Word: celluloidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seem even stronger. Though he has not yet taken the royal road to the ladies-lecture platform, Anthony Thorne is obviously hoping for Hollywood. Down Come the Trees is too improbable a yarn to impress even a hot-weather reader, but its cinematic possibilities are patent. The crudely-drawn celluloid silhouettes in his latest story can be seen through at a glance, but enlarged by Hollywood sound and fury they might well be heard from in box-office terms...
Censor Wilkinson has had his troubles with the March of Time from its inception. Overruling the March of Time's claim that, as journalism in celluloid, it must be as free to handle controversial news as the Press, Watchdog Wilkinson has on various occasions removed from the British March of Time shots of German Nazis persecuting Jews, members of the French People's Front demonstrating against the Fascist Croix...
...snap the animals in all their natural poses. Tons of rock, earth, sand, grass, tree trunks and branches were shipped to the museum, where they were treated with a preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid. In the gorilla group there are 75,000 artificial leaves and berries, some 20,000 fragments of genuine African flora. Museum officials were confident last week that no visitor could distinguish the imitation from the real...
Jesse L. Lasky and Mary Pickford paid some $400,000 to cast this gossamer in celluloid as their first offering for United Artists release. They ornamented it with an assortment of expensive bit players with lavish sets, with mild satiric sorties on Law, Censorship, the Press, the Family...
...sounding recommendations, "Fellow the Fleet" is topid at best. The producers had every reason to expect that a conglomeration of the above elements would find success easy and inevitable, but there is obviously lacking the spark of inspiration, indispensable to what is really good, even in the medium of celluloid. "Follow the Fleet" is the well-timed appearance of a cut-and-dried application of a tested formula...