Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William S. Hart, screen star of 150 silent "Westerns," won a five-year-old damage suit against United Artists, the firm which in 1925 signed six-year contract with Hart to make talking pictures. A jury awarded him $85,000, found that United Artists had made only one Hart film, distributed it to second-rate houses, conspired to keep him from making more. Said Cinemactor Hart, who had asked for $500,000: "What those picture people did to me took the best years of my life, but thank God I have won moral victory...
...average theater-goer associates youth, music, love, beauty, gaiety, and laughter (never books) with college life, and consequently expects to see these elements in a college picture. The film producer, whose natural show manly preference lies more in the direction of snappy dialogue and dance routines than classroom dignity, knows this and is prepared to meet the demand. His pictures are intended for the film-going public as a whole, and not solely for a few hypercritical students. For this reason most college films, outside of the annual football epic (for which I offer no apologies) are musicals...
Shirley Temple was cinema's No. 1 box-office attraction for 1935. She receives 3,500 letters and $10,000 in an average week. She is, outside of the 100,000 feet of screen film on which she appears every year, the world's most photographed person. Last week in Los Angeles, Shirley Temple was getting ready for her seventh birthday. All over the U. S. cinemaddicts packed theatres to see her first release of 1936 and the first picture she has made since the reorganization of the $54,000,000 company in which she is the most...
...explosion in an automobile motor combustion chamber. When a car is bowling along at 40 m. p. h., its motor turns over about 2,000 times a minute, and one complete explosion lasts only 1/250th of a second. Of this brief performance the camera records 20 successive stages. The film runs continuously at crankshaft speed-up to 250 m. p. h. Light from the explosion passes through a heavy quartz window in the cylinder head to a stationary lens, thence to a series of 30 rapidly moving lenses which follow the film and hold each image motionless on it during...
...Ecstasy" is not an exciting film, but it is a direct and frequently skillful treatment of a theme which is rarely allowed to occupy the place which it deserves in traumatic expression...