Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board, either stupid or non-vigilant, had passed a U. S. film which showed a Hollywood Naples, murky and depraved. Mussolini's Italy, Mussolini's Naples had been grossly, falsely represented, insulted! Away with the Board...
...première of the film, Street Angel, were invited Rome's most scintillant critics, most potent cinema tycoons. When an unsalubrious and perhaps unrecognizable Naples flickered before their eyes, they whistled and hissed in protest. One critic shouted "Only the fact that we are guests prevents this theatre from being inundated under a Niagara of violent indignation." The theatre therefore was saved but the Board of Censors was doomed a few hours hence...
...Mussolini decided immediately to ban the offending cinema, he would have done exactly what Great Britain's Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association did in 1925 to Director Carl Laemmle's Phantom of the Opera.* Shrewd, Director Laemmle let it be rumored that his film would encourage recruiting in His Majesty's armies. Accordingly, when the film arrived in Southampton from Manhattan it was greeted by an escort of territorial troops and a jubilant band which accompanied it to London. Decidedly, Director Laemmle had scored a signal advertising coup...
...board of trustees of the University Film Foundation are a number of Harvard administrators, business-men graduates, and educators. Through an Executive Committee the Board of Trustees will control the activities of the Foundation. The membership is limited, for the present, to 100 persons eminent in fields of Education, Science, Art, Religion, Medicine, Industry and Commerce in this and other countries...
...Martini. People who have never poisoned their bodies with alcohol will find in this film, written by John Thomas, a highly immoral presentation of what happens when a young U. S. femme goes to the Ritz Bar. The furnishings of that bar, human and material, and the somewhat flippant spirit of a father who has been abroad so long he does not recognize his daughter, permit a situation in which probably for the first time in cinema history a good young man is smacked when he tries to correct the morals of a bad young...