Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What a Widow (United Artists). This is a violent attempt to rouse laughter by an expenditure of physical energy. The attempt is a failure. One is surprised at first to see a film star so securely established as Gloria Swanson engaging in furious slapstick, but after the novelty has worn off the humor also disappears...
...been having brilliant ideas. More than 1,000 of them have been patented. Swivel chairs, men's belts, carburetors have benefited from his inventions. And inventors are still spurred on by the memory of the $300,000 George Eastman paid Inventor Gaisman in 1914-for his writing-on-film patent. But his most profitable inventions have been in the razor field. He has created processes for making blades, has designed blades and razors. In 1906 he founded AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. which soon became important in the industry. Its chief product was the Valet AutoStrop Razor. For years...
...claimed that the true contribution of the motion picture to civilization is as another tool of Science. Certainly, the movie as an academician has had some degree of success in the field of Geology, Physics and Biology. The suggestion, elsewhere in today's CRIMSON, of Professor Friedrich that the film has a rightful place in Social Science offers, perhaps, the soundest application yet conceived of the invention. As he says, actual sight and sound of legislative' bodies in action would add tremendous vitality to the sometimes deadened lectures concerning those parliaments. Professor Friedrich's proposal, if carried out, should undoubtedly...
...filming of political bodies in action such as the League of Nations or election meetings would vitalize instruction in the Social Sciences," declared C. J. Friedrich, assistant professor of Government yesterday in discussing the League of Nations film shown Tuesday night in Dunster House...
...League of Nations film would have been much better if it had been made into a talkie," he continued. "Its real scientific value was slight, and if some of the scenery had been cut out and more about the League itself shown, he film would have been improved from an educational point of view. I understand, though, that it would be quite difficult to show the League in action while an important meeting was in session...