Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposite face of the earth, while these men gained their ways, George Eastman, head of the Eastman Kodak Co., was pursuing his second leisurely hunt* with camera and gun through the high lands of Uganda and southern Sudan. The scientific importance of his trip lay chiefly in the cinema films which, with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester...
Next (in 1889) came the cellulose film that has made amateur photography a joy and made possible the cinema, one of the 10 largest U. S. industries...
...Americans. Here was a chance to make a cinema that would be as obnoxious as Abie's Irish Rose (play). But Producer Carl Laemmle forfeited the chance by the dexterity of his workmanship. He depicts Jews, Irishmen, Italians, Germans, Swedes, Russians mingling in a U. S. city in a plausible manner. The young people are restless, ill at ease, in the parental homes. Ma and Pa Levine (pants-presser) wonder why, until a neighbor asks them the question: "Isn't it possible that your daughter is justified in being ashamed of you? How many of you [parents...
...Officials of the British Foreign Office told last week that a cinema record of all the Amir's adventures is being made at the expense of the British Government which will present the completed film to His Majesty as a lasting reminder of the British Empire's might...
...doubt it was the abolition of the harems some years ago that enabled the Turkish male to discard his savage mien and fighting figure. With but one wife to engage his attentions, he can afford to neglect his diet and yield to the less violent diversions of the cinema...