Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winston Churchill was hired to write the script. Every newsreel library in the Empire was ransacked. When The Story of the Reign of His Majesty the King was ready last week it had cost $500,000- cheap enough for a film that was to stir loyal hearts in every part of the Empire during His Majesty's silver jubilee next spring...
...approach is so characteristically French. He is against mass production: "Our only export future is in supplying foreign countries with products of high quality, even though the price must also be high. . . . We do not desire to become, nor could we become, a nation of mass production and consequent cheap labor. That would be a step, or rather many steps backward!" M. Flandin feels that the genius of the French is as the World's elite workers, creators of the mode...
...Published weekly by two young Mexicans, graduates of the University of Texas. The whole staff lives in a cheap boarding house in San Antonio, claims expenses are paid by voluntary contributions, mostly from Mexico...
...types of lenses. Photographer Chester Lyons used 47 in Sequoia. Pack trains carried film from location to a base camp daily whence it was shipped 300 miles to the studio laboratories to be developed. "Rushes"' returned to the location spot two days later. Though arduous, Sequoia was comparatively cheap to make since its principals, now on tour in cities where the picture will be shown, received only beef and carrots...
...widow receives a royalty on each, Chan's cases and his mottoes are invented for him by Fox scenarists. Almost anyone who is not otherwise engaged around the Fox studio serves as his director. Aside from their central character, Charlie Chan casts contain few notables. Their settings are cheap. They are made in 24 days. They are particularly popular in China, where audiences are grateful for a compatriot who is neither opium-smoker nor hatchet man. Almost all the letters which they arouse are addressed not to Warner Oland but to Charlie Chan...