Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no depression in the celluloid collar business. At least that was the opinion uttered last week by H. F. Gilmour, head of Stake Manufacturing Co. of Lincoln, Neb., one of the three U. S. concerns in the business. Reason for his cheer: a 250-doz. order from Africa...
...disguised as Ronald Kilkerry. We are given to understand by those in authority at Hollywood that his lordship is infatuated with the sister-in-law of her ladyship; the inevitable lost cigarette-case and characteristic handwriting give the show away to Miss Chatterton before the first hundred feet of celluloid have...
...streams through a central glass. They develop the gags, draw only the beginning and the end of an action. Their sketches are passed to 2) the "in-betweeners" who draw the small delicately graded changes that make a motion kinetic. Then 3) the "inkers" place a transparent square of celluloid on the drawing and outline boldly in ink on the celluloid. Action is photographed by superimposing these transparent drawings over the painted backgrounds which have been placed under a camera...
When Margot Einstein was married to Dr. Dimitri Marianov at a Berlin registry office, her father, Physicist Albert Einstein, said that he would attend the ceremony if it could take place in 30 min. He attended in celluloid collar, battered hat, aged raincoat. Impatient when the nuptials took 60 min., he vigorously protested against being photographed. Then he hustled back to his soundproof study. Said his wife: "It was a case of love at first sight with our daughter. Dr. Marianov came to our house several months ago, and from that moment Margot's heart was lost. We think...
Professor Clark punches a tiny hole in the ear of a rabbit, similar to the holes which women used to pierce through their ears for earrings. In the hole he puts a double window. One pane is of glass or celluloid, the other of thin mica. The panes are 1/2,000 in. apart. So soon as the window is in place, the rabbit's ear begins to heal. Blood vessels, nerves, cells, all the appurtenances of living flesh work their way between the panes. When the rabbit is fastened so that the ear hole can be placed beneath...