Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...living abroad, and depend on TIME for my knowledge of American events. TIME and green celluloid eye shades are the only things I have to import from America...
...first efforts to be funny in celluloid were dismal. Keystone directors feared that he was overpaid, offered to cancel the contract. Chaplin told Roscoe Arbuckle, the now deposed cinema clown, that he needed a pair of shoes. Arbuckle tossed him a pair of his own enormous brogues. "There you are, man," he said. "Perfect fit!" Chaplin put them on, cocked his battered derby over his ear, twisted the ends of his prim mustache. His face was very sad. He attempted a jaunty walk which became, inevitably, a heart-breaking waddle. He put his hand on the seat of his trousers...
Grass. A little group of camera- armed explorers went into exile to get this picture. After extraordinary adventures and tribulations, they returned with their story−one of the most extraordinary that has been told on the screen−in celluloid strips...
This film was the first strip of celluloid ever to be unfurled before a flame in the Paris Opera. At that occasion, the President of the Republic was on hand and a monstrous array of notables. Paris responded to the trumpet and has been flocking subsequently to the Opera to see about the Wolves...
...conspicuous advertisement. Many people passed it over without serious attention. Not so a certain old man who sits all day under a green celluloid visor, peering at papers in the editorial rooms of a certain metropolitan daily. His clothes are shabby; he is unable to play any musical instrument; if in a ball game, the pitcher should "walk" him, it would take long for him to get to first base; but he is paid money, this dilapidated curmudgeon, for one distinguishing asset-the length of his nose. He smells news as a hound smells an opossum. He drew a circle...