Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of shatterproof glass was born in 1903 when a French chemist, Edouard Benedictus, knocked a bottle containing dried collodion from a shelf. The bottle cracked but the fragments did not spatter. Benedictus concluded that they were held together by the collodion film. He got a patent in 1914 but the first shatterproof glass did not appear in automobiles until...
...eccentric, hardly credible Robert (Jean Louis Barrault)--are skillfully portrayed. Only on one occasion, when the two principal women engage in that lush sentimentality so often employed to resolve a triangle plot, does the pace become slow; and the ending, tragic and impelling in the vein of the whole film, again revolves about Francoise and leaves a well unified impression in the mind of the delighted spectator...
...Philadelphia, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, now working on a score for the next Walt Disney full-length film, Fantasia, expressed his opinion of the cinema...
Telling the story of a small town girl's tribulations because of her love for a film idol, and the difficulties of three bankrupt movie magnates in getting their greatest extravaganza onto celluloid, "Give, Baby, Give" has many hilarious moments. Sometimes the lines are priceless, and when the book begins to drag, a member of the cast is certain to do the unexpected and thereby give things a new lift...
...limited possibilities of short features. As soon as Hollywood stops sending out grade "e" concoctions and produces some well done athletic, scientific, or humorous features, the newsreel theatres may find themselves very popular. Walt Disney, Robert Benchley, and Time Magazine have already demonstrated the possibilities of the fifteen minute film, but the ghastly fillers must be removed before theatres like the new Telepix can be sure of success...