Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sealed Lips. Dignified, beautiful in settings, is this Swedish film about an Italian girl who emerges from a convent to encounter an almost devastating love. Guy de Maupassant wrote the original story...
...Raider Emden. Under the auspices of the German Admiralty, the World War exploits of the famed German cruiser, Emden, have been put into a breath-taking film. It shows how the Emden swooped down upon and sank two dozen British ships in southern seas, before the Sydney put her beneath the waves off Cocos Island. It contains no propaganda...
...Woman Tempted. Vera Countess Cathcart, who was ousted from the U. S. by the Department of State because she was full of "moral turpitude," once wrote a novel called The Woman Tempted. It has now come to the U. S. in the form of a British film. It is not immoral, though it depicts a very bad London society woman who steals a friend's fiance and drives him to suicide. In the end, justice is done...
Berlin: The Symphony of a Big City. Here is a film without plot, without subtitles. A pool of limpid water is transformed into a mechanistic ripple like the swift succession of a hundred thousand railroad ties. A train shoots out of the country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open...
...honorable Chauffeur Ogletree; but he repulses her and wrecks the automobile while doing so. She is injured; her husband suspects honorable Wrecker Ogletree, sends him back to prison to labor and be flogged. In the end, honorable Hero Ogletree finds a virtuous nurse and Mrs. Jack Dempsey flogs her film husband...