Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steppes, rout of the Tsar's regiments by Ogareff's cavalry-but almost all the outdoor sequences were actually filmed in Siberia, giving the picture a photographic validity that could not possibly have been duplicated in California where almost every foot of available landscape is already familiar to cinemaddicts. Second most interesting fact is that all this apparently expensive panoramic authenticity cost RKO practically nothing. Michael Strogoff was originally made in both French and German by Producer Joseph Ermolieff. RKO's smart Producer Pandro Saul Berman (Winterset, Swing Time} bought the U. S. rights...
...Reporter Rogers, sprawling St. Louis and its adjacent territory was as familiar as a backyard to a housewife. In high & low circles, friendly Rogers had hundreds of confidential contacts, known in newspaper shops as "pipelines." So persuasive was he that he sometimes was able to mesmerize criminals into confessions which made jailing or hanging evidence for the prosecutor as well as scoops for the Post-Dispatch...
...story, "Crack up," on the credit side are found the perennial, satisfactorily sinister Teuton, Peter Lorre, and a new scene for a climax, an airplane floating on the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, uninterrupted dialogue of a third or four the hand nature makes the total insultingly familiar. We found ourselves speaking the actors' lines in advance...
...unique significance in the field of English letters there can be no doubt. Its phraseology has become part and parcel of our common tongue--bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh. Its rhythms and cadences, its turns of speech, its familiar imagery, its very words, are woven into the texture of our literature, prose and poetry alike. Yet it is of the Orient, we of the West; it is a translation, not an original; and it has reached us by way, not of one language only, but of three. What is it, then, in this translation, which...
...drives through gears an entirely separate propeller shaft. This straight shaft is hollow. The superiority of the new moteur canon lies precisely in that it does not have to be "synchronized" to fire between the spinning propeller blades, as in the old-fashioned arrangement with which Reader Schrankel is familiar, but sends a stream of shells straight out through the hollow axis of the propeller...