Word: closeup
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boat sped across a pan of water propelled by a piece of camphor in its stern which gave off a thin film of camphor on the water. Periodically Dr. Langmuir appeared in the screen and said, "Now, if you will kindly look over my shoulder. . . ." Then followed a "closeup" of an experiment in progress. He pointed out that the talkie saved him the expense of carrying to Columbus and erecting elaborate apparatus; that after once filming an experiment a university could repeat it indefinitely for its students at nominal expense. He told also that talking movies have been made...
...think there could be any new way of telling a story in pictures, until you see this film in which the trial and death of Joan of Arc are told, in silence, by the expression of faces not disfigured by make-up and photographed from all angles, mostly in closeup. Director Carl Theodore Dreyer, a Dane, is not concerned with history, except that he uses accurately and intelligently such evidence as the 15th Century has left him about the girl who saved her country from its enemies, and was later tortured to death by the Church. Somehow Dreyer found...
...nickel theatre. His first connection with the cinema was that of an actor; he used later to direct Mary Pickford or Mack Sennett, making a picture a day. According to tradition, it was D. W. Griffith who suggested that cinemas be lengthened to two reels, who invented the closeup, who enlarged the scope of the camera beyond that of the human eye. His The Birth of a Nation was perhaps the first picture which approached the potentialities of the cinema. Others, a list which betray D. W. Griffith's highly disputable flair for titles, are: Hearts of the World...
...long dash by Clark followed by a true hard shot was the only scoring in the fifth chukker and the teams entered the sixth frame deadlocked, 5-5. The 1931 mallet-wielders gained the lead on a foul by Walker, who immediately turned the tables on them by a closeup shot, enabling the Artillery team to come out on the long end of the score...
...villain wants to blow it up. But Rinty, the wonder dog, foxes the dastardly fellow, not only saves the dam by a display of amazing engineering but also ducks all the bullets flying in his direction. In the end Rinty and his bitch (Princess) show in a happy closeup...