Word: closeup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre of the police line. Cameraman Lippert was the only newsreel man on hand, his rivals, despairing of action from a holiday crowd sprinkled with women & children, having packed off to the automobile races in Indianapolis. Except for the two or three times he stopped to shift lenses for closeup or wide-angle shots, Cameraman Lippert kept his eye glued to his view finder throughout the whole bloody affair...
...With almost no dialog, it tells the erotic story of a woman (Hedy Kiesler) who deserts her impotent husband, goes swimming naked, loses her clothes when her horse runs away, spends a night with the young man who catches the horse. The picture's title derives from the closeup scenes showing hero & heroine together in a cabin. Even French critics found these shots "extremely audacious" and Fritz Mandel, Austrian munitions maker and husband of Hedy Kiesler, was so outraged that he used all his might and money to have the film suppressed throughout Europe. Last summer Extase drew enormous...
...proceedings is supplied by Miss Wong, Raft's Chinese sweetheart. If it is not much of a threat the fault is less hers than a role which gives her half a dozen lines and a fake Oriental dance as her total assignment for the first three reels, one closeup scene registering jealousy and another registering defiance in the last four. At the climax the dog-store owner has been put on the spot by Raft who, in a fit of remorse, goes through a hail of police bullets to save his rival's life...
...French cameraman fell with a bullet in his leg. Paramount's close-up camera was kicked over in the mêleé. Fox Movietone's George Mejat ground away as the police hacked down the assassin, then fought to the side of the car for closeups of the dying King, wriggled away to focus on the bleeding assassin, and a closeup of his gun. Before the eyes of a half dozen cameras, the assassin was trampled to death by the crowd, and bystanders fell before a wild fusillade of police bullets. The newsreel crews rushed their precious...
...TIME, May 15). Three years in Holly wood have taught Miss Hopkins to wiggle her eyebrows, as though engaged in a perpetual closeup. but otherwise her acting and good looks have been improved. There is a sharp flicker of vitality at the end of Jezebel's second act: against one of Don ald Oenslager's superbly romantic sets. dressed in an inverted fountain of white lace, her voice flat with excitement and despair, she celebrates the fact that a duel has resulted from her bad behaviour by singing a gay song with her slaves. The fact that...