Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...north down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. Last summer he went to see the monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece, which have changed scarcely by one syllable of a prayer since the 4th and 5th Centuries. Last week he was telling his friends, and editing a cinema film to show others, about a man of 79 who lives nearly naked under a rock on Mount Athos and whose word is: "God is love, and tolerance, and Nature...
Cause of this magisterial to do had come two days before when at Pathe Co.'s Manhattan film studio a surge of flame swashed across the wooden roof, turned the barnlike building into a man broiler. Within a half-hour ten crushed, charred bodies, including four pretty girls, were laid out on the street below a blackened sign: PATHE TALKING COMEDIES MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGH...
...fire department had ordered installation of automatic sprinklers in the studio which Pathe officials resisted on the claim that no more than five inflammable film reels (the legal limit) were stored there. In the fire ruins Police Commissioner Whalen dramatically counted out 150 blistered cans of film reels...
...This film about acrobats is devised entirely for one episode which occupies a tenth of a second and takes place on a trapeze, half way to heaven. The key of the episode is a mechanical trick. Few pictures constructed on such a formula have been successful, but in Half Way to Heaven the mechanical trick is original, credible. The episode hinging on it is strenuously exciting. An acrobat climbing up his wire ladder in a tent show to do a double somersault with his head in a sack, knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like...
Cinema. An endless tape bound round and round the world is the U. S. cinema film. Last week Londoners flocked to see Masks of the Devil while Paris and Berlin gaped simultaneously at The Broadway Melody. In the French chamber arose Deputy Gaston Gerard last week to exclaim: "In the domain of the cinema we have become virtual tributaries to American productions. Americans already hail [the talkies] as a vehicle for spreading the English language over the world. It is an immense and implacable effort for intellectual colonization that threatens...