• Title: The Star Maker
• Year: 1939
• Duration: 1h 34m
• Rating: 5,9
• Genres: Comedy, Music, Biography

Summary The Star Maker (1939)

This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.

A penniless song writer, Larry Earl, is convinced he is going places in shown business, and convinces Mary, an assistant at an orphanage, to marry him. Fifteen months later they are still in love, but broke as Larry writes songs that won't sell and loses one job after another one. He stops to watch a group of newsboys singing and dancing, and decides to organize them into the greatest kid act to ever hit vaudeville. Mary persuades Proctor, a big theatrical manager, to book the act, and they are a big hit. Then Larry and his publicity agent, "Speed" King, launch a big publicity stunt---a talent train in which they travel across country holding auditions for young performers. Back in New York, Carlotta Salvini, an ex-Opera singer, brings in her talented fourteen-year-old-daughter, Jane, who has an amazing voice. Larry, to get the mother out of the way, offers Carlotta a forty-week vaudeville tour, and then goes to work to make a star out of Jane, by building Broadway's first all-kiddie musical revue around her. Opening night has "School Days" as the first act and the show and Jane are a big hit...until the Gerry Society, organized to protect working children, reminds Larry there is a law against children working after 10 pm, and the show closes. Larry's future appears dim at best.

Synopsis The Star Maker (1939)

• Title: Steampunk
• Year:
• Duration: unknown
• Rating:
• Genres: Documentary, Biography

Summary Steampunk ()

We enter the alternative universe of Jake Von Slatt, one of the central figures of Steampunk, an innovative style that turns today's technology into Victorian works of art. In the Maker Workshop, John Park shows us how to build a remote control pole camera for taking stunning aerial photographs. Cy Tymony demonstrates some sneaky uses for magnets and the Maker Channel presents a Theremin orchestra, a smoke ring generator, a pulse-jet bike, and a clever video- hacking way to drink beer on C-SPAN.

Synopsis Steampunk ()

• Title: Steampunk: Retrofuture
• Year: 2011
• Duration: unknown
• Rating:
• Genres: Documentary, History, Biography

Summary Steampunk: Retrofuture (2011)

From literature to performance to film, the steampunk aesthetic is slowly making its way into the mainstream. Without boundaries, steampunk fosters a do-it-yourself approach to creativity that looks towards the future while gazing at the past. This is a look at the evolving steampunk movement.

Synopsis Steampunk: Retrofuture (2011)