Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film version of La Garçone French novel by Victor Margueritte that earned its author's expulsion from the Legion of Honor for presenting " a false and slanderous picture of modern French womanhood," was completed, complained against, viewed by the police and found above reproach. It is now charged that the objectionable scenes were secretly filmed and will be interpolated in copies of the film destined for South America and Germany. The Paris press urges detection of these scenes by customs officials and their suppression as "very harmful propaganda against France...
Trilby. Inspection of this film makes one wonder why the movies are not convicted as a public nuisance. The producers have taken Du Maurier's story (which is not far from the fringes of the classics) and, wringing its neck, have served the dead body. The semblance of Trilby remains - but spiritless...
...Critics. The New York Herald: "Mr. Hough's wild West is unmitigatedly the real outdoors; its wildness is that of nature rather than of the stage or the film...
...which, as usual, the six-year-old star gives us furiously to wonder as to whether the best thing in the world for the future of the movies would not be to eliminate practically all movie actors and actresses over the age of ten. A delightful, natural and interesting film, that could teach some of Baby Peggy's older associates a good deal more about acting than they would be ever willing to admit...
...Willard-Johnson match at Havana to effect a lawful entry of the pictures of the fight. Finally, a camera was set up eight inches south of the boundary between New York and Canada. Eight inches north of the line a box was set up, and an original positive film of the fight pictures was run off through the box in front of an electric light. The camera and Canadian reel were so turned that an exact negative reproduction of the film was made. It was later rephotographed and a positive film was obtained for exhibition. It was argued that nothing...