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Hoy hace 15 años nos despedíamos del Rey del Pop, por eso hoy, en memoria de uno de los íconos más grandes de la música, recordamos su último álbum de estudio, que se compone de temas escritos por el mismo Michael entre 1982 y 2001 y que esconde más de una curiosidad. Reseña Musical | ‘Xscape’ El fallecimiento de Michael Jackson el 25 de junio de 2009 es de esos eventos que marcan generaciones,…

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(Mostly) Lost, but Not Forgotten: Omar Khayyam (1923) / A Lover’s Oath (1925)

Alternate Titles: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat, Omar Khayyam, Omar

Direction: Ferdinand Pinney Earle; assisted by Walter Mayo

Scenario: Ferdinand P. Earle

Titles: Marion Ainslee, Ferdinand P. Earle (Omar), Louis Weadock (A Lover’s Oath)

Inspired by: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as edited & translated by Edward FitzGerald 

Production Manager: Winthrop Kelly

Camera: Georges Benoit

Still Photography: Edward S. Curtis

Special Photographic Effects: Ferdinand P. Earle, Gordon Bishop Pollock

Composer: Charles Wakefield Cadman

Editors: Arthur D. Ripley (The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam version), Ethel Davey & Ferdinand P. Earle (Omar / Omar Khayyam, the Director’s cut of 1922), Milton Sills (A Lover’s Oath)

Scenic Artists: Frank E. Berier, Xavier Muchado, Anthony Vecchio, Paul Detlefsen, Flora Smith, Jean Little Cyr, Robert Sterner, Ralph Willis

Character Designer: Louis Hels

Choreography: Ramon Novarro (credited as Ramon Samaniegos)

Technical Advisors: Prince Raphael Emmanuel, Reverend Allan Moore, Captain Dudley S. Corlette, & Captain Montlock or Mortlock

Studio: Ferdinand P. Earle Productions / The Rubaiyat, Inc. (Production) & Eastern Film Corporation (Distribution, Omar), Astor Distribution Corporation [States Rights market] (Distribution, A Lover’s Oath)

Performers: Frederick Warde, Edwin Stevens, Hedwiga Reicher, Mariska Aldrich, Paul Weigel, Robert Anderson, Arthur Carewe, Jesse Weldon, Snitz Edwards, Warren Rogers, Ramon Novarro (originally credited as Ramon Samaniegos), Big Jim Marcus, Kathleen Key, Charles A. Post, Phillippe de Lacy, Ferdinand Pinney Earle

Premiere(s): Omar cut: April 1922 The Ambassador Theatre, New York, NY (Preview Screening), 12 October 1923, Loew’s New York, New York, NY (Preview Screening), 2 February 1923, Hoyt’s Theatre, Sydney, Australia (Initial Release)

Status: Presumed lost, save for one 30 second fragment preserved by the Academy Film Archive, and a 2.5 minute fragment preserved by a private collector (Old Films & Stuff)

Length:  Omar Khayyam: 8 reels , 76 minutes; A Lover’s Oath: 6 reels,  5,845 feet (though once listed with a runtime of 76 minutes, which doesn’t line up with the stated length of this cut)

Synopsis (synthesized from magazine summaries of the plot):

Omar Khayyam:

Set in 12th century Persia, the story begins with a preface in the youth of Omar Khayyam (Warde). Omar and his friends, Nizam (Weigel) and Hassan (Stevens), make a pact that whichever one of them becomes a success in life first will help out the others. In adulthood, Nizam has become a potentate and has given Omar a position so that he may continue his studies in mathematics and astronomy. Hassan, however, has grown into quite the villain. When he is expelled from the kingdom, he plots to kidnap Shireen (Key), the sheik’s daughter. Shireen is in love with Ali (Novarro). In the end it’s Hassan’s wife (Reicher) who slays the villain then kills herself.

A Lover’s Oath:

The daughter of a sheik, Shireen (Key), is in love with Ali (Novarro), the son of the ruler of a neighboring kingdom. Hassan covets Shireen and plots to kidnap her. Hassan is foiled by his wife. [The Sills’ edit places Ali and Shireen as protagonists, but there was little to no re-shooting done (absolutely none with Key or Novarro). So, most critics note how odd it is that all Ali does in the film is pitch woo, and does not save Shireen himself. This obviously wouldn’t have been an issue in the earlier cut, where Ali is a supporting character, often not even named in summaries and news items. Additional note: Post’s credit changes from “Vizier” to “Commander of the Faithful”]

Additional sequence(s) featured in the film (but I’m not sure where they fit in the continuity):

Celestial sequences featuring stars and planets moving through the cosmos

Angels spinning in a cyclone up to the heavens

A Potters’ shop sequence (relevant to a specific section of the poems)

Harem dance sequence choreographed by Novarro

Locations: palace gardens, street and marketplace scenes, ancient ruins

Points of Interest:

“The screen has been described as the last word in realism, but why confine it there? It can also be the last word in imaginative expression.”

Ferdinand P. Earle as quoted in Exhibitors Trade Review, 4 March 1922

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was a massive best seller. Ferdinand Pinney Earle was a classically trained artist who studied under William-Adolphe Bougueraeu and James McNeill Whistler in his youth. He also had years of experience creating art backgrounds, matte paintings, and art titles for films. Charles Wakefield Cadman was an accomplished composer of songs, operas, and operettas. Georges Benoit and Gordon Pollock were experienced photographic technicians. Edward S. Curtis was a widely renowned still photographer. Ramon Novarro was a name nobody knew yet—but they would soon enough.

When Earle chose The Rubaiyat as the source material for his directorial debut and collected such skilled collaborators, it seemed likely that the resulting film would be a landmark in the art of American cinema. Quite a few people who saw Earle’s Rubaiyat truly thought it would be:

William E. Wing writing for Camera, 9 September 1922, wrote:

“Mr. Earle…came from the world of brush and canvass, to spread his art upon the greater screen. He created a new Rubaiyat with such spiritual colors, that they swayed.”  … “It has been my fortune to see some of the most wonderful sets that this Old Earth possesses, but I may truly say that none seized me more suddenly, or broke with greater, sudden inspiration upon the view and the brain, than some of Ferdinand Earle’s backgrounds, in his Rubaiyat. “His vision and inspired art seem to promise something bigger and better for the future screen.”

As quoted in an ad in Film Year Book, 1923:

“Ferdinand Earle has set a new standard of production to live up to.”

Rex Ingram

“Fifty years ahead of the time.” 

Marshall Neilan

The film was also listed among Fritz Lang’s Siegfried, Chaplin’s Gold Rush, Fairbanks’ Don Q, Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera and The Unholy Three, and Erich Von Stroheim’s Merry Widow by the National Board of Review as an exceptional film of 1925.

So why don’t we all know about this film? (Spoiler: it’s not just because it’s lost!)

The short answer is that multiple dubious legal challenges arose that prevented Omar’s general release in the US. The long answer follows BELOW THE JUMP!

Earle began the project in earnest in 1919. Committing The Rubaiyat to film was an ambitious undertaking for a first-time director and Earle was striking out at a time when the American film industry was developing an inferiority complex about the level of artistry in their creative output. Earle was one of a number of artists in the film colony who were going independent of the emergent studio system for greater protections of their creative freedoms.

In their adaptation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Earle and Co. hoped to develop new and perfect existing techniques for incorporating live-action performers with paintings and expand the idea of what could be accomplished with photographic effects in filmmaking. The Rubaiyat was an inspired choice. It’s not a narrative, but a collection of poetry. This gave Earle the opportunity to intersperse fantastical, poetic sequences throughout a story set in the lifetime of Omar Khayyam, the credited writer of the poems. In addition to the fantastic, Earle’s team would recreate 12th century Persia for the screen. 

Earle was convinced that if his methods were perfected, it wouldn’t matter when or where a scene was set, it would not just be possible but practical to put on film. For The Rubaiyat, the majority of shooting was done against black velvet and various matte photography and multiple exposure techniques were employed to bring a setting 800+ years in the past and 1000s of miles removed to life before a camera in a cottage in Los Angeles.

Note: If you’d like to learn a bit more about how these effects were executed at the time, see the first installment of How’d They Do That.

Unfortunately, the few surviving minutes don’t feature much of this special photography, but what does survive looks exquisite:

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Earle, knowing that traditional stills could not be taken while filming, brought in Edward S. Curtis. Curtis developed techniques in still photography to replicate the look of the photographic effects used for the film. So, even though the film hasn’t survived, we have some pretty great looking representations of some of the 1000s of missing feet of the film.

Nearly a year before Curtis joined the crew, Earle began collaboration with composer Charles Wakefield Cadman. In another bold creative move, Cadman and Earle worked closely before principal photography began so that the score could inform the construction and rhythm of the film and vice versa.

By the end of 1921 the film was complete. After roughly 9 months and the creation of over 500 paintings, The Rubaiyat was almost ready to meet its public. However, the investors in The Rubaiyat, Inc., the corporation formed by Earle to produce the film, objected to the ample reference to wine drinking (a comical objection if you’ve read the poems) and wanted the roles of the young lovers (played by as yet unknown Ramon Novarro and Kathleen Key) to be expanded. The dispute with Earle became so heated that the financiers absconded with the bulk of the film to New York. Earle filed suit against them in December to prevent them from screening their butchered and incomplete cut. Cadman supported Earle by withholding the use of his score for the film.

Later, Eastern Film Corp. brokered a settlement between the two parties, where Earle would get final cut of the film and Eastern would handle its release. Earle and Eastern agreed to change the title from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to simply Omar. Omar had its first official preview in New York City. It was tentatively announced that the film would have a wide release in the autumn.

However, before that autumn, director Norman Dawn launched a dubious patent-infringement suit against Earle and others. Dawn claimed that he owned the sole right to use multiple exposures, glass painting for single exposure, and other techniques that involved combining live action with paintings. All the cited techniques had been widespread in the film industry for a decade already and eventually and expectedly Dawn lost the suit. Despite Earle’s victory, the suit effectively put the kibosh on Omar’s release in the US.

Earle moved on to other projects that didn’t come to fruition, like a Theda Bara film and a frankly amazing sounding collaboration with Cadman to craft a silent-film opera of Faust. Omar did finally get a release, albeit only in Australia. Australian news outlets praised the film as highly as those few lucky attendees of the American preview screenings did. The narrative was described as not especially original, but that it was good enough in view of the film’s artistry and its imaginative “visual phenomena” and the precision of its technical achievement.

One reviewer for The Register, Adelaide, SA, wrote:

“It seems almost an impossibility to make a connected story out of the short verse of the Persian of old, yet the producer of this classic of the screen… has succeeded in providing an entertainment that would scarcely have been considered possible. From first to last the story grips with its very dramatic intensity.”

While Omar’s American release was still in limbo, “Ramon Samaniegos” made a huge impression in Rex Ingram’s Prisoner of Zenda (1922, extant) and Scaramouche (1923, extant) and took on a new name: Ramon Novarro. Excitement was mounting for Novarro’s next big role as the lead in the epic Ben-Hur (1925, extant) and the Omar project was re-vivified. 

A new company, Astor Distribution Corp., was formed and purchased the distribution rights to Omar. Astor hired actor (note, not an editor) Milton Sills to re-cut the film to make Novarro and Key more prominent. The company also re-wrote the intertitles, reduced the films runtime by more than ten minutes, and renamed the film A Lover’s Oath. Earle had moved on by this point, vowing to never direct again. In fact, Earle was indirectly working with Novarro and Key again at the time, as an art director on Ben-Hur!

Despite Omar’s seemingly auspicious start in 1920, it was only released in the US on the states rights market as a cash-in on the success of one of its actors in a re-cut form five years later.

That said, A Lover’s Oath still received some good reviews from those who did manage to see it. Most of the negative criticism went to the story, intertitles, and Sills’ editing.

What kind of legacy could/should Omar have had? I’m obviously limited in my speculation by the fact that the film is lost, but there are a few key facts about the film’s production, release, and timing to consider. 

The production budget was stated to be $174,735. That is equivalent to $3,246,994.83 in 2024 dollars. That is a lot of money, but since the production was years long and Omar was a period film set in a remote locale and features fantastical special effects sequences, it’s a modest budget. For contemporary perspective, Robin Hood (1922, extant) cost just under a million dollars to produce and Thief of Bagdad (1924, extant) cost over a million. For a film similarly steeped in spectacle to have nearly 1/10th of the budget is really very noteworthy. And, perhaps if the film had ever had a proper release in the US—in Earle’s intended form (that is to say, not the Sills cut)—Omar may have made as big of a splash as other epics.

It’s worth noting here however that there are a number of instances in contemporary trade and fan magazines where journalists off-handedly make this filmmaking experiment about undermining union workers. Essentially implying that that value of Earle’s method would be to continue production when unionized workers were striking. I’m sure that that would absolutely be a primary thought for studio heads, but it certainly wasn’t Earle’s motivation. Often when Earle talks about the method, he focuses on being able to film things that were previously impossible or impracticable to film. Driving down filming costs from Earle’s perspective was more about highlighting the artistry of his own specialty in lieu of other, more demanding and time-consuming approaches, like location shooting.

This divide between artists and studio decision makers is still at issue in the American film and television industry. Studio heads with billion dollar salaries constantly try to subvert unions of skilled professionals by pursuing (as yet) non-unionized labor. The technical developments of the past century have made Earle’s approach easier to implement. However, just because you don’t have to do quite as much math, or time an actor’s movements to a metronome, does not mean that filming a combination of painted/animated and live-action elements does not involve skilled labor.

VFX artists and animators are underappreciated and underpaid. In every new movie or TV show you watch there’s scads of VFX work done even in films/shows that have mundane, realistic settings. So, if you love a film or TV show, take the effort to appreciate the work of the humans who made it, even if their work was so good you didn’t notice it was done. And, if you’ve somehow read this far, and are so out of the loop about modern filmmaking, Disney’s “live-action” remakes are animated films, but they’ve just finagled ways to circumvent unions and low-key delegitimize the skilled labor of VFX artists and animators in the eyes of the viewing public. Don’t fall for it.

VFX workers in North America have a union under IATSE, but it’s still developing as a union and Marvel & Disney workers only voted to unionize in the autumn of 2023. The Animation Guild (TAG), also under the IATSE umbrella,  has a longer history, but it’s been growing rapidly in the past year. A strike might be upcoming this year for TAG, so keep an eye out and remember to support striking workers and don’t cross picket lines, be they physical or digital!

Speaking of artistry over cost-cutting, I began this post with a mention that in the early 1920s, the American film industry was developing an inferiority complex in regard to its own artistry. This was in comparison to the European industries, Germany’s being the largest at the time. It’s frustrating to look back at this period and see acceptance of the opinion that American filmmakers weren’t bringing art to film. While yes, the emergent studio system was highly capitalistic and commercial, that does not mean the American industry was devoid of home-grown artists. 

United Artists was formed in 1919 by Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and D.W. Griffith precisely because studios were holding them back from investing in their art—within the same year that Earle began his Omar project. While salaries and unforgiving production schedules were also paramount concerns in the filmmakers going independent, a primary impetus was that production/distribution heads exhibited too much control over what the artists were trying to create.

Fairbanks was quickly expanding his repertoire in a more classical and fantastic direction. Cecil B. DeMille made his first in a long and very successful string of ancient epics. And the foreign-born children of the American film industry, Charlie Chaplin, Rex Ingram, and Nazimova, were poppin’ off! Chaplin was redefining comedic filmmaking. Ingram was redefining epics. Nazimova independently produced what is often regarded as America’s first art film, Salome (1923, extant), a film designed by Natacha Rambova, who was *gasp* American. Earle and his brother, William, had ambitious artistic visions of what could be done in the American industry and they also had to self-produce to get their work done. 

Meanwhile, studio heads, instead of investing in the artists they already had contracts with, tried to poach talent from Europe with mixed success (in this period, see: Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau, Benjamin Christensen, Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjöström, and so on). I’m in no way saying it was the wrong call to sign these artists, but all of these filmmakers, even if they found success in America, had stories of being hired to inject the style and artistry that they developed in Europe into American cinema, and then had their plans shot down or cut down to a shadow of their creative vision. Even Stiller, who tragically died before he had the opportunity to establish himself in the US, faced this on his first American film, The Temptress (1926, extant), on which he was replaced. Essentially, the studio heads’ actions were all hot air and spite for the filmmakers who’d gone independent.

Finally I would like to highlight Ferdinand Earle’s statement to the industry, which he penned for from Camera in 14 January 1922, when his financial backers kidnapped his film to re-edit it on their terms:

MAGNA CHARTA

Until screen authors and producers obtain a charter specifying and guaranteeing their privileges and rights, the great slaughter of unprotected motion picture dramas will go merrily on.

Some of us who are half artists and half fighters and who are ready to expend ninety per cent of our energy in order to win the freedom to devote the remaining ten per cent to creative work on the screen, manage to bring to birth a piteous, half-starved art progeny.

The creative artist today labors without the stimulus of a public eager for his product, labors without the artistic momentum that fires the artist’s imagination and spurs his efforts as in any great art era.

Nowadays the taint of commercialism infects the seven arts, and the art pioneer meets with constant petty worries and handicaps.

Only once in a blue moon, in this matter-of-fact, dollar-wise age can the believer in better pictures hope to participate in a truely [sic] artistic treat.

In the seven years I have devoted to the screen, I have witnessed many splendid photodramas ruined by intruding upstarts and stubborn imbeciles. And I determined not to launch the production of my Opus No. 1 until I had adequately protected myself against all the usual evils of the way, especially as I was to make an entirely new type of picture.

In order that my film verison [sic] of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam might be produced under ideal conditions and safeguarded from intolerable interferences and outside worries, I entered into a contract with the Rubaiyat, Inc., that made me not only president of the corporation and on the board of directors, but which set forth that I was to be author, production manager, director, cutter and film editor as well as art director, and that no charge could be made against the production without my written consent, and that my word was to be final on all matters of production. The late George Loane Tucker helped my attorney word the contract, which read like a splendid document.

Alas, I am now told that only by keeping title to a production until it is declared by yourself to be completed is it safe for a scenario writer, an actor or a director, who is supposedly making his own productions, to contract with a corporation; otherwise he is merely the servant of that corporation, subject at any moment to discharge, with the dubious redress of a suit for damages that can with difficulty be estimated and proven.

Can there be any hope of better pictures as long as contracts and copyrights are no protection against financial brigands and bullies?

We have scarcely emerged from barbarism, for contracts, solemnly drawn up between human beings, in which the purposes are set forth in the King’s plainest English, serve only as hurdles over which justice-mocking financiers and their nimble attorneys travel with impunity, riding rough shod over the author or artist who cannot support a legal army to defend his rights. The phrase is passed about that no contract is invioliable [sic]—and yet we think we have reached a state of civilization!

The suit begun by my attorneys in the federal courts to prevent the present hashed and incomplete version of my story from being released and exhibited, may be of interest to screen writers. For the whole struggle revolves not in the slightest degree around the sanctity of the contract, but centers around the federal copyright of my story which I never transferred in writing otherwise, and which is being brazenly ignored.

Imagine my production without pictorial titles: and imagine “The Rubaiyat” with a spoken title as follows, “That bird is getting to talk too much!”—beside some of the immortal quatrains of Fitzgerald!

One weapon, fortunately, remains for the militant art creator, when all is gone save his dignity and his sense of humor; and that is the rapier blade of ridicule, that can send lumbering to his retreat the most brutal and elephant-hided lord of finance.

How edifying—the tableau of the man of millions playing legal pranks upon men such as Charles Wakefield Cadman, Edward S. Curtis and myself and others who were associated in the bloody venture of picturizing the Rubaiyat! It has been gratifying to find the press of the whole country ready to champion the artist’s cause.

When the artist forges his plowshare into a sword, so to speak, he does not always put up a mean fight. 

What publisher would dare to rewrite a sonnet of John Keats or alter one chord of a Chopin ballade?

Creative art of a high order will become possible on the screen only when the rights of established, independent screen producers, such as Rex Ingram and Maurice Tourneur, are no longer interferred with and their work no longer mutilated or changed or added to by vandal hands. And art dramas, conceived and executed by masters of screen craft, cannot be turned out like sausages made by factory hands. A flavor of individuality and distinction of style cannot be preserved in machine-made melodramas—a drama that is passed from hand to hand and concocted by patchworkers and tinkerers.

A thousand times no! For it will always be cousin to the sausage, and be like all other—sausages.

The scenes of a master’s drama may have a subtle pictorial continuity and a power of suggestion quite like a melody that is lost when just one note is changed. And the public is the only test of what is eternally true or false. What right have two or three people to deprive millions of art lovers of enjoying an artist’s creation as it emerged from his workshop?

“The Rubaiyat” was my first picture and produced in spite of continual and infernal interferences. It has taught me several sad lessons, which I have endeavored in the above paragraphs to pass on to some of my fellow sufferers. It is the hope that I am fighting, to a certain extent, their battle that has given me the courage to continue, and that has prompted me to write this article. May such hubbubs eventually teach or inforce a decent regard for the rights of authors and directors and tend to make the existence of screen artisans more secure and soothing to the nerves.

FERDINAND EARLE.

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Doctor Shipman’s Murders

In February 1976, Dr. Harold Shipman, a family doctor in the West Yorkshire town of Todmorden, was convicted of obtaining the drug meperidine, a form of morphine, by deception, to feed his own addiction. After receiving treatment, Shipman avoided being struck off and was allowed to continue practicing as a family doctor, first at the Donneybrook practice in Hyde, Greater Manchester, before he opened his own practice on the town’s Market Street.

There he developed a reputation as an attentive and caring doctor. “Many patients describe Shipman as having a wonderful bedside manner, especially with the elderly,” wrote Dame Janet Smith, who led the inquiry into his murders. “He would make much of them and sometimes tease them gently. They liked it. He made them feel that he was a real friend as well as their doctor. Yet he would kill them.”

In March 1998 the alarm was first raised about Shipman by a mortician in Hyde, and a neighboring doctor’s office, which noticed the death rate of Shipman’s patients was double its own. The local coroner conveyed their concerns to Greater Manchester Police, who conducted a quick investigation that failed to contact Shipman or the relatives of any of his victims, and ultimately cleared him to kill again.

The doctor was eventually stopped in June 1998, when Angela Woodruff, the daughter of his final victim, Kathleen Grundy, discovered her mother had surprisingly excluded her from her will but left Shipman £386,000. The police exhumed Grundy’s body and found she contained traces of diacetylmorphine in her muscle tissues, which Shipman claimed was because she was a drug addict, but it was found he had added this comment after her death to cover his tracks. It was also established he had forged Grundy’s will.

In September 1998 Shipman was arrested on suspicion of Grundy’s murder. The police exhumed more bodies, and investigated 14 elderly women whose deaths Shipman had certified. They all followed the same pattern: he had injected them with a lethal dose of diacetylmorphine, signed their death certificates, and on his computer at his office, altered their medical records to falsely declare they had been unwell. He would kill patients who were on the brink of death with terminal illnesses, others who had poor-quality lives but were not dying, and some who were perfectly healthy with years to live.

In October 1999 Shipman stood trial at Preston Crown Court for the murders of 15 woman he had killed with injections of diacetylmorphine between 1995 and 1998. Shipman always protested his innocence, but the jury refused to believe him, and in January 2000 found him guilty on all 15 counts of murder before the judge sentenced him to life in prison.

The police believed Shipman was responsible for s total of 171 deaths, the youngest aged 41 and the oldest 93, while at The Shipman Inquiry settled on s figure between 215 snd 250.

In January 2004, four years after his conviction, Shipman committed suicide at H.M. Prison Wakefield the day before his 58th birthday by hanging himself with his bedsheet from the bars on his window.

The Theories After two years of investigations that produced a 336-page, six volume report, The Shipman Inquiry was unable to establish a firm motive for the estimated 250 murders.

"I regret to say that I can shed very little light on why Shipman killed his patients," Dame Janet Smith has admitted. "There is some evidence that he is an addictive personality, and it is possible that killing was a form of addiction. It is typical of addictive behavior that the subject needs more and more opportunities to feed the addiction."

Smith concluded Shipman took pleasure in being invested with power, and deciding who lived and who died. "He would be the center of attention and would take control. He would present himself as omniscient. He would give instructions about the removal of the body. He would give his explanation for the death, often saying that, although it might have been a surprise to the relatives, it had been no surprise to him."

In one instance, the inquiry found in February 1998 Stephen Dickson asked Shipman how long his father-in-law, cancer patient Harold Eddleston, had to live. "I wouldn't buy him any Easter eggs," Shipman replied, killing Eddleston four days later.

Some psychiatrists who examined Shipman before his trial came to believe his murders were proof of "classic necrophilia," which involves taking pleasure from being in the presence of death.

In the search for answers, because Shipman never spoke publicly about why he killed, some have looked back to his childhood and the death of his mother from cancer at the age of only 43. He was greatly impacted by her death while still a teenager, which inspired speculation he became angry later in his life at being surrounded by so many old people who had enjoyed far longer lives than his mother.

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Leaf: I would like to learn more about the fae, could you tell me where a good place to start would be? maybe book recommendations? or specific fairy tales to look into? thank you so much

Ah, welcome. It is always good to see those who wish to broaden their knowledge of the old stories.As to the Fae, it depends on what you’re looking for. You see, the Folk did not arise from a singular instance of Mythology, but from an amalgamation of many cultural traditions and stories. For Ireland we have the Tuatha de Danann and their battles against the Fir Bolg and eventually become the Aos Sidhe. There are the Welsh Tylwyth Teg who steal fair haired children from their beds and leave changelings in their place.The Scottish hold great pride in their Seelie and Unseelie courts, while the Scandinavian people whisper fearfully of Trolls, Gnomes, Shapeshifters, Wights, and Werewolves.Will you look to the Norse for stories of Light Elfs, Dwarfs, and Disir? Or to the Germanic Wichtlein who aided miners, and are one of the distant precursors to both the Goblins and Dwarfs we imagine today?Or would you prefer to move forward to the Victorian age where Fae were brought together to diminutive sprites and fanciful little magics that you might find in Peter Pan, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or the Faerie Queene?It really depends on what you’re trying to find. The Lore of the Fae is vast and encompasses the traditions of many different European cultures, each unique and important in its own way. I can include below a full list of all the sources I happen to possess at this time. Hopefully they will grant your desire of providing an excellent place with which to begin your research.

Kirk, Robert. The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies. 1691. Reprint, London: D. Nutt, 1893.

Wilby, Emma. “The Witch's Familiar and the Fairy in Early Modern England and Scotland.” Folklore, vol. 111, no. 2, 2000, pp. 283–305. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1260607.

Vejvoda, Kathleen. “‘Too Much Knowledge of the Other World’: Women and Nineteenth-Century Irish Folktales.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 32, no. 1, 2004, pp. 41–61. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25058651.

Nutt, Alfred. “Presidential Address. Britain and Folklore.” Folklore, vol. 10, no. 1, 1899, pp. 71–86. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1253611.

Goodare, Julian. “The Cult of the Seely Wights in Scotland.” Folklore, vol. 123, no. 2, 2012, pp. 198–219., www.jstor.org/stable/41721541.

Briggs, Katharine Mary (1976). "Euphemistic names for fairies". An Encyclopedia of Fairies. New York: Pantheon Books. p. 127. ISBN 0-394-73467-X.

Rossetti, Christina G, and Martin Ware. Goblin Market. London: V. Gollancz, 1980. Print.

Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915. Lady Audley's Secret. New York :Federal Book Company, 18ADAD. Print.

Frazer J.G. (1983) Sympathetic Magic. In: The Golden Bough. Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Yeats, William Butler. “The Stolen Child.” Collected Classic Poems, Stevenson to Yeats, Jan. 2012, pp. 1–2. EBSCOhost, ezproxy.uvu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=prf&AN=76614684&site=eds-live.

Spenser, Edmund, Thomas P. Roche, and C P. O'Donnell. The Faerie Queene. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978. Print. 

Gregory, Lady, and Finn MacCumhaill. Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of Tuatha de Danann and of the Fianna of Ireland. John Murray, 1905.

Howard, Marvin ElRoy. "" See ya na yon narrow road?": the search for Elfland in folklore of the Scottish border." (1996).

Campbell, John Gregorson. Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. J. MacLehose and sons, 1900.

Diane Purkiss, At The Bottom Of The Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things (2000)

Kready, Laura (1916). A Study of Fairy Tales. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 

“Trees in Mythology”. Mythencyclopedia.com. 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2014-05-11. 

“‘The king o fairy with his rout’: Fairy Magic in the Literature of Late Medieval Britain–By Hannah Priest”. September 8, 2011. 

Lenihan, Eddie and Green, Carolyn Eve (2004) Meeting The Other Crowd: The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland. pp. 146–7 ISBN 1-58542-206-1. 

https://tam-lin.org/stories/Thomas_the_Rhymer.html

Evans Wentz, W. Y. (1966, 1990) The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries. Gerrards Cross, Colin Smythe Humanities Press ISBN 0-901072-51-6

De Jubainville, M. H. D'Arbois and Richard Irvine Best (1903). The Irish Mythological Cycle and Celtic Mythology. Dublin Hodges, Figgis, and Company.

Keightley, Thomas. (1892) Fairy Mythology. London: George Bell & Sons, Retrieved from Project Gutenberg 15 October 2017

King James. Daemonologie. A Critical Edition. In Modern English. 2016. ISBN 1-5329-6891-4.

Williams, Noel. “The semantics of the word fairy: making meaning out of thin air.” The Good People: new fairylore essays (1991): 457-78. 

https://britishfairies.wordpress.com/

Wakefield, Sarah R. Folklore in British Literature: Naming and Narrating in Women’s Fiction, 1750-1880. Vol. 80. Peter Lang, 2006.

Laviolette, Patrick, and Alastair McIntosh. “Fairy hills: merging heritage and conservation.” Ecos 18.¾ (1997): 2-8. 

Owen, Alex. “'Borderland Forms’: Arthur Conan Doyle, Albion’s Daughters, and the Politics of the Cottingley Fairies.” History Workshop, no. 38, 1994, pp. 48–85.

Zipes, Jack. Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves. Routledge, 2016. 

Silver, Carole. “On the Origin of Fairies: Victorians, Romantics, and Folk Belief.” Victorian Literature and Culture 14 (1986): 141-156.

Harms, Daniel M. “Hell and Fairy: The Differentiation of Fairies and Demons Within British Ritual Magic of the Early Modern Period.” Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018. 55-77. 

Sikes, Wirt. British goblins: Welsh folk-lore, fairy mythology, legends and traditions. S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1880. 

Loponen, Mika. “Faerie Folklore in Medieval Tales-An Introduction.” (2006). 

Lindow, John. Norse mythology: a guide to gods, heroes, rituals, and beliefs. Oxford University Press, 2002. 

Gimbel, Jared Joseph. “Spiritual Descent: A Study of Semi-Divine Beings and Non-Human Species in European Mythologies.” (2011).

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41006/41006-h/41006-h.htm

John Bauers Bästa: Ett Urval Sagor Ur "bland Tomtar Och Troll" Åren 1907-1915. Stockholm: Åhlén & Åkerlund, 1951. Print.

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Harold Frederick Shipman was born January 14th 1946. Shipman was an English general practitioner, and is believed to be the most prolific serial killer in history along with being the only doctor in British history to be found guilty of and sentenced for murdering a patient.

This is his story.

Shipman was born in Nottingham, England. The man was the second of the three children to the parents of Harold Frederick Shipman and Vera Brittan.

Shipman was very close to his mother Vera, who died of lung cancer on June 21st 1963, when Shipman was only 17 years old.

On November 5th 1966, Shipman married Primrose May Oxtoby. They had four children together.

Shipman studied medicine at Leeds School of Medicine, graduating in 1970.

Soon after Shipman began to work at Pontefract General Infirmary in Pontefract, and took his first position as a general practitioner (GP) at the Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre in Todmorden in the year 1974.

In 1975, Shipman was caught forging prescriptions of the drug pethidine (Demerol) for his own use, which he was fined £600 for. Shipman attended a drug rehabilitation clinic in York for a brief amount of time after this.

Shipman later became a GP at the Donneybrook Medical Centre in 1977. He worked as a GP at Donneybrook throughout the 1980s, and later began his own surgery in 1993 at 21 Market Street. Shipman became a well-respected member of the community, being interviewed in 1983 in a documentary World in Action, where he discussed how mentally-ill persons should be treated in the community.

In March of 1998, Linda Reynolds of the Donneybrook Surgery, prompted by Deborah Massey from Frank Massey and Sons funeral parlour, spoke of their concerns to John Pollard, the coroner for the South Manchester District. She was concerned about the particularly high death rate among Shipman's patients, the large number of cremation forms for elderly women that he had needed countersigned in particular.

After Linda Reynolds spoke up, the matter was brought to the attention of the police. Police were unable to find sufficient evidence to press charges against Shipman, which was later said to be the fault of the police for assigning inexperienced officers to the investigation. Between April 17th 1988 (When the investigation was abandoned) and Shipman's arrest on September 7th 1998, Shipman killed 3 more people.

Several months later following the police failing to find evidence against Shipman, John Shaw, aHyde taxi driver, contacted the police with the claim that he suspected Shipman of murdering twenty-one of his patients.

Shipman's final victim was Kathleen Grundy, an 81 year-old widow who was found dead in her home on June 24th 1998. Shipman was the last person to see her alive, and he later signed her death certificate, recording "old age" as the cause of death. Grundy's daughter, lawyer Angela Woodruff, became concerned when solicitor Brian Burgess informed her that a will had been made, apparently by her mother, raising doubts about its authenticity. The will excluded Woodruff and her children, but left £386,000 to Shipman, which caused suspicions to grow.

Woodruff went to the police to report the strange and suspicious occurrences, which then began an investigation once again.

Grundy's body was exhumed and when examined, was found to contain traces of diamorphine (heroin), a drug that was often used for pain control in terminal cancer patients. When questioned about this find, Shipman claimed that she was an addict, and showed them comments he had written to that effect in his computerised medical journal. Examination of his computer, however, revealed that the journal entries had been written after Grundy's death. He was arrested on September 7th 1998, and it was found that he owned a Brother typewriter, which was the same type used to make the forged will.

Following this, police investigated the other deaths Shipman had certified, creating a list of fifteen potential cases to investigate, although it was believed that his kill count was much higher. They discovered a pattern of his administering lethal doses of diamorphine, signing patients' death certificates, and then falsifying medical records to indicate that they had been in poor health.

Shipman's trial began at Preston Crown Court on October 5th 1999. Shipman was charged with the murders of Marie West, Irene Turner, Lizzie Adams, Jean Lilley, Ivy Lomas, Muriel Grimshaw, Marie Quinn, Kathleen Wagstaff, Bianka Pomfret, Norah Nuttall, Pamela Hillier, Maureen Ward, Winifred Mellor, Joan Melia and Kathleen Grundy, all by lethal injections of diamorphine between 1995 and 1998.

On 31 January 2000, after six days of deliberation, the jury found Shipman guilty of fifteen counts of murder and one count of forgery. Shipman was sentenced to life imprisonment on all fifteen counts of murder, with a recommendation that he never be released, to be served alongside a sentence of four years for forging Grundy's will.

On February 11th 2000, ten days after his conviction, the General Medical Council formally struck Shipman off its register.

Shipman consistently denied his guilt, disputing the scientific evidence against him. He never made any public statements about his actions. Shipman's wife, Primrose, steadfastly maintained her husband's innocence, even after his conviction.

Shipman hung himself in his cell at Wakefield Prison at 06:20 on 13 January 2004, on the eve of his 58th birthday, and was pronounced dead at 08:10. A statement indicated that Shipman had hanged himself from the window bars of his cell using bed sheets.

And that is the end of the Story of Harold Frederick Shipman, the man rumored to be one of the most prolific serial killers along with being the only doctor in British history to have been convicted of murdering a patient.

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Dr. Death | True Crime

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Dr. Death, a doctor and a serial killer between the mid 70′s and the late 90′s.

Harold Shipman, better known as Dr. Death, was an English doctor and is believed to be the most prolific serial killer in history with a count of 215 confirmed and identified victims and 250 victims in total.

Harold Shipman studied medicine at Leeds School of Medicine and graduated in 1970. He got his first job as a Doctor, General Practitioner, in 1974 at the Abraham Ormerod Medical Centre in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. He got his second job in 1977 at the Donneybrook Medical Center in Hyde.

It is stated that all of his murders had started in 1975, although at that time there were no detections of murder in his patients that passed away because most of them were already elderly and ill. His murders were not detected until 1998 when he murdered his last victim, Kathleen Grundy. Kathleen Grundy was found dead in her home on June 24, 1998, shortly after Harold Shipman had paid her a visit. Harold Shipman had signed her death certificate and claimed she had died of old age, but Kathleen’s daughter was concerned since her mother was not ill and was in good health at the time of the visit. It was also concerning that in Kathleen Grundy’s will she left nothing to her children, but left £386,000 to Harold Shipman. When the family solicitor was brought in he reported the will to the police who started an investigation.

In this investigation Kathleen Grundy’s body was exhumed and put through an autopsy because Harold Shipman never sent her for an autopsy. When the autopsy results were in they found traces of heroin, a type used for pain control in patients with cancer at that time, in her system. Harold Shipman then tried to claim that Kathleen was an addict and tried to prove this by showing them his entries about Kathleen in his medical journal. In time those entries were proved to be written after she had died.

Harold Shipman was arrested on September 7, 1998. He was found to have made a fake will for Kathleen Grundy using a typewriter to gain her money after he murdered her. Police also took the investigation further than Kathleen Grundy. The police had looked into the other death certificates that Harold Shipman had signed and found that he had murdered them as well, giving them lethal doses of deadly medications and adding fake medical records to try to make it look as if the patients had been in poor health before his murders, as if they died of old age and natural causes.

After being arrested Harold Shipman’s trial took over a year to begin. His trial began on October 5, 1999. Harold Shipman was charged with several murders between 1995 and 1998. The Victims: Marie West, Irene Turner, Lizzie Adams, Jean Lilley, Ivy Lomas, Muriel Grimshaw, Marie Quinn, Kathleen Wagstaff, Bianka Pomfret, Norah Nuttall, Pamela Hillier, Maureen Ward, Winifred Mellor, Joan Melia and Kathleen Grundy all by lethal injections of diamorphine. He was finally found guilty by a jury on January 31, 2000 of all 15 murders and one count of forgery for Kathleen Grundy’s will. Mr Justice Forbes sentence Harold Shipman to life imprisonment with no chance of release and four years for forging Kathleen Grundy’s will.

After Harold’s conviction, he was incarcerated at Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire, England. He stayed there until he committed suicide on January 13, 2004, which was the day before his 58th birthday. He had hanged himself from the window bars of his cell using his bedsheets.

Harold Shipman is told to be the only Doctor in British medicine to be found guilty of murdering his patients. Over the years of investigation, they found 215 confirmed victims and believe his total victim count is 250. Most of his victims were elderly women over the age of 65 although his youngest confirmed victim of the 215 count was a 41-year-old male. Although these are the confirmed victims, there are rumors that there is unconfirmed victims that are younger than 41 but there is no current proof. The interesting thing about the possible 250 count is that he had 459 patients die while under his care, but again it isn’t confirmed who was an actual murder victim or was generally ill since these were said to be between 1971 and 1998. It seems no one will ever know the true amount, but to those victims we pay our respects to their tragic deaths.

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I’m a Quincy Jones fan … I like most of his music.  I found no trivia on this song, released in 1981, with James Ingram on vocals.  So, just listen and be thankful that I’m not rambling on … and on … and on.  😊

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What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF JANUARY Uprooted by Naomi Novik* ** Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik **  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl Winter by Ali Smith Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li (NF) The Archived by Victoria Schwab ** The Unbound by Victoria Schwab Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang (SS)  The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel (NF) ** The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie (P) Wildcard by Marie Lu The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas  Universal Harvester by John Darnielle Misfit by Jon Skovron Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory ** Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play by Edward Albee  Blackfish City by Sam. J Miller **

Graphic Novels read: Sabrina by Nick Drnaso  Durarara!! (Vol.1-4), Saika Arc (Vol.1-3), Yellow Scarf Arc (Vol.1-3) — Narita/Yasuda/Satorigi **

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currently reading:  Kurt Vonnegut: Letters edited by Dan Wakefield (NF) Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch (P) Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin (NF) Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell Havemercy by Jaida Jones & Danielle Bennet 

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating on my goodreads (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction SS - short story collection // P - poetry AB - audiobook 

TBR: Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann  Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente Party Girls Die in Pearls by Plum Sykes A Guide to Being Born by Ramona Ausubel (SS) First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety by Sarah Wilson (NF)

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Executive Creative Directors: Jason Bagley, Eric Baldwin Creative Directors: Alberto Ponte, Ryan O’Rourke Copywriter: Dylan Lee Art Director: Naoki Ga Director of Production: Matt Hunnicutt Executive Producers: Jake Grand, Krystle Mortimore Senior Producers: Katie McCain, Byron T. Oshiro Associate Producers: Samson Selam, Shani Storey Global Brand Director: André Gustavo Brand Director: Kate Rutkowski Brand Manager: Paanii Annan Creative Operations Managers: Saba Spencer, David Ramirez Global Group Strategy Director: Andy Lindblade, Paula Bloodworth Media Team: Danny Sheniak, Reme Debisschop, Emily Dalton, Vivian Zhang, Graham Wallace, Claudia Iraheta Brand Strategy Directors: Nathan Goldberg, AJ Blumenthal Business Affairs: Karen Crossley, Edith Ortiz, Emily Kahn Broadcast Traffic: Sabrina Reddy, Billy Mucha Design Ops Manager/Design Producer: Alicia Kuna, Michael Rosenau, Michael Frediani Studio Designers: Joan Comellas, Jamon Sin, Mitch Wilson ____________________________________________________________________________

LIVE ACTION Production Company: Pulse Films Director: Oscar Hudson Director of Photography: Logan Triplett Live Action Producer: Dennis Beier Executive Producers: Darren Foldes Key Costumer: Chris Araujo Production Designer: Adam Wilson Managing Director: Hillary Rogers President - Commercial & Branded: Davud Karbassioun ____________________________________________________________________________ Post Production

Design Design Studio: Elastic Art Director: Jeff Han Producers: Paul Makowski, Adam Goins Animators: Nader Husseini, Julia Wright, Chad Danieley, Aziz Dosmetov, Trix Taylor, Lucy Kim, Alex Silver Deputy Head of Production: Zach Wakefield Executive Producer: Luke Colson Head of Production: Kate Berry Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall ------- VFX VFX Studio: a52 VFX Supervisor: Patrick Murphy CG Supervisor: Andy Wilkoff Lead Flame Artist: Patrick Murphy Flame Artists: Steve Wolff, Urs Furrer, Matt Sousa, Stefan Gaillot, Andy Rafael Barrios, Hugh Seville, Richard Hirst, Adam Flynn, Dan Ellis, Kevin Stokes, Chris Riley, Rod Basham, Michael Vaglienty, Enid Dalkoff, Susanne Scharping 3D Artists: Dustin Mellum Tracking: Joe Chiechi, Mike Bettinardi, Michael Cardenas Online Editors: Kevin Stokes, Chris Riley, Sam Kolber Producers: Andrew Rosenberger, Everett Cross, Jillian Lynes Executive Producers: Patrick Nugent & Kim Christensen Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall ____________________________________________________________________________ COLOR Color Studio: a52 Color Colorist: Daniel De Vue Color Producer: Jenny Bright Executive Producer: Thatcher Peterson _________________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL Editorial Company: JOINT Editor: Peter Wiedensmith, Jessica Baclesse Assistant Editor: Jasmine McCullough, JC Nuñez Footage Researcher: Izzie Raitt Producer: Kathleen Russell Production Coordinator: Aubree VanDercar Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy ____________________________________________________________________________ SOUND DESIGN Sound Design Company: JOINT Sound Designer: Noah Woodburn Audio Assistant: Natalie Huizenga Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy

MIX Mix Compay: JOINT Audio Mixer: Noah Woodburn Audio Assistant: Natalie Huizenga Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy

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Client: Nike Agency: Wieden + Kennedy

Executive Creative Directors: Jason Bagley, Eric Baldwin Creative Directors: Alberto Ponte, Ryan O’Rourke Copywriter: Dylan Lee Art Director: Naoki Ga Director of Production: Matt Hunnicutt Executive Producers: Jake Grand, Krystle Mortimore Senior Producers: Katie McCain, Byron T. Oshiro Associate Producers: Samson Selam, Shani Storey Global Brand Director: André Gustavo Brand Director: Kate Rutkowski Brand Manager: Paanii Annan Creative Operations Managers: Saba Spencer, David Ramirez Global Group Strategy Director: Andy Lindblade, Paula Bloodworth Media Team: Danny Sheniak, Reme Debisschop, Emily Dalton, Vivian Zhang, Graham Wallace, Claudia Iraheta Brand Strategy Directors: Nathan Goldberg, AJ Blumenthal Business Affairs: Karen Crossley, Edith Ortiz, Emily Kahn Broadcast Traffic: Sabrina Reddy, Billy Mucha Design Ops Manager/Design Producer: Alicia Kuna, Michael Rosenau, Michael Frediani Studio Designers: Joan Comellas, Jamon Sin, Mitch Wilson ____________________________________________________________________________

LIVE ACTION Production Company: Pulse Films Director: Oscar Hudson Director of Photography: Logan Triplett Live Action Producer: Dennis Beier Executive Producers: Darren Foldes Key Costumer: Chris Araujo Production Designer: Adam Wilson Managing Director: Hillary Rogers President - Commercial & Branded: Davud Karbassioun ____________________________________________________________________________ Post Production

Design Design Studio: Elastic Art Director: Jeff Han Producers: Paul Makowski, Adam Goins Animators: Nader Husseini, Julia Wright, Chad Danieley, Aziz Dosmetov, Trix Taylor, Lucy Kim, Alex Silver Deputy Head of Production: Zach Wakefield Executive Producer: Luke Colson Head of Production: Kate Berry Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall ------- VFX VFX Studio: a52 VFX Supervisor: Patrick Murphy CG Supervisor: Andy Wilkoff Lead Flame Artist: Patrick Murphy Flame Artists: Steve Wolff, Urs Furrer, Matt Sousa, Stefan Gaillot, Andy Rafael Barrios, Hugh Seville, Richard Hirst, Adam Flynn, Dan Ellis, Kevin Stokes, Chris Riley, Rod Basham, Michael Vaglienty, Enid Dalkoff, Susanne Scharping 3D Artists: Dustin Mellum Tracking: Joe Chiechi, Mike Bettinardi, Michael Cardenas Online Editors: Kevin Stokes, Chris Riley, Sam Kolber Producers: Andrew Rosenberger, Everett Cross, Jillian Lynes Executive Producers: Patrick Nugent & Kim Christensen Managing Director: Jennifer Sofio Hall ____________________________________________________________________________ COLOR Color Studio: a52 Color Colorist: Daniel De Vue Color Producer: Jenny Bright Executive Producer: Thatcher Peterson _________________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL Editorial Company: JOINT Editor: Peter Wiedensmith, Jessica Baclesse Assistant Editor: Jasmine McCullough, JC Nuñez Footage Researcher: Izzie Raitt Producer: Kathleen Russell Production Coordinator: Aubree VanDercar Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy ____________________________________________________________________________ SOUND DESIGN Sound Design Company: JOINT Sound Designer: Noah Woodburn Audio Assistant: Natalie Huizenga Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy

MIX Mix Compay: JOINT Audio Mixer: Noah Woodburn Audio Assistant: Natalie Huizenga Executive Producer: Leslie Carthy