Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Color Flight is a four-minute visual and musical experience that resembles a roller coaster ride through a kaleidoscope to the accompaniment of a swing band. Actually, it is a 400-foot (half a reel) short, translating into the terms of color and movement a rumba played by the Lecuona Cuban Boys and Honolulu Blues, a swing classic played by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Very unobtrusive is the function for which it will be released by Britain's General Post Office Film Unit- to advertise Imperial Airways. About ten years of experimenting and five previous color productions...
...resources of painting wedded to music and cinemaction. The obstacle that many of them bleat about: no film company will back anything but popular entertainment. Last week in London an original artist named Len Lye, working on a shoestring, crashed through with an animated movie called Color Flight which previewers hailed as art, as entertainment, and as the freshest stuff of its kind since Disney arrived...
With over $30,000 collected by Dorothy Thompson at his disposal, 17-year-old Herschel Grynszpan, already an object of world sympathy, last week found his Paris jail cell a mecca for top-flight criminal lawyers. The Corsican showman of the Paris bar, Maitre Vincent de Moro-Giafferri, boomed: "I have agreed to defend this youth on international and humane grounds!" The no less great Maitre Henry Torres and six other Maitres joined up to make a defense team of eight...
...single set, a flight of steps, is monotonous in spite of numerous lighting effects, but Burt Kelsey's grouping of the actors on various stage levels to display the proper subordination of characters is excellent. A blatant loudspeaker, an overdose of fire and brimstone, insecure craftsmanship in the delivery of certain vital lines, and a lack of restraint in the comedy detract somewhat from the performances of Glenn Wilson as Faust and Basil Burwell as Mephistopheles, but Faust's struggle between his better self and his lost for power is nonetheless arresting...
...Beaverbrook from conforming to the Old World type of the powerful man with the courage of his caprice. His newspapers are not strictly newspapers. Morning after George VI was crowned, the Express played the story on page one but the banner headline went to Dick Merrill's transatlantic flight...