Word: filming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...withdrawal of three movies from the Liberal Union's spring film series has aroused the anger of many local connoisseurs of literary films. There are three elements that have developed in this problem: 1. What are the specific complaints of the University Theater that led to the restriction of these three movies and to revoking of the Liberal Union's contract with RKO? 2. In what respects are the University Theater and the Liberal Union in competition? 3. Are the actions taken against the Liberal Union's film series by the distributors justified...
...week a nonprofit group called the Eastern Graduate Research Foundation announced a new campaign against Lactobacillus and a three-year program to test it. The new weapon is a tooth powder containing dibasic ammonium phosphate and urea (a synthetic nitrogen compound). The powder is supposed to break down tooth film, slow down growth of bacteria and neutralize the acid created by Lactobacillus. In preliminary experiments, the foundation claims, it has reduced decay as much...
...cinemoguls have recently pooh-poohed talk of Hollywood's depression (TIME, Dec. 27), and are pointing out instead how well dividends and box-office returns have been holding up. British film bigwigs like J. Arthur Rank and Sir Alexander Korda are also trying to make light of their economic ills, but it has become uncomfortably plain that a major crisis is gripping the industry that turned out such thriving exports as Hamlet and The Red Shoes...
Hopefully, the government pushed its )ill to set up a Film Finance Corporation with $20 million to help the ailing industry back on its feet over the next five years. But nobody in the industry thought hat the government fund could work a cure by itself; they hoped it would lure private capital back into the films. And he most enlightened knew that in any event the bankers would first want the moviemakers to mend their extravagant ways...
...most familiar thing about this picture is its stars, who may have put in too many years as models of romantic discomfiture. The film's manufacturers readily admit this possibility by allowing a bobby-soxer to surrender a park bench to Miss Colbert and Mr. MacMurray with the remark: "Imagine an old couple like that looking for a place to smooch...