Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their native state in Africa. Mr. Johnson is a wanderer of some eminence, having at an earlier date been associated with Jack London on the cruise of the Snark in the role of cook & bottle washer. Later he acquired a wife and a taste for photography. For his latest film he went through British East Africa with wife and camera. Four years ago Mr. & Mrs. Johnson established themselves in the jungle, set up their picture takers, and invited the animals to "see the birdie." Their reels reveal that alligators, elephants, wild-beasts, ostriches, zebras, water buffalo, giraffes, antelopes, and lions...
Sharp Shooters. Those film-followers who have seen, in prim Cinemactress Lois Moran, a small blonde embodiment of all that a good girl should be, may well be surprised now to see her impersonating, with much undue undulation, a French girl who dances in a Moroccan port-town public house. Behind her, one catches a glimpse of the entire U. S. Navy, but especially of one roustabout bluejacket to whom Actor George O'Brien has given his first name and a good characterization. A mere word, spoken in jest by this gay and murderous tar, persuades the dancing girl...
...Produced by Daniel Eleazer Pomeroy, famed financier, director Bankers Trust Co., Loew's, Inc., Hamburg-American Line, etc. Witnesses of the Manhattan opening were amazed that so able a man should permit the dull, shoddy, blunderingly elaborate prologue which prefaced the principal film...
...meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers at Detroit, C. Francis Jenkins of Washington displayed his "chronoteine [time stretching] camera." It consists of a 13-in. disc holding on its periphery 48 lenses. As the lenses revolve a photographic film moves back of the disc. Normal exposures are 3,200 a second, possible exposures 10,000 a second. (The ordinary cinema camera takes 16 views a second.) Utility: Resolving for leisurely observation the details of swift moving machinery, gun fire, water flow...
...motion picture. "The Last Moment" will be given tomorrow night in Symphony Hall. This will be the world's premiere of the photoplay. Written and produced by Paul Felos, it is characterized by its departure from convention and from all previous standards of motion picture production. The film will be shown for one week...