Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are four performances of the film each day, at 1:45, 4:15, 5:45, and 9 o'clock...
...playing at the University is a rather unimportant film entitled "Artists and Models," and it by no means deserves the advertising trappings with which it has been draped. In fact it is only the indefatigable Jack Benny who keeps the show from being a rather inconsequential hodge-podge. In their efforts to please everyone, the producers have put a great many ingredients in their cinematic soup and include in their cast along with Ida Lupino, Gail Patrick, and Richard Arlen, Andre Kostelanetz, Connie Boswell, the Yacht Club Boys, Martha Raye, Louis Armstrong, McClelland Barclay, Peter Arno, and two "rhythm swimmers...
...plot is of about as much importance as is usual in this type of film, and if musical vaudeville is tops in entertainment value at the present. "Artists and Models" will posses definite appeal to the moviegoer because the picture is better than average in its line...
...Manhattan's film appetite seemed temporarily queasy, U. S. fans at large were definitely peckish. Though Hollywood had sent out 62 feature pictures since Aug. 1, theatres everywhere were frantically calling for more. Variety, sympathizing with Hollywood's production problems, headlined that the exhibitors were BURNING UP PIX TOO FAST. The paper implied that exhibitors had brought this famine on themselves by insisting on the double-feature, by not holding over hits for longer runs. Fact remained, however, that last week, when the season should normally be well under way, Hollywood released only one Class-A picture...
...making X-ray cinema photographs of organs functioning in the living body. Devised by Dr. Russell Reynolds of London, this consists of a very bright fluoroscopic screen on which the direct X-ray picture is thrown and there photographed as it changes by a cine- camera. Since motion picture film must pause 16 times each second to make its record, Dr. Reynolds likewise interrupts his X-ray beam 16 times a second. This reduces the danger in X-ray work of burning a patient or sterilizing him, and therefore enables Dr. Reynolds to make exposures of as long...