Word: celluloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street and on the banks of the dirty Passaic River to watch their children play. Some of the youngsters scampered half-naked about the street, others were swimming in the river or lolling on the shore in front of a grimy brick factory where Atlantic Pyroxylin Waste Co. sorted celluloid. Along River Road. Mrs. Josephine Latone pushed her way through the throng of noisy youngsters, nodding to her neighbors, jabbering at her husband, James. She turned toward him to gesticulate...
...that instant there was a deafening explosion. The roof and walls of the celluloid factory burst open in a cloud of fire. A hail of bricks pelted the street. Long streamers of flame whipped out of the shattered roof and flapped at the sky. A shower of burning celluloid, floating down in blazing strips and flakes, fell on the screaming mob of men, women and children for a quarter of a mile around. Those who had not been knocked senseless by the impact of the explosion, surged in terror to the river bank, plunged into the water to quench their...
...preparation of a Mickey Mouse short is much the same as for any solemn Hollywood picture. When the script is finished, "animators" draw Mickey's attitudes as at the beginning and end of each action. "Inbetweeners" draw the graduated poses between. "Inkers" place a transparent square of celluloid on the drawing and outline it boldly in ink on the celluloid. The first square is superimposed on a painted background. A picture is taken. A second is superimposed; and so on. While the film is run off in a soundproof room, an orchestra plays the score. Disney talks for Mickey...
...best that can be said about "What. No Beer," the companion-feature, is that it is fine beer propaganda, now a rather useless strip of celluloid. The story, however, is more than worthy of the Keaton-Duraute combination, which seems to have lost, such of its original pop. In addition, Phyllis Barry is undoubtedly the most excellent siren of the season...
Artificial Camphor. The U. S. annually imports ten million pounds of camphor for manufacture of laminated safety glass, explosives, celluloid, lacquers, motion picture films and medicines. Half of the imported camphor is synthesized from U. S. turpentine that has been shipped abroad. New York University's Professor John Joseph Ritter offered a cheap, comparatively simple artificial camphor right in the U. S. from home-produced materials. He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur...