Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test programs include newsreels and industrial advertising films which are televized, and live entertainment. The chief drawback to the films is that the screen is so small that objects in the background are all but subvisible. There is practically nothing but drawbacks to the live programs. The actors, who tan under the Birdseye lights, must work at very close quarters to stay within the camera's focus. They seem to have to compensate for physical restriction by overemoting. Twenty hours of rehearsal are required for an hour of telecasting (an average of four hours for an hour in broadcasting...
Ecce Homo (Sat. 7:30 p. m. CBS). Documentary Film Producer Pare Lorentz (The Plough That Broke the Plains and The River) does a documentary radio script on unemployment for Columbia's Workshop...
Stuff for sturdy stomachs only, The Fight for Peace is a sardonic documenting of the worldwide toll war has taken since the War to End War took 8,538,000 lives, maimed 21,000,000. Its purpose polemic, the film studs its narrative with jaw-jutting shots of Mussolini, pose after pose of Hitler giving an almost epicene version of a Nazi salute, bike most articulate protestants against the way of the world, the makers of The Fight for Peace tell only what they want to tell, but their film hits home with a sickening thud. Some memorable scenes...
Flynn got his first cinema job through a group of film makers who remembered him as a stalwart lad whose boat had taken them on a camera expedition up New Guinea's dangerous Sepik River. The offered role turned out to be that of Fletcher Christian, in a film to be called In the Wake of the Bounty. In an old blond wig ("which made me look like a harlot") he swaggered for a week or so at $5 a day on the poop of a grounded H. M. S. Bounty on rockers. After the completion of the film...
...Westerns, is currently holding out for more than the $5,000 a picture he has been getting from Republic Pictures. In an effort to frighten him back into the corral for the twelve pictures planned for him, Republic picked Rogers from a minor role in Autry's last film, The Old Barn Dance, starred him in the current cinema, which was originally called Washington Cowboy. A 25-year-old, Wyoming-born Indian-Irish-American, Roy Rogers smiles like old Western Star Gary Cooper, rides like a streak, does everything Autry does for about one-fifth of Autry...