Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...block booking of movies. The producers force the exhibitors to contract for a whole block of pictures which they must accept regardless of their merits. The theater owners are unable to oppose this system for they must have a frequent change of program and delays in the arrival of film are fatal to them...
...aide and wear a silk hat and a frock coat again at Cambridge in June. In Berlin last week, invitation in hand, exuberant, psychic Herr Hanfstaengl bubbled: "I am looking forward to the reunion with the greatest anticipation. I may even, as a surprise, take with me my film, Hans Westmar [TIME, Dec. 25]. That film can show better than any words of mine what we Nazis stand...
...Order of the Seraphim, third son of the Crown Prince. Bertil's eye had fallen on one Christina Brambeck, yellow-haired young daughter of a Swedish Army captain. He had told his older brother Sigvard about it before Sigvard swept up his own commoner love, a German film extra, and beat Bertil to a London altar (TIME, March 5). Last week Swedish courtiers were certain that Bertil of the royal Bernadottes intended to marry Christina as soon as he gets his Lieutenant's commission in the Swedish Navy. Christina's army officer father promptly denied the story...
Awarded. To Flavel Manley Williams: a special gold medal of the American Museum of Safety; for his invention of the "fog camera" which, utilizing a special infra-red-sensitive film, can take photographs at great distances through fog (TIME, Jan. 15); in Manhattan...
...pondered while Paris-Soir waited for their discoveries. Meanwhile the official agencies investigating what was rapidly becoming the greatest political crime of the 20th Century made the following advances to public knowledge: ¶ To the parliamentary committee investigating the Stavisky scandal was privately exhibited the suddenly suppressed newsreel film showing the body of the wrecker of the Bayonne municipal pawn shop as it was found last January in a mountain cottage at Chamonix. The committee, on which were several doctors, immediately noticed several facts tending to contradict the police theory of suicide. There were no powder burns visible...