Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, managers of a new newsreel theatre announced an innovation: installation of 16 mm. (half-size) film-projection machines to show amateurs' scoops of news events. In Manhattan, the Newsreel Theatres Inc. announced plans for regular showings of amateur and professional 16 mm. news shorts at Rockefeller Center's new newsreel theatre...
...Charlie Chaplin planned to start work on his next picture (an all-talkie), first in three years, before January 15. Chaplin wrote the story, will act two parts, one his famed tramp. Title: The Dictator. In Germany, the Hamburger Fremdenblatt charged that Chaplin had been "commissioned" to make the film by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes (see p. 5), as "propaganda against a State with which the United States is at peace...
...Deal of the week : formation of Imperator-Radio Pictures, Ltd., by RKO Radio Pictures in the U. S. and British Film Producer Herbert Wilcox (Sixty Glorious Years, Victoria the Great). Objects: to enable Producer Wilcox to get his pictures distributed in the U. S., enable RKO Radio to borrow his actors and actresses and meet British quota requirements...
Trade Winds (Walter Wanger-United Artists). On Nov. 24, 1935, Director Tay Garnett sailed from Los Angeles in the yacht Athene. With him he took a camera crew, a complete film laboratory. His object: a 50,000-mile round-the-world cruise to gather material for his next picture. Last week, when the result of his expedition was released as Trade Winds, audiences expected that, as a travelogue, it might be a pleasant surprise...
...members of the House including associates and faculty men may exhibit. Judges will be Overton H. Tayler, assistant professor of Economics, John D. Wilson, Theodore H. Granger '40, and Robert Morris of the Harvard Film Service...