Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...praise in the cinema industry are the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. At the Academy's Annual Banquet last week, where some 1,200 guests included practically every real and fake celebrity in the business, the Academy bestowed its most publicized prize-that for the best U. S. performance of the year by an actress-upon a young woman who a year and a half ago was unknown in the U. S. and had never appeared in the cinema anywhere. She was MGM's Luise Rainer. The role for which she was rewarded...
Rarest prize awarded by the Cinema Academy is its special award for an "outstanding contribution to the industry." Awarded only when the Special Award Committee feels that there has been a contribution outstanding enough to deserve it, the prize has been presented only five times in the past. It went to Charles Chaplin in 1928 for his single-handed feat of writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus and to Warner Brothers for "marking an epoch in motion picture history"; Shirley Temple (1935) for greatest individual contribution to screen entertainment;* Walt Disney (1932) for inventing Mickey Mouse; and David Wark...
Launched in February 1935 by TIME'S Circulation Manager Larsen, who had already put THE MARCH OF TIME on the radio, and Louis de Rochemont, a Wartime naval line officer, later creator of Fox Movietone's "Magic Carpet" and "Adventures of a Newsreel Cameraman," the cinema MARCH OF TIME was hailed enthusiastically by cinema critics, dubiously by the industry. Currently, its audience appeal wholly vindicated by its influence on other newsreels as well as by its popularity, the monthly two-reeler, distributed by RKO, is being shown in 7,560 U. S., 1,247 British Isle, 485 Australian...
...Technology, who started using it for the benefit of air lines in 1932. The late Harris M. Hanshue, then president of Western Air Express, found the Krick forecasts 96.1% accurate, estimated that they saved him $35,000 in one year. Currently Dr. Krick's best customers are cinema producers, who some time ago discovered that good weather for outdoor "shooting" is one thing that even Hollywood cannot buy. Dr. Krick's uncanny ability to predict, a day or so in advance, the hour when rain will start or stop, when fog will roll in or lift, is reputed...
...championship of the world was held in London in 1928 and again last week. Winner in 1928 was Sonja Henie, in the second year of her ten-year career as the world's ablest woman skater. Last spring Sonja Henie stopped skating in tournaments to skate in the cinema and last week's winner, heir to Miss Henie's title, was an English girl who may hold it just as long. She was strong-legged Cecilia Colledge, 16-year-old daughter of Dr. Lionel Colledge, socialite London ear & throat specialist. Day after she won the title, with...