Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan skyscraper on lower Broadway, an engineer pulled a switch. Simultaneously two cylinders began to turn, one in New York, and one in the Discount Building, Cleveland. Two hundred and seventy-six seconds later a photographic film of President and Mrs. Coolidge, the original of which was 600 miles away, was ready for development in Manhattan. This was the first public demonstration by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (see Page 21) of the most successful method of electrically transmitting photographs yet developed. It is by no means the first time the feat has been done, however. The best-known...
Allbert Frankan has sold the motion picture rights of Gerald Cranstion's Lady" to the Fox film company, and the hero of modern big business ; will in due time be seen on the silver screen. It seems likely that the directions will be less explicit, in certain spots that the author, but the air-plane scene in which a lady pursues her (may be) lover into the fastnesses of a Vickers-Vimy cross-Channel plane when he tries, literally, to fly from her wiles, ought go well in the picture. They run into a terrible storm...
...recently discovered tolerance of the average Turkish citizen toward the moving pictures indicates that Occidentalism is growing faster than the world has been led to suspect. Whether this latest development is due to the efforts of Kemal, of whether it is the result of clever work by American film producers, who see in the Near East a rich and fertile pasture, is impossible to say. As Kemal is known for his liking for everything American, however, the credit may as well...
...Blood and Sand, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Eternal Flame, Shadows, Oliver Twist, Robin Hood, Peg o' My Heart, When Knighthood Was in Flower, Driven, The Pilgrim, Down to the Sea in Ships, The Covered Wagon, Hollywood, Merry-Go-Round. These Mr. Sherwood adduces to show that the film industry can produce works of art. To each he gives a compact critical survey, a short recital of the plot and a description of the manner of its production that is perhaps the most interesting feature of each chapter. In addition he gives honorable mention to a number of photoplays...
...Commission reported that the Eastman Company had a substantially complete monopoly of the manufacture of positive film, and an absolute monopoly of negative film. The Company began manufacturing cinematographic film in 1895 and has always led the world in this business...