Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claudette Colbert, the gilded lily, appears in the film, bearing that name, which indicates from the start how one is going to have a good time and is therefore doubly successful. Ungilded, she is a shopgirl who meets a steamship reporter every Thursday evening on a bench in the park. They eat popcorn and take off their shoes...
...Folies" as interpreted by cosmopolitan Hollywood seem to have taken on the Busby Berkeley tradition, all of which we greet with cautious skepticism and even displeasure. Although a prepossessing list of new songs are advertised, none of them seem very promising. It is the mistaken identify with which the film stands or falls, and as far as we are concerned we like this sort of thing...
...Universal "Mouse'' whose 39? camera, first produced in 1933, is now sold in every country in the world except Germany and Russia, far surpassing Eastman in volume of units. Both the 39? camera and the new $1 folding model are designed to use only Univex film which is imported from Belgium. Size of Univex pictures...
...last week the reflecting surface of Mount Wilson Observatory's 100-inch glass mirror, world's largest telescope reflector in use, was covered with a thin film of silver. If it were coated with aluminum, as all Mount Wilson astronomers have long wished, it would quickly acquire a protectively oxidized surface, it could be cleaned with ordinary soap and water and it would seldom if ever have to be removed from the telescope tube...
Last week Mount Wilson's big mirror got its first coat of aluminum, a film .00001 in. thick. The method of application was developed by Dr. John Donovan Strong and others from a plating process first hit upon by Thomas Edison. The glass disk is first thoroughly cleaned with blasts of electrons. It is then placed in a big sealed tank from which pumps suck almost all the air. Within the tank is a coil of tungsten wire covered with aluminum. When the wire is electrically heated the aluminum boils off as a vapor which, when it strikes...