Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an entirely new set of equipment, the University Film Foundation is now producing biological film studies which they hope to supply to schools and colleges all over the United States...
...equipment which the Film Foundation has purchased consists of a powerful are light, a special microscope, and an ordinary motion picture camera. The subject is placed under the microscope and the are light is focused through it. The light first has to pass through water, however, in order to prevent the heat from destroying the microscopic subjects of the filming. The microscope is equipped with a prism that divides the light sending ninety per cent of it to the camera and the remaining ten per cent to the eye of the photographer, who is by this contrivance enabled to watch...
Professor H. W. L. Dana '08, of the Cambridge School of the Drama, has arranged with the management of the Artkino Guild to take his class to see "Ten Days That Shook the World", the film now playing at the Fine Arts Theatre, and lecture on the details of the film while it is on the screen. This special lecture, scheduled for this afternoon at the showing beginning at 5 o'clock, will be open to the general public as well. Professor Dana has had several interviews in Europe with Serge Eisenstein; director of this film, and has found Eisenstein...
...argument for letting them bring out White Cargo, even suggesting that it could be disguised under its original title, Hell's Playground, he stood firm. White Cargo, in his opinion, was worse than Rain, worse than anything. Thus the way was open for the W. P. Film Co. of London, which bought the talking picture rights and released their product here, apparently without opposition. Their White Cargo is an uninspired photograph of the stage play acted by a fair stock company. Early in its proceedings you realize with a shock that it was this play that brought the useful...
...altogether. Although its title, "Behind the Make-Up" connotes mammy songs whispered in a choking voice and the other paraphernalia of "the-show-must-go-on" type of movie, yet this is a different kind of picture, and far above the average. It has become almost axiomatic that any film that William Powell turns his hand to is worth seeing, and the present opus is no exception. As usual he gives a polished performance, this time of a down and out actor who still has his ambitions of a great career, and comes within an ace of realizing them...