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The House Without a Name

1956 film by Joe Parker

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ7740549 ↗
Source-derived summary

The House Without a Name is a 1956 short documentary film written and produced by Valentine Davies for the Motion Picture Relief Fund about its Motion Picture Hospital. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The House Without a Name” as 1956 film by Joe Parker. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around House, Without and Name.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with House, Without and Name providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The House Without a Name”, the useful work is to connect “1956 film by Joe Parker” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7740549. The first chronological checks are 1956.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “The House Without a Name” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.