Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress of July 31, 1921, prohibits the interstate transportation of " any film or other pictorial representation of any prizefight or encounter of pugilists, under whatever name, which is designed to be used or may be used for purposes of exhibition...
This thesis might be set down as film fatuity and the picture destined simply as another flyblown feature, if it were not for the name of WALLACE REID woven in lurid letters throughout its manufacture. Wallace Reid, screen star, died last Fall from the effects of a drug habit contracted among the noisome swamps of Hollywood Society. Human Wreckage is produced by " The Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League " as the moral epitaph to round out the cheerless fable of Reid's death. Mrs. Wallace Reid is the production's star...
...word for Mrs. Reid. Seeing the film, one can hardly question her sincerity. She probably believes she has chosen a path where others may see her walking and heed the solitary figure as a warning. Yet her advisers all along have dressed the proceeding with most offensive taste. The strident commercialism of their advertising thrusts the bitter story on every billboard in the country. At the New York opening was included the " dance of the Addicts "; a group of figures writhed and postured under lights of ghastly green, adding a final touch that seemed almost to turn again the turf...
...Woman with Four Faces. Here is a high temperature drama with all the available horrors worked in to intensify the plot. Although the picture is hardly a propaganda film, " dope" is the central theme. The present discussion involves a sucession of not unusual situations which are popularly supposed to be " gripping." Betty Compson seems to come into her own for the first time in a feature part that fits her so well that whatever may be good or bad in the remainder of the production can be easily disregarded...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Hollywood and its lovely morons spitted upon a rapier of keen satire, in this history of Merton, the grocery-clerk, who dreamed of being an eight-reel-tragic-feature-film and woke to find himself the most popular low comedian in America...