Word: filming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood glorified the era with miles of film, broadcast the U. S. gangster to the world: Scarface, Manhattan Melodrama, On Wings of Song. Pulp magazines dedicated to crime inundated the newsstands. "Stick 'em up," little boys screamed at one another, "or I'll blow your guts...
...with a movie glorifying Britain's air defenses. It was called The Lion Has Wings. Conceived by Ian Dalrymple, who scripted The Citadel, edited by American William Hornbeck, produced by Alexander Korda at his Denham lot in twelve crowded days and nights, Britain's first propaganda film of World War II was shown first to the Ministry of Information and the censors. Fearful of disclosing war secrets, they slashed out vast footage, mostly shots of balloon barrages, and the interiors of munitions factories. After that the okayed versions were ready to be shipped where the British Government thought...
...Commander, Merle Oberon as his Red Cross wife. But the actors had little to do, less to say. Interest was focused on the actual techniques of air fighting. High light was a re-enactment of the Kiel raid, showing the actual participants leaving and (some of them) returning. The film's thesis: Britain has developed air defenses that can scatter the modern Invincible Armada-Nazi bombing planes...
...scares thrill England almost daily. At war's outbreak some 6,000 suspects were rounded up. Last week it was reported that a film showing tests of a new British gun had disappeared. Last month the following advertisements appeared in London's World's Fair (theatrical trade journal...
Pictures for the present series were chosen to "exemplify the wide scope and uniqueness of art form that the film achieved" in the period from 1922 to 1928. Other films include two well-known early talking pictures and examples of the animated cartoon and the documentary film: Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton comedies are on the first program, scheduled for November...