Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photographic work in Fogg Museum has been turned over to the Film Foundation as a part of the plan to assign all University photography to this central laboratory...
...President of the Republic, sad-eyed M. Albert Lebrun, the Ambassadors and Ministers of the European States and the Papal Nuncio in his silk skirts gathered at the Sorbonne last week to see flicker and jiggle on a screen three strips of streaked and yellowed cinema film, each only three yards long...
...years ago. Europe assumes that such was their achievement, ignoring Thomas Alva Edison. Invincibly bourgeois and perfectly satisfied with their large business in making still films and plates, the Brothers Lumière left the invention of the cinema to stew for years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early...
...Legong begins where Sally Rand leaves off," said a New York columnist, stating a half-truth. For the current film at the Fine Arts is scarcely reminiscent of Sally Rand, despite the abbreviated native costumes...
...that the acting is undistinguished would be to miss the point of the film--the chief feature of which is the superb photography. Bali is, of course, a paradise for workers in color, and the cameraman for Legong made the most of his opportunities. Maidens bathing at dawn in pale green pools, beats putting out to sea at dusk, cockfights, dances and gaudy funerals appear in all their natural beauty of color and action...