Word: amateurish
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...movies in classrooms is as old as the movies themselves. Thomas Alva Edison thought that the movies would be more important as an educational than as an entertainment medium. Nevertheless, of the 10,000 "educational" films now catalogued and available in the U. S. the overwhelming majority are dull, amateurish, or technically obsolete. Of the two biggest professional producers. Eastman Kodak Co. has manufactured since 1926 some 200 silent films on historical and scientific subjects, Electrical Research Products Inc. a scanty 40 sound films. Most Hollywood producers think that the effective market is too small for profit...
...evening, in to continue for four weeks, and the repertoire offered includes almost all the works when the famous par collaborated on--a collaboration which resulted in great artistic successes but also in a good deal of friction to the parties involved. After seeing so many worthy but undeniably amateurish Gilbert and Sullivan performances by buxom church choirs and struggling women's club members, it is a relief to find a company which acts and sings with both finesse and spontaneity...
...YOUR NEWSWEEK McCALL ARTICLE YOU MIGHT ALSO WELL HAVE SAID THAT "MR. WARNER HAD THE SKILL OR LUCK TO PICK" EDITOR HARRY PAYNE BURTON NOW OF COSMOPOLITAN WHO TOOK A HOPELESSLY AMATEURISH PATTERN MAGAZINE FROM A MILLION CIRCULATION TO MORE THAN TWO MILLION...
This morning's announcement by the Ivy A.A. directors demonstrates how vitally necessary is some solution to the problem which the new-defunct League sought to solve. The very excuses which destroyed the naively amateurish hopes of the undergraduates who proposed the League prove that some such plan must be developed if Harvard is to continue to play football on its present basis...
...attractive young woman who sneaks into the stodgy hero's room at night to hear him read Tennyson and makes a pretty direct plea for his affections. But Francesea Lenni as Fulton's daughter, the center and cause of most of his troubles, is singularly awkward and amateurish in the rendition of most of her lines...