Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious letters. Sometimes a deep pulse of life makes itself felt, sometimes an incomparable atmosphere passes over the hard surfaces, as in Java Head and The Three Black Pennys. But mostly, labor faithfully though he obviously does, Author Hergesheimer remains a short-range camera, loaded with a thick film. "No Grifolifes...
These would be absurd quibbles in a picture where every other prospect pleased and lived up to expectations, but those failures were typical. The Campus Flirt compared to "Variety", the German film, which is touring the backstreets of Boston, as a road show of "Uncle Tem's Cabin" compares to Iolanthe. Any one of Mack Sennet's directors could have thrown together a better chorus of track ladies with ten minutes notice, and provided better comedy than was afforded here...
...title of the film was orginally advertised as Scraps, until Joseph M. Schenck and Douglas Fairbanks saw the working print. In the gospel according to St. Luke, there are passages about the lowly sparrow who is not lost sight of in the eyes of God. In the film Mary gathers her little "sparrows" to her heart. Said Mr. Fairbanks: "Even without Miss Pickford it would still be a great picture...
...paragraph on "Smoke Photography" which appeared on p. 16 of the Aug. 30 issue is not quite accurate. The film, which is sensitive to infra-red rays, which penetrate haze (scarcely smoke), is sensitized with "kryptocyanine." This dye is not a secret in spite of its name; it was discovered by Adams and Haller at the color laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry in 1919 and is made in our laboratories by Dr. H. T. Clarke. After many attempts we have succeeded in using it for sensitizing film...
...operator, one Patrick Downing, planted his projector on a table in front of the barn-theatre's only door, ground off one reel of film, another. Then suddenly he screamed-too late-as a spark from a nearby candle fell on a roll of film lying on the table...