Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ziegfeld Follies. Around this time of late years, when business slackens, the Ziegfeld Follies have a new film of talent drawn over them. This is announced with great pomp and circumstance as "a new spring edition of the Ziegfeld Follies." As a matter of fact, there is usually not much that is new in the production, save in the bedazzled eyes of the publicity department. The showgirls, that essential base of the production, remain the same collection of sleeping beauties, glossily torpid with pulchritude...
...that he had received for Jesse Smith $100,000 in cash from a representative of Mitsui Co., Japanese bankers, in connection with a War contract case with the Standard Aircraft Corporation; 2) that he had received, also on Smith's behalf, various sums from the Dempsey-Carpentier fight film affair; 3) that he had tried "to get something" on Senators; La Follette and Caraway; 4) that President Harding had ordered that he investigate Secretary Mellon in regard to liquor withdrawal frauds?"the President wanted that information in regard to him: to catch him, and we caught...
...head of the film company which photographed the Dempsey-Carpentier fight testified that he had paid between $60,000 and $65,000 to three men for alleged protection in taking the fight films out of New Jersey. The three men, he declared, were "Jap" Muma, who represented himself as a friend of the Attorney General, William E. Orr, represented to be a friend of Jesse Smith, and Ike Martin, proprietor of a Cincinnati amusement park...
...starter, the Rockett Lincoln Film Co. offered a copy of its twelve reel Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln to be deposited in a vault at the Smithsonian Institution, there to remain sealed until Feb. 12, 2109 (three hundredth anniversary of Feb. 12, 1809). Said the Film...
...twelve reels of film, together with a modern projecting machine, with full operating instructions, will be sealed in a steel vault, specially constructed to preserve the film and machine in perfect working order, and with these will be deposited a copy of the working script of the picture and a few copies of the best books on motion picture production and practice. The reason for the projection machine is that in the 185 years to elapse between 1924 and 2109 tremendous changes will take place in motion picture production and exhibition and the donors of the Lincoln picture will take...