Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Melville's story in which Barrymore appeared four years ago, this is a true moving picture, no less effective because a conventional love-interest has been added to the activities of a crazy one-legged sea-captain who wanted to get even with a whale. Across tremendous horizons the camera's eye wheels after the tiny whaling boat chasing a corporate phantom of monstrous, inhuman evil. All the work that a camera can do with great spaces and wild things is done, pictorially, as it should be. This Moby Dick is not a masterpiece. The concentration of the novel...
...momentarily distracted from his boyhood sweetheart by the wiles of attractive Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with a gargantuan opponent in which both cock their punches for the camera. The stage fights of one-time Champion Jack Dempsey, experienced vaudevillian and actor, with Estelle Taylor Dempsey, in the Manhattan play The Big Fight, were more realistic than this picture, but Dempsey acted on the whole more self-consciously than Schmeling. Well-read, interested in painting, the German takes seriously...
...avert such catastrophes, Lieut. Charles B. Momsen developed a special "lung" life-preserver for submariners (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week at the mouth of the River Thames off New London, Conn., Lieut. Momsen took the salvaged S-4 to the bottom again with a newsreel outfit aboard-director, camera man, sound man-to publicize the success of his device by filming ten seamen escaping to the surface...
...Primo Camera, Mediterranean monster, unfloored in the U. S.: permission from the U. S. immigration board to extend his U. S. stay until Dec. 31. "That is all I want," said he. "Time to become the pugilistic champion...
Last week Mary Pickford began to disband the staff of technicians who have worked for her for years. She let go Abbe Rahm, her head camera man and Arthur Zoellner, exploitation chief. She will not make her future films, if any, as an actress-producer, but simply as an actress, bossed by Joseph Schenck...