Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four motion-picture films prepared by, or in the possession of, the University Film Foundation will be released during the coming month. The first of these, a film entitled "Grass," taken in the wilderness of central Asia, will be shown at the Harvard Union on Tuesday, February 10, at 8 o'clock in the evening...
...Adventures of Prince, Achmed," in the Fogg Art Museum, will follow on Saturday, February 14. This picture, which is a fantasy in silhouette form, was prepared with great care by Lotte Reiniger, a well-known German artist, who drew approximately 300,000 individual silhouettes to complete the film...
...Manila's cinema with President Antonio C. Torres of the Manila municipal board (son of a supreme court justice of the Spanish regime). No prude but by hobby a criminologist, President Torres had declared: "70% of the present day crimes and immorality have been provoked ... by imported films. I particularly resent the influence which the motion pictures are having on the thousands of college men and women in this educational center. Our students, without knowing that the pictures which the movies give of American college life are distorted, flock to these films portraying college love and then...
Those of you who saw the film in America (I personally saw it eight times) will find it difficult to see in it anything that might be called definitely "Anti-German". Most of us I believe felt it rather to be a step in the other direction. For us it seemed more "Anti-War" than anything else. Perhaps also the obvious Americanism of the cast and the international handling of the plot made us forget that the story dealt with German soldiers, in German uniforms, singing occasionally German songs, with what passed as a German setting. For us then...
This however could not be and was not the German point of view. The film they saw as an already censored version of the one shown in America. So before they even saw it they knew that there were those that had seen fit to change the American version in order to make it more palatable to its new, but really "home" audience. Added to that it must be remembered that one can not say that the original book "Im Westen nichts Neues" had met with the whole-hearted approval of the generation for which it spoke. Still they tolerated...