Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these, able Manhattan cartoonist Ralph Barton filmed with his tiny camera. To newspapermen he said: "I do not have to ask my victim to pose for hours while I sketch him or her. I just shoot a few dozen feet of film and have my prey at my mercy forever after...
...have you filmed Max Reinhardt?" queried a newsgatherer. No, Mr. Barton had not been allowed to "shoot" the man whose genius had attracted so many of the World's celebrities to the Saltzburg Festival (see p. 17). Max Reinhardt, who is making of Salzburg, his childhood home, an annual August rendezvous of everyone at all Art conscious, lurked in his Festspielhaus, directing a rehearsal of Turandot, is proverbially averse to being photographed. Came a little Jew, "the slickest Jew on earth," the uncrowned Barnum of the Drama. Mr. Morris Gest, in genial mood, volunteered to get Cartoonist Barton...
...Waltz Dream. Another German film of rare and easy excellence has been made from Oscar Straus' operetta. Simplicity and graceful common sense have replaced the million dollar dowdiness that would have suffused the film if made in almost any U. S. studio. The story is slight, telling of a frosty Princess and her not particularly interested Prince consort. The latter prefers a blonde from a beer garden. None of the actors are notable here. All of them in their strange Teutonic way are excellent...
From Berlin came reports of a new photochemical process for producing naturally colored cinema films at no greater expense or effort than black and white effects require. An ordinary camera was used and an ordinary monochromatic film, treated specially but simply. No "screen" or "color filter"* was needed on camera or projector. Fringes of color-bane of films made with filters by superimposing sets of negatives-were unknown. The only features of the invention described by correspondents were: 1) that the film had to be run twice as fast as a black and white film (i.e. 32 instead...
...prize beyond his dreams-a sporting primadonna. Suzanne Lenglen, temperamental world's champion tennis player, artiste of the courts, signed a $110,000 contract for a four-months' exhibition tour this autumn through the U. S., Canada, Cuba, Mexico, after which she will appear in a tennis film. She hopes that tennis will soon be like golf in permitting amateurs to compete with professionals in open meets without jeopardizing their amateur standing. Said Mr. Pyle: "I do not anticipate the slightest trouble...