Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creative skill which used to show in the suave touches which Lubitsch put into his comedies comes out here in other directions?a shot of marching feet for which the camera was placed just behind a one-legged soldier; doorbells ringing in the Falsburg shops as the shopkeepers come out to watch a Frenchman going down the street; a gravedigger telling the German boy's fiancee (Nancy Carroll) that a Frenchman stopped to speak to him and gave...
Taxi (Warner). If you have seen The Public Enemy, Smart Money or Blonde Crazy, you have some idea what to expect of Taxi. Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright are camera-minded writers and their stories, which usually deal in an offhand way with violent happenings, have speed, vigor and assurance. Fortunately for all concerned, James Cagney attracted Hollywood's attention at about the same time as Authors Bright and Glasmon. When he appears in one of their inventions the result is often brilliantly successful...
...Paramount) presents for actors the fascinating problem of how to change from the sleek and handsome Dr. Jekyll into the menacing and ugly Mr. Hyde. This problem John Barrymore solved in the silent version by rubbing his face with one hand and writhing. Fredric March takes advantage of the camera and makes the transitions less of a tour de force. The face of the handsome young British sawbones becomes by barely perceptible degrees of trick photography the visage of a sabre-toothed baboon with pig eyes and a tassel of primeval hair. The story?most macabre product of the queer...
...Centre Fielder John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals; for his performance in the 1931 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics: an Associated Press poll of experts on "the outstanding individual achievement in sports." Second was U. S. Tennis Champion Ellsworth Vines. ¶Primo Camera, gargantuan Italian pugilist: a judgment for $63,017 against his midget Anglo-French manager, Leon See; for moneys which Camera had earned in what most U. S. experts considered fraudulent boxing exhibitions and which, according to Camera, See had invested, without his permission, in fraudulent gold mine stock...
Somewhere in Germany, in the year 1919, three young painters and a camera-man hatched an idea for a new film. They wanted to use that impersonal and reportorial tool, the camera, to tell a tale from a madman's brain and show the world through a mad-man's eyes. They wanted to becloud the lens, to forsake realism to gain artistic reality. In 1920 this film was finished, and "Dr. Caligari" made his crooked bow to Europe. In those days nothing like it had been seen. Devotees of the arts went to marvel, and there was talk...