Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a library of over 500 films up-to-date projecting, still and motion picture photography and developing equipment, the Harvard Film Service is able to keep scientific and other courses posted on recent developments in educational moving pictures...
Among its recent accomplishments, the Film Service has almost completed a set of films for steering the eyes of poor readers to increase their reading speed...
...newly taken over from Carl Laemmle Sr. by a syndicate headed by Banker John Cheever Cowdin, was $1,835,419.07 in the red as of Oct. 30. Three Smart Girls cost about $300,000, has thus far grossed almost $2,000,000. Six months ago Deanna's second film, 100 Men and a Girl, was released and immediately justified the added expenditure allowed for it. Last week Universal reported itself $750,000 nearer the black. Its deficit as of Oct. 30, 1937 was approximately the cost of Deanna's third film, Mad About Music...
Last week a full-length documentary film on Mexican animals, produced by Brothers Stacy & Horace Woodard, made the road runner-rattlesnake story a little less tall but no less telling. The Adventures of Chico shows 10-year-old Goatherd Chico taking his siesta, guarded by his road runner pet. A rattlesnake approaches. Without hesitation the bird attacks, head feathers fanned and wings tensely spread. Like a matador it lures the snake into striking, easily swings out of reach. Like a matador it waits and feints till the enemy tires, then kills with swift skill...
Brother Stacy Woodard, recently head photographer for Pare Lorentz' The River (TIME, Nov. 8), became interested in motion pictures while studying zoology at the University of Arizona, has since filmed animals from amoebas to whales. He and Brother Horace spent a year in Mexico filming Chico, his peon father, innumerable animal actors: tanklike armadillos, ridiculously funny honey bears, a lion making a kill, deer Walt Disney might have drawn. The film has a hybrid dramatic content: It is a touching, entertaining mixture of the most sentimental Silly Symphonies, the most thumping Westerns...