Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riding the crest of a wave of photographic fervor that carried with it the formation of the Harvard Film Society to present epoch-making pictures, Widener Memorial Library yesterday received from Adolph Zukor, of Paramount fame, a gift of 500 prints from motion pictures he has made...
...Sirs: . . . I hope LlFE will not only amuse but record in pictures our history. I recall as a boy many times going over bound copies of Harper's recording (by drawings)the Civil War. It is still a valuable record. With the modern and Eastman (ad for Rochester) film you can excel that record. May you do so. The film is mightier than the pen. WILLIAM H. GORSLINE Rochester...
...Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this week, oblong slabs of glass painted with black stripes revolved steadily under a six foot pair of red lips painted by Artist Man Ray. In other galleries throughout the building were a black felt head with a necklace of cinema film and zippers for eyes; a stuffed parrot on a hollow log containing a doll's leg; a teacup, plate and spoon covered entirely with fur; a picture painted on the back of a door from which dangled a dollar watch, a plaster crab and a huge board to which were...
Surrealism suited his extraordinary technical facility as a draughtsman, his morbid nature. Salvador Dali, with exquisite drawing and brilliant color, began to paint his nightmares on pieces of panel hardly bigger than postcards. He not only made surrealist paintings, he wrote surrealist poems, helped produce the first two surrealist films: Le Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. The first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which...
Entitled "John Harvard's Tercentenary," the review will contain over 150 pictures selected from the great number of excellent camera shots taken by the Harvard Film Service and by private persons, showing notable individuals and incidents of those days...