Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woodworth's bright predictions as to the future of the visual method of education, particularly in relation to the sciences, shows that the efforts of the University Film Foundation have not been misdirected. The films which can be made here under the best conditions of scientific research will be of the greatest value to those schools and colleges, which are not able to provide the necessary equipment to conduct research on their own behalf. Prominent scientists who have formerly only been able to reach a small number of students, now find that their discoveries and experiments maybe re-enacted time...
European protest against U. S. film domination last week erupted thrice...
Fake Alps. In Switzerland, sensitive students attended a performance of a U. S. film entitled King of the Bernina, discovered that the advertised Swiss scenes were really taken in Alaska. Enraged at the artificial Alps, they paraded the streets of Zurich, forced the theatre manager to stop showing the film...
Thus dramatically, alone, did Cineman Fox make his last stand, refusing compromise, departing silently. On the Exchange, Fox Film dropped from 34 to 25½, ended the day at 27½ after a record turnover of 494,800 shares or much more than half the total outstanding (820,660 shares). To the public, his stockholders, and apparently even to his attorney, Cineman Fox's move was a surprise. Yet earlier in the week he had written a letter to stockholders which clearly showed the premise upon which he stood...
...Martin Johnson have made many a film about wild places. Their most famed was Simba, a lion story that lost some interest because of its specialization. Now the Johnsons point their telescopic lenses at a variety of things. They start in the Solomon Islands, watching the cowardly headhunters launching a war-canoe inlaid with mother-of-pearl. In the New Hebrides a tribe is burying some old men alive; in the Big Numbers Territory some monkey men with prehensile feet peer wildly out of the trees. The Johnsons gave a movie show of Charlie Chaplin for King Nagapate's cannibals...