Word: films
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took MGM four days to finish Harvard's four minutes' worth of film, but assistant director Sid Sydman said last night that studio officials had already viewed most of the Yard scenes and were "quite apply" over what they...
...cloudy in the Yard yesterday to film any more scenes of "Mystery Street," so Metro-Goldwn-Mayer's camera unit spent the day in and around Boston taking shots where the lack of sun didn't make any difference...
When today's shooting is over, head cameraman John Alton will be the second speaker in Ivy Films' "special features" series tonight. Alton will discuss "Film Photography" in Leverett Junior Common Room in a 7:30 p.m. meeting open to all men and women...
From first to last J. Arthur Rank's "Scott of the Antarctic" is a melodrama--in the most favorable sense of the word. It tells the story of Captain Robert Scott's last expedition in 1908 into the Antarctic waste. There are scenes in the film which establish the personal relationships of the five men who make the desperate final dash to the South Pole. Far more important than these relationships, however, is the common purpose of the men to reach the Pole before Amundsen, and to return before the setting of the sun brings the winter blizzards...
...Scott of the Antarctic" is a rare example of the triumph of honest melodrama--a film which faithfully records the melodrama of actual events. There is no toying with spectacular effects, no falsely dramatic sequences. As a result, the natural spectacle of the Antarctic and the genuine drama of Scott's struggle against it come through with clarity and power...