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Laura Houghtaling Ingalls (December 14, 1893 – January 10, 1967) was an American pilot who won the Harmon Trophy. She was arrested in December 1941 and convicted of failing to register as a paid Nazi agent, and served 20 months in prison.
Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder and its sequel Beyond the Prairie II: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder Continues, are television films shown in two parts, which presented episodes from Laura Ingalls Wilder's later books in the Little House on the Prairie series (from The Long Winter to The First Four Years).
Laura and Almanzo Wilder, circa 1885. When Wilder was 23 years old and Ingalls was 15, the two began courting. Wilder would drive Ingalls back and forth between De Smet and a new settlement 12 miles (19 km) outside town, where she was teaching school and boarding. Then, when spring arrived, the couple would go for long buggy rides.
Flight to Mars has some plot similarities to the Russian silent film Aelita, but unlike that earlier film it is a low-budget "quickie" shot in just five days. [2] The film's on location principal photography took place in Death Valley, California from May 11 through late May 1951. [3]
A Trip to Mars: 1910: The short film, 4 minutes in length, stars a professor who uses an antigravity powder to float to Mars, where he encounters aggressive trees and a giant creature. The creature then sends him back to Earth, but the powder spills and the whole laboratory flies in the sky. [3] A Trip to Mars: 1918
Little House on the Prairie is a 2005 American Western television miniseries directed by David L. Cunningham.It is a six-part adaptation of children's novels Little House in the Big Woods (1932) and Little House on the Prairie (1935) by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Pamela Smith Hill , author of Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life, comments on her development as a writer and her relationship with her daughter and editor, Rose Wilder Lane. Tanya Hart, a professor of history, puts the relationship of women to the law and the community in context with the time in which Laura Ingalls Wilder lived.
The movie starts with the Ingalls family leaving their little house in the Big Woods and starting west. After a long and adventurous journey, they stop in Indian Country. Charles builds a house and starts farming, Indians visit them, and they meet Mr. Edwards. After a year, soldiers come and tell the family they have to leave.