Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Piccadilly (British). People who liked The Old Wives' Tale may be startled at the idea of Arnold Bennett writing a film for Gilda Gray. And people who liked the Follies of 1922 may think it odd that Shimmy-Dancer Gray would appear in a story by Litterateur Bennett. Yet there is nothing in the collaboration to wonder at. Having made her name with her hips, with increasing maturity Miss Gray now takes acting seriously, while Mr. Bennett, having begun with masterpieces, now writes pamphlets on health, testimonials for advertising and sentimental stories for the Saturday Evening Post. This Gray...
Chaplin. A German film company made a full-length feature film called Adventures by skilfully joining three famed Chaplin comedies, In a Pawn Shop, The Immigrant and Easy Street. For four weeks the silly, $100-a-week Chaplin, 12 to 14 years younger than the present grey-haired Millionaire Chaplin, played to full houses in the Alhambra, biggest cinema house in Berlin...
...news that all representatives of U. S. producer-members (Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Warner Bros., Fox, United Artists, Universal, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the Cinema Syndicate de France were resigning in protest over the new French law, effective in September, limiting the importation of foreign-produced films to four for each French film exported...
...Hollywood buzzed and bubbled over the Equity (actors' union) attempt to keep actors from signing film contracts that violated Equity rules and Warner Bros, announced a forthcoming super-talkie, titled Show of Shows, featuring John Barrymore and Al Jolson together for the first time on any stage...
Springing directly from the Silent Cinema, the Talking Cinema is controlled mainly by strong Silent Cinemen. Great film names, with sound and without, are Fox Film Corp., Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp., Warner Bros., United Artists. Yet one potent Talking Cinema company backs its speaking present with no silent past. This company is opulent, many-branched Radio Corp. of America. In Photophone it has its own talking mechanism. In RKO Productions, Inc., it has its own production and distribution company. In General Electric and Westinghouse Electric it has tremendous laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length...