Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Gielgud, a sensitive and intelligent Englishman of 32 with a nose the size of a hockey puck, was seen in the U. S. last spring as the hero of a not very exciting British film melodrama called Secret Agent. Long before that, however, London had grown accustomed to acclaiming his Hamlets. He has appeared in four separate productions between 1929 and 1936. Many who witnessed the cast of his nighted colour in Manhattan last week had no difficulty in understanding Gielgud's popularity in the role. The size of Actor Gielgud's features, ludicrous when magnified...
...institution which works smoothly and continuously is often accepted by those who benefit with a dullness of appreciation and an absence of recognition that bewilders the observer. The work of the French Talking Film Committee falls within this category; years ago it became a Harvard institution, unique of its kind, but never fully valued...
...Reported was the successful making of x-ray moving pictures with a home camera and 16-mm. film. Drs. William Holmes Stewart, William Joseph Hoffman, and Francis Henshall Ghiselin developed the technique at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. The heart of the problem was to get a sharp, clear x-ray image on a fluoroscopic screen. The sharpness of the image depended on 1) the brightness of fluorescent material in the screen and 2) the length of time a patient may be subjected to x-ray transillumination. The invention in England of a zinc sulphide preparation which gave...
...positive print of such an x-ray film may be cemented into a loop in a projector and run over and over to show a roomful of observers precisely how the patient breathes, throbs, swallows, belches...
...petition for voluntary bankruptcy contested in Atlantic City, N. J. by skeptical creditors (TIME, Sept. 7), onetime film Panjandrum William Fox, who claims he has to borrow cash to live on, explained: "As of Jan. 1, 1930, I was under the impression I was worth about $100,000,000. . . . But I found soon afterward I had estimated wrong...