Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Actors are born and not made", said Ben Lyon, popular First National Film star, in an interview granted the CRIMSON last night. "An actor never gets far on either stage or screen, unless his abilities, for that field are innate. To be sure, an actor can be trained just as an athlete can, but no matter how well trained an actor may be, he is not likely to succeed unless he has some abilities to build...
...film test to be conducted here by First National Pictures Corporation and the publishers of College Humor all Harvard men interested in moving picture acting as a career will have an opportunity to learn the extent of their capabilities in that respect. It is probable that the test will be conducted sometime next month and the exact date will not be announced until later...
...Living Dead Man is aFrench film based on Pirandello's The Late Mattia Pascal. The amazing absurdities of the philosophical deadhead who would live, love and be irresponsible, somehow hold the screen version together in an amusing roll-and-tumble that is neither slapstick nor brilliant comedy. That Pirandello's satirical quibbles of intangibility should have been considered for picturization is even more astounding than the film's partial success...
...Lasky was a producer of stage plays. Displeased with the short two-reel pictures then being filmed, he determined to produce a film that would said an audience for several hours, and thus entertain them for an entire evening. The result was his entrance into the moving picture industry and the production of "feature films", for which, since that time he has become world famous. Twelve years ago, the newly organized Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, a joining of the firms of Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky, had a total capital of $100,000. Today, the corporation is worth...
...make productions whose moral and artistic tone is enough above the average wanted, to be of some educational value" continued Mr. Hays, "yet not be so 'high brow' that they are unliked and consequently unpatronized Progress has been made but much remains to be done. The film companies cannot serve a vegetarian diet to people who want raw beef. In one of the largest theatres in Washington, Beau Brummel starring John Barrymore, lost $36,000. The following week "Flaming Youth netted...