The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp [SEP] production company
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Charles Orme


(2002) and most recently "Ex-Machina" (2015). In 1947, aged 29, Orme's brother in law Emeric Pressburger introduced Orme to a career in the film industry which was to span the next 38 years. Orme was a member of the legendary production company The Archers which is renowned for making magnificent films such as "49th Parallel" (1941), "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946), "
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Michael Powell


Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. Through their production company "The Archers", they together wrote, produced and directed a series of classic British films, notably "49th Parallel" (1941), "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946, also called "Stairway to Heaven"), "Black Narcissus" (1947), "
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 romantic drama war film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It stars Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. The title derives from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low, but the story itself is original. The film is renowned for its Technicolor cinematography. Major-General Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) is a senior commander in the Home Guard during the Second World War. Before a
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", the latter of which was also made during the war. The film provoked an extremist pamphlet, "The Shame and Disgrace of Colonel Blimp", by "right-wing sociologists E. W. and M. M. Robson", members of the obscure Sidneyan Society, which proclaimed it "A highly elaborate, flashy, flabby and costly film, the most disgraceful production that has ever emanated from a British film studio." The film was the fourth most popular movie at the British box office in 1943. Due to the
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Pressburger's delight. Pressburger, as affirmed by his grandson Kevin Macdonald on a Carlton Region 2 DVD featurette, considered "Blimp" the best of his and Powell's works. Nearly thirty years later, "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" underwent another restoration similar to that performed on "The Red Shoes". The fundraising was spearheaded by Martin Scorsese and his long-time editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, also Michael Powell's widow. Restoration work was completed by the Academy Film Archive in association with the BFI,
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The League of Gentlemen (film)


was a short-lived production company founded by Dearden, actors Hawkins, Forbes and Attenborough, and producer Michael Relph. Forbes contributed many of the company's scripts. Dearden had previously directed "The Blue Lamp". The portrait of Hyde's wife (he comments "I regret to say the bitch is still going strong") is a close copy of a portrait of Deborah Kerr which was used in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" in which Roger Livesey ("The League"'s "Padre"
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British government's disapproval of the film, it was not released in the United States until 1945 and then in a modified form, as "The Adventures of Colonel Blimp" or simply "Colonel Blimp". The original cut was 163 minutes. It was reduced to a 150-minute version, then later to 90 minutes for television. One of the crucial changes made to the shortened versions was the removal of the film's flashback structure. In 1983, the original cut was restored for a re-release, much to Emeric
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he was acting only on a description of the planned film from his staff, not on a viewing of the film itself. Since the highly successful re-release of the film in the 1980s, "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" has been re-evaluated. The film is praised for its dazzling Technicolor cinematography (which, with later films such as "The Red Shoes" and "Black Narcissus", would become "The Archers"' greatest legacy), the performances by the lead actors as well
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as for transforming, in Roger Ebert's words; "a blustering, pigheaded caricature into one of the most loved of all movie characters". David Mamet has written: "My idea of perfection is Roger Livesey (my favorite actor) in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (my favorite film) about to fight Anton Walbrook (my other favorite actor)." Stephen Fry saw the film as addressing "what it means to be English", and praised it for the bravery of taking a "
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. Further problems were caused by Prime Minister Winston Churchill who, prompted by objections from James Grigg, his secretary of state for war, sent a memo suggesting the production be stopped. Grigg warned that the public's belief in the "Blimp conception of the Army officer" would be given "a new lease of life". After Ministry of Information and War Office officials had viewed a rough cut, objections were withdrawn in May 1943. Churchill's disapproval remained, however, and at his insistence an export ban, much
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Cinema of the United Kingdom


1944). The war years also saw the emergence of The Archers partnership between director Michael Powell and the Hungarian-born writer-producer Emeric Pressburger with films such as "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) and "A Canterbury Tale" (1944). Two Cities Films, an independent production company releasing their films through a Rank subsidiary, also made some important films, including the Noël Coward and David Lean collaborations "This Happy Breed" (1944) and "Blithe Spirit" (1945)
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) colonel with his bull neck and diminutive brain". He added that they had been losing their vitality during the past thirty years, "writhing impotently under the changes that were happening". During 1943 the team Powell and Pressburger wrote, produced, and directed a movie titled "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943). Filmed during wartime, the movie portrayed the life of an admirable British officer named Clive Candy. The story encouraged the audience to accept that though the officer was honorable, with time
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J. Arthur Rank


the interests in a few more years) within a new company called the Rank Organisation. Rank retired as Chairman in 1962 and was succeeded by John Davis, who had been Managing Director since 1948. During the 1940s, the companies Rank controlled produced some of the finest British films of the period, including: "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "Henry V" (1944), "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946), "Black Narcissus" (1947),
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Death of Colonel Blimp" that it is At other times he also pointed out that the designer was German, and the leads included Austrian and Scottish actors. The military advisor for the film was Lieutenant General Sir Douglas Brownrigg (1886-1946) whose own career was rather similar to Wynne-Candy's, as he had served with distinction in the First World War, was retired after Dunkirk and then took a senior role in the Home Guard. The film was released in the UK in 1943. The première, organised
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John Battles


Arthur Rank, was by 1948 a major player in British cinema, owning five film production studios and hundreds of cinema houses, and employing directing talents such as Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, and David Lean. Several of Rank's films from the 1940s, including "The Red Shoes", "A Matter of Life and Death", "Black Narcissus", and "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp", are regarded as classics of British cinema. Yet, 1949 proved a difficult year for the Rank Organization
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exploited in advertising by the British distributors, remained in place until August of that year. The film was shot in four months at Denham Film Studios and on location in and around London, and at Denton Hall in Yorkshire. Filming was made difficult by the wartime shortages and by Churchill's objections leading to a ban on the production crew having access to any military personnel or equipment. But they still managed to "find" quite a few Army vehicles and plenty of uniforms. Michael Powell once said of "The Life and
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and Pressburger, "...we advise you not to make it and you can't have Laurence Olivier because he's in the Fleet Air Arm and we're not going to release him to play your Colonel Blimp". Powell wanted Wendy Hiller to play Kerr's parts but she pulled out due to pregnancy. The character of Frau von Kalteneck, a friend of Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff, was played by Roger Livesey's wife Ursula Jeans; although they often appeared on stage together this was their only appearance together in a film
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like [[Michael Powell]] and [[Emeric Pressburger]]'s "[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]" (1943), "[[A Canterbury Tale]]" (1944) and "[[A Matter of Life and Death (film)|A Matter of Life and Death]]" (1946), as well as [[Laurence Olivier]]'s [[1944 in film|1944 film]] "[[Henry V (1944 film)|Henry V]]", based
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Albert Lieven


" (not the later Rex Harrison film of the same title), but was largely acting in films (among them "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp", 1943). Lieven appeared in many cinema productions, and in the year 1940, he was credited in seven, in all of which he played the role of a German. He was under contract to Rank for five years from 1945 but only appeared in one film, "Sleeping Car to Trieste". He returned to Germany in 1951, and
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pair shared a writer-director-producer credit for most of their films. The best-known of these are "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "A Canterbury Tale" (1944), "I Know Where I'm Going!" (1945), "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946), "Black Narcissus" (1947), "The Red Shoes" (1948), and "The Tales of Hoffmann" (1951). In 1981 Powell
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Blink (company)


Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". The division once represented a roster of 19 directors and produced music videos with international reach for artists such as Coldplay, The Streets, Björk, U2, Tinie Tempah, Kelly Rowland, Unkle, Professor Green and The Maccabees, incorporating both traditional and experimental filmmaking techniques. Blinkink was founded in 2004 to specialise in animation and mixed-media filmmaking. Today Blinkink is a collective of talented directors, producers, artists and technicians who create short-form content with their partners in the advertising
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satire on the British Army, especially its leadership. It suggests that Britain faced the option of following traditional notions of honourable warfare or to "fight dirty" in the face of such an evil enemy as Nazi Germany. There is also a certain similarity between Candy and Churchill and some historians have suggested that Churchill may have wanted the production stopped because he had mistaken the film for a parody of himself (he had himself served in the Boer War and the First World War). Churchill's exact reasons remain unclear, but
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Eric Maturin


"Sanders of the River" (1935), Robert Downing in "City of Beautiful Nonsense" (1935), Nevern in "The Price of a Song" (1935), Captain Mellock in "Bees on the Boat-Deck" (1939), "The Almost Perfect murder" (1939), Passport Officer in "Contraband" (1940), Older Man in "The Foreman Went to France" (1942), Colonel Goodhead in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943)
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A Canterbury Tale


. Anglo-American relations were also explored in Powell and Pressburger's previous film "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" and in more detail in their subsequent film "A Matter of Life and Death". The story concerns three young people: British Army Sergeant Peter Gibbs (Dennis Price), U.S. Army Sergeant Bob Johnson (played by real-life Sergeant John Sweet), and a "Land Girl", Miss Alison Smith (Sheila Sim). The group arrive at the railway station in the fictitious small
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Geoffrey Unsworth


Pressburger's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) and "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946). After working on some of the Gainsborough melodramas, he worked at the Rank Organisation throughout the 1950s, notably on films such as "A Town Like Alice" and "A Night to Remember". In the 1960s, Unsworth's work extended abroad, such as with the 1962 CinemaScope epic "The 300 Spartans"; the decade also saw him receive his first Academy Award nomination for
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Walter Percy Day


Parallel" (US: "The Invaders", 1941), Noël Coward and David Lean's "In Which We Serve" (1942) and Leslie Howard's "The First of the Few" (US: "Spitfire", also 1942]. In addition to designing special effects for these films, Day created trick photography for many other British classics released during the forties, including "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "A Matter of Life and Death" [US: Stairway
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Jack Cardiff


showcase the new capital city of Delhi. The turning point in his career was as a 2nd unit cameraman on Powell & Pressburger's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943); they were sufficiently impressed to hire Cardiff as cinematographer on their post-war Technicolor "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946). Their collaboration continued with "Black Narcissus" (1947), which won Cardiff an Oscar and a Golden Globe, and "The Red Shoes" (1948). These films put
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Emeric Pressburger


Emeric Pressburger (5 December 19025 February 1988) was a Hungarian British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in an award-winning collaboration partnership known as the Archers and produced a series of films, notably "49th Parallel" (1941), "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946, also called "Stairway to Heaven"), "Black Narcissus" (
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Theodore Zichy


he mainly took pictures of women’s legs, feet and shoes. His 1948 photograph portfolio "Chiaroscuros" (from the Italian "chiaroscuro") contained images of foot and shoe fetishism. In the mid-1950s he worked as a photographer for Baron Studios in London. His autobiography "That Was No Gentleman, That Was Zichy" was published in 1974. As an actor Zichy appeared as 2nd in Command in "Gasbags" (1941), Colonel Borg in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943),
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Arthur Lawson (designer)


Arthur Lawson (1908–1970) was a British art director. He had a long association with film directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, beginning in 1943 when he was floor manager on "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". Three years later, when Powell and Pressburger, also known as The Archers, made "A Matter of Life and Death", Lawson had graduated to assistant art director. He worked with Alfred Junge on the sets for "Black Narcissus" in 1947, and earned an Oscar for the set
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Michael Powell


has preserved "A Matter of Life and Death" and "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Many of his early films are disparagingly referred to as "quota quickies". Not all of them were really quota films, and the ones that were are often of a much higher standard than most other quota films. Some of his early films are now missing and are believed lost. But those that have survived often show some very sophisticated techniques and early versions of ideas that were
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Roger Livesey


Roger Livesey (25 June 1906 – 4 February 1976) was a Welsh stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp", "I Know Where I'm Going!" and "A Matter of Life and Death". Tall and broad with a mop of dark blond hair, Livesey used his highly distinctive husky voice, gentle manner and athletic physique to create many notable roles in his theatre and film work
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designs on "The Red Shoes" in 1948. Lawson’s association with Powell continued right through to "Peeping Tom" (1960). He received a BAFTA nomination for "The Bedford Incident" in 1965. Listing of films: 1942 The Foreman Went to France 1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1944 This Happy Breed 1944 The Way Ahead 1945 They Knew Mr. Knight 1946 A Matter of Life and Death 1947 Black Narcissus 1948 The Red Shoes 1950 Gone to Earth 1950 The Elusive Pimpernel 1951 The Tales of Hoffmann 1952
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Fred Daniels


his own terms. From his small third floor studio next to the London Trocadero he took portraits of Leslie Howard and Laurence Olivier to promote the film 49th Parallel. Daniels also took studio portraits of Roger Livesey during Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and Sheila Sim and Eric Portman during A Canterbury Tale, and Wendy Hiller during I Know Where I'm Going! In 1945 Kim Hunter, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were sitters during the filming of "A Matter of Life and Death" In 1946 Sabu and Deborah Kerr were photographed
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Deborah Kerr


, discipline and elegance". As well as "The King and I" (1956), her films include "An Affair to Remember", "From Here to Eternity", "Quo Vadis", "The Innocents", "Black Narcissus", "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison", "King Solomon's Mines", "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp", "The Sundowners", and "Separate Tables". Deborah Jane Trimmer was born in Glasgow, the only daughter of Kathleen
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John Laurie


The actor's breakthrough third film was Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" (1935) in which he played a crofter. Other roles included Peter Manson in Michael Powell's "The Edge of the World" (1937), Clive Candy's batman in Powell and Pressburger's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), a gardener in "Medal for the General" (1944), the farmer recruit in "The Way Ahead" (1944), and the brothel proprietor in "Fanny by
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Loamshire Regiment


The regiment itself has been featured in several works of fiction. Bulldog Drummond, the hero of the stories by "Sapper", was an officer in the Loamshire Regiment (in this case the 'Royal Loamshires') during the First World War, as was one of the characters in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". The regiment is also mentioned by Evelyn Waugh in "Men at Arms", part of the Sword of Honour trilogy, and "Put Out More Flags". Loamshire is also the
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A. E. Matthews


First Mrs. Fraser", with Dame Marie Tempest and Barry Morse, and was later cast in the extremely popular films "Carry On Admiral, Doctor at Large" and "Around the World in 80 Days", in which he played a mainstay of the Reform Club. Matthews's other best-known films include "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Million Pound Note" (with Gregory Peck), "Inn for Trouble", "The Magic Box", "The Ghosts of Berkeley Square" and
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Denton Hall, Wharfedale


affixed in front of the building. It may be rendered as follows: Among the furniture supplied for Denton, the largest amount (£551) was delivered by Thomas Chippendale, born in the parish. The other major supplier was the firm of Gillow of Lancaster; a small sum was spent with Ince and Mayhew. Denton Hall has been used as a college for old people, and also was a location for two films: In the 1942 "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" by Powell & Pressburger, it
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Marine Wing Support Group 47


– 20 Jul 1968 Colonel FOSS, Donald H. 21 Jul 1968 – 28 Feb 1970 Lieutenant Colonel SNIDER, Howard L. 01 Mar 1970 – 11 Sep 1970 Colonel FIEGENER, Kenneth G. 12 Sep 1970 – 31 Dec 1970 Colonel McCABE, Lyle S. 01 Oct 1971 – 06 Oct 1973 Colonel WOOLSEY, Blair D. 07 Oct 1973 – 12 Sep 1975 Colonel SULLIVAN, Eugene G. 15 Sep 1975 – 12 Nov 1977 Colonel ROBSON, Jon R. 13 Nov 1977 – 21 Jun 1980 Colonel HAWES, Richard E. 22 Jun 1980 – 20 Jun
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DNA (Little Mix song)


charted at number 14 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100. The music video for "DNA" was directed by Sarah Chatfield and produced by Tiernan Hanby. It was filmed on 12 September 2012 at British production company Blink's Colonel Blimp location in London and uses chroma keying and post-production. The video was inspired by the comic books "Sin City" and "Watchmen"; Chatfield viewed the video as "an unrelenting torrent of bold imagery and epic performances". She worked with visual effects artist Pete Young,
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Anton Walbrook


whether to return home. For the Powell and Pressburger team in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) he played the role of the dashing, intense "good German" officer Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff, and the tyrannical impresario Lermontov in "The Red Shoes" (1948). One of his most unusual films, reuniting him with Dickinson, is "The Queen of Spades" (1949), a Gothic thriller based on the Alexander Pushkin short story, in which he co-starred with Edith
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it aired in November 2011. Since then Wilson has made several further films for John Lewis most notably, Christmas 2012's "Snowman", Christmas 2014's "Monty's Christmas", and in 2015, "Tiny Dancer". His most recent work includes "Superhumans" for Channel 4's Paralympics Rio 2016. Colonel Blimp was founded in 2006 as the music video production arm of Blink, and has since merged its roster with Blink. The company was named in homage to Powell and Pressburger's 1943 film "The
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Famous Film Festival


"The Wizard of Oz" (1939), that an uncut film lasting more than ninety minutes was telecast in one evening on a television network. Unfortunately, all films in this series were broadcast in black-and-white, despite the fact that several of them had been originally photographed and exhibited theatrically in color. Thus, such films as "Stairway to Heaven" (1946) and "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) would not be seen by American viewers in color until years later
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Patrick Macnee


Day; while he was recuperating in hospital, his boat and crew were lost in action. Two of the crew received the Distinguished Service Medal. He left the Navy in 1946 as a lieutenant. Macnee nurtured his acting career in Canada early on, but he also appeared as an uncredited extra in the British films "Pygmalion" (1938), "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) and Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" (1948), as well as some live TV dramas for the BBC
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Douglas Brownrigg


Adjutant-General of the British Expeditionary Force in 1939 and retired in 1940. He was a Sector and Zone Commander for the Home Guard for the rest of the War. In late 1942, Brownrigg was employed as the military advisor for the British film "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". The film was about an officer called Major-General Wynne-Candy, whose fictional career was rather similar to Brownrigg's, as he had served with distinction in the First World War, was retired after Dunkirk and then
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as "Colonel Blimp" statements. George Orwell and Tom Wintringham made especially extensive use of the term "Blimps" to refer to this type of military officer, Orwell in his articles and Wintringham in his books "How to Reform the Army" and "People's War". In his 1941 essay "", Orwell referred to two important sub-sections of the middle class, one of which was the military and imperialistic middle class, nicknamed the Blimps, and characterised by the "half-pay (i.e retired
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All Gas and Gaiters


such writers as P. G. Wodehouse and Powell and Pressburger (spoken in the film "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"). The phrase "all gas and gaiters" has had different meanings. Sometimes it has been used to mean "a satisfactory state of affairs" and sometimes it has had the meaning of "nonsense". The relevance of this phrase to Anglican clergy is that gaiters (worn over shoes) were part of the traditional dress of bishops and archdeacons. The series initially aroused some controversy because of
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Reginald Tate


He also continued to act during the war, and performed small roles in the well-known films "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) and "The Way Ahead" (1944). He also had a top supporting role as the intelligence officer, Major Richards, in another classic British war movie, "The Next of Kin" (1942). After the end of the war he continued to perform for theatre and increasingly for television. He met the Austrian television director Rudolph Cartier when Cartier
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Deborah Kerr


In 1943, Deborah Kerr played three women in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". During the filming, according to Powell's autobiography, Powell and she became lovers: "I realised that Deborah was both the ideal and the flesh-and-blood woman whom I had been searching for". Kerr made clear that her surname should be pronounced the same as "car". To avoid confusion over pronunciation, Louis B. Mayer of MGM billed her as "Kerr rhymes with
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Home Guard (United Kingdom)


Please Oblige Us with a Bren Gun?" that pokes fun at the disorder and shortage of supplies and equipment that were common in the Home Guard, and indeed all of Britain, during the war. The Home Guard also played a significant part in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1943 film "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". In it, the lead character, a career soldier who had retired from the active list, joins the Home Guard and rises to a leadership position in it. He has planned
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Valentine Dyall


Gower and a cardinal of France. He also appeared in one movie with his father, the 1943 spy thriller "Yellow Canary" starring Anna Neagle and Richard Greene; Dyall's part was that of a German U-boat commander attempting to kidnap a British agent from a ship in the Atlantic, while his father played the ship's captain. In the same year, he played a small role as a German officer in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" and, the following year, played the Duke of
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David Hutcheson


David Hutcheson (14 June 1905 – 18 February 1976) was a British character actor. He made his film debut in "Fast and Loose" in 1930 and played his only lead role in 1934's "Romance in Rhythm". He went on to specialise in hooray henrys, silly asses and military types most prominently in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) and Peter Ustinov's "School for Secrets" (1946) and "Vice Versa" (1948)
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Allan Gray (composer)


. Gray began writing film scores in the Weimar Republic, but left the country after the rise of Nazi Germany, moving to the United Kingdom and settling down in England. Establishing himself in the British film industry, he composed for London Films and other major studios before joining Powell and Pressburger for many of their films including "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), "A Canterbury Tale" (1944), "I Know Where I'm Going!" (1945) and "A Matter of
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Helions Bumpstead


Saloon Bar, The Four Feathers and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, was a resident of Helion Bumpstead and died there in 1968 aged 67. There is an annual Boxing Day walk, when people meet up in the village hall car park and, each year, walk a different route around the village. The Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Elizabeth II marked the presentation of a village sign, including the village symbol (a red badge with a white diagonal cross) which stands in centre of the village. At the
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Wendy Hiller


to utter the word "bloody" in a British film, when Eliza utters the line "Not bloody likely, I'm going in a taxi!". She followed up this success with another Shaw adaptation, "Major Barbara" (1941) with Rex Harrison and Robert Morley. Powell and Pressburger signed her for "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943), but her second pregnancy led to Deborah Kerr being cast instead. Determined to work with Hiller, the film makers later cast her with Roger
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. Seeing the cistern, he realises that "here is the lake and I still haven't changed". The film ends with Candy saluting the new guard as it passes by. Cast notes: According to the directors, the idea for the film did not come from the newspaper comic strip by David Low but from a scene cut from their previous film, "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing", in which an elderly member of the crew tells a younger one, "You don't know what it's like
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to be old." Powell has stated that the idea was actually suggested by David Lean (then an editor) who, when removing the scene from the film, mentioned that the premise of the conversation was worthy of a film in its own right. Powell wanted Laurence Olivier (who had previously appeared in Powell and Pressburger's "49th Parallel" and "The Volunteer") to play Candy however the Ministry of Information refused to release Olivier, who was serving in the Fleet Air Arm, from active service telling Powell
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London in film


"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" covered 40 years in the city, including the Edwardian era, the First World War and the Second World War. Several others made during the Second World War itself, featured London locations, including "Millions Like Us" (1943) and "Waterloo Road" (1944). The Blitz featured prominently in the Ealing drama "The Bells Go Down" (1943), and in Humphrey Jennings' drama-documentary "Fires Were Started" (1943). The latter
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Thelma Connell


Thelma Connell (credited early in her career as Thelma Myers) was a film editor from England. She was known for her work on thrillers and mysteries, and she often collaborated with Frank Launder, Sidney Lumet, and Lewis Gilbert. Born in London, she began her career as a continuity girl, and then moved to assistant editor on films such as "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" before taking the editing role for the first time in "In Which We Serve" (1943). Subsequent films included
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Colonel Blimp


Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low, first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook's London "Evening Standard" in April 1934. Blimp is pompous, irascible, jingoistic, and stereotypically British, identifiable by his walrus moustache and the interjection "Gad, Sir!". Low claimed that he developed the character after overhearing two military men in a Turkish bath declare that cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks. The character was named after the barrage balloon, which was known as a blimp.
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Anton Walbrook


Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (19 November 18969 August 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook. A popular performer in Austria and pre-war Germany, he left in 1936 out of concerns for his own safety and established a career in English cinema. Walbrook is perhaps best known for his roles in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" and "The Red Shoes". Walbrook was born in Vienna, Austria, as Adolf Wohlbrück. He was the son of Gisela
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Home Guard (United Kingdom)


' venerated by British military traditionalists, had become obsolete; a philosophy that was to be encapsulated and celebrated in the 1943 film "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". Home Guard units expected to maintain defence of their home locality from prepared positions until relieved by the regular army, or otherwise fight on until their ammunition was exhausted; and if captured by the Germans, expected to be shot. Even once the threat of invasion in 1940 had passed, the Home Guard remained in existence manning guard posts and performing other
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Park Lane


includes No. 138 Park Lane, which was featured as a Home Guard headquarters in the film "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". The Park Lane Hotel was built in 1927, designed by the architects Adie, Button and Partners. Despite its name, its postal address is on Piccadilly and it overlooks Green Park rather than Hyde Park. The Dorchester, designed by Sir Owen Williams, opened on Park Lane in 1931. With the development of the hotel, concerns were raised that Park Lane would soon become New
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Roger Livesey


Instead he worked in an aircraft factory at Desford aerodrome near Leicester to "do his bit for the war effort". He was chosen by Michael Powell to play the lead in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) after Powell was denied his original choice, Laurence Olivier (Winston Churchill had objected to the movie and the Fleet Air Arm refused to release Olivier, who had been a Hollywood movie star before returning to England to take a Navy commission). The movie was shown in New York and
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Harry Welchman


" and "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943). In 1947 Welchman moved to Penzance, where he bought a farm and spent more and more of his time, though never formally retiring from the stage. In 1959, when he was seventy-three, he played Lord Mortlake in John Osborne's "The World of Paul Slickey"; he and Marie Löhr, who played his wife, were singled out for praise as highlights of an otherwise dull evening. Welchman was twice married. His first
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Kirsch


"drink Kirschwasser from a shell". In 1943's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp," English officer Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) and his former dueling opponent Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff of the German army (Anton Walbrook) bond over glasses of kirschwasser while recuperating from their respective injuries. In Thomas Pynchon’s novel, “The Crying of Lot 49,” kirsch is mentioned in the opening sentence when the character Oedipa Maas wonders whether the Tupperware party hostess perhaps put too much in the fondue. In Agatha
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training exercise, he is "captured" in a Turkish bath by soldiers led by Lieutenant "Spud" Wilson, who has struck pre-emptively. He ignores Candy's outraged protests that "War starts at midnight!" They scuffle and fall into a bathing pool. An extended flashback ensues. Boer Warbr In 1902, Lieutenant Candy is on leave from the Boer War. He has received a letter from Edith Hunter (Deborah Kerr), who is working in Berlin. She complains that a German named Kaunitz is spreading
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by her resemblance to Barbara and Edith. Candy, restored to the active list, is to give a BBC radio talk regarding the retreat from Dunkirk. Candy plans to say that he would rather lose the war than win it using the methods employed by the Nazis: his talk is cancelled at the last minute. Theo urges his friend to accept the need to fight and win by whatever means are necessary, because the consequences of losing are so dire. Candy is again retired, but, at Theo's and Angela's
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by Lady Margaret Alexander, took place on 10 June at the Odeon cinema, Leicester Square, London, with all proceeds donated to the Odeon Services and Seamen's Fund. The film was heavily attacked on release mainly because of its sympathetic presentation of a German officer, albeit an anti-Nazi one, who is more down-to-earth and realistic than the central British character. Sympathetic German characters had previously appeared in the films of Powell and Pressburger, for example "The Spy in Black" and "49th Parallel
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ITV Studios Global Entertainment Ltd. (the current copyright holders), and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by The Material World Charitable Foundation, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, Cinema per Roma Foundation, and The Film Foundation. The restored version premièred in New York on 6 November 2011, followed by a screening in London on 30 November. The restored film was shown around the world and was subsequently released on DVD and Blu-ray on 22 October 2012. Although the film is strongly pro-British, it is a
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Clive Donner


-Jewish immigrants. Donner began his filmmaking career while attending Kilburn Polytechnic. He started in the film industry working as a cutting-room assistant at Denham Studios, having got the spot after joining his father, who was at the studio to record the soundtrack for the 1943 film "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". Donner did national service with the Royal Army Educational Corps, and afterwards was hired by Pinewood Studios as a film editor, where the movies he worked on included "The Card", "The
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My Wicked Heart


with producer Tamsin Glasson. The production company was Colonel Blimp. The art director and stylist were Shaun Fenn and Cynthia Lawrence-John. The choreography of the music video was David Leighton, and the credits for Vickers' hair and make-up was Brendan Robertson. Mail Online said that the music video was 'fun' and 'unique'. Within the video Vickers is seen as the lead actress in the circus. She is later seen with a clown's outfit on surrounded by blue, green and white balloons.
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Blink (company)


's advertising-focused division since Blink was founded. In January 2018 Blink joined forces with Colonel Blimp (previously the music video production arm of Blink) to consolidate their unique and talented rosters. Blink has produced commercials for Guinness, Cadbury's, Yorkie, Nokia, Pot Noodle, Ikea, John Lewis, Channel 4 'Superhumans', Harvey Nichols and Virgin, and music videos for artists such as Coldplay, The Streets, Björk, U2, Tinie Tempah, and The Maccabees. In 2010, Blink produced a commercial
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Ursula Jeans


appeared in one film with her husband, 1943's "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp". She entertained troops with ENSA during World War II, sometimes working with her husband. After the war, she continued acting, including a stage tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1956–1958. She continued to act into the 1970s and died of cancer in 1973, aged 66, some 18 months after her diagnosis. She shares a memorial plaque with her husband Roger in the actors' church St Paul's, Covent Garden
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anti-British propaganda, and she wants the British embassy to do something about it. When Candy brings this to his superiors' attention, they refuse him permission to intervene, but he decides to act anyway. In Berlin, Candy and Edith go to a café, where he confronts Kaunitz. Provoked, Candy inadvertently insults the Imperial German Army officer corps. The Germans insist he fight a duel with an officer chosen by lot: Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff (Anton Walbrook). Candy and Theo become friends while recuperating from
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their wounds in the same nursing home. Edith visits them both regularly and, although it is implied that she has feelings for Clive, she becomes engaged to Theo. Candy is delighted, but soon realises to his consternation that he loves her himself. First World Warbr Candy, now a brigadier general, believes that the Allies won the First World War because "right is might". While in France, he meets nurse Barbara Wynne (Kerr again). She bears a striking resemblance to Edith. Back in England,
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he courts and marries her despite their twenty-year age difference. Candy tracks Theo down at a prisoner of war camp in England. Candy greets him as if nothing has changed, but Theo snubs him. Later, about to be repatriated to Germany, Theo apologises and accepts an invitation to Clive's house. He remains sceptical that his country will be treated fairly. Barbara dies in 1926, and Candy retires in 1935. Second World Warbr In 1939, Theo relates to an immigration official how he was estranged from his
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children when they became Nazis. Before the war, he had refused to move to England when Edith wanted to; by the time he was ready, she had died. Candy vouches for Theo. Candy reveals to Theo that he loved Edith and only realised it after it was too late. He admits that he never got over it. He shows Theo a portrait of Barbara. Theo then meets Candy's MTC driver, Angela "Johnny" Cannon (Kerr again), personally chosen by the Englishman; Theo is struck
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urging, he turns his energy to the Home Guard. Candy's energy and connections are instrumental in building up the Home Guard. His house is bombed in the Blitz and is replaced by an emergency water supply cistern. He moves to his club, where he relaxes in a Turkish bath before a training exercise he has arranged. The film has now come full circle. The brash young lieutenant who captures Candy is in fact Angela's boyfriend, who used her to learn about Candy's plans and location. She tries to
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warn Candy, but is too late. Afterwards, Theo and Angela find Candy sitting across the street from where his house once stood. He recalls that after being given a severe dressing down by his superior for causing the diplomatic incident, he had declined the man's invitation to dinner, and had often regretted doing so. He tells Angela to invite her boyfriend to dine with him. Years before, Clive had promised Barbara that he would "never change" until his house is flooded and "this is a lake"
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DirecTV blimp


spotted on Twitter as followers track the journeys of the blimp from one event to another. The airship is owned and operated by an advertising company based in Florida with its airship division located in Orlando, FL. The DIRECTV blimp was one of the 3 airships that took part in a blimp race held over New York City on July 4, 2011. The A-170LS Lightsign Lightship is a relatively new product for Lightships and enables a client to take advantage of 21st century technology to interact with its customers and activate any promotional campaign by
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Goodyear Blimp


, to incandescent lamps to LEDs, these signs have helped the company advertise its products and also deliver public service messages from various organizations such as local governments. In 1976, Goodyear allowed use of its blimps for the filming of "Black Sunday," based on the novel by Thomas Harris, about a distressed former prisoner of war blimp pilot who helps Middle Eastern terrorists attack the Super Bowl with a lethal device attached to the airship's car. Two blimps were used for the conclusion. The base scenes were shot in Carson
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I Know Where I'm Going! (film)


hold back," he said. The movie was originally meant to star Deborah Kerr and James Mason. But Kerr could not get out of her contract with MGM so instead cast Wendy Hiller - who had originally meant to play the role Kerr played in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" before she got pregnant. Six weeks before filming Mason pulled out of the movie saying he did not want to go on location. Roger Livesey read the script and asked to play the role. Powell thought he was too old
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Colonel Blimp


except of course in the case of war.", or: "Gad, Sir! Lord Bunk is right. The government is marching over the edge of an abyss, and the nation must march solidly behind them." Blimp is usually depicted speaking to a cartoon version of David Low, the cartoon's creator, and Blimp's comments are not infrequently directed at the opinions of Lord Beaverbrook, the owner of the newspaper in which the cartoon appeared. Blimp was a satire on the reactionary opinions of the British establishment
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Housing Development Finance Corporation


market share of 4.6% of life insurance business in India as of 30 September 2013. HDFC Life has over 15,000 employees. The company offers general insurance products such as: HDFC provides mutual fund services through its subsidiary HDFC Asset Management Company Limited. The average Assets Under Management (AUM) of HDFC Mutual Fund for the quarter Jul-13 to Sep-13 was INR 1.03 trillion. HDFC's distribution network spans 396 outlets (including 109 offices of HDFC's distribution company HDFC Sales Private Limited) which cater to approx. 2,400 towns and cities
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C-class blimp


The C-class blimp was a patrol airship developed by the US Navy shortly after World War I, a systematic improvement upon the B-type which was very suitable for training, but of limited value for patrol work. Larger than the B-class, these blimps had two motors and a longer endurance. Once again, the envelope production was split between Goodyear and Goodrich, with control cars being built by the Burgess division of Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Originally the Navy ordered 30 but reduced the number to 10
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Marine Wing Support Group 47


1982 Colonel STIEGMAN, Donald L. 21 Jun 1982 – 13 Jul 1985 Colonel KALATA, Richard J. 14 Jul 1985 – 04 Jun 1988 Colonel CHURCH, John C. 05 Jul 1988 – 08 Sep 1990 Colonel MEGONIGAL, Walter F. 09 Sep 1990 – 11 Jul 1992 Colonel GEE, David M. 12 Jul 1992 – 10 Nov 1993 Lieutenant Colonel BAIRLEY, Kenneth J. 11 Nov 1993 – 03 Apr 1994 Colonel WILLIAMS, Leo V. 04 Apr 1994 – 24 Jun 1994 Colonel WELLS, David M. 24 Jun 1994 – 22 Jun 1996 Colonel CLEMMER
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Colonel Blimp


his opinions had become dated, and that winning a modern war required irregular means. The classic British movie featured Roger Livesey in the title role, Deborah Kerr, and Anton Walbrook. The "Blimp" character was not actually called "Blimp" other than in the title, nor did he die. Herbert Read has also used the term to describe people who were strongly hostile to Modern art. The term "Blimp" continues to be referenced from time to time. In a 2006 book, historian Christopher Clark used the
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Vantage Airship


Vantage Airship UAVs are Chinese UAVs developed by Shanghai Vantage Airship Manufacture Co., Ltd. (Vantage Airship, 上海达天飞艇制造有限公司). As the name of the company implies, most of its UAV products are airships, and as of 2014, all of them are remotely controlled unmanned blimps, with the letter R included in the model number to indicate remotely controlled. CR-14R is the first unmanned blimp developed by Vantage Airship, and its maiden flight was completed in December 2007 in Baoshan District, Shanghai. CR-20R is an unmanned blimp developed by Vantage
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Colonel Blimp


term "blimpish" to characterise the Prussian Field Marshal Mollendorf (1724–1816), who distinguished himself as an officer in the Seven Years' War but whose conservatism and opposition to military reform were considered to have contributed to Prussia's defeat in the Battle of Jena in 1806. In his review of Garner's Modern American Usage, David Foster Wallace referred to the "Colonel Blimp's rage" of Prescriptivist journalists like William Safire. The graphic novel series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", which depicts numerous literary characters interacting with
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Eli Lilly and Company


chairman of the board. Josiah (J. K.), Colonel Lilly's son and Eli and Joe's father, inherited the company after Colonel Lilly died and became its president in 1898. At the time of Colonel Lilly's death the company had a product line of 2,005 items and annual sales of more than $300,000 ($ in 2015 chained dollars). Colonel Lilly was a pioneer in the modern pharmaceutical industry, with many of his early innovations later becoming standard practice. His ethical reforms in a trade that was marked
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G-class blimp


The "G"-Class Blimps were a series of non-rigid airships (blimps) used by the United States Navy. In 1935, instead of developing a new design airship, the Navy purchased the Goodyear Blimp "Defender" for use as a trainer and utility airship assigning it the designator "G-1". "Defender" was built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio and was the largest blimp in the company’s fleet of airships that were used for advertising and as passenger airships. Goodyear built additional "G"-class airships
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Conan blimp


the Location of the Year Shorty Award. The blimp was an American Blimp Corporation type A60+, originally built in 2002 to promote the Rolling Stones' 2002 World Tour. Today, the blimp is owned by Van Wagner Airship Group, a branch of Van Wagner Communications LLC. Van Wagner purchased the American Blimp Corporation in September 2012. The blimp is registered as N620LG cn 020. The Conan blimp itself was designed by the Atlanta firm Blue Sky. Prior to Blue Sky handling the physical production of the dirigible, Breakfast,
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3rd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion


M. C. Cancellier 23 Jan 2009 – 21 Oct 2010 Lieutenant Colonel A. D. Weiss 21 Oct 2010 – 12 Apr 2012 Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Vandaveer 12 Apr 2012 – 26 Sep 2013 Lieutenant Colonel W. R. Zuber 26 Sep 2013 – 4 Jun 2015 Lieutenant Colonel M. C. McCarthy 4 June 2015 – 9 Jun 2017 Lieutenant Colonel H. R. Prokop – Current SERGEANT’S MAJOR 3D Forward Area Air Defense Battery Sergeant Major M. D. Zenzel 1986–1988 3D Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion Sergeant Major R. Cortez 1988–1990 Sergeant Major A. C. Brooks 1990–1992 Sergeant Major M.
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Colonel Blimp


Blimp issues proclamations from the Turkish bath, wrapped in his towel and brandishing some mundane weapon to emphasize his passion on some issue of current affairs. Red faced with rage and emotion, his pronouncements are often confused. Blimp's phrasing often includes direct contradiction, as though upon starting the sentence he did not know how the sentence was to end. His initial words were always a part of an emotional catchphrase. For instance: "Gad, Sir! Mr Lansbury is right. The League of Nations should insist on peace —
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Cinema Products Corporation


I for the invention and development of the Steadicam. In motion picture equipment, the Mitchell BNC conversion to reflex was followed by the studio quiet XR35. The Cinema Products XR35 had a Mitchell NC camera inside a lightweight housing or blimp. The blimp was so close in size to the original camera, it looked small compared to the blimps made for Mitchell or Arriflex cameras. The XR35 was a crystal-controlled 35mm motion picture camera considerably lighter than the Hollywood studio–owned blimped Mitchells. The X stood for crystal,
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CSCA UAV


no longer in production and is succeeded by SSC series unmanned blimps, but some of them are still in service. During its decade long service, SF-GS series unmanned blimps have also been deployed in engineering and industrial missions such as setting up power lines. SSC unmanned blimps are gasoline-powered unmanned blimps developed by CSCA, and they are named after their respective length. For example, if a SSC blimp is 11 meter long, then it is named as SSC-11D. SSC unmanned blimps utilize commercial off-the-shelf
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L-class blimp


The L class blimps were training airships operated by the United States Navy during World War II. In the mid-1930s, the Goodyear Aircraft Company built a family of small non-rigid airships that the company used for advertising the Goodyear name. In 1937 the United States Navy awarded a contract for two different airships, K class blimp designated K-2 and a smaller blimp based upon Goodyear's smaller commercial model airship used for advertising and passenger carrying. The smaller blimp was designated by the Navy as L-1 The L-1 was delivered in April 1938
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John Browning


Church) in Georgia beginning on March 28, 1887. He married Rachel Theresa Child (14 Sep 1860 – 30 Sep 1934) on April 10, 1879 at Ogden, Weber County, Utah Territory, and the couple had 10 children, two of whom died in infancy. Production examples of the Model 1885 Single Shot Rifle caught the attention of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, who dispatched a representative to evaluate the competition. Winchester bought the design for $8,000 and moved production to their Connecticut factory. From 1883, Browning
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