Word: mountaineering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the Southern Alps of New Zealand, from Greymouth to Christchurch, sped a sleek private train, bearing H. R. H. the Duke of York who personally drove one of the two powerful electric engines which hauled his train swiftly through the five-mile-long mountain tunnel at Otira. Emerging from the tunnel, climbing down from the cab, H. R. H. very graciously received bouquets from three pairs of twins in dainty frocks...
...woman who is torn between voodoo magic and hysterical Christianity, distracted by the death of her six children, driven finally to loud rebellion against all the Powers of Destiny, should represent man in the primitive rather than in the African type. In the end she is slain on a mountain top by the fanatics whose beliefs she challenges. In the course of the drama, the Negro actors chant spirituals, which are welcome to a bored audience...
...Meadow-peak"-the mountain with a meadow at its base...
When the Age-Herald was founded in 1870, Birmingham consisted of a cotton field crossed by two railroads. The first pages of the Age-Herald- described the first activities of the first promoters and engineers in the coal-and-iron-studded mountains that were to make Birmingham the first industrial city of the South. The Age-Herald gave its encouragement to the early iron-and-steelmongers who tried and failed, and tried again and again to make good metal from the sulphurous mountain ore and sell it profitably. It helped educate Birmingham out of its suicidal policy of selling cheap...
Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...