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Word: celluloid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duck Soup," which bests Lowell House Puree Mongol four reels to the wind, even has chuckles left over for Edgar Kennedy, who, for the first and last time finds himself on humorous celluloid. The Marx Brothers, happily caught in the revival cycle, have been racing through a cinematic renaissance. No serious student of Comparative Comedy can afford to finesse this eighty-minute demonstration of diplomatic rompings and political perambulating. Groucho, as Rufus J. Firefly, premier of Freedonia, involves himself in an international embroglio from which not even a rapier-keen cigar can extricate him. His butt is Louis Calhern--since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/9/1946 | See Source »

Night and Day (Warner), purporting to be a biography of popular Songsmith Cole Porter, is another of Hollywood's celluloid shrines to the living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...snag. To carry out his present plan in bettering the film, Barclay faces the task of superimposing three pictures on a single frame. A triple exposure, he claims, means far too great a margin of error, and he is afraid that if he put what he wanted on celluloid, lined up the three desired simultaneous images, and fired away, that the bottom picture would be obliterated by the top two and the total result would be confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Service Scored Bullseye With Navy's Target Practice Equipment | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

Somewhere in the Night (20th Century-Fox) is a beryllium-hard thriller and a rattling good celluloid chase. Goal of the fast, frenzied search: the hero's lost memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...days of the Depression, when even Hollywood wasn't able to afford high priced films, the Marx Brothers were merely set in front of a rolling camera and untied. The result was a mad sweep stake through the Celluloid, with no handicaps. In comparison, the inflationary "A Night in Casablanca" turns out to be nothing more than a potato sack relay at a Yosian picnic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Night in Casablanca | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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