Word: filming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best part of the afternoon came at the University Observatory, when they showed the movies. Professor Donald H. Menzel narrated a torrid little epic about the adventures of some gas on the sun, while the tired Pandit's eyes dropped. At the end of the ten-minute film, Menzel exclaimed that he "could show five hours more without repeating," but he later made up for the faux pas by turning the best phrase of the afternoon: "Here's one thing where international cooperation helps. We'd like to photograph the sun all the time. That's something no one nation...
...lost art of film high comedy has been revived recently with increasing frequency at local theatres, notably in re-releases of Chaplin favorites and a fine, frenzied W. C. Fields double bill. The latest example of the days when Screenland was funny is now on view at the Mayflower and Pilgrim, unobtrusively inserted between showings of a feature film on Africa, called "Savage Splendor." This is neither savage nor splendid, though a good-enough documentary...
...Movie Crazy," an early talkie, brings back one of the first and finest silent comedians, in one of his last and best productions. Harold Lloyd, the man who invented horn-rimmed glasses, lurched and fumbled his way to an improbable success in film milestones like "The Freshman," against competition from such adept funnymen as Buster Keaton and Chaplin himself. "Movie Crazy" shows what happened when sound hit the screen, and the champions of the gestured word had to adjust. Most of the time, they didn't bother...
...story picks up where it ended in the first film--with Jolson's first wife leaving him because he preferred his career to her. Unfortunately, most of the interesting material had been used up in the first film, and as a result the sequel's plot is pretty pallid. Jolson, torn between the desire to return to the stage and the feeling that his time has passed, moons about despondently while the rest of the cast worries out loud about him and tells him he ought to relax...
...semi-documentary film, originally titled "Murder at Harvard," concerns the work of the University's Department of Legal Medicine...