Word: celluloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weird and gloomy epics-in-celluloid haunt the University Theatre this week-end. Temperamental ballerinas and neurotic Victorians are a strange combination, but it turns out to be one of the best bills that has come to the University in many...
...name, the picture makes no monumental play for the baser passions. In fact, the sex in "Ecstasy" makes a noble effort to be etherial, cosmic, and all very symbolic. Perhaps this was the director's secret, haunting ideal. If so, he came far from realizing it on celluloid, What he did realize was neither fish nor fowl; neither good, healthy cinepornography, nor a great, emotional masterpiece that would poeticize the Biological Urge. There were the makings of a truly important picture in "Ecstasy." The scarcity of dialogue, the drifting, almost aimless pace, the startling photography, all would have given...
...products of the Wartime boom in the chemical industry was the development of non-inflammable plastics. Until then the plastic business's chief claim to fame was the familiar, fire-hazardous celluloid collar. Since then the world has become accustomed to plastic toothbrushes and fountain pens, automobile steering wheels and gearshift knobs, radio cabinets and poker chips...
Major manufacturers of plastic materials -phenol-formaldehyde, Durez, Plaskon, many another-are Bakelite, General Plastics, American Cyanamid Co., Plaskon Co., Celluloid Corp., Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Monsanto Chemical and Union Carbide and Carbon.* These manufacturers do no molding, sell their plastics to other companies to be shaped. The molders, in turn-excepting those like Westinghouse and General Electric, which use the products in their own business-sell their finished plastic products to the toothbrush, automobile, radio manufacturers...
...happens when the D. W. Griffith of Russia really gets his teeth into a war panorama. If the Russo-German engagement in Alexander Nevsky bears no resemblance to the one actually fought at Lake Peipus on April 5, 1242, it is also like no battle ever before recorded on celluloid. For visual splendor, romantic nonsense and pure comic-strip flamboyance, the derring-do of Eisenstein's moujiks with battle-axes, boat hooks and wine pails has never been topped...