Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrine" in the Library of Congress in which are exhibited the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These documents have for about 30 years been kept from the public because they were fading and deteriorating. They are now in a marble case, with a glass top and special film of gelatin to prevent harm from injurious light rays...
...Picture History, a subdivision of the Department of the Interior, is a fancy bred in the head of motion picturedom. An attempt is to be made to put it into law, so that in the future true and infallible history may be unrolled by a few reels from the film library...
...general effect "America" is the most powerful moving-picture that has been seen since the production if "The Birth of a Nation", many years ago. And once again D. W. Griffith is responsible. His film is probably the most highly emotional, vivid and grandiose spectacle that theatre goers have ever seen. It bristles with a spirit of the fighting patriotism of the Revolution, and blends with it an intense love story of one Massachusetts Captain and the daughter of a Virginian Tory; adding battle-scenes, breathless rides, and hairbreadth rescues. It is high melodrama with the power which Mr. Griffith...
...Drama opens out, freeing itself from the strictness of absolute history, Nathan Holden--acted by Neil Hamilton, and Nancy Montague (Carol Dempster) hold the chief interest. Nell Hamilton proves by his work in this picture that he is worthy of being classed with the greatest of cinema actors. This film should make his fame, as "The Four Horsemen" made that of Rudolph Valentino. Then, besides the leading couple, Lionel Barrymore is effective as the cruel Captain Butler, who directs the Iroquois raids, and ravages the American outposts. About these three a rapidly shifting melodrama of death, pasion, and mad action...
...elements which stand out most vividly in later perspective are the perfect photography, and the fine acting of Nell Hamilton. But the effect of the whole is what makes the picture the "super film" that...