Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with the studio we have installed a complete sound-on-film recording equipment, loaned to the Foundation for a period, free of charge, by the R. C. A. Photophone, a subsidiary of R. C. A. This has come to the Foundation largely through the interest of Dr. W. R. Whitney, director of the General Research Laboratories of the General Electric Co. and Gerard Swope, president of the General Electric Co., who desire to see this invention, developed at their plant, used for educational purposes. In addition, the Foundation is installing a disc-recording, machine which can be employed...
During the past six months the University Film Foundation has made an advance of a fundamental nature. Previously the Foundation was obliged to send all its films to New York laboratories for processing; it worked under the handicap of inadequate equipment and, having no studio of its own, was obliged to take all its films on the actual locations. Furthermore, it had no sound-film apparatus...
...four-month battle for control of Fox Film and Fox Theatres companies (together the largest cinema enterprise in the world) last week ended with the decisive defeat of William Fox, who saw the direction of his companies pass into strange and hostile hands. To General Theatres Equipment. Inc., Mr. Fox sold 150,101 shares of Class B stock in his two companies-this block representing his personal holdings and including all the voting Theatres and a majority of the voting Film stock. As the major issue in the entire Fox litigation had been the possession of these 150,101 shares...
...cinema-projection equipment, controlling the patents covering Grandeur (oversize) pictures. The close (although not corporate) connection between Mr. Clarke, Mr Stuart and Mr. Otterson has been evident since the announcement early in March of the Halsey, Stuart plan of Fox financing-a plan which provided for new Fox film stock to be underwritten by the theatres equipment company...
...success grew, he took acting more seriously. He played Hamlet successfully in England in spite of unfavorable comment from George Bernard Shaw. For a long time he had alternated cinemas with his plays. Four years ago he went to Holly wood permanently. He takes pleasure in insulting film magnates and commenting mockingly on their methods. Cast in The Sea Beast, made from Herman Melville's Moby Dick, he said: "Hollywood will have to invent a love-interest. Should I fall in love with the whale?" Dolores Costello was cast with him. He married her. He often forgets to shave...