Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Compulsory Cinema Religion. Signor Mussolini founded during the week, with the support of the Holy See, the Institute of Religious Art and Education. The Institute will occupy itself at once with the production of motion pictures illustrating the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Lest these films prove unpopular, Il Duce decreed last week the obligatory showing of one such Roman Catholic film drama as a part of every motion picture program released in Italy after the new religious films are ready...
George Bernard Shaw is forever being tempted by the emissaries of Hollywood. Here comes Mr. Jesse Lasky who offers him $75,000 for the film rights so the only Shaw novel "Cashel Byro Profession." The mere offer would be sufficiently interesting, but the shrewd Mr. Lasky has even more delightful things in store. If he succeeds in obtaining the rights he intends and most appropriately to sign Mr. Glene Tunney to play the pugilist. No one could be better fitted for the role; like Shaw's hero Tunney has gained fame as the student heavy weight. What he does...
Roald Amundsen, Polar pilgrim: "The trophies of my recent three year Arctic trip have been stolen from their packing cases, somewhere in transit through customs. The cases arrived at Oslo, Norway, via Seattle, containing only straw. I lost rare skins, a cinema camera with many feet of film, and many priceless scientific objects. I am thankful, however, that my scientific records escaped...
...supply for the experiment. While breaking the bank at Monte Carlo, under the hypnotic direction of the doctor, she meets sympathetic Dr. Burdon who understands how hard it is for a girl to do as she wishes under these conditions. Somerset Maugham conceived the tale. Rex Ingram directed the film, tried hard to make the gruesome fantasy appear real, succeeded partiallv...
...Down East, the man who guided to stardom Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, the man generally hailed as the "old master" of the cinema, has attempted the sublime. The first few minutes of The Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo Cortez). At just the wrong moment, with a fierce fanflare of natural phenomena, the ominous Satan (Adolphe Menjou...