Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard University and the Pathé Film Co. agreed, last week, to the formation of the University Film Foundation. Pathe will do the financing and shoot the pictures in distant crannies of the globe. Harvard will furnish a site for a laboratory on its campus; its faculty and students will help in putting the films together. Thirty films are expected to be finished by summer. Two-thirds of these will show home life among obscure peoples of Africa, Asia, the South Sea Islands, etc. The rest will show continents emerging from oceans, being eroded by volcanoes, water falls, floods. Explorers...
...took his waspy, wide-eared self aboard the Leviathan, last week, and sailed for France. He was not fleeing from further Senate questioning as to his onetime stewardships of Republican campaign funds (TIME, March 12 et seq.). He went to dicker with the newly created French State Board of Film Censors (TIME, Feb. 27) which has intimated that it will license U. S. films for sale in France only upon condition that the U. S. buy a proportionate number of French films for exhibition...
...Officials of the British Foreign Office told last week that a cinema record of all the Amir's adventures is being made at the expense of the British Government which will present the completed film to His Majesty as a lasting reminder of the British Empire's might...
...recently created National Cinema Censorship Commission had taken no action, up to last week, on any of the 380 U. S. films now awaiting its approval. Since sales to French exhibitors for the forthcoming season are customarily made in April, U. S. film representatives were fuming with uneasiness in Paris, last week, lest the Commission diddle and dawdle until the films submitted to it lose most of their sales value...
...world's record for long-distance non-stop flight which still stands. Tersely, without dramatics, in his new book Record Flights*, he tells of bitter quarrels with Charles A. Levine, his passenger on the flight to Germany, owner of the ship, who wanted a pilot who would film well when came the time to take the movies...