Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Cameraman Lippert's film had been shown in no U. S. theatre- For this there was good reason. The prints were held by Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee. So highly did the young Wisconsin Senator value the reel as evidence in the Committee's investigation of the Memorial Day riot that he defied a subpoena for the film voted by the Senate Post Office Committee, which is pondering a general steel strike investigation...
Even before Senator La Follette grabbed the frightful film, Paramount had decided not to release it on the ground that such an unrelieved record of blood and brutality was liable to touch off more riots. Said Paramount News Editor A. J. Richard in reply to a Civil Liberties body which challenged the suppression: ". . . Please remember that whereas newspapers reach individuals in the home, we show to a public gathered in groups averaging 1,000 or more and therefore subject to crowd hysteria when assembled in the theatre." One man who saw the film explained: "It made me want...
...thick mist of mystery the film was studied by the La Follette Committee, its staff and a few other officials, but one description was available last week. Written by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Paul Anderson, the story was a clean copyright scoop. Newshawk Anderson, a close friend of Senator La Follette, had unquestionably seen the picture. Some scenes of the riot which left nine men dead or dying...
...answer to popular demand there will be two more showings of the Tercentenary Film at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, tomorrow at 10:30 o'clock in the morning and at 2:30 in the afternoon. The program will consist of a new Pathe "short" entitled "John Harvard's Birthplace", the "Harvard Special", and the Tercentenary Film...
...Dance" possesses the merit of being no more nor less than it pretends to be, witty dialogue, Gershwin music, lavish production, preposterous situations, and those four specialists, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Eric Blore, and Edward Everett Horton. If the audience ever liked the ingredients, it will like the film since all the elements are proportionately balanced and put together in one performance which is all component and not at all discordant...