Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Year. William Fox has made a celluloid comedy out of Frank Craven's brilliant play and done it badly. As you may infer, the plot is about first year married life. Most of it was shrewd character drawing and the small shot of family bickers. These things do not come down well for pictures. Nor were they well interpreted by Matt Moore and Kathryn Perry...
Sally, Irene and Mary. The fervent pursuit of movie stories has turned up another musical comedy suitable to photography, and reduced it to celluloid with generally entertaining effect. Going over the records you will find that the same success is descernible in nearly all the important music shows brought before the camera; nothing massive and enduring, but fair fun and no blood stains. This one is about a Bowery girl who gained glory in the theatre...
What is said to be the largest and most varied celluloid menagerie in the world is contained in a room above a store on Brattle Square. It is the possession of Horace Taylor '07, teacher, inventor, and tennis player of note...
Forced to swap half a dozen celluloid monkeys for that rare toy, an orangutan, and later obliged to supervise personally the manufacture of a duckbill, Mr. Taylor now claims that the present menagerie reposing in the corner of his workroom contains more different animals than any other of its kind. Tiny barns contain the various types of cattle and sheep and the great number of other animals stand in typical positions on the floor...
...Golden Princess is neither the first nor the most important of Bret Harte's tales to be done into celluloid. It manages to preserve all the vices, none of the virtues, of the script. Some will enjoy it because it furnishes Betty Bronson with an opportunity to see how girlish she can make a pair of ordinary corduroy breeches; others will be irate because they misread "Bret" for "Bill...