Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jesse L. Lasky, who is rapidly becoming the prophet, as well as the co-boss of the cinema industry, last week issued another of his incisive and optimistic manifestoes. Determined to be quite judicial about everything, Mr. Lasky confessed that, in the quaint old days of the silent films, the screen producers were inclined to be a bit imitative. A successful underworld film meant a lengthy series of cops-and-robbers melodramas, and, one popular, mystery play would bring about a brood of sleuth narratives. Now, he proclaimed, the period of such foolishness has ended and the coming...
Yesterday afternoon the Harvard University Film Foundation look talking pictures of former President Coolidge at Northampton...
...foundation hopes this film will be completed early next year...
...Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, announces for this afternoon at three o'clock in the Lecture Hall the premier showing of the film, "Drypoint. A Demonstration" illustrated by Frederick G. Hall and produced by the University Film Foundation. At the request of many who saw it last spring. "The Etcher's Art" will be repeated also at this time...
...Telephone Laboratories. Inc., utilizes the auditory intelligence and accuracy of the manual operators. Instead of the dialer causing letters and numbers on the call board before the operator, for each letter and number he dials he causes a separate drum to revolve. On each drum is fixed a talking film on which one of the clearest-speaking operators in New York City, chubby Miss Catherine M. Shaughnessy, has registered digits or letters as the particular drum requires. When dialed, the drums swirl until the called symbols stop alongside telephoto tubes. Light shines through the exposed part of the drum film...