Word: filming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Drums (London Film), most elaborate color film ever made by a British company, is also the British cinema industry's first major investigation of a subject which has often interested Hollywood: empire building in the north of India. Largely made on location near Chitral, Drums contains some of the most dazzling sequences ever recorded in Technicolor, but Director Zoltan Korda-wiser than many of his U. S. colleagues when confronted with this medium for the first time-refused to let it get out of hand. Consequently, his picture marches with considerably more vigor than anything his brother Alexander Korda...
...that, instead of a golden-haired heroine, the Prince (Raymond Massey) maltreats his brown-faced little Hindu nephew (Sabu). Busily organizing a gigantic revolt of all the border tribes from Afghanistan to China, Guhl undertakes to cross a tight-lipped British cavalry captain (Roger Livesey), whose function in the film is roughly equivalent to that of the Lone Ranger in a mess jacket. By the time this error has had its inevitable consequences, small Sabu is back on the throne where he belongs, and U. S. audiences, if they feel faintly cheated because there has not been any scalping, will...
...course. In Hawaii, Long picked up as messmate 69-year-old William Loy, a retired one-eyed mail carrier from Minneapolis. The 3,300 miles to Tahiti were enough for Loy, but there Long shipped on a 15-year-old Tahitian, Timi, who had worked in the film Mutiny on the Bounty...
PROKOFIEFF: LIEUTENANT KITE SUITE (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 6 sides). To cover up a Tsar's error, obsequious Russian courtiers invented a hypothetical army officer named Kije. The nonexistent lieutenant outlived his inventors, became the subject of a satirical Soviet film seen in Manhattan in 1934. Composer Prokofieff's music, written to accompany the film, is clever, brilliantly orchestrated. The Bostonians do a scintillating...
TIME which records all significant things will be interested to know that Thomas R. Amlie of Elkhorn, Wis., candidate for the U. S. Senate on the Progressive ticket, is using sound films in connection with his speaking campaign. In one of the pictures, The River, he demonstrates what the cutting over of forest lands has meant to the Mississippi Valley in the way of worn-out land, eroded top soil and ever recurrent floods. In the other film, The Plow that Broke the Plains, the tragic story of the Dust Bowl is developed; Amlie outlines what has been and still...