Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devil-Doll (Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer) is the most ambitious effort ever undertaken in the use of the long-known but seldom-employed technique of photographic disproportion. Lavond (Lionel Barrymore) gets back to Paris from an undeserved sojourn on Devil's Island with a handy means of vengeance on the men who put him there. His weapon is a discovery made by a fellow prisoner (Henry B. Walthall) of a way to reduce people to one-sixth of their size. Heretofore the process, which has been used only for such playful purposes as reducing St. Bernard dogs to the size...
Some of the doll-men scenes were made by re-projecting double-exposed images upon a measured screen, but most of them required the vastly simpler although staggeringly expensive method of literal photography in sets six times normal size. These scenes were shot on MGM's famed Stage No. 12, twice as big as any other soundstage on the lot. Unlike Director Tod Browning's Freaks, or most of the famed Lon Chaney silents which he made, The Devil-Doll's hobgoblinery beguiles rather than frightens...
Subbayah crawled in between the tent supports, lay down beside a draped stick set up in the ground. At the base of the stick he seated, with much show of tenderness, a malevolent-looking little doll. A helper hung clothtent-walls around Subbayah. Few minutes later the walls were stripped away. There was Subbayah, hanging shelflike to the top of the draped stick...
...psychoanalysis. Charles Ruggles as Chester Beatty, employe of a glass-eye manufacturer, worries about his subconscious. He walks in his sleep, a secret sorrow which has delayed for 20 years his marriage to Tessie Weeks (Mary Boland). To secure a gigantic glass-eye order from the owner of a doll factory (George Barbier), he takes his bride to a sanatorium where the doll maker is recovering from an odd disease for which the treatment consists of running around barefoot...
...these in Captain January. She is expert at such games as checkers, pachisi, casino and "squares"-connecting dots on a piece of paper with straight lines to form boxes. She recently beat Oscar Olsen, a member of the Swedish Senate, at squares twice in succession. She has a doll from every country in the world, each dressed in native costume. On the Fox lot she keeps rabbits and a flock of bantam chickens. The chickens operate with punctuality. Each night Shirley takes home an egg to eat for breakfast. In addition to satisfying constant requests for her own autograph...