Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the show is average good. Best musical numbers: "Throw It Out The Window," "I'm One of God's Children." Memorable in the entertainment is the appearance of Funnyman Fields as the director of a cinema company who can Progress no farther with his film than the infinite taking and retaking of a game of Kelly pool. "You can't play Kelly pool?" he finally exclaims. "And you call yourself an actor...
...right on the guy that was carrying the dog. If he'd made one funny move I'd have got him dead to rights. But he didn't. I figured at the time he was a deputy sheriff." Mildred Davis Lloyd, wife of film Funnyman Harold Lloyd, said: "I hope it's a boy." Expected time: March. Lloyd children to date: Mildred Gloria, 6; Marjorie Elizabeth, 5 (lately adopted...
Danger Lights (RKO). For this first important release to be made with the new Spoor-Berggren wide film (TIME, Sept. 1). RKO has shrewdly chosen a story about railroading which gives the cameramen a chance to show the versatility of the new film by photographing locomotives from many angles. The big film seems exactly like other wide films; its mechanical grandeur, the magnified screen and the magnified size of everything thereon, are exciting and worthwhile, but not revolutionary. The story is the sort in which the district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives...
Sous les Toits de Paris (Film Sonora Co.). This pleasant little film in French is arranged according to the 1928 formula of U. S. talking pictures - a formula which the French, like other European producers, have recently become able to imitate successfully. A theme song - now obsolete in Hollywood - is heartily employed, but "Sous les Toits de Paris" is a pretty song, gay and nostalgic ; it ought to be popular if native orchestras bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl...
...conglomeration of five titles he will publish two: Motion Picture Herald (weekly) and Motion Picture Daily. Also he will establish a Hollywood daily, thus relegating Film Daily to the status of a local New York paper. The merged properties were valued at $2,000,000, the Herald-World accounting for one-half...