Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl with abdominal trouble diffidently stretched out on the X-ray table. The technician, a ruddy, healthy farm boy named Frank Brown, 28, who "was lucky to get a job at Bellevue right after coming out of high school," smiled reassuringly. He placed a metal cassette containing a photographing film under the girl, whose name was Martha Berger, adjusted the X-ray tube over her, turned on the current. There was a brief hum and the picture was made...
Biggest Labor scoop so far achieved was by two Paramount newsreel men at the South Chicago riot, and by Paul Y. Anderson, Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who obtained a description of the suppressed film...
...museum will be walled with glass, so that pedestrians on 53rd Street will be able to see temporary exhibitions as in a gigantic showcase. Upper floors will be rearranged with movable screens to suit whatever type of exhibition is on the calendar. Higher up still will be a film library-one of the museum's most important adjuncts-with a discreet projection room that will hold just 50 seats. In the basement will be a lecture room to hold more than 500 people. The Museum's board of trustees, which includes Mrs. Rockefeller, Lord Duveen, Edsel Ford, John...
...printed page, the trench scenes from Erich Maria Remarque's book brutally picture the universal bewilderment at the War's end. Author Remarque describes his soldiers' return to their humdrum homes as a tragic surprise they cannot comprehend. Director James Whale, who adds in the film the signing of the Armistice in Marshal Foch's railway car, visions their homecoming as both tragic and comic...
Last Train from Madrid (Paramount) is the first commercial film treating of the Spanish Civil War, and is carefully blue-pencilled to exclude all but stock situations which neither Rightist nor Leftist sympathizers could possibly object to. Karen Morley is in love with Gilbert Roland who is in love with the same girl (Dorothy Lamour) as Anthony Quinn...