Word: films
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Village of Sin (Amkino). People have learned to expect in any modern Russian film a cast of well-chosen actors and actresses with difficult names, acting competently and intelligently without makeup on their faces, so that they do not look like actors and actresses but like men and women. People have learned to expect photography so quietly beautiful or so imaginative that the best effects of Hollywood technicians seem artificial or flamboyant by comparison. They have also learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture...
...with the Show (Warner). The faint, yellowish color which tints this film most of the time well suits a musical show. Betty Compson is pretty and so are most of the other girls. Ethel Waters sings in her husky, exciting Negro voice. The story of backstage life is tedious, archaic, complicated. The music is about what you would get in a drawing-room operetta. In spite of these drawbacks, this picture is the most interesting of its type to date. Best shot: the ballet coming down a flight of stairs in feathers...
...some slight inaccuracy, "is the same sort of thing. . . . Can form, story and music be brought together to present the conditions and issues of the abolition of war in a beautiful, vigorous and moving work of art, which will be well within the grasp and understanding of the ordinary film audience?" This book seeks to prove that, with expert manipulation, they can. Mr. Wells's audience would first be shown a primeval cave, views of the globe. North America, the Manhattan skyline, a skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper's windows, into it, across...
...whaddya wanna do, sing 'Sonny Boy?'"That is Broadway's latest wisecrack to victims who complain unduly, or to friends grown maudlin in their cups. In England, "Sonny Boy," a super-saccharine ballad of child love introduced by Blackface Singer Al Jolson in his latest sound film, is still new and popular. More, it has become a Conservative campaign song...
...Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians was trying to answer at the Federation's convention in Denver this week. An unemployment crisis, now acute, started in 1926 when Warner Bros., as licensee of Western Electric Co., introduced to Manhattan audiences the Vitaphone. In 1927, Fox Film Corp. gave its first public demonstration of Movietone. Today, approximately 2,000 theatres throughout the land have been wired for sound picture showing...