Word: filming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleasant is the word for "The First Hundred Years," now playing at the Paramount and Fenway Theatres. Burdened with a plot which has taken up thousands of magazine pages and miles of movie film, the picture has nevertheless been well enough seasoned by Virginia Bruce, Robert Montgomery, and Director Richard Thorpe to be palatable...
Generals Without Buttons (Forrester-Parant), a French film, has all the suave savvy of the French. Its Gallic point: that the things boys do are no more absurd than the things men do, especially in love & war. With the polished simplicity of a parable, the frugal neatness of good homespun, and a cast of eager, fresh child actors, Generals Without Buttons retells in cinema the gently satirical story that young French Author Louis Pergaud told in La Guerre des Boutons, shortly before he went to his death at Verdun...
...usual plight of missionaries returning from South Sea islands is to relate Christian miracles and not be credited. The unusual plight of Marist Father Arsene J. Laplante last week was to relate a puzzling native miracle and to be believed because of incontrovertible evidence. He had a cinema film showing...
...Father Laplante's film, called Bemana after a village on Viti Levu, largest island of the Fijis, natives were shown weaving bamboo shoots into a 200-foot net. After purification, this seine was dragged through the waters of the Singatoka River by women and boys. When the net had been drawn in a small circle in shallow water, the tribal chief waded in, waving a bewitched fan. After him followed a few huge Fijians who grasped three-and four-foot sharks by the tail, picked them up thrashing, quietly kissed them-either on the belly or just in front...
...Combing the river," as natives call such biannual shark drives, baffled Father Laplante completely, baffled as well those who saw his film. Even the missionary, who has spent ten years trying to implant French Catholicism in Fiji, was ready to admit possibility of something preternatural. He remembered having tried to convert a certain native. The man demurred; he was already a Methodist. When the tribe combed the river, the dusky Methodist waded inside the net with the vampire-priests, was bitten by a shark...