Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ceresol and his assistant planned to spend a week studying "the new dignity of modern gambling"-and Nevada's odds. With a movie camera and a tape recorder, they took down the patter and actions around dice tables, hoped to use it to teach Monte Carlo's croupiers to talk and act like those in Nevada. Ceresol had his doubts that fast and reckless craps would ever appeal to the dignified European gambler. For that matter, Monte Carlo's rules would not be too appealing to Americans. Said Ceresol: "We will take back your game...
...this twist on an old theme, Producer Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil) and Director Arthur Crabtree have built a wryly humorous study of lower-middle-class life in a London suburb. The camera moves with a sharp, knowing eye from the vulgar pretensions of tea in the Sunbury parlor to Herbert's wonderful kite straining and swooping in a fine summer breeze. Though Herbert and his wife are happily reconciled (over a kite string on the commons), the movie never compromises with the silver cord. As Herbert's mom, Hermione Baddeley gives a viciously distinguished performance...
...Lady, an exhilarating snifter of Maugham's best vintage. It describes the troubles of a Blimpish colonel and his mousy, neglected wife whose little volume of passionate love poems suddenly becomes a nationwide bestseller. Cecil Parker and Nora Swinburne are just right in the leading roles, and the camera makes some telling, acidulous comments on club-chair Berties and Mayfair literati...
...classic Robert J. Flaherty documentary of a generation ago still surpasses a lot of current professional films. The simple portrait of an Eskimo family and its struggle against the snow and ice of the Arctic is enlivened further by the obvious enjoyment Nanook himself found in front of the camera. You can learn something from this picture, even if you're not interested in building an igloo or harpooning a seal through the ice. A "March of Time" feature about Broadway's current troubles rounds out the Exeter bill...
They stared shrewdly around a Richmond department store while crowds, which had followed them in, stared curiously back. They were offered a free shirt apiece, unerringly picked the most expensive ones in the showcase. At the camera counter they announced, this time a little apologetically, that they thought the Germans made better photographic equipment than the Americans. Pirogov was openly enthusiastic at the sight of pretty models parading past in expensive dresses, but Barsov was doubtful...