Word: filming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disapproving audiences; their pocketbooks were feeling pinched. Some exhibitors thought the trouble lay with stars who seemed to be "boxoffice poison" (TIME, May 16). Most of them knew the real trouble: inferior pictures. Meanwhile the Government has cast a quizzical eye over Hollywood's trade practices. While film circles last week rumored that the $2,000,000,000 cinema industry was slated for official arraignment, a Hollywood lobby in Washington fought to prevent the Neely bill, already passed by the Senate (prohibiting compulsory block booking and blind selling*), from reaching the floor of the House...
...during its last fiscal year came from Dick Powell musicals, crime stories opportunely snatched from newspaper headlines, feathery comedies. With recent earnings over a million dollars less than those of the first six months of the last fiscal year, Warners have decided on a return to the brisk action film of the G-Man and public-enemy cycle that pulled them out of their last slump. For such a return, James Cagney, now back on their payroll, seems to be just the ticket. The Warners also plan Hell's Kitchen, with the Dead End boys; Juarez, with Paul Muni...
...cinemopera like Rouben Mamoulian's High, Wide and Handsome to loose-jointed sophomoric trifles like College Swing, Turn Off the Moon. Paramount's net income for last year was $6,045,103. This year's budget, covering 58 planned features, allows for but one million-dollar film, Men with Wings. Paramount's most important trend will be toward romantic U. S. history, with Union Pacific and The Texans. Other specials: If I Were King, with Ronald Colman; Knights of the Round Table; The Grade Allen Murder Case...
...magazines: Ken, Esquire, Film Fun, Thrilling Love, and 24 others; in Ann Arbor, Mich. The agency: ordinance committee of the city council, consisting of three University of Michigan professors, three local businessmen and a tailor. Authority: an ordinance passed in 1895 prohibiting the distribution of obscene literature, providing for fines or jail sentences for violators. After two days of loud protest from the university campus. Ken and Esquire were removed from the banned list on condition that they refrain from publishing obscene matter. Judge of obscene matter: City Attorney William M. Laird...
...whose pastors, not fully ordained, are not privileged to give it. Thus Bishop Oxnam's broadcast was a logical extension of a modern Protestant idea: that the minister's work may well be widened and simplified by the devices of science. In its ultimate extension, one sound film could become the agency of thousands of Lord's Suppers...