Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first March of Time (TIME, Feb. 4) aroused critical excitement less as a finished cinema product than as a bold piece of pioneering in the jungle of pictorial journalism. Vol. I, No. 2 of the same film excels its predecessor in timing, cutting, choice of material. It comes closer to justifying itself as accomplishment rather than as. innovation, makes it apparent that topical cinema which contains no shots of ski-jumpers, cherry-blossom time in Tokyo, or an Atlantic City baby parade is a practicable entertainment formula. Best shot: the Talis- man's huge menacing bow, just before...
...annually, he was well able to finance a comeback if he could find something to come back with. He thought he had it in patents, bought abroad and transferred to his personal holding company, covering the "double print" method of recording both sound and picture on a single film and the "sprocket" or "flywheel" method of reproduction, which were universally displacing older systems. He sued three exhibitors, aiming behind them at the makers of their equipment (R.C.A. Photophone and Western Electric). A Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his claim. The defendants appealed to the Supreme Court. Last autumn the Supreme...
...consented to review. The ruling handed down last week left Mr. Fox without a leg to stand on. In substance the Court declared that the Fox patents had not been infringed, that they were not valid. Reason: lack of "novelty and invention." The practice of printing a single positive film from separately developed negatives had long been known, was free to anyone to apply to sound-recording systems. The flywheel was the property of mankind. As long ago as 1879 Thomas Edison found he could not patent the flywheel on his phonograph...
About a billion amateur snapshots are taken in the U. S. every year. The average photographer pays about 35? for an eight-exposure roll of film, another 65? for developing and printing. For $1 or less he gets eight black & white prints of his wife, his children, his friends, his garden, his sailboat, or whatnot...
Last week amateur photographers were promised they would soon be able to take the same pictures with their same cameras -but in natural color. All they need is a special roll of film for $1 and the services of a special developing agency which will return eight natural-color prints for $2 more...