Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After that spontaneous outburst the management was left with no alternative but to substitute another film...
...Madrid, two days later, a cinema proprietor was imprudent enough to show a film based on one of Ibanez's novels. As the title flashed onto the screen, the audience hissed and booed, shouted long and hoarsely Viva el Rey; then, they insisted upon the national anthem being played; and, as the martial chords were let loose from the orchestra, the people sang almost passionately the Marcha Real...
...intervenes between the showings of pictures at big cinema theatres in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and countless other U. S. cities, grandiose compounds of scenery, soft lights, dancing, singing, are presented. These purpose to drive home the atmosphere of the feature picture. Hero and heroine, in the film, come together at last in a canoe; in the "presentation," a baritone sings Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep with a lighthouse for backdrop. The film shows how a young society miss singes her wings; in the presentation, gauzy dancers flutter about an individual accoutred as Hell Fire...
...McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. He makes an actor pick his nose. Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. The No. 1 actor is a brute (Gibson Gowland) married to a grasping wife. The final episode of death in the desert carries a brutal film to a brilliantly brutal climax...
North of 36. Like The Covered Wagon, it is a Western story; like The Covered Wagon, it employs Lois Wilson and Ernest Torrence for two of the leading players. Unlike The Covered Wagon, it employs cattle instead of prairie schooners; and again, unlike that extraordinary film, it fails notably to mix history and drama in the right proportions. The play is a saga of the cattlemen, a panorama of miles of prairie where trailed the endless herds of long horns. A villain?you know he is the villain because he shot an Indian girl while she was bathing...