Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great many subjects in the present collection bristle with further grievances-none of them new; flimsy partitions in European hotels; doctors' persistence in dealing with symptoms rather than causes; England's refusal to adopt the efficient decimal system; U. S. film kings; man's servitude to alcohol; young authors (stream-of-consciousness school) who do not write like Mr. Bennett...
...film which came out of all of this is prettily produced, but fails to surprise. It is the old tale of white men's hellish conduct among South Sea natives. Dr. Lloyd (Monte Blue), a good man gone to drink, is set adrift on a pest ship by his enemy, Pearl Trader Sebastian. The sea casts him upon an island, whose inhabitants have never before seen a white man. Dr. Lloyd behaves; the natives make a man of him. A chaste love springs up between him and Fayaway (Raquel Torres), village virgin, daughter of the chief. After they...
There is nothing in the White Shadows of the South Seas as convincing as the tattooing of a native in that honest old film, Moana of the South Sea Islands...
...found the remains of a tent, guns, cooking utensils and the bones of four men lying, side by side, on the frozen ground. The Snows, father and son, buried the bones, solemnly, and then raised a flag claiming Herald Island for the U. S. Explorer Stefansson commented on the film via Movietone...
...antics of news reel camera-grinders, including some scrambling on the head of a fake Statue of Liberty, Hot News becomes hilarious and develops a plot. There is a Maharajah, who has never been photographed. Miss Pat Clancy (Bebe Daniels*) and her cocky rival, Scoop Morgan, set out to film the Maharajah. Disguised as entertainers, they are admitted to a country estate where he is sojourning. They put on a dance which is really a fight for a camera crank, with Miss Pat kicking, biting, and wrapping her legs about the neck of Scoop Morgan. Later, the Maharajah discovers that...