Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London a scene in a film in which "a white man" kissed Miss Anna May Wong was ordered cut by British film censors "on moral grounds" * (TIME...
...Hungary and generally on the Continent, censorship is for political, not moral, daring. When the Wong film was submitted to the Royal Hungarian Censor last week, he was scandalized to observe that the white man who, kissed the yellow girl was a Grand Duke. He promptly suppressed the film on the ground of its ''anti-monarchical tendencies...
...present two trained workers are sending from six to ten feet of brick hurtling down the inside of the chimney each day, with only occasional larger slabs falling outside to delight the casual spectator, and provide material for Film Foundation photographers...
Because Basso Michael Bohnen wanted to return early to Germany to make a sound film, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company imported on short notice another Wagnerian bass, introduced him last week in Götterdämmerung, concluding opera of the Ring cycle (TIME, Feb. 17). Despite the fact that the new singer's name is Siegfried, like the Götterdämmerung hero's, he is no German but a Swiss, with the surname Tappolet. Only 26, he has already attracted enviable attention in Geneva, Stuttgart. Mannheim. Last week's performance brought him still...
...Heart (Fox). John McCormack's first picture, the second feature talkie to be made by a first-rate singer (Lawrence Tibbett's Rogue Song was the first) was directed by Frank Borzage, a director whose specialty it is to lay over his interiors and landscapes a film of sentiment much like the tearful coloring with which John McCormack colors his celebrated upper register. In his customary manner, Mr. Borzage uses up a lot of film exhibiting the Irish village whence sprang the great ballad singer, the hero of the story. It is a badly integrated, inconclusive little story...