Word: celluloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realism, and under the stare of these sartorially perfect referees the three Varsity teams and the Jayvee eleven will stage two real games. An added touch will be the presence of Cambridge's star cinematographer atop a new scaffold, who will embalm the efforts of the heroes in celluloid, to facilitate future fault-finding and correction...
...under way last week with a preview exhibition in Manhattan's Weyhe Gallery of 105 etchings and lithographs by 38 of the best-known graphic artists in the U. S. Sponsored by an organization known as American Artists Group, Inc. the prints are all framed alike, under transparent celluloid instead of glass to prevent breakage in shipment, within a month four identical shows of similar prints will be traveling to department stores in 50 provincial cities accompanied by elaborate catalogs, and a lecturer. The prints in limited editions will sell for from $10 to $40 a piece. Few museums...
...scribe who pounds out the ironic, smile-provoking reviews of the celluloid strips tripped a bit in his discussion of that stupendous inanity billed as She [TIME, July 22]. I fidgeted through one showing of this insult to my imagination, but was attentive enough to notice that the gentleman preserved in ice "like a lamb chop in aspic'' was not John Vincey, but his valiant servant who had had a terrific encounter with a sabre-toothed monster. John Vincey, on the other hand, was miraculously preserved on a very uncomfortable looking slab, only to be unceremoniously consumed...
...that an axing had occurred. With the backs of their heads shaved bald, the Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer were led in coarse, nondescript prison garb to the blood-caked block from which so many heads now roll in the sawdust. The headsman, incongruous in his yellowish celluloid shirtfront, his old silk hat and his red-spotted tailcoat, raised the gleaming ax. Twice it swished down to sever a lovely neck and send the blood of a German woman spouting high. According to Nazis, the Baroness von Berg was the first female aristocrat to lose her head...
...those who take their flying straight, Paramount's "Wings in the Dark," showing at the Met, will be a disappointment. Unlike "Night Flight," the last airplane picture that was worth the celluloid it was printed on, "Wings in the Dark" is filled with a great many technical inaccuracies...