Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head for a quiet reading room on the mezzanine where bound and indexed volumes of all our magazines are available. Others write letters, read their home-town newspapers (of which we maintain a representative supply), examine the art and photographic displays, watch the latest issues of MARCH OF TIME cinema via movieola. This land-office business also involves giving information-from what Broadway show is really worth seeing to how to raise Muscovy ducks...
Jazz and Democracy. By last week the U.S. imprint was strong on Japan. Japanese girls strolled hand in hand with G.I.s beside the imperial moat. Children played with toy models of American "jeepu"; women copied U.S. fashions. In Tokyo a special school taught U.S. slang, and cinema fans queued up to see Hollywood movies (biggest hit: Tall in the Saddle, a Western). In geisha houses, the girls gaily crooned You Are My Sunshine...
...newspaper Cinema warned Russian moviemakers that they "must be faithful to the principles of Bolshevik partisanship in art," while Izvestia turned its attention to dance bands (see Music...
...major producer to make the Life of Christ in Technicolor; 2) start producing a picture based on his own novel, The Hand that Drove the Nails (Hession's considered opinion: "It knocks The Robe into a cocked hat"); 3) set up a "liaison office" between church and cinema to "advise" on and promote Protestant films; 4) campaign for Hollywood's struggling little Cathedral Films, which is now making Bible shorts for church & school...
Says Hession of religious cinema today : "The world is in the worst mess in its history, and the cinema is the instrument with which to improve it." But to do it, Hollywood must produce 1) more Protestant films; 2) better Catholic films. Pictures like The Bells of St. Mary's, says he are so bad that "even Catholics object.' These films show only the superficial aspects of religion. The average man should be forgiven if he considers them propaganda. To treat a clerical collar as the epitome of religion is a mistake. There are people in the world...