Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smoldering, velvet-voiced, wanton-mouthed femme fatale of Algiers, black-haired, hazel-eyed Viennese Actress Hedy Kiesler (Hollywood name: Hedy Lamarr). Her coming may well presage a renewal of the sultry cinema of Garbo and Dietrich. Hedy has been chiefly famous for her appearance, nude, in the Czechoslovakian film Extase, produced in 1933 by young Director Gustav Machaty as "a sermon in eugenics," exploited wherever U. S. cinema censors permitted, a picture which had one exquisitely played, if adulterous, moment of passion...
Lensman Valentine's invention has not been patented and he did not disclose exact technical details. But film executives who viewed his work pronounced it good. Heart of the device is a prism composed of two paper-thin sheets of glass fitted together at a 45° angle. This is inserted behind the camera's lens, works something like the binocular vision of human eyes. The illusion of roundness goes onto the film so that no special projector equipment is necessary and spectators do not have to wear stereoscopic glasses...
Professor Beware (Harold Lloyd-Paramount), the last practicing exponent of film slapstick appearing in a talkie which would be funnier if it did not give the impression of being an overstocked museum of silent comedy technique...
...quadruplets died on the third day. But no one may ever doubt that the four actually existed. For exhibited in Liverpool last week was a 20-minute film of their birth, in color...
...Adventure, sequel to Arctic Adventure, covers the period from 1924, when Freuchen went home to Denmark, till 1932, when he went to Alaska with a Hollywood cinema crew to film his novel Eskimo. Domesticated in Denmark, Freuchen had a hard time curbing his grizzly-bear strength. (Hugged impulsively by Freuchen, the wife of a German cinema director slumped to the floor unconscious, was taken to the hospital with two broken ribs.) In Denmark Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine...