Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor A. B. Hart '80, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus has made several talking pictures in cooperation with the University Film Foundation during the past year and a half and is now at work on a picture depicting the history of Massachusetts, which will be used in the Tercentenary celebration it was announced yesterday...
...fact that the success of a picture is judged solely by its 'sell.' This means that it must pass the censorship of forty-eight states and several foreign countries. When a play is done for the movies, it is immediately emasculated. The manoeuvers of the average Hollywood film magnate in adapting a play with any degree of frankness would be amusing if the situation implied were not so serious...
...Days (Fox). This is one of the new enlarged pictures, samples of which have been issuing from Hollywood from time to time and which, on the Fox lot, are known as Grandeur Pictures. Last year a method was perfected for taking oversized pictures by photographing them on unusually big films, with lenses in proportion, instead of exaggerating an ordinary film in projection. Concocters of Fox publicity announced that Fox experts had found a way to make films "in three dimensions...
...With its new width the camera can take in two characters talking at the same time in the middle foreground, without switching its eye from one to the other but to make the faces clear, the characters must be cut off at the knee. Another advantage of the wide film is that it makes motion more exciting: moving things can be kept in sight against the same background twice as long as before. Countrysides, large masses of people, street shots, ballet numbers are better in Grandeur, but since the height of the Grandeur projection is practically the same...
...Hunting Tigers in India," now at the Repertory Theatre, is an instructive and entertaining record of Vernay's expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. Billed as an all-talkie,. it was filmed in India with silent cameras and later synchronized to allow an announcer to take the place of titles. Opening at the home of one of the leaders, the film, except for occasional cutbacks, rambles on with an unseen speaker and a background of music...