Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equally interesting to "the engineering, production and spare parts division as well." Churches found that foreign missionary activities received more generous support when parishioners were brought, by the motion picture, directly to the countries to be served. Banks and trade associations began to use the films to widen the broad knowledge that their employees need in their jobs. Colleges and schools found that the films made academic subjects come alive...
Last week RKO completed the first of these shorts. Let's Go to the Movies is a broad, awed survey of how U.S. movies are produced, distributed and exhibited. Coming: Film Actors (M-G-M), which will prove that, underneath, the boys & girls are really just hardworking, clean-living kids; The Art Director (20th Century-Fox), which will debunk such box-office attractions as earthquakes and moonlit water by disclosing trade tricks of process photography and set construction...
...harried bloodhound, Ray Milland is as surefooted as ever. Laughton falls to with relish on the great chunks of deep-dish villainy that the script feeds him. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Laughton, offscreen) does a good bit of broad comedy as an emancipated artist with four children and no husband...
Devil Anse Hatfield was a tall bearded man with round shoulders and a slight stoop, grey eyes, bushy eyebrows, a hooked nose. He was the father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles...
They stressed the "broad nature" of their support, claiming active participation by members of 15 College groups and a potential student backing in the thousands...