Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweetie (Paramount). Frankly extravagant, Sweetie is a football romance staged at a musical comedy college where the students are well-known film players doing entertainment specialties. William Austin is the sissified professor. Helen Kane carries an air-rifle and sings her "poop-a-doop" songs. Nancy Carroll is the pretty girl who inherits a boys' college and bets her claim to it that her team can beat Oglethorpe. Jack Oakie, Broadway showman, changes the hymnlike school song to a ditty called "Alma Mammy." There is also a red-headed fellow who says that a preposition is something...
...Film. Under contract to First National pictures are Cinemactors Richard Barthelmess, Jack Buchanan, Cinemactresses Marilyn Miller, Colleen Moore. Irene Bordoni. Last week they heard that Warner Brothers, previously jointly controlling First National with the Fox Film Corp., had bought the Fox holding for $10,000,000. Reason given by Cineman Fox for the sale was that First National Pictures are silent, that Fox Film Corp. intends producing only sound pictures...
...Educational pictures of the Film Foundation have already been tried with a large measure of success in the Business School as well as in various courses in the college. It may well be that the experiment at the School of Education by its training of future secondary school teachers and administrators in new uses of motion pictures, will in the long run have an even more significant effect on its broad development...
Active cooperation between the University Film Foundation and the Graduate School of Education in a program of obtaining and producing films of importance in the educational field was the keynote of a meeting of the faculty of the school held last night...
Members of the University Film Foundation board of trustees include Oakes Ames '98, supervisor of the Arnold Arboretum and director of the Botanical Museum, president of the Foundation; and as other directors Thomas Barbour '06, director of the University Museum and of the Zoological Museum, C. P. Curtis; Jr. '13, a fellow of Harvard College, H. W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Edward Reynolds '81, curator of the Peabody Museum, and Alexander Hamilton Rice '98, gold medalist of the Royal Geographic Society, scientist, and explorer, who has been given an appointment at the Harvard Medical School...