Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Playgoer's film acquaintance with Miss Harding dates from the brave days of "Holiday" and "Paris Bound." After seeing "Holiday" five times, he decided that she was indeed the queen of Hollywood...
...depths. The young red-headed Manhattan publisher had the Tweed manuscript extensively reworked by a U. S. hack for a pittance and Gabriel Over the White House became startlingly prophetic of the New Deal's early endeavors. The new President was so impressed that he had the film made from the book shown twice at the White House and Pundit Walter Lippmann composed a high-minded sermon on its lack of intrinsic importance. Now, without benefit of a rewrite-man, the Briton who learned his political realism under David Lloyd George has tried it again, in another fuzzy apocalyptic...
...studio does work for libraries and scholars all over the world and only charges $25 to copy a book of 200 pages; and if one has a moving picture projector it is possible to buy rolls of film of such books for only $5. The only disadvantage of the second method is that the book must be read from the screen while the former process results in a handy volume of only three times the thickness of the original which is, of course, easily protable. About 14,000 feet of film is used each year in the studio...
...power of the film is brought out in these struggles. After more than one hour of emotionally fighting the sea from a plush chair, your reviewer was left somewhat spent and breathless. Yet he enjoyed his fight with the shark, his fearful clinging to the small bear which spun around like a matchstick in a drain, and especially the sensation of rolling in on the tops of the foaming breakers...
...lights & shadows of the picture through the shutter to a conventional photo-electric cell ("electric eye")- There the image is translated into electric impulses which flash over the wires-10.000 mi., if desired-to the receiving machine. The receiver reverses the process, registering the image on a sensitized film, which is then developed and printed like any ordinary picture...