Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this producer's Birth of a Nation and the Klansmen's ride, it might be expected that he would express the drum beats of a rising nation with hoof beats; they charge right into the spectator's heart. But after the first half of his film Griffith reins in his Pegasus. He strives to increase the suspense by drawing out his scenes, which often makes them thin, haggard. His favorite trick of shifting scenes abruptly demands-at times-a jackrabbit alertness. But through It all runs a simple, yet eloquent romance. Griffith has made history and fiction...
Pied Piper Malone. Booth Tarkington pulled up his chair and wrote this play expressly for Thomas Meighan. When the last foot of film had flickered it was obvious that he had not done a first class job. Smartly titled and perfectly hygienic, it is unsatisfactory as mature entertainment. The hero is a New England villager whose personality has attracted the idolatry of the entire juvenile population...
...Films made at the TutankhAmen tomb were shown to the trustees, but will not yet be given to the public. Another film showed the practical uses of mediaeval armor...
Filminations of the film factories...
However completely without honor in its own country, the American movie has received a fost favorable welcome in South America. The people of Brazil have recently announced that they will have neither German films, with floors, walls and ceilings meeting in such fantastic juxtaposition, nor French films, which put them to the necessity of censoring most of the interesting parts, nor any kind of film, in fact, but American-made ones...