Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In Roman theater, a term for clown was fossor, literally digger; labourer. Joseph Grimaldi as "Joey" the Clown, c. 1810. The English word clown was first recorded c. 1560 (as clowne, cloyne) in the generic meaning rustic, boor, peasant. The origin of the word is uncertain, perhaps from a Scandinavian word cognate with clumsy.
Frenchy the Clown – character of the national lampoon comic Evil clown comics series. Fun Gus the Laughing Clown - cursed character in the cosmic/folk horror novel, "The Cursed Earth" by D.T. Neal (Nosetouch Press, 2022). The Ghost Clown – evil hypnotist clown featured in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode titled "Bedlam in the Big Top"
The Edisonia was the first known dedicated, purpose-built motion picture theater in the world. [ 13 ] Alice Guy-Blaché , the first female film director [ 14 ] makes La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) acknowledged as the first narrative fiction film.
His films included Fire the Cook, An Enemy of Soap, and The Movie Dummy, all in 1918. In the 1920s he was a headline act at the New York Hippodrome and the Palace Theatre, toured widely in the U.S. and Canada, and appeared in New York in shows such as the Grand Street Follies of 1924. [2]
The etymology of the term "movie theater" involves the term "movie", which is a "shortened form of moving picture in the cinematographic sense" that was first used in 1896 [7] and "theater", which originated in the "...late 14c., [meaning an] open air place in ancient times for viewing spectacles and plays". The term "theater" comes from the ...
The history of African-American theatre has a dual origin. The first is rooted in local theatre where African Americans performed in cabins and parks. Their performances (folk tales, songs, music, and dance) were rooted in the African culture before being influenced by the American environment. African Grove Theatre was the first African ...
The first recorded mime was Telestēs in the play Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus. Tragic mime was developed by Puladēs of Kilikia; comic mime was developed by Bathullos of Alexandria. [ 4 ] Mime ( mimius ) was an aspect of Roman theatre from its earliest times, [ 5 ] paralleling the Atellan farce in its improvisation (if without the latter ...
Slapstick comedy's history is measured in centuries. Shakespeare incorporated many chase scenes and beatings into his comedies, such as in his play The Comedy of Errors . In early 19th-century England, pantomime acquired its present form which includes slapstick comedy: its most famous performer, Joseph Grimaldi —the father of modern clowning ...