Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...melon like womb protruded. Dr. Preissecker's camera whirred steadily. Dr. Weibel slashed open the womb, ran his hand under the child, lifted it out of its mother. The camera whirred, clicked, fluttered, stopped. Dr. Weibel looked at Dr. Preissecker. Dr. Preissecker fumbled with the camera. The film had broken. Dr. Preissecker tried to fix it, grew confused...
...befuddled way, I think Ambassador Saito's last crack in the film may have something to do with it-"Xavies will be navies...
...office boy'' in 1929, later smoked out the fact that on the Hays payroll were two employes of the Federal Council of Churches. In November 1931 The Churchman editorialized as follows: "Will H. Hays, Adolph Zukor, Gabriel Hess, Charles C. Pettijohn and numbers of other individuals and film-producers have been indicted in the Province of Ontario for conspiring to prevent competition in that portion of Canada. This is a criminal prosecution, the results of which can only be moral, as the gentlemen are not likely to place themselves within reach of provincial prisons...
...activities undertaken in the name of science in the cinema are not more absurd than those undertaken in the name of science in reality. It would not be an easy argument to win. In She, for example, the dying physicist, who is as essential to this school of film as the corpse to a murder mystery, announces a hypothesis that life may be indefinitely prolonged in a human being by broiling him over a phenomenally hot flame. With this point firmly in mind, the scientist's nephew Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) and his associate (Nigel Bruce) begin paddling...
...actor, the young German was ignored by the cinema industry. The best he could do was to get a part in The Brothers Karamazov at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. To while the time away, Kosleck taught himself to paint, did some background pictures for a Janet Gaynor film. Last month the Los Angeles Museum took a long chance on this unknown and opened a one-man show of his works. By last week Martin Kosleck had achieved 'a degree of critical fame in and out of Hollywood which would probably never have been his as a cinemactor...