Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view "The Inside Story," a sound film on lubrication issued by the Socony-Vacuum Company the Engineering Society will meet at Pierce 110 tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Officers for the coming year will be elected...
...submit to subterfuge, disguise and heartache to get her chance. Miss Swarthout's version of this old story is pleasantly ingenuous. But with aging John Barrymore pitting his serrated profile against John Boles's open-mouthed full face in a battle of closeups, throughout most of the film, Miss Swarthout's singing interludes come through in furtive fragments. Her repertory includes the Berceuse from Jocelyn while Boles and Barrymore play a ticktacktoe; the Habanera aria from Carmen, shot through with closeups of Actor Boles asleep; and Rimsky-Korsakov's Song of India, during which she finally...
...mining crowd in the lush Sacramento Valley, saved the land for the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Like most Warner pictures, Gold Is Where You Find It contains capsules of information for the curious, sugarplums for the romantics, action for whistle-&-stomp addicts. With the footnoting style of the documentary film, it begins by sketching the change in mining technique from the pick-&-pan methods of the forty-niners to the high-pressure system of 30 years later. As the rows of hydraulic monitors claw the gold from the hillsides with watery talons, farm lands in the valley below are mucked...
...film of the gold-rush years is considered complete without a garish glimpse of San Francisco boom days. Gold Is Where You Find It takes time out from battle to attend a gilt-edged house party where the whiskery guests of honor are General U. S. Grant (Walter Rogers) and U. S. Senator George Hearst (Moroni Olsen). The Senator confides: "I'm worried about this boy of mine. Willie. . . . He wants to go into the newspaper business." With sympathetic nods the host agrees that there is no money in the newspaper business...
...edited & cut, a hillside in Los Angeles' Elysian Park started shifting, tumbled boulders down on a highway beneath. To the scene rushed Warner cameramen with Technicolor equipment, floodlights for an all-night watch. Script writers got right to work on a landslide sequence to be added to the film. But the hill refused to budge for the cameramen. Last week Nature was more cooperative. As the Warner Bros, prepared to present their film simultaneously in 200 theatres throughout the U. S., flood waters swept out over the Sacramento Valley, inundated farm lands just as the film's flood...