Word: filming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month amid arc lights that made the Indian Legislative Assembly Hall at Simla, the summer capital, look like a film studio, six-foot Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, read to a hushed gathering a long telegram from His Majesty the King. The telegram explained why Great Britain had thought it wise to enter a war and the monarch was confident of India's support. Then His Excellency the Viceroy put on his pince-nez, looked accusingly at his audience and proceeded to assure His Majesty, on behalf of India, that India saw eye to eye with everything Britain...
...fatal was revealed not in Denver, to that city's relief, but in Florida, where Charles Jefferson (Goddard), self-styled film scout, raped two Miami high-school girls, and murdered one while the other, in horror, watched. Last week, convicted, he was sentenced to the electric chair...
...unnecessary nightmare. Scripter Hendrik Willem van Loon, having cleverly piled up the horrors of four revolutions and four wars, rammed home his main point -that war is beastly-with more armless, legless, headless corpses than had ever appeared on a screen before. The mechanical, impersonal accuracy of lens and film was sickening. Though critics praised the picture, audiences stayed away. But for fascinated fans who saw it again last week, World War II had given the film new, terrible, urgent meanings. Pyramids of women's and children's bodies in Shanghai recalled Warsaw; mangled bodies in bombed Madrid...
...winners will be announced in Friday's CRIMSON each week, and the winning pictures displayed at Harris's. Either action pictures or crowd features are acceptable, and they may be taken with any type of camera or film...
...This time it is Marcel Carne who has sent over a directorial masterpiece in "Port of Shadows." Casual movie-goers, who are frequently puzzled as to what a director does besides sit in a canvas chair, could well study this picture and see how direction can make a film great...