Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Block Booking. For the past four or five years U. S. cinemagnates, combined as Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. (Will Hays, president), have striven to stabilize their industry. To this end they tried to make all theatre-owners contract for films-good or bad-a year ahead. This practice is called "block booking." To facilitate booking, block and "spot," the producers created 32 Film Boards of Trade. To these boards they gave powers of credit-approval. Into the contracts with theatre-owners they inserted a provision that, should credit disputes arise, Credit Committees of these boards might arbitrate...
...release of four films, which have just been completed this fall and two of which will have their first Boston showing on December 9 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, were announced yesterday at the University Film Foundation. These are part of a series demonstrating the Arts and produced for the Art Museum...
...Last of the Wood Engravers" is the third of the recent Foundation films. It was produced to preserve and make available for posterity the extraordinary technique of Timothy Cole, last of the great wood engravers. His subject in this presentation is the EI Greco masterpiece, "Fray Feliz Hortensio", in the Boston Museum. The fourth of the productions of the Film Foundation is entitled "The Silversmith", an illustration of the technique of the art of the silversmith. It was produced through the cooperation of A. J. Stone, an outstanding worker in silver in this country...
Harold Lloyd in his second talkie, now showing at the Uptown theatre, has escaped the clutches of the Chinese who afforded him so few breathing spells in his first effort, and has returned to the human fly stunts of "Safety Last," his most successful silent film. This time the thrills are even more sensational and apparently more daring...
Harold Lloyd leases his studios and has a complete staff of film-makers on his payroll. Paramount merely distributes his films. It took him four months to make the skyscraper shots in Feet First. Nobody doubles for him in high places. He uses fewer twin-exposure shots than most skeptics would suppose. He is an athletic young man and keeps himself in shape on the private golf course, tennis courts, handball courts, and in the gymnasium of his expansive house. When he is making a climbing comedy his only protection is a platform with mattresses on it, built out from...