Tag: Arts & Culture

From Car Parts to Machine Guns: An American Company’s Ingenuity Propelled the Allied Forces Toward Victory

We laud as heroes men and women who fight for a cause, or speak moving words, or stand up for timeless ideals—and rightly so. Yet some of the greatest heroes of World War II were the men and women on the home front, who applied their cleverness, tenacity, and famous American entrepreneurial innovation to equip…


Training the Virginia Regiment: How Colonel George Washington’s Military Prowess Primed Him for Success in the Revolutionary War

The unparalleled events of George Washington’s life could fill half a dozen biographies of men with standard accomplishments. It is natural that his exploits as a revolutionary general and president would overshadow his early experiences in the French and Indian War. But without these initial achievements, the later ones would not have been possible. During…


How Mark Twain Discovered His Wit and Style as a Reporter Working in America’s Rough and Tumble West

Twentieth-century American author William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature.” But few of his compatriots today know of his raucous literary upbringing in a silver-mining boomtown. Unaccomplished and undecided as to his future, he first took up writing as a career in Nevada, and there he adopted a pen name and attracted a…


Came to Supper (1942)

Elmer Fudd and his dogs are hunting for Bugs Bunny in the woods. As Fudd is about to shoot Bugs, he receives a telegram telling him that his uncle is leaving him $3 million on the condition he doesn’t harm any animals. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content:…


Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948)

Santa and his sleigh crash into some trees while attempting to deliver presents on a foggy Christmas Eve. Rudolph is enlisted to lead the sleigh and is hailed as a hero. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the…


Popcorn and Inspiration: 1952’s ‘Limelight’: Charlie Chaplin’s Incandescent Humanity Shines Through

UR | 2h 17min | Drama, Comedy | 1952 In “City Lights” (1931), Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp dotes on a blind flower girl. Circumstances separate them just as he secures money for an operation that restores her sight. Finally, they’re happily reunited as she recognizes her benefactor who, until then, was “invisible” to her. Two decades…


Before Movies, People Went to See Moving Paintings

Six rolls of vibrant, exotic-style wallpaper totaling 190 feet, 3 1/2  inches once wowed 19th-century Europeans, but not as wallpaper. When the Rijks Museum’s curators began searching their collections of large works on paper for the museum’s “XXL Paper—Big, Bigger, Biggest!” exhibition, they discovered that those six rolls were part of one work of moving images, titled the…


Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Body Heat’: First Time Director Lawrence Kasdan’s Smoldering Noir Thriller

R | 1h 53min | Drama, Romance, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 28 August 1981 (USA) A late arrival to the American New Wave period, Lawrence Kasdan nonetheless cemented his stature in that era by co-scripting “The Empire Strikes Back” and being the solo screenwriter on “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” both produced by George Lucas. So impressed and confident was Lucas with…


Superman: Japoteurs (1942)

Superman confronts Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@EpochTV Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/epochtv Facebook:…


Charlie Chaplin: A Night in the Show (1915)

Mr. Pest tries several theater seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby, he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons,…