Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Organized by a group of undergraduates within the University, the Harvard Film Society was successfully launched last week. The new society was formed to bring to Harvard certain memorable films released by the Museum of Modern...
Chapter 1. RKO was formed in October 1928 as a holding company for Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corp., F. B. O. (Film Booking Office) Productions, Inc. and a half-dozen other subsidiaries engaged in vaudeville and cinema businesses. RKO then embarked upon an expansion program, acquiring theatre properties at top prices at a time when the public's desire for vaudeville was diving downward. To speed its entrance into the "talkies," RKO issued Class B stock (500,000 shares), gave it to Radio Corp. of America in exchange for rights to RCA Photophone sound-picture equipment and special considerations from...
...film versions of Shakespear, Mr. Huston has liked them all, especially "Rome and Juliet." He hands plaudits galore to Norma Shearer for her performance. He might film "Othello", if there is a public reaction for it. This play is adaptable for the screen, and many of the wars and battles alluded to could actually be shown. It "Othello", is well received, he plans to go ahead with "King Lear", the "Tempest" or "Macbeth...
Four reels of film, some in color, taken of the band during the last two years will be presented for the entertainment of the gathering...
...London, where she is currently making Knight Without Armor for Alexander Korda, she last month went to the premiere of Romeo and Juliet with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Police were called in to quiet the mob. as they had been at two previous openings she attended. Film technicians speak of her knowledge of photography. On the set, she is good-humored, assiduous. In Knight Without Armor occurs a bathtub scene. While it was being made one day (in England), she slipped, sprawled, spread-eagled naked before the camera crew. Everyone was flustered except Dietrich. She laughed, picked herself up, popped back...