Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film ended, Greer had decided to sacrifice her worthless relatives to justice. She explained that this would have been her late empire-building husband's decision. "He wanted power because he knew how to use it," she said. Tito sat up straight again...
...moved to the adjoining room to see a 16-mm. American film with German subtitles, called Yours Forever-an export version of Mrs. Parkington. It dealt with millionaires who had squandered their own lives and their ancestor's hard-earned money. The opening shot showed children singing carols in front of a mansion. A blase woman dripping in furs brushes half of them off and asks the butler to sweep the rest away. Then she pours herself a large shot of liquor. Tito nudged me. "Whisky!" he said...
...Paris, a blonde authoress-movie director, Nicole Vedrès, was shooting a film with an all-star cast: Painter Pablo Picasso, Novelist André Gide, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, Architect Le Corbusier, Writer Jacques Prévert, Atomic Scientist Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Their roles required them to enact themselves at work and at play, chatting about what the world was coming to. Said Picasso, who played quiet scenes with Gide (see cut) and mugged with Prévert: "We had a terrific time...
...comes from a loudspeaker concealed inside the chest, and is synchronized with lip movements. Price: $284. ¶ Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies by putting magnetic material along the edge of the film to make a sound track. With a special sound adapter on his projector, the amateur may dub in a commentary, though he won't be able to record sound as he takes the pictures. The sound can be dubbed into new & old films alike, can be erased and rerecorded...
Even by overworking Grant's predicament to the last adolescent titter, Male War Bride's three scripters have been unable to stretch it to the picture's length. By evident default, fully half the film must first detail the couple's courtship, a fixed bout in the battle of the sexes...