Word: celluloid
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While hot, hissing celluloid flames cut off the only door, the barn, tinder-dry, kindled with a roar. Forty-nine persons were burned to death in this, the worst cinema-theatre fire in the history of the British Isles...
...love from his mail-order wife, puts his mouth over the muzzle of his shotgun. A fading saleswoman sees a bearded lover watching daily from a neighboring window for her arisings; discovers the face to be a carved Christ's; resigns herself once more to loving the celluloid doll in her store-window demonstration of a patent crib. There are moments when the author's sensitive comprehension threatens to quaver and mawk, but these moments are rare and in them quiet ecstasy is equally imminent. Some may say that the frustrated or guilty woman appears rather more frequently...
...believing-and remem- bering. If adults can be made to believe that painted ladies and yel- low-collared gentlemen are nobly in love with each other, or that certain drawing-room manners, courageous leaps and skillful rescues represent slices from real life, simply by the flicker of light through celluloid, then surely children can be made to believe, remember and perhaps understand certain other human activities and natural phenomena of a more educational nature...
...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...