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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film told a tale of pre-War Russia. Spliced into it for realism was a bit of old newsreel showing Tsar Nicholas II. and his Tsaritsa. Fascinated, poor Vassili Martinow watched the Autocrat of all the Russias stride dimly across the screen and enter a base hospital, where he was greeted by the Commandant. As this official's face came into sharp focus, Vassili Martinow gave the thin, high-pitched scream of an old man, and fainted dead away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: At the Movies | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...building. In Hollywood he is called "Doug," his wife Miss Pickford. Social leaders, they dance only with each other. She looks after the family accounts. After making his first picture, The Lamb, for the old Triangle company for $2,000 a week, he developed a type of film peculiar to himself, spent $700,000 on The Three Musketeers, almost as much on Robin Hood. Other famous ones: The Nut, The Thief of Bagdad, Don Q, The Black Pirate, The Gaucho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...soon as Il Duce's titles had been inserted, the film was rushed to the Vatican and there viewed with approbation by Pope Pius XI, Son-of-a-Weaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Vatican Cinema | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Harvard Film" which has already reached fourteen Harvard Clubs will be projected in the Large Lecture Hall of the New Fogg Museum the evening of February 27 for the officers of administration and instruction. There will be two showings, one at eight and the other at nine o'clock in order to accommodate the large number of officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officers to See "Harvard Film" | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...years. A theatrical manager is forced to spend between fifty and eighty thousand dollars on a production, can show it in only one city at a time, and then must wait several months before his returns come in. But a motion picture producer is able to make a film and a sound record and to distribute the show for presentation in 70 cities at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jane Cowl Gives Reasons for Disastrous Dramatic Season in Gotham--Has Acted Juliet 698 Times, Often Seven a Week | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

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