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Word: films (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film process forces the eye to follow lightning like motions and thus increase agility and flexibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVING PICTURES AID TO FRESHMAN READERS | 3/10/1939 | See Source »

Alfred Hitchcock's prize winning film "The Lady Vanishes" now at the University is a light, fast-moving, neatly constructed adventure mystery. It is not surprising that there has been a great deal of attention paid to the directing of the picture; the dramatic course of events dominates every other aspect of the picture. Having taken some time to set the stage, Mr. Hitchcock then builds up the story to a high peak of action and suspense from which it never drops till the very end. The characters, passengers on a continental train, are carefully molded to fit the plot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

Despite the efforts of Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon, and despite photography which won the Academy Award, "The Cowboy and the Lady" taken as a whole is only mediocre. A ludicrous plot with an unconvincing combination of humorous and serious elements prevents the film from being more than fairly good entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/9/1939 | See Source »

...Paramount, was Artie Shaw, young pretender to the throne, and his band, which in six months has zoomed to fame on the strength of a few rousing records. A clear-cut battle for supremacy was forecast: the theatres are of approximately equal size; each was showing a Grade B film; and the acts accompanying the bands were similar. Both leaders are ace clarinetists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jitterbugs in Jersey | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...especially old Charlie Chaplin films), he looks back upon his film debut in Moonlight Sonata as an intensely uncomfortable experience. "There were too many repetitions and too many lights. I can only play at ease in subdued light." At the radio, over which he has made only two broadcasts, he practically spits: "It is killing music and musicians. I don't believe it [helps to make people more musical than they are]. It just robs them of any possible personal musical activity and of their musical keenness; it casts a spell of laziness on them." (Nevertheless, Critic Paderewski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Veteran | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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