. Substitutes: rump roast (good for corned beef) OR bottom round roast (good for corned beef)
hanger steak = hanging tender = butcher's steak = butcher's tenderloin = onglet Notes: This is the part of the diaphragm that hangs between the last rib and the loin. It's often ground in hamburger (or butchers just take it home), but some people claim that its grainy texture and intense flavor make it a first-rate steak (if marinated first). It's better known in France than in the United States, so you'll probably have to ask your butcher to set one aside for you. Substitutes: skirt steak OR flank steak
short ribs = flanken = chuck short ribs = barbecue ribs = braising ribs = English short ribs Notes: These are rectangular sandwiches of fat, meat, and bone that are often cut into three-inch sections. They're very flavorful, but tough and fatty, so they're best if slowly braised. You can also grill them over low heat, but the dripping fat tends to cause flare-ups. To prevent this, either braise the ribs first or put a drip pan under them. Short ribs are sold either boneless or bone-in. If the cut is made across the ribs instead of between the ribs, the result is called flanken style ribs = kosher ribs = brust flanken = flanken short ribs. Chuck short ribs are tougher but less fatty than the short ribs taken from the underside of the carcass. Substitutes: back ribs (not as meaty, but more tender)
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Website of the Day Project Gutenberg: Percy Bysshe Shelley www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a1529 In honor of the birthday of English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (aka the husband of Mary Shelley), check out Project Gutenberg's collection of Shelley's work. Here you'll find several of the author's most famous poems by themselves, or you can download - for free - his collected works.
Number to Know 11: Number of songs by Louis Armstrong that are in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Armstrong was born on this date in 1901.
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