Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time with a still more lurid story of what has become of Pola Negri's reputed predecessor, muscular, mountain-climbing Leni Riefenstahl. During the Olympic Games last year Cinemactress Riefenstahl had complete charge of all official newsreel pictures, was expected to make at least one full-length film. 20 short features out of them. These films have not yet been released...
...potentially huge and comparatively untapped source of cinema revenue is 16-mm. and 8-mm. film. There are currently estimated to be some 2,000,000 small projectors in the U. S. There would be many more if there were films better worth projecting on them than badly manufactured, pirated "toy" reproductions of antique features or travel films, amateur productions made with miniature cameras, "educational" releases. Recently U. S. owners of miniature projection machines have encountered the first move to bring coherence to the minimovies by developing them as an outlet for newsreels. It was News Parade, a group...
First issue of News Parade was a film on the Hindenburg disaster which went on sale three weeks ago. Second was the Coronation of George VI. Third in the series, released last week, was a life story of the Duke of Windsor. Said Producer Castle: "We are now planning to provide home movie enthusiasts with pictures of similar interest at regular intervals, probably twice a month." Items in the News Parade are made for both silent and sound-equipped projectors, cost from $1.75 for an 8-mm., 50-ft. sequence to $17.50 for a 350-ft., 16-mm. sound film...
...hazardous function of the linemen putting up a transmission tower, asks for a job; it ends, after Red falls to his death in a high-wire accident, with Slim climbing a tower in a blizzard to resume the repair job thus interrupted. Told with a drawling, mournful humor, the film builds up to a little epic in the sardonic idiom of one of the world's most necessary, most dangerous, least publicized trades...
...image and a Hollywood boy was gnawed by a 15½-in. rat which crept up his pants during a memorial revival of one of her pictures, the late Jean Harlow went to her last rest last week in a manner which has come to be regarded by the film colony as quiet, conventional good taste. With a reliable force of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer company detectives on guard to see that there was no repetition of the mob scenes at Rudolph Valentino's obsequies in 1926, the body of Miss Harlow lay on a couch in the Tennyson Room...