Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Made by special permission as a semi-public document, the film was withheld from release by Mr. Roosevelt until after Election Day lest it seem that he was exploiting his official home for campaign purposes. Sound-track was made in only a few scenes, used in none, and wise Press Secretary Steve Early warned his chief against lip readers in the audience. Against the White House background are portrayed in swift review the main events of the Roosevelt administration, down to and through this year's Election...
Official motion picture record of the Tercentenary celebration, 6000 feet of Harvard film will be ready for projection late this month, David M. Little '18, assistant director of the 300th., announced yesterday. The picture purports to be a condensation of the major events and not a complete reproduction of all phases of the ceremonies...
Still stranger documentation on this tribe is found in Gari-Gari, the work of a celebrated Austrian anthropologist. Visiting eleven peoples in the Anglo-Sudan, he brought back 1,400 photographs and 30,000 ft. of cinema film. Sixteen of the 116 remarkable pictures listed in the index of Gari-Gari have been omitted from the U. S. edition of the book, for reasons that observers of the others can readily comprehend. Anthropologist Bernatzik observed natives who cut terrible ornamental scars on their bodies, who wrestled in costumes that gave their matches the appearance of cockfights, native beauties who made...
...Heart" comes to the University. It has already converted one Kay Francis hater, and she is still the weakest member of the cast. Of course the triangle has some clever new angles, but the dialogue and minor situations are what really give the actors their chance. Precious feet of film are given to good conversation, and the audience has a chance to enjoy the picture instead of having to follow a bewildering series of action shots...
...played by Mary Taylor, looking even more charming than she does on the pages of "VOGUE." John Harvard presents a sensitive young idealist as Bus" Jones, the college communist. The best performance is that of Lionel stander, who will be remembered for his work in another Hecht and MacArthur film, "The Scoundrel." He fills the role of Muglia, Belinda's kidnapper, who can carry Lenin and Stalin in his coat pocket, and still have room for Karl Marx; the scene in which he philosophizes to Belinda is worth the rest of the film. The picture on the whole...